Forget New York and Chicago: An unlikely American city is becoming a pizza lover's paradise
New York City and Chicago may be the American cities best known for their pizza, but another city — in Connecticut of all places — has carved out its own slice of the pie.In New Haven, pizza fans can now bike between famous pizzerias, sleep in a pizza-themed hotel suite and even visit a museum exhibit devoted to the city's signature food.Just in time for National Pizza Month, historian and self-described "pizza guru" Colin Caplan has launched a new pizza crawl aboard the Elm City Party Bike, a 15-passenger pedal-powered trolley.AMERICA' S BEST PIZZERIAS CROWNED IN NEW RANKINGS AS PIZZA EXPERT SHARES SKEPTICISMThe bike has operated in the city for the past nine years but, for the first time, is being used specifically for pizza tours. Guests can choose their own pizzerias or take a guided tour with Caplan — who is also a professional tour guide, author, architect and founder of Taste New Haven — sampling similar pies from several restaurants and comparing them.Colin Caplan, right, a New Haven historian, author and tour guide, calls himself the city's official "pizza guru." (Arnold Gold/Connecticut Post via Getty Images)"We're going to try cheese pizza from three or four different places, and then we'll rate it at the end, and you can decide what's better," Caplan told Fox News Digital."It's a great way to team build, to have the pizza together, to be outside, to frolic and have some fun."AMERICA'S MOST AND LEAST EXPENSIVE PLACES TO ORDER PIZZA REVEALED IN NEW STUDYBut the rolling pizza party is just one example of how deeply the dish has become woven into New Haven's identity.The Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale even offers a Pizza Suite decorated with the city's signature food, along with gift cards to famed New Haven pizzerias Sally's Apizza and Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana — two of the spots that make up the so-called "Holy Trinity" of New Haven-style apizza; the third is Modern Apizza.Opened in 1925, Frank Pepe is one of the oldest and best known pizzer...