#1
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…
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Best Tavern Pizza
A ranked guide to Tavern entries across The Slice Index.
What defines this list
Tavern is strongest in Cincinnati, Chicago, Chain. The page groups the style across cities so the best examples are not trapped inside one local list.
Top examples include Pizz’Amici, Wayfarer, St Francis Apizza. 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
9.5Top Tier
This is one I’ve been looking forward to writing. I first reviewed Wayfarer in January 2024 from a pop-up at Mike Dew’s kitchen. I was highly impressed (you can go back a…
#3
9.4Top Tier
@stfrancisapizza is the pizzeria I’ve posted about the most, not just because they produce top-tier pizza but also because they are regularly improving - the sign of a gr…
#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
8.9Great
#6
7.7Worth the Calories
When I mention “Dayton Style,” the cliché response is always, “It’s an attitude as much as a wardrobe.” And indeed, effortlessly chic is the ultimate Dayton uniform. Eleg…
#7
7.7Worth the Calories
Founded in 1949, @masseyspizza is the inventor of “Columbus Style Pizza”. That style (later spread more widely by by @Donatos) bears more than a little resemblance to Chi…
#8
#9
#10
7.3Worth the Calories
I recently found myself in Miamisburg, Ohio, a picturesque small town full of surprisingly bustling shops just south of Dayton, Ohio (One of my top two Daytons in the gre…
#11
6.8Worth the Calories
#12
6.5Worth the Calories
This is an old “honky-tonk” on River Road, a few miles west of downtown Cincinnati that boasts the “Tri-State’s Best Pizza”. In my experience, old honkytonks are not trad…
#13
6.5Worth the Calories
The nice folks at @foureg (the brain-trust behind @keystonebar, @igbys, @rosedaleotr, etc) invited us to the grand opening of their new cocktail bar / pizzeria at the Ban…
#14
6.2All Pizza's Good, Right?
I recently attended a “Veracity” comedy show at @improvcincinnati. In this show series, sketches are improvised based on the stories told by a guest speaker. This particu…
#15
#16
5.9All Pizza's Good, Right?
#17
5.9All Pizza's Good, Right?
#18
5.8All Pizza's Good, Right?
#19
5.6All Pizza's Good, Right?
#20
5.6All Pizza's Good, Right?
Italian for “My Own Pizzeria” Mio’s is a five location Cincy chain founded in 1975. They are know for their stuffed pizza (which I’ll cover in a future review) and overst…
#21
5.4All Pizza's Good, Right?
#22
5.4All Pizza's Good, Right?
#23
#24
5.3All Pizza's Good, Right?
#25
4.9All Pizza's Good, Right?
#26
4.8All Pizza's Good, Right?
#27
4.7All Pizza's Good, Right?
This Ft Thomas spin-off of the “OG” @padrinoitalian in Milford specializes in thin crust pizza. I like the subtle Godfather reference, ‘Il Padrino’ being Italian for ‘The…
#28
4.3All Pizza's Good, Right?
#29
4.2All Pizza's Good, Right?
#30
#31
3.8All Pizza's Good, Right?
#32
3.6All Pizza's Good, Right?
#33
#34
3.0All Pizza's Good, Right?
#35
3.0All Pizza's Good, Right?
#36
8.0Great
This is a pizzeria I had long had on my list to try after discovering them on Instagram (@grabowskis_pizzeria). Grabowski’s is a Denver pizzeria that serves a Chicago thi…
#37
7.5Worth the Calories
#38
7.3Worth the Calories
#39
6.7Worth the Calories
#40
6.5Worth the Calories
#41
5.5All Pizza's Good, Right?
#42
5.1All Pizza's Good, Right?
#43
3.4All Pizza's Good, Right?