The best Pizza restaurants in Pittsburgh

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   Cork & Crust4.7

   Oakland · $$$ · No. 12 of 157 overall

   A Forbes Five-Star chef came home and picked pizza as the hill to die on. Three-day dough, blistered and structurally serious - proof a hotel restaurant can be the whole reason you drive to Oakland.

   Order: The 72-hour dough pizza

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   Iron Born Pizza4.5

   Strip District · $$ · No. 24 of 157 overall

   Some of the best Detroit-style squares in town. Pepperoni cups, crispy edges. Casual and very good.

   Order: Detroit square with pepperoni cups

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   Driftwood Oven4.4

   Lawrenceville · $$ · No. 28 of 157 overall

   Sourdough pizza from people who clearly obsess over dough. The menu and hours are limited. Quality over breadth.

   Order: Soppressata & hot honey sourdough pie

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   Mercurio's4.1

   Shadyside · $$ · No. 40 of 157 overall

   Honest Neapolitan pizza and excellent house gelato. Small and busy. The cones alone justify a stop.

   Order: Neapolitan pies + made-in-house gelato

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   Aiello's Pizza3.9

   Squirrel Hill · $ · No. 44 of 157 overall

   The other half of the Murray Ave pizza rivalry. Good, classic, and best argued about with a Mineo's slice in hand.

   Order: 16-inch pepperoni pizza

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   Colangelo's Pizza3.9

   Strip District · $ · No. 46 of 157 overall

   Strip District bakery counter doing tomato pie the old way: room temperature, heavy on the sauce, no cheese to speak of. Buy more than you think you need.

   Order: A square of tomato pie

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   Mineo's Pizza House3.8

   Squirrel Hill · $ · No. 62 of 157 overall

   A beloved square-slice institution. It's nostalgia pizza. Comforting and consistent, not life-changing. Pick your side in the Murray Ave war.

   Order: Square cheese slice

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   Pizza Lupo3.8

   Lawrenceville · $$ · No. 66 of 157 overall

   Wood-fired pies and natural wine; the clam pie is a sleeper. A little pricey for pizza, but worth it.

   Order: Vodka pie with hot honey

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   Spak Brothers3.7

   Garfield · $ · No. 83 of 157 overall

   Punk-rock pizza counter that has been quietly feeding vegans and their sceptical friends for years. Order by the slice, eat it on the curb, and don't be surprised when the vegan one is the better pie.

   Order: A vegan slice that fools carnivores

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    Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse3.6

    Bloomfield · $$ · No. 85 of 157 overall

    The owner keeps winning international pizza awards and then going back to work in Bloomfield, which is very Pittsburgh. Draft list is deeper than the room suggests.

    Order: A world-champion pie and a rare beer

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    Fiori's Pizzaria3.6

    Brookline · $ · No. 88 of 157 overall

    Brookline's Sicilian-style institution, sold by the tray to whole neighbourhoods at once. Thick, saucy, unpretentious. The kind of pizza people move away and dream about.

    Order: A rectangular cut, extra sauce

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    Il Pizzaiolo3.6

    Mt. Lebanon · $$$ · No. 90 of 157 overall

    A South Hills Italian that's been doing proper Neapolitan pizza since before it was trendy. The margherita comes out of the wood oven with the right leopard-spot char and a soupy center the purists demand. Worth the trip to Washington Road.

    Order: Margherita from the wood-fired oven

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    Proper Brick Oven & Tap Room3.5

    Downtown · $$ · No. 98 of 157 overall

    Wood-fired pizza on Seventh, three minutes from the theatres and the arena. Fast enough for a pre-show table, good enough that you would go anyway.

    Order: A blistered margherita before a show

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    Angelo's Pizzeria3.2

    Bloomfield · $ · No. 129 of 157 overall

    Liberty Avenue red-sauce pizzeria with no ambitions beyond feeding Bloomfield well. It has done that for years without a single Instagram post.

    Order: A pepperoni pie, well done

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    Slice on Broadway-Beechview3.2

    Beechview · $ · No. 136 of 157 overall

    Neighbourhood slice shop that quietly grew into a small empire without getting worse, which almost never happens. Reliable, generous, open when you need it.

    Order: A cut of the Slaughterhouse Five

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    The Church Brew Works3.1

    Lawrenceville · $$ · No. 146 of 157 overall

    Yes, it is a brewery inside a deconsecrated church, and yes the copper kettles sit where the altar was. Tourist bait that happens to brew genuinely good beer. Go once for the room, stay for the pierogi pizza.

    Order: A pierogi pizza under the altar

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    Vento's Pizza3.1

    East Liberty · $ · No. 150 of 157 overall

    East Liberty slice shop that keeps the lights on long after the kitchens around it have given up. Exactly what you want it to be at midnight.

    Order: A late slice, folded

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    Beto's Pizza3.0

    Banksville · $ · No. 151 of 157 overall

    The most divisive pizza in Pittsburgh: cold shredded mozzarella dumped on a hot square. It should be a crime. Locals have loved it for sixty years and you should try it once before forming an opinion.

    Order: A square with cold cheese on top

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