Discover the best pizza in Philadelphia

Philadelphia has its own pizza dialect, and it starts with the tomato pie. This is a rectangular, focaccia-thick square topped with a thick, slightly sweet tomato sauce and almost no cheese, sold at room temperature from the city's old Italian bakeries in South Philly.

Around that tradition the city runs a serious modern scene. NY-Style is the most common style on our map, and a strong wood-fired wave has opened across South Philadelphia, Fishtown, and the Italian Market blocks, close enough to New York to trade cooks and ideas with it. The city groups under the United States hub.

The most popular pizzeria in the city by review volume is Del Rossi's, one of 28 we list. Did you know Philadelphia tomato pie is meant to be eaten cold? The bakeries bake it in the morning and it sits out all day, which is why the sauce, not the cheese, has to carry it.

Prices read fair. A wood-fired margherita usually lands between 14 and 20 dollars; a square of tomato pie costs a few dollars. The spots ranked here are ranked by what people who came for the pizza actually thought, not by which counter had the longest line.