Discover the best pizza in Phoenix

The Phoenix pizza scene built out across the second half of the twentieth century, on the back of Italian migration from the Northeast and from Italy itself. The dominant style today is Neapolitan, the soft-centred classic brought south by newer waves of Neapolitan-trained pizzaioli.

Neapolitan. More than half of the curated Phoenix pizzerias tag as Neapolitan, several with well over 1,000 Google reviews. Outside that, New York–style by the slice, Detroit–style, and Italian–style cover the rest.

The densest stretch is Downtown Phoenix along Roosevelt Row, with three or four marquee rooms within walking distance. Old Town Scottsdale and the surrounding 85251 grid is a second cluster, and Camelback Corridor along East Camelback Road a third.

For weekend dinners at the higher-volume Neapolitan rooms, yes. Waits of 30 to 60 minutes are common on Friday and Saturday nights. Most marquee rooms take a small number of reservations and run the rest as walk-in.

Several dedicated slice shops in metro Phoenix tag as New York–style, including rooms in Downtown and on the Camelback Corridor. For the origin city on the slice lineage, see New York.

Downtown Phoenix along Roosevelt Row is the local anchor, with the Old Town Scottsdale grid close behind. Tourists cluster in Old Town Scottsdale but tend to find the same international chains as anywhere else; locals drive ten minutes in any direction for the better dough.

The style is the same, Neapolitan: 00 flour, long cold ferment, soft and wet centre, leopard-spotted cornicione. What the metro adds is sheer volume: more than half the curated list tags Neapolitan, several rooms running well over 1,000 Google reviews. Origin city: Naples.

Detroit–style has a foothold on the west side. Detroit–style in Phoenix uses the same rectangular blue-pan format as the origin city, with brick cheese on the edges. Origin: Detroit.

Expect mid-teens USD for a Margherita at a Neapolitan room, low-twenties at the higher-end contemporary rooms, and roughly USD per slice at dedicated New York–style slice shops. Phoenix sits below the coastal cities for similar quality.

The most-reviewed Phoenix pizzeria on our map is The Parlor Pizzeria, with the largest Google review count of any place tagged in the metro. For the full live ranking, see the place list below.