San Diego might be better known for California burritos and fish tacos than it is for pizza, however that discernment has moved lately as nearby pizza culture keeps on developing. The scope of pizzas accessible is great, from SoCal manifestations with strange garnishes like birria and sigsig to exemplary Neapolitan and strong versions of provincial claims to fame like New York, Chicago, and Detroit-style pies. Here is a once-over of best positions nearby, traversing various classifications of mixture, sauce, cheddar, and fixings.
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Blue Ribbon Artisan Pizza
A pillar in North County, Blue Ribbon was an early specialist of California’s currently signature style of pizza finished off with occasional fixings. The wood-terminated pie shop is the brainchild of gourmet expert Wade Hageman, who opened the pizza joint in 2010 after a lifelong in high end food.
The Shop: Pizza + Cocktails
Two siblings, alums of an acclaimed pizza joint in the Bay Area, are putting their twist on the thicker style at this rural pizza joint. With a fresh, rich outside, the robust pies are accessible as signature combos, similar to the North County with housemade meatballs, mushrooms, onions, cooked garlic, or adaptable with an enormous scope of garnishes.
Officials Pizzeria
This UTC region café and well known takeout spot does strong renditions of both New York and Chicago-style pies however its menu traverses far past pizza to incorporate pasta, burgers, chicken sandwiches, and a wide exhibit of neighborhood lager.
Ambrogio15
Ambrogio15 is presenting what it calls the “Milan pizza experience.” Expect this to mean light-as-air slight outside layers, natural and biodynamic wines, and manageable and natural pizza garnishes. A second and third area can be found at Little Italy Food Hall and the Sky Deck at Del Mar Highlands Town Center.
Mr. Moto Pizza Pacific Beach
Since opening its Pacific Beach area in 2015, Mr. Moto Pizza has extended to incorporate areas all through San Diego including Mission Valley, North Park, Point Loma, Pacific Beach, Encinitas, Seaport Village, Little Italy. The essential style of pizza is New York in addition to calzones, stombolis and garlic hitches, both stuffed and unstuffed.
Square Pizza Co
Find Detroit-style, Sicilian, and slight hull square cuts (otherwise known as Boston Beach pizza) at this beachy neighborhood spot. The shop’s all’s unmistakable Detroit-style pizzas give recognition to the city and are named after vehicles like the Chevy with salami, measuring pepperoni, meatball and bacon.
Blind Lady Ale House
One of San Diego’s most-appreciated experts of SoCal-style pizza, this casual Normal Heights café is darling by local people. Finished off with ranchers market-purchased and housemade fixings, its own measured pies pair with a stacked draft lager list.
Lefty’s Chicago Pizzeria
With so many Chicagoans calling San Diego home, it just follows that we have a decent Chicago-style pizza shop to call our own. Lefty’s, with two areas in North Park and Mission Hills, is thicker style pie’s SoCal usual hangout spot.
Bronx Pizza
Bronx Pizza in Hillcrest is generally the main counter when somebody comments, “there’s no decent New York-style pizza in San Diego.” The cheddar pie is an exemplary model yet it’s especially known for the White Stone pie, a customary white pizza named after a famous New York City span that comes finished off with mozzarella, ricotta and garlic.
Caffé Calabria
Pulling twofold time as an espresso roaster and bistro, Caffe Calabria likewise produces basic wood-terminated Neapolitan pizzas with top notch fixings from its North Park retail facade. Plan your visit ahead of time, as they offer pizzas from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.
Recognition Pizza
Starting out as a very much regarded spring up, this North Park café is generally respected for its wood-terminated, occasional pie that are enlivened unique manifestations as well as recognitions for a portion of the world’s most striking pizzas. The breezy space presents “Neo-Neapolitan”, New York, and Grandma-style pies, prepared in a rectangular dish with a thicker hull.
Landini’s Pizzeria
A strong NY-style cut shop that has been serving Little Italy for quite a long time, this easygoing India Street eatery serves a takeout-accommodating menu of entire pizzas as well as cuts and pasta dishes. With one more area in Point Loma, its most popular pies incorporate the Meatball Ricotta, BBQ Chicken, and Rustica; there’s likewise an enormous choice of veggie lover and vegan choices.
Buona Forchetta
With an area in Liberty Station called Officine Buona Forchetta, in addition to others in Encinitas, San Marcos, and Coronado, darling South Park staple Buona Forchetta proceeds with extension with its exemplary Neapolitan-style pizzas. Additionally striking are its without gluten pies.
Isola Pizza Bar
Proprietor Massimo Tenino runs Isola Pizza Bars in Little Italy and La Jolla, where he serves wood-terminated Neapolitan pizza with imported Italian fixings. Likewise on the menu is wine from his sibling’s grape plantation in Piemonte.
Pizza joint Luigi
A Golden Hill staple, Pizzeria Luigi is viewed as one of San Diego’s best instances of New York-style pie, with to-go cuts primed and ready. There’s likewise a shop on El Cajon Boulevard and in Imperial Beach.
Dynamite Pizza
What started as a famous spring up pizza shop during in the intensity of the COVID pandemic sent off into spot in East Village serving Detroit-style pizzas, grandmother pies, and New York-style accessible pickup or conveyance. Helmed by Kevin Gist and Joseph Wehrly, TNT Pizza offers vegetarian and without gluten choices accessible by the cut or as entire pies.
Fundamental Bar and Pizza
This clamoring East Village café and bar is one of the main spots around doing New Haven-style dainty covering pizza. Cooked in a block stove, the pizzas goes from a mark white pie finished off with pureed potatoes (don’t thump it until you’ve attempted it) to fabricate your-own manifestations.
Pizza Kaiju
Public City’s Market on eighth’s response to pizza is an inventive outfit that offers customary garnishes alongside additional interesting ones like simmered pork midsection or sisig with calamansi cream. Pizzas come accessible entire round, square or by the cut.
Pizza joint El Jefe Mexican Pizzeria
Think pizza just has Italian flavors? Reconsider. This Chula Vista spot serves dainty hull pizzas finished off with any semblance of bistec, birria, fiery dark beans, Rajas pepper and that’s just the beginning. Drinks from the bar are similarly interesting with wines from Valle de Guadalupe and Micheladas made with new mixed natural products.
