Styles

1946, blue steel

Detroit

The corner is the prize

Sicilian dough in an auto-plant pan. Cheese to the edge so it fries into a frico. Sauce in racing stripes on top after the bake.

Buddy’s on Six Mile started it. The rest of us are still chasing that corner. If the edge is not caramelized, it is just a square.

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Where to eat it

Rooms that speak this dialect.

Buddy's Pizza in DetroitDetroitEditor

Buddy's Pizza

Detroit, United States

17125 Conant St, Detroit, MI 48212

Editor's pick

The square that started it: blue-steel pans, fried-cheese corners, racing-stripe sauce.

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Bake it

Recipes for this pie.

Cast Iron Pan PizzaOtherEditor

Cast Iron Pan Pizza

By The Slice Guy

No-knead dough in a Lodge skillet, cheese to the edge, crispy bottom. The weeknight pan pie.

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Detroit Red StripeDetroit

Detroit Red Stripe

From Gus Guerra

Airy crumb, fried-cheese corners, sauce on top like a racing stripe. A Motor City pan pie.

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Pan & Sicilian DoughDoughEditor

Pan & Sicilian Dough

By The Slice Guy

Wetter dough for Detroit, grandma, and Sicilian sheets. The pan does the fry.

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