This won’t start any arguments.<\/p>\n
I adore all kinds of pizza \u2013 New York-style, Neapolitan-style (thin crust, wet center), Roman-style (also thin-crust but with a cracker-like crust), Sicilian, coal-fired, wood-fired, whatever. Except “deep dish,” which is just a bread casserole and should be avoided at all costs. I try to find good artisan pizzerias everywhere I travel, and I’ve hit just about all of the most highly-regarded places in Manhattan and Brooklyn too. I grew up on Long Island, eating by the slice and folding as I did so, but a couple of trips to Italy convinced me of the merits of those very thin crusts and superior toppings. We’re the beneficiaries of a huge boom in high-end pizza joints in this country, and while I haven’t tried all of the good ones, I’ve been to enough to put together a ranking of the 40 best that I’ve tried. There is, I admit, a bias to this list \u2013 I’ve tried more places in greater Phoenix than any other metro area other than New York \u2013 and I’m sure I’ll get some yelling over where I put di Fara or Co. or Paulie Gee’s, but with all of that out of the way, here’s how I rank ’em. Links go to my reviews here on the dish.<\/p>\n
1. Pizzeria Bianco<\/a>, Phoenix There’s a long list of pizzerias I still need (okay, want, but where I’m concerned pizza is a need) to try, so they’re not on the list: Flour + Water & del Popolo in San Francisco, Apizza Scholls in Portland, A4 in Somerville (near Boston), 2 Amy’s in DC, Sottocasa in Brooklyn, al Forno in Providence, Pizzaiolo in Oakland, Mani Osteria in Ann Arbor, Vero in Cleveland, Iggie’s in Baltimore, Garage Bar in Louisville, Vinny & Jon’s in Los Angeles, and more. It’s a good time to be a pizza lover, and unless you have to be gluten-free, how could you not love pizza?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This won’t start any arguments. I adore all kinds of pizza \u2013 New York-style, Neapolitan-style (thin crust, wet center), Roman-style (also thin-crust but with a cracker-like crust), Sicilian, coal-fired, wood-fired, whatever. Except “deep dish,” which is just a bread casserole and should be avoided at all costs. I try to find good artisan pizzerias everywhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[846,728,240,260],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-food-and-wine-pizza-crawl","tag-pizza","tag-rankings","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Kesté<\/a>, New York
\n3. Motorino<\/a>, New York
\n4. Roberta’s, Brooklyn
\n5. Pizzeria Vetri\/Osteria<\/a>, Philadelphia
\n6. Frank Pepe’s, New Haven
\n7. Pizzeria Mozza, Los Angeles
\n8. Pizzeria Lola<\/a>, Minneapolis
\n9. cibo, Phoenix
\n10. Lucali, Brooklyn
\n11. Forcella<\/a>, New York
\n12. Pizzeria Stella, Philadelphia
\n13. Paulie Gee’s, Brooklyn
\n14. Don Antonio by Starita<\/a>, New York
\n15. ‘Pomo<\/a>, Phoenix
\n16. Marta, New York
\n17. Ribalta<\/a>, New York
\n18. Totonno’s, Brooklyn
\n19. Via Tribunali, New York\/Seatte
\n20. Federal Pizza, Phoenix
\n21. Il Cane Rosso<\/a>, Dallas
\n22. Antico<\/a>, Atlanta
\n23. City House<\/a>, Nashville
\n24. Tarry Lodge, Port Chester, NY
\n25. Desano<\/a>, Nashville
\n26. Franny’s, Brooklyn
\n27. Grimaldi’s, Phoenix
\n28. Il Bosco, Phoenix
\n29. Di Fara, Brooklyn
\n30. 800 Degrees<\/a>, Los Angeles
\n31. Co., New York
\n32. Rubirosa<\/a>, New York
\n33. Bar Toma<\/a>, Chicago
\n34. Punch Pizza<\/a>, St. Paul
\n35. Toro, Durham
\n36. Dolce Vita<\/a>, Houston
\n37. Stella Rosa<\/a>, Santa Monica
\n38. Grimaldi’s, Brooklyn
\n39. Basic, San Diego
\n40. Nicoletta, New York<\/p>\n