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Pizza-a-Go-Go

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Pizza-a-Go-Go

6703 Scanlan Ave.

St. Louis, MO

314-781-1234

http://www.pizzaagogo.blogspot.com

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Venue

Pizza-a-Go-Go

6703 Scanlan Ave.

St. Louis, MO

314-781-1234

http://www.pizzaagogo.blogspot.com

Be Social

Reader's Choice: Imo's

Pizza-a-Go-Go neatly sidesteps the contentious which-thin-crust-is-best debate. A pie from this modest, rec-roomesque south-city joint — there's a piano in the dining room and a fridge for your BYO beer fer chrissake — is neither the cracker-crusted, Provel-topped pizza of St. Louis nor the nearly paper-thin grease bomb of New York and New Jersey. Instead, you get a deceptively simple pizza: crust just thick enough to support the toppings and with a perfect, slightly chewy texture; a thin layer of ever-so-tangy sauce; the cheese melted to the ideal consistency. Frank LaFata opened the original Pizza-a-Go-Go in Gaslight Square in 1964, moved to South Grand a few years later and then to the current location ten years ago. You'll find his son, Paul, overseeing the kitchen these days. Proof that while run-of-the-mill pizza joints come and go, greatness endures across decades and generations.

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