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9.1Top Tier
Some places almost feel too iconic to review. It’s kinda like giving the Mona Lisa a 9.1/10. But then you get in front of it and notice the smile is nuanced and the mountains are detailed…
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Best Coal Fired Pizza
A ranked guide to Coal Fired entries across The Slice Index.
The current top five: Sally’s Apizza (9.1), Juliana's (9.1), Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (8.7), De Lorenzo’s Tomato Pies (8.7), and Coalfire Pizza (8.5).
Coal-fired pizza is America’s earliest distinct pizza traditions, occupying a rough middle ground between Neapolitan pizza and the later New York slice. Coal ovens produce intense, sustained heat, creating a thin, chewy crust with blistering, dry char, and a pronounced baked flavor. The technique overlaps with several regional traditions, including New Haven apizza, Trenton tomato pies, and early New York pizzerias.
Score keyTop Tier · 9.0+Great · 8.0–8.9Worth the Calories · 6.5–7.9All Pizza’s Good, Right? · Below 6.5
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8.4Great
DeLucia’s Brick Oven Pizza (Raritan, NJ) - Peter Regas (@pizzahistorybook) will tell you the first US pizzerias began in the 1890s - starting with street vendors and moving on to brick-and-mortar shops (generally out of ba…
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7.9Worth the Calories
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7.9Worth the Calories
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7.9Worth the Calories
A Neapolitan-ish coal-fired pizza, featuring leopard spotted crust, and located within @hoppinvines. In my experience, coal-fired pizza is pretty much always great. The earliest American pizzerias were coal-fir…
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7.4Worth the Calories
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7.4Worth the Calories
Closed PizzeriasGone but not forgotten. The historical record lives below.
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7.8Worth the Calories