A pizza blog
Dough in the fridge. Pie on the table.
Homemade pizza recipes, pizza dough, oven and flour guides, and a map of pizzerias worth a detour. A blog for people who bake — not a restaurant.
Homemade pizza recipes
The pies we write up first.
All recipes
OtherEditorCast Iron Pan Pizza
By The Slice Guy
No-knead dough in a Lodge skillet, cheese to the edge, crispy bottom. The weeknight pan pie.
DoughNo-Knead Pizza Dough
From Jim Lahey
Mix flour, water, salt, yeast. Wait. Jim Lahey’s method — no kneading, overnight on the counter.
DoughEditorOoni Pizza Dough
By The Slice Guy
62% hydration 00 dough for a gas pizza oven — Ooni, Gozney, Roccbox. Easier to launch, still leopards.
Near you
Pizzerias in United States.
More nearby
This week's pick
Chicago, United States
Vito & Nick's
Cracker-thin, party-cut, a South Side bar pie. The Chicago pizza that is not a postcard.
New YorkAward winningTied 1st · WorldUna Pizza Napoletana
New York, United States
175 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
Award winning
Tied world’s best 2025. USA’s #1 for 2026 — fifth year on that throne. Orchard Street, Lower East Side.
BrooklynEditorLucali
Brooklyn, United States
575 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Editor's pick
Candlelight, a BYOB line, and a thin round pie that made Carroll Gardens a destination.
Los AngelesAward winning9th · WorldPizzeria Sei
Los Angeles, United States
1860 S Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035
Award winning
World #9 in 2025. Tied USA #2 for 2026. William Joo — Pizza Maker of the Year 2025.
The trophies
Award-winning pies — and the shops that baked them.
Award Winning
CasertaAward winningTied 1st · WorldI Masanielli — Francesco Martucci
Caserta, Italy
Viale Giulio Douhet, 11, 81100 Caserta CE
Award winning
Tied world’s best pizzeria 2025. A tasting-menu oven in Caserta that treats pizza like a serious dinner.
New YorkAward winningTied 1st · WorldUna Pizza Napoletana
New York, United States
175 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
Award winning
Tied world’s best 2025. USA’s #1 for 2026 — fifth year on that throne. Orchard Street, Lower East Side.
TokyoAward winning2nd · WorldThe Pizza Bar on 38th
Tokyo, Japan
2-1-1 Nihonbashimuromachi, Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, Chuo City, Tokyo 103-8328
Award winning
World #2 in 2025. Eight seats, 38 floors up, Daniele Cason’s dough over Nihonbashi.
ItalianPizza of the YearSunday Ragù Pizza
By Michele Pascarella
Slow beef ragù and Parmesan on a Neapolitan crust — Michele Pascarella’s Pizza of the Year 2025 at Napoli on the Road, London.
ItalianPizza of the Year · ItalyEggplant Absolute
By Pier Daniele Seu
Roasted eggplant, tomato, mint and Parmesan — Pier Daniele Seu’s Assoluto di Melanzane, Pizza of the Year Italy 2026.
ItalianPizza Classica championProvola e Pepe
By Giuseppe Cutraro
Smoked provola, black pepper, roasted tomato — Giuseppe Cutraro’s 2025 Pizza DOC World Championship Classica winner.
Pizza products
Ovens, steels, flour — by range.
All pizza products
Gluten-Free FlourKing Arthur Gluten-Free 00 Pizza Flour
King Arthur
American gluten-free pizza flour. Pan or steel, grocery-store reachable.
Gluten-Free FlourCaputo Fioreglut Gluten-Free Flour
Antimo Caputo
The Naples mill’s gluten-free pizza flour. The one that actually wants to be dough.
Pizza OvenOoni Karu 2 Pizza Oven
Ooni
The wood-fired Ooni. Chimney, legs, charcoal or splits — gas burner sold separate.
What to buy
Ovens, steels, flour — the honest comparison.
All guides
The story
From Naples streets to a folded slice in your hand.
Tomatoes, queens, coal ovens, gas decks, and a hundred honest styles. Spoiler: they all are.
Read the historyKeep reading.
Gluten-freeEditorGluten-Free Pan Margherita
By The Slice Guy
The GF dough, pressed in a pan, tomatoes, mozzarella, basil after. Not a launch. Not Caputo.
VeganPizza Funghi e Aglio
From Italy
Mushrooms, garlic, parsley, oil. A white pie without the white dairy.
VeganPizza cime di rapa
From Puglia
Broccoli rabe, garlic, chili. A Puglian bitter-green pie, no cheese required.
Bring the pie you swear by.
Grandma sheets, tavern thins, a honey white you invented at midnight. Share it. The neighborhood will rate it with kindness and opinions.
Share your recipeRecommend
Name the shop worth the trip.
A tiled shop in Naples, a counter in Tokyo, the slice window on your corner. Put it on the map — website, Google reviews, and why you’d go back.
Recommend a placePizza, answered
Questions bakers actually ask.
- What are the best pizza recipes to make at home?
- Start with homemade dough (New York or Neapolitan), then a cheese pizza, a pepperoni, and a Margherita. Then Detroit, Hawaiian, deep dish — and share yours.
- How do I find the best pizza restaurant or pizzeria near me — or anywhere?
- The places board is a worldwide map of pizzerias. Filter by country, city, style, or who recommended it, then open the map. Or start near you.
- What is the difference between a pizzeria and a pizza restaurant?
- A pizzeria is usually a shop built around the oven — slices, pies, maybe a counter. A pizza restaurant may have a fuller menu. This blog lists both so you can visit. The oven is the point.
- What pizza products do I need to bake like a pizzeria at home?
- A steel or outdoor pizza oven, 00 flour, a can of good tomatoes, a scale, and a peel. Start with the buying guides — oven, steel vs stone, flour — then shop the board of pizza products on Amazon.
- What are the most prestigious pizza awards — and where do the winners cook?
- 50 Top Pizza is the guide (World 100 each September in Naples). Trofeo Caputo and Pizza DOC are the championships. The Award-winning page lists the latest World podium you can visit, plus the pies credited to the pizzaioli who won.