I’ve had both styles before, each in their native city. Both are good in their places. However! The New York pizza for some reason tasted better in all ways, I think it’s because it was eaten on the street at the bistro tables and usually because I was hungry and in a hurry to be somewhere else.
The Chicago style was better for sitting in a restaurant with friends and spending time enjoying the ‘pie’ and good company.
Now with that out of the way, the ABSOLUTELY best pizza I have ever had was at a place called ‘Pizza Villa’ in Delaware Ohio. It’s hard to explain why, it just was.
The most ‘Fun’ Pizza I ever had was at Pizza and Pipes in Everett Washington. It was a pizza palace inside of a Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. Long Trestle tables, and wonderful live music and old time silent movies accompanied by the organ. Ahhh, good memories indeed.