Discover the best pizza in New Haven

New Haven is one of the most important pizza cities in the United States, and it has its own name for the thing: apizza, said ah-BEETS. The Connecticut city's style is a thin, oblong, coal-fired pie with a hard char on a chewy crust, and it started when Frank Pepe opened on Wooster Street in 1925.

The signature is the white clam pie, no tomato, just shucked clams, garlic, oregano, olive oil, and grated cheese, a New Haven original. New Haven apizza is the local style, and Apizza is the most common on our map. Wooster Street remains the historic heart, a short drive from the bigger scene in New York.

The most popular pizzeria in the city by review volume is Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, one of 7 we list. Did you know apizza is baked in coal-fired ovens that run hotter and dirtier than a wood oven? That is where the signature char comes from.

Prices read fair. A plain tomato pie usually lands between 13 and 20 dollars. The spots ranked here are ranked by what people who came for the pizza actually thought, not by which room had the longest line on Wooster Street.