The best pizza has lots of pepperoni (round), black olives, mushrooms, peppers, sausage, no spinach, and no mustard. The only tomatoes on the pizza is the sauce.
I like pizza if it’s prepared right. To me the best pizza has a thin soft crust with lots of good quality cheese (a lot of it!) and a generous amount of sauce. Too little sauce makes the pizza dry and brittle and the slices should be HUGE so when you pick it up it bends over backwards with juicy saucy cheesy goodness! It should be really garlicky and flavorful right out of the oven. I dislike when it’s so bland that I spend 10 minutes seasoning it with pepper, garlic and oregano after it’s served. Sun dried tomatoes, spinach, thinly sliced mushrooms and black olives are a plus but if it’s good pizza it will stand up all on it’s own (I don’t eat meat but veggie sausage is good too). I haven’t had pizza in a while because the cheese upsets my stomach but ocassionally I will throw caution to the wind and ‘treat’ myself.
Two full spoons of oil in the mix for the base, which has to be spread thin, fresh tomato sauce, fresh high quality mozzarella cheese (not the kind made for pizza, which is shit), cooked in an oven that runs on wood, not on gas or electricity, to the point where the cheese is more or less homogeneous and the base is soft but slightly crunchy.
Thick base, and it must NOT be burned at ALL! (sometimes they overcook it just a tad so that the cheese turns brown, that just makes me moody). It must also have lots of cheese on it – a cheeseless pizza doesn’t qualify as a pizza in my books. And it must have a sweetish BBQ sauce on it – i’ve found those to be the best for pizzas. Lastly, my favourite pizza has extra cheese, mushrooms, onions and fresh tomato on it.