Here’s where to find the best pizza in the U.S.
What’s the world’s record-setting pizza? Sixty pizza makers last month worked on this almost milelong pizza for Expo 2015 near Milan, Italy. Their work paid off: Guinness World Records confirmed it was the world’s longest pizza (specifically 1.59545 kilometers).
As best American pizza cities go, Chicago and New York City top the list.
But Las Vegas, San Francisco and San Diego?
These three cities made it into TripAdvisor’s top 10 U.S. pizza places based on reviews on the travel website.
The website also offers suggestions on must-try pizza restaurants.
In San Francisco, it’s Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, Il Casaro Pizzeria & Mozzarella Bar and Za Pizza.
Recommendations in San Diego include Basic, Buona Forchetta and Pizza Port Ocean Beach.
In Las Vegas, it’s Project Pie, Pizza Rock (which also gets a shout-out in OpenTable’s 2015 Summer Road Trip Restaurant Guide) and Secret Pizza.
More interesting are the individual restaurants that came out on top.
The Moose’s Tooth Pub and Pizzeria in Anchorage, for example, makes a pie topped with apricot sauce, cream cheese, carrots and chicken.
And Bill’s Pizza in Palm Springs draws big-time fans with its sourdough crusts and toppings, such as Schreiner’s sausage and olive oil-roasted vegetables.
By the way, TripAdvisor‘s word search of its pizza reviews turned up pepperoni, sausage and mushroom as the top toppings folks request.
Here’s the list of TripAdvisor’s best pizza cities in America:
1. Chicago
2. New York City
3. New Haven, Conn.
4. Orlando, Fla.
5. San Francisco
6. Washington, D.C.
7. Las Vegas
8. San Diego
9. Phoenix
10. Miami Beach
And the 10 best pizza restaurants (for your try-a-slice bucket list):
1. Juliana’s Pizza in Brooklyn, N.Y.
2. Pizza Time of St. Augustine in St. Augustine, Fla.
3. Moose’s Tooth Pub and Pizzeria in Anchorage
4. Keste in New York City
5. Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco
6. Regina Pizzeria in Boston
7. Antico Pizza Napoletana in Atlanta
8. Bill’s Pizza in Palm Springs
9. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven
10. John’s of Bleeker Street in New York City
TripAdvisor ranked top cities on the quality of pizza restaurant reviews, the number of reviews and the ratio of pizza restaurants and reviews compared with all restaurants in their respective cities.
Restaurants were selected by the quality and quantity of the reviews, each having a minimum of 500 entries.
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