#1
9.4Top Tier
A vintage aesthetic pizzeria in Williamburg, Brooklyn that turns out some outstanding Detroit-Style Pizza. We all recall the Neapolitan boom of 2008 & Hot Honey mania in…
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Best Detroit Pizza
A ranked guide to Detroit entries across The Slice Index.
What defines this list
Detroit is strongest in New York, Naples, Detroit. The page groups the style across cities so the best examples are not trapped inside one local list.
Top examples include Ace’s Pizza, Michigan and Trumbull, Pequod’s Pizza. The ranking is crust-first: bake, structure, sauce, cheese, and repeatability matter more than reputation.
14 entries have full review text. Score-only records remain in the index but are less editorially developed.
#2
9.0Top Tier
This is a new Detroit style pizzeria (A “Detroit Revival Pizzeria”?) located in an old garage near the intersection of Michigan and Trumbull Avenue - the location of the…
#3
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…
#4
9.0Top Tier
Detroit style pizza in Columbia-Tusculum (or OTR) & my current pick for the Best Pizza in Cincinnati
#5
8.9Great
Detroit-style pizza in Naples, FL. This small shop has the best pizza in Southwest Florida & it’s not close
#6
8.5Great
Founded in 1946, Buddy’s Rendezvous is the originator of a certain type of Sicilian pizza, cooked in blue steel pans repurposed from local auto suppliers, that’s now call…
#7
8.3Great
Detroit style pizza in the Upper East Side. Pictured here is their take on a Margherita pizza, featuring burrata in place of the traditional fresh mozzarella. Appreciatin…
#8
#9
8.2Great
A Detroit style outpost in Boynton Beach. This eclectic Detroit-forward restaurant features features coneys & corned beef, in addition to the pizza. But with well-caramel…
#10
7.7Worth the Calories
A Detroit style pizzeria off the U Street Corridor in DC. Slices & Pie does NY style, Detroit style, and also a Sicilian upside down slice. I had a slice of their Detroit…
#11
7.7Worth the Calories
A Detroit style throwback pizzeria in DC near @howard1867. @sonnyspizzadc offers an interesting take on Detroit style, veering in a Sicilian-American direction. The crust…
#12
7.7Worth the Calories
A Chicago pan pizza pizzeria, in the style of @pequodspizza or @burtsplacepizza (two of my all-time favorites), but located in Mercato, Naples. There’s a lot of mediocre…
#13
7.6Worth the Calories
Founded in 1961 and then refounded in 2017, Como’s is a new wave Detroit style pizzeria in the shell of a old school Ferndale pizzeria (the decor matches this - it’s a so…
#14
7.3Worth the Calories
An outpost of Detroit style pizza in the “Centennial State”. Blue Pan does also offer a New York style and a cracker thin pizza. However, since “pan” is in the name, natu…
#15
7.1Worth the Calories
A DC dive bar with Chicago Style Italian Beef (thus “Ivy”) and Detroit style pizza & coneys (thus “Coney”). Due to my strong Midwest-dar, I naturally gravitated towards t…
#16
#17
9.1Top Tier
#18
7.8Worth the Calories