Best Deep Dish Pizza
A ranked guide to Deep Dish entries across The Slice Index.
What defines this list
Deep Dish is strongest in Chicago, Cincinnati, Naples. The page groups the style across cities so the best examples are not trapped inside one local list.
Top examples include Burt's Place, Pequod’s Pizza, Gino's. The ranking is crust-first: bake, structure, sauce, cheese, and repeatability matter more than reputation.
7 entries have full review text. Score-only records remain in the index but are less editorially developed.

Pequod’s Pizza, named after the ill-fated ship in Moby-Dick, was founded in 1971 by legendary Chicago pizzaiolo Burt Katz. Katz later opened another pizzeria named after…

A Chicago pan pizza pizzeria, in the style of @pequodspizza or @burtsplacepizza (two of my all-time favorites), but located in Mercato, Naples. There’s a lot of mediocre…

Chicago Style Deep-Dish pizza in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood. ~300 miles from Chicago, Cincinnati (like many Midwestern cities) features an assortment of mediocre…

A Chicago staple since 1971, @loumalnatis delivers a prototypical example deep dish pizza... I might even call it archetypical. But Joe, you might ask: what exactly is “d…

Like most people, when I hear “bourbon house” I think of Chicago Deep Dish pizza. Somewhat unexpectedly, there’s a cluster of good deep dish places in Northern Ky - After…

This German-named Green Township pizzeria (on Werk Road) split off from the Mio's chain in 2007. Werkhaus's specialty is a Chicago-style stuffed pizza. Stuffed pizza is t…

The Masons, who it is said used secret knowledge to construct wonders like the Great Pyramid & Solomon’s Temple, turned their attention to constructing the perfect pizza…