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Sauce ladled over the top of a round upside-down pie, O’Scugnizzo Pizzeria

Best Columbus Style Pizza

A ranked guide to Columbus Style entries across The Slice Index.

The current top five: Pizza House (7.8), Massey’s Pizza (7.7), Rubinos (7.5), Hounddog's Pizza (5.6), and Donatos (5.3).

5 entries · 5 open · 0 closed/archive

Columbus-style pizza features a thin, yeasted crust, often dusted with cornmeal and baked directly on the deck of an oven. The defining flavors are a slightly sweet tomato sauce, provolone or a provolone-mozzarella blend, and an extraordinary abundance of toppings, particularly pepperoni, covering the pizza from edge to edge. Rubino’s, Massey’s, and Donatos are classic examples.

Score keyTop Tier · 9.0+Great · 8.0–8.9Worth the Calories · 6.5–7.9All Pizza’s Good, Right? · Below 6.5
#1
Pizza House

Pizza House

Columbus · Salem Village · Tavern, Columbus Style · Nov 2026

7.8Worth the Calories

@thepizzahouseoh has been serving Columbus since 1961 (Yes, the year Frank Robinson’s Reds won the NL pennant). I stopped in yesterday to try their version of Columbus-style tavern pizza…

#2
boxed pizza with edge-to-edge pepperoni cups on a car hood, Massey’s Pizza

Massey’s Pizza

Columbus · Northland · Tavern Style, Columbus Style · Mar 2024

7.7Worth the Calories

Founded in 1949, @masseyspizza is the inventor of “Columbus Style Pizza”. That style (later spread more widely by by @Donatos) bears more than a little resemblance to Chicago-thin crust (see @vito_and_nicks) &…

#5
edge-to-edge pepperoni square-cut pizza, Donatos

Donatos

Columbus · Tavern Style, Columbus Style · Sep 2022

5.3All Pizza’s Good, Right?

Columbus-style pizza: rolled-thin crust, edge-to-edge toppings, party cut, and an immodest helping of pepperoni.