Discover the best pizza in Denver

Denver runs a growing wood-fired scene with a quirk no coastal city has to think about: altitude. At a mile above sea level the air pressure is lower, dough proofs faster, and water boils cooler, so the city's pizzaioli adjust hydration and rise times to keep the crust from over-inflating.

Detroit is the most common style on our map, alongside a solid New York-slice contingent and the Chicago and Detroit pans that traveled west. The rooms spread across the central neighborhoods rather than one pizza strip. The city groups under the United States hub.

The most popular pizzeria in the city by review volume is Blue Pan Pizza, one of 18 we list. Did you know high-altitude baking changes the recipe? Denver dough often runs a touch wetter and proofs shorter than the same recipe would at sea level.

Prices read fair. A wood-fired margherita usually lands between 15 and 21 dollars. The spots ranked here are ranked by what people who came for the pizza actually thought, not by which patio faced the mountains.