#1
9.7Top Tier
The best pizza in America? It might be… It could be… This 2024 James Beard semifinalist serves sourdough-based Neapolitan pizza from a relaxed space off Mozart Street. Ra…
City guide
Best Pizza in Chicago
A ranked guide to Chicago pizza entries in The Slice Index.
What defines this list
The Chicago guide is a compact market view. It currently leans toward Deep Dish, Tavern, New York rather than a single dominant lane.
Highest-rated entries include Middle Brow, Pizz’Amici, Burt's Place. Scores reflect individual visits, so this is a ranked index rather than a crowd-sourced consensus list.
9 full reviews and 3 closed/archive records are included. Rating-only entries remain visible, but full reviews carry the richer editorial context.
#2
9.6Top Tier
Pizz’Amici (“Pizza Friends”) started as a DIY project among friends - first in a Ukrainian Village apartment, then as @EatFreePizza, followed by “Pizza Fried Chicken Ice…
#3
9.2Top Tier
#4
9.1Top Tier
My first ever post from this account was a review of Prince Street Pizza’s Hollywood location (I was out in LA for a football game). The original Manhattan shop has long…
#5
9.0Top Tier
Pequod’s Pizza, named after the ill-fated ship in Moby-Dick, was founded in 1971 by legendary Chicago pizzaiolo Burt Katz. Katz later opened another pizzeria named after…
#6
9.0Top Tier
This is a pizzeria I have long been looking forward to visiting. I first encountered Tony Scardino - “The Professor” - from his incredible-looking pandemic-era pizza-maki…
#7
8.9Great
#8
8.5Great
Pronounced “Bahn-chi”, @bonciusa is the Chicago outpost of a Roman pizzeria (which you can find on the “Via della Meloria”, near the Vatican). Here, the Roman “pizza al t…
#9
8.5Great
#10
#11
8.4Great
@damatosbakeryandsubs is a working Italian bakery, with a wholesale operation, that also serves one of Chicago’s most distinctive slices. The style here is pure bakery pi…
#12
#13
8.4Great
#14
8.3Great
#15
7.9Worth the Calories
#16
7.9Worth the Calories
#17
7.9Worth the Calories
#18
7.6Worth the Calories
A Chicago staple since 1971, @loumalnatis delivers a prototypical example deep dish pizza... I might even call it archetypical. But Joe, you might ask: what exactly is “d…
#19
#20
6.5Worth the Calories
#21
5.6All Pizza's Good, Right?
#22
5.3All Pizza's Good, Right?
#23
Closed archiveHistorical records are kept below open entries
#24
8.8Great
#25
8.2Great
#26