Discover the best pizza in Detroit

Detroit gave the world its own pizza, and it came out of a factory town. Detroit-style is a rectangular, deep pan pizza with a thick, airy crumb and a crust that fries dark and crisp against the metal, with the cheese pushed all the way to the edge so it caramelizes up the sides.

The style was born at Buddy's Rendezvous in 1946, baked in the blue-steel utility trays the local auto plants used to hold small parts. That accident of supply is why the corners crisp the way they do, and Detroit still anchors the city's map today, though the pan has since traveled to Chicago and beyond.

The most popular pizzeria in the city by review volume is Buddy's Pizza, one of 27 we list. The style traveled far in the last decade, but the versions baked in Detroit's original pans still set the standard.

Prices read fair. A Detroit square usually runs between 14 and 22 dollars for a shareable pan. The spots ranked here are ranked by what people who came for the pizza actually thought, not by which room shipped the most pans out of state.