Bloomfield Hills, MI - Pizza Papalis; For deep dish, how do you determine a good deep dish pizza?  Is it the crust, maybe the sauce, how about the toppings, or does the answer lie with the cheese?  It's all of them, but each one individually.

Pizza Papalis' deep dishes started in greektown in the original location.  They would make a deep dish that you would never forget and driver across the state to have.  I was hoping this place would deliver the same flavor, texture, and pizza as before.  Well, it's close but not 100% there.  The greektown deep dish pizza would have received at least four stars, this one three.

Starting with the crust, it's wonderfully think, greasy on the bottom, and think on the side and bottom.  The sauce hits its mark by having a delicious tomato base and strong with oregano.  The cheese is good, elastic when it's hot.  The website states they offer low fat cheese by saying "Lite Cheese".  However, when ordering, don't say with Lite Cheese, because they'll put less cheese on it.  Make sure you say, low fat cheese.  The toppings, having only ordered a few, were very weak.  The one that really didn't meet expectations was the garlic.  I imagined full roasted garlic cloves and it turned out to be garlic powder. You can imagine my shock and disappointment.

Don't over order, with just three pieces of a deep dish, you'll be very full.