#1
9.4Top Tier
St Francis Apizza (Oakley) - @stfrancisapizza is the pizzeria I’ve posted about the most, not just because they produce top-tier pizza but also because they are regularly improving - the sign of a great restaur…
Style guide
Best New Haven Style Apizza
A ranked guide to New Haven entries across The Slice Index.
The current top five: St Francis Apizza (9.4), Sally’s Apizza (9.1), Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (8.7), Piece Brewery & Pizzeria (8.1), and Taft Brewporium (8.7).
New Haven-style “apizza” (“ah-beetz”) emerged in the 1920s from the Neapolitan immigrant community around New Haven’s Wooster Street, most famously with Frank Pepe’s 1925 pizzeria. Like New York-style pizza, it is thin and foldable, but apizza is generally thinner, chewier, oblong (or just irregularly shaped), and baked with more “artful char”. The original New Haven pizzerias use coal-fired ovens, and coal is still closely associated with the style, but it’s not a requirement. At its best, apizza should be crisp, chewy, smoky, and intensely flavored. A blackened crust alone does not make good apizza; the darkness should add complexity, not simply taste burnt.
Score keyTop Tier · 9.0+Great · 8.0–8.9Worth the Calories · 6.5–7.9All Pizza’s Good, Right? · Below 6.5
#2
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…
#3
#4
Closed PizzeriasGone but not forgotten. The historical record lives below.
#5
8.7Great
A oval-ish New Haven style apizza from a coal-fired oven, featuring double pepperoni and an artfully charred crust. Really quite good and reminiscent of what you’d get at say @frankpepepizza.