I cannot make a good pizza dough or any type of bread product, so I always prefer to just go to a good local pizza joint or get my bread from the nearby bakeries. Part of the problem is I often have trouble hunting down bread flour since many of our stores don't carry it for some strange reason. Also I do not have a stand mixer so it's harder for me to knead the bread as much as they knead it in their industrial strength mixers. I also don't have the other special equipment that they use such as proofing ovens or moisture controlled ovens, to get those deep brown crusts. My place is also usually too cold to get the dough to rise properly. I've tried the warm oven method as well as the overnight rise, and neither worked well at all for me.
I can also never seem to get my hot peppers in oil, or my sauteed escarole to come out as good as the restaurants do. I'm guessing they are putting a splash of wine in their greens or something, but the peppers in particular really have me stumped.