Best Sicilian / Square Pizza

A vintage aesthetic pizzeria in Williamburg, Brooklyn that turns out some outstanding Detroit-Style Pizza. We all recall the Neapolitan boom of 2008 & Hot Honey mania in…

Located in Hell’s Kitchen, this West Gotham Market Sicilian style pizzeria is one I had made a point to try after I saw that Ed Levine (@seriouseatered) had written “Corn…

“D.C.’s first Detroit-style pizzeria” on 14th St in our nation’s capital’s former red light district. Red Light is the best pizza I’ve had in DC and really a top tier pla…

After a series of slices on the Vegas strip, I found myself requiring a true top tier pizza experience. So we visited Good Pie in the Arts District. Long on my “to try” l…

Long an Upper West Side pilgrimage site, Sicilian slice specialists Mama’s Too now have a shop on Bleecker in the West Village. Often mispronounced “Mama Too’s,” the pizz…

A perfectly executed Sicilian square just north of Little Italy. This is the "Spicy Spring" featuring the good stuff - natural casing pepperoni that cups up into bowls of…

My first ever post from this account was a review of Prince Street Pizza’s Hollywood location (I was out in LA for a football game). The original Manhattan shop has long…

This is a new Detroit style pizzeria (A “Detroit Revival Pizzeria”?) located in an old garage near the intersection of Michigan and Trumbull Avenue - the location of the…

An excellent Sicilian square with a generous allotment of pepperoni cups. On a night when there’s tens of thousands of people in line at @psp_nyc, you can usually walk ri…

This is a pizzeria I have long been looking forward to visiting. I first encountered Tony Scardino - “The Professor” - from his incredible-looking pandemic-era pizza-maki…

Detroit-style pizza in Naples, FL. This small shop has the best pizza in Southwest Florida & it’s not close

A crisp Sicilian slice with extra pepperoni on 39th street & 8th Avenue (convenient from the Port Authority Bus Terminal). This is one of my favorites, a truly excellent…

Sfincione is not an every day item here, but when Allez does have it (watch for it on their Instagram), it is truly outstanding. In this Allez complicates Cincy pizza ran…

This weekend, having a car and some free time in Queens, I was able to sample a few slices from my “to try” list. Rosario DiMarco, who immigrated to America from Sicily a…

Founded in 1946, Buddy’s Rendezvous is the originator of a certain type of Sicilian pizza, cooked in blue steel pans repurposed from local auto suppliers, that’s now call…

Located between two businesses that are also named “Frank’s” (perhaps Big Frank’s & Little Frank’s?), F&F is an outstanding Carroll Gardens pizzeria. Pictured is a slice…

This is one of those slice shops where the craft is evident the second you enter …especially when you walk past the bags of specialty flour. The dough here is a thoughtfu…

Now celebrating its two year anniversary, @villagesquarepizza is a #WestVillageNYC pizzeria that specializes in Sicilian slices with a perhaps exorbitant count of lightly…

Detroit style pizza in the Upper East Side. Pictured here is their take on a Margherita pizza, featuring burrata in place of the traditional fresh mozzarella. Appreciatin…

Talk about a beautiful slice! This airy Sicilian is available in Miami’s tony Design District. “Old Greg” here is the name of the starter used for their sourdough (The pi…

A 1980s Jersey pizzeria that recently relocated to Charlotte, @genodspizza is run by Geno DiPaolo and his daughter Gina. I have tried a lot of Jersey pizzas over the last…

A Detroit style outpost in Boynton Beach. This eclectic Detroit-forward restaurant features features coneys & corned beef, in addition to the pizza. But with well-caramel…

It’s #NewYorkPizzaMonth here, so today we’re featuring this Soho (Spring Street) institution. The classic New York style slices here are quite good, but I’d skip past the…

On an otherwise undistinguished Saturday, one might opt to hop on the Q Train for Midwood, Brooklyn. There, immediately off the Newkirk Plaza stop, they would be amiably…

Some old school sauce-on-top Sicilian pizza enjoyed first in Gravesend, Brooklyn and then reheated in Cincinnati, USA. If you’re one of those people who believes everythi…

A Detroit style pizzeria off the U Street Corridor in DC. Slices & Pie does NY style, Detroit style, and also a Sicilian upside down slice. I had a slice of their Detroit…

A Detroit style throwback pizzeria in DC near @howard1867. @sonnyspizzadc offers an interesting take on Detroit style, veering in a Sicilian-American direction. The crust…

Founded in 1961 and then refounded in 2017, Como’s is a new wave Detroit style pizzeria in the shell of a old school Ferndale pizzeria (the decor matches this - it’s a so…

This pizza shop is known throughout the Tri-State area (but mostly Jersey & Brooklyn) for their particularly crisp crust, which results in a very audible crunch when cut.…

Maybe we just hit it at exactly the right time, but the two fresh slices I had at Paul Giannone’s Greenpoint Brooklyn pizzeria were some of my all time favorites. Perfect…

“It’s not down on any map; true places never are” - Herman Melville, Moby Dick. Deep in the bowels of a Columbus Fusian Sushi, you can find this pop-up pizzeria behind a…

An outpost of Detroit style pizza in the “Centennial State”. Blue Pan does also offer a New York style and a cracker thin pizza. However, since “pan” is in the name, natu…

@qualitypizzaco is a Hoboken New Jersey pizzeria with a second location in Midtown renowned for being a short walk from our Flatiron District hotel. It’s a typical slice…

A Sicilian pan fried pizza with oversized pepperoni (jalapeños added for perspective) and a sauce with a hint of spice. Adriatico’s, a Cincy-favorite since 1974, delivers…

This New York mini-chain is known for its eponymous “Artichoke slice”: essentially a pound of butter & heavy whipping cream on a puffy NY style crust. That slice is best…

Brazzi is conveniently located right on New Jersey State Route 72, before the bridge to Long Beach Island (that being the Dorland J. Henderson Memorial Bridge, of course)…

A few weeks ago, after some heavy elbowing through a herd of blissfully uncomplicated wanderers lulling outside Madison Square Garden, we reached NY Pizza Suprema. Suprem…

This is a very old school pizzeria (founded in 1955) located just outside Miami. They serve a thin grandma style at $2 per slice - an exceptional bargain compared to thei…

*Ohio Valley Style Pizza* You’ve probably never heard of “Ohio Valley Style Pizza”. This rarest of styles is popular in many towns in Eastern Ohio / Western West Virginia…

To date, this is the highest rating I’ve ever given to a Boston pizzeria - a city better known chowda, lobsta, & I wanna say potatoes? Boston does have a few old school p…

Good for L.A. but not nearly as good as it’s NYC namesake. The crust is just too dense & soggy.