Styles

Trenton, and the bakeries before

Tomato pie

Sauce on top

Cheese, then tomato. The pie is thick, the tomato is bright, and it is good at room temperature — a bakery pie, not a molten slice.

Trenton still does it this way. Philadelphia and the old Italian bakeries of the Northeast know the move. It is not a sauceless pizza. It is a pizza that refuses to hide the tomato.

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Where to eat it

Rooms that speak this dialect.

De Lorenzo's Tomato Pies in TrentonTrentonEditor

De Lorenzo's Tomato Pies

Trenton, United States

2350 Kuser Rd, Hamilton Township, NJ 08690

Editor's pick

Sauce on top. A Jersey bakery pie that is good even when it cools.

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Tomato pie
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Bake it

Recipes for this pie.

Grandma from the SheetGrandma

Grandma from the Sheet

From Umberto's

Thin, olive-oiled, bright with tomato. The Long Island sheet pie that tastes like somebody loved you.

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Sicilian SquareSicilian

Sicilian Square

From New York

A thick, airy sheet with cooked tomato, oregano, and pecorino. Lunch for a crowd.

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