Walking home from school this afternoon, I found myself thinking about pizza.  I was dreaming of my old-roommate Nick's <a href="http://www.macheesmo.com/2009/01/mashed-potato-pizza/">mashed potato pizza</a>.  Then I started thinking about all of the different pizza I've eaten in my day. I've eaten a lot of pizza--pizza for dinner, cold the next morning, or late night slices in Adams Morgan.  In the past, I even drove from my neighborhood in Washington DC to Northern VA to buy pizza (for the record, it's a drive but not really as far as it may sound).

The as I passed Pizza Ugo I thought about what a cruel and punishing thing it is to lust for a pizza that is impossibly unattainable.  And so instead of obsessing about past pizza I cannot have I started wondering: where is the best pizza in Sofia? I mean Ugo pizza is good but I am not sure it's the best.  One problem I have is that the many of the pizzas have surprise ingredients--things that I think I should like on pizza but which I still haven't gotten totally used to.  It's the slices of hot dog, corn and pickles that trip me up.

Of course not every pizza has these ingredients and if you don't order when your not paying attention usually you can get a decent pizza there.  But I am not interested in just a decent pizza.  I'm looking for the kind of pizza you'd drive across town for.  I am looking for the kind of pizza that you daydream about and then find friends to go there after work.

I haven't had this kind of pizza in Sofia yet.  I've eaten at Don Domat, Pizza Victoria and I think it would have been nearly impossible to make a year in Sofia without eating at Ugo.  But none of it has been wow.  So it makes me wonder where's the best pizza in town?