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Review: Napizza - San Diego, CA
In Rome, pizza is often made and sold "al taglio" - by the slice. A Roman style pizza is not a round pie cut into triangles, but an elongated oval/rectangle from which large slices are lopped off with...
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Review: BIGA Pizza and Beer - Bryn Mawr, PA
There's a lot of great restaurants on Philadelphia's storied Main Line, but this prosperous stretch of western suburbs hasn't fully participated in the pizza renaissance blossoming nationally. Other...
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Review: Pizza Hut Spicy Beef Pizza - Chengdu, China
Pizza Hut has restaurants all over the globe, and they tailor the product offerings for local tastes. There is a Chicken Tom Yum pizza in Thailand, Fish Roe and Cream Cheese pie in Hong Kong, and the...
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Review: Bricco Coal Fired Pizza- Westmont (Haddon Twp) NJ
Food writers often overlook the very fertile turf between the great pizza cities of New York and Philly:Â New Jersey. Jersey is where I learned to love old-school thin-crust pies; it's the home of my...
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Review: Brigantessa - Philadelphia PA
As Neapolitan pizza makers continue to pop up in every hip neighborhood, not all of them can be distinctive. Some of the best ones are hybrids with a sturdier crust, such as the standout pies at La...
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The 18 Breakout Pizzas of 2018
The American Pizza Renaissance continued into 2018 with no signs of slowing down. Just as we are living in a Golden Age of Television with too many good shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO, just as...
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Review: Pete's New Haven Style Apizza - Arlington VA
What is New Haven style apizza? To a casual observer, apizza ("ah-beetz") is not too different from conventional pizza. It has a thin, and ideally rigid, crust like a Trenton tomato pie. It may or may...
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Review: Brooklyn Pie Co. - Round Rock, TX
Folks don't think first about Texas when thinking about pizza, but I've found plenty of destination pie in the Lone Star state. In fact, Austin might boast as much great pizza per square mile as any...
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Review: Backdraft Pizzeria - Bee Cave (Austin) TX
Lakeway and Bee Cave are lovely outposts about 30 minutes west of Austin, Texas. There's rolling hills and captivating views of Lake Travis, but not many interesting dining choices. It's all so new...
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Review: Enzo's (Arthur Avenue) - The Bronx, NY
Many American cities have a Chinatown and a Little Italy, dating back a hundred years or more. While Chinatowns are often growing, evolving, and expanding due to the regular influx of new Chinese...
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Review: Labriola - Chicago IL
Over several visits to Chicago, I've come to understand one factor that might contribute to fiercely held opinions of "love it or hate it" regarding Chicago deep-dish pizza. It's not just Chicago vs....
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Review: Pizzeria Due (Thin Crust) - Chicago IL
In 1943, the very first Pizzeria Uno was opened in Chicago; in 1955 the owners added another deep-dish restaurant one block away and named it Pizzeria Due. Those two restaurants remain icons in the...
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Review: SkyKing Pizza - Kingston TN
Here at Pizza Quixote, one recurring theme is the ongoing Pizza Renaissance in America. Just fifteen years ago, it was a struggle to find legitimate pizza outside of the remaining old-school pizza...
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Review: Jersey Giant Pizza - Austin (Bee Cave) TX
While I'm pretty certain that no one is marketing "Texas style" pizza or hoagies in New York or New Jersey, the opposite is often true. For example, Jersey Mike's Subs are sold in over 1500 locations...
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Review: Santucci's Original Square Pizza - Philadelphia
Way back in 2012 when this blog was in its infancy, I attended the South Philly Pizza Olympics where, not surprisingly, the fresh pies coming out of the Nomad Pizza truck smoked all the competition...
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Review: The Bakehouse at Chelsea - Norfolk, VA
Norfolk sits at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. Home to a large military base, Norfolk is the second largest city in Virginia, trailing only its neighbor,...
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Review: Sorellina Pizzeria, Spicewood, TX
Spicewood, TX is a town along Highway 71 about 40 minutes west of Austin. Perhaps best known as the home of Willie Nelson, it boasts shoreline on Lake Travis, cypress trees, and the Krause Springs...
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Review: East Side Pies - Austin TX (Airport Location)
Austin, TX has become a destination for pizza. I've enjoyed the thin crust Trenton/New Haven style pies at Salvation Pizza, the New York-ish slices at Home Slice, the impeccable Neapolitans from the...
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Review: CraigO's Pizza & Pastaria - Austin TX
As a transplanted east coast pizza snob, I had modest expectations for pizza in the suburbs of Austin. While the pizza renaissance has brought some superb pizza (mostly Neapolitan) to almost every...
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Review: Cane Rosso - Austin TX
Cane Rosso ("red dog") is a Dallas-based mini-chain of Neapolitan pizzerias, which began when owner Jay Jerrier was inspired to recreate in Texas the wonderful pizza he had eaten in Italy in 1995. The...
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