Open for: Dinner every weeknight except for Tuesday, lunch and dinner on weekends.
Price range: $$$
In 2020, this welcoming Sunset Hill pizzeria started making its indelible mark on the scene, focused on both Detroit-style square and 12-inch round pies served from a Wood Stone hearth oven. The menu rotates seasonally, but recent hits include the Arcade 28, made with pepperoni and pickled serrano peppers, and the Triple Lindy, with potatoes, prosciutto, and smoked scarmorza.
Vibe check: Laid-back, unpretentious neighborhood spot.
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Delancey
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Open for: Dinner every night except Monday.
Price range: $$$
This Ballard neighborhood stalwart has been holding it down with long-fermented dough and a wood-fired oven for 14 years and is still incredibly reliable. You can order take-out (though not online), but you really want to dine in here. That way, not only do you get the pies fresh out of the oven, but you can have a cocktail and order a Jersey salad — whatever is in the “Italian” dressing, we’d take a bath in it if we could.
Perfect for: A date night.
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Spark Pizza
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Open for: Dinner every weeknight except Monday, lunch and dinner on the weekends
Price range: $$$
There’s this group that goes around naming the top 50 pizzerias in the United States, and Spark in Redmond has made the list three years running. That explains why there’s a line on weekends here full of devoted regulars plus newbies wondering what the fuss is about. Spark does Detroit-style pies during the week and New York-esque joints on Sundays, but the classic Neapolitan pies are what got it on that list. The crust is light, airy, and chewy, a great vehicle for the wide range of topping options they have here.
Perfect for: Outdoor dining during warmer months, thanks to the large patio.
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Lupo
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Open for: Dinner nightly
Price range: $$$
This Fremont restaurant stands out for its sourdough pizzas baked in a wood-fired oven covered in red tile behind the service counter. The menu offers classic pizzas, including marinara, pepperoni, and Margherita, as well as a cacio e pepe pie and a burrata soppressata pizza with hot honey and Calabrian chili pepper.
If you drive: Don’t expect to find parking right outside, spots in this stretch of Fremont are scarce.
Lupo
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Tivoli
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Open for: Lunch and dinner on weekdays, dinner on weekends
Price range: $$$
When the owners of Post Alley Pizza and Saint Bread teamed up to launch this Fremont pizzeria, it was obviously going to be great, and it is. The crust has a delightful not-quite-sourdough-y tang; the toppings rotate seasonally, and there’s this nicely spicy “hoagie jazz” sauce you need to try and a wine bar in the back — do you live here now?
Must-try dish: A lot of pizzerias on this list have a Caesar salad, but the one at Tivoli stands out for its inclusion of radicchio, lending a nice bitter crunch amid all the usual salty-umami flavors.
Harry Cheadle
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The Independent Pizzeria
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Open for: Dinner Thursday through Sunday
Price range: $
This Madison Park favorite is known for its flaky, crispy, thin-crust pizzas. Each dish is a thoughtful concoction of balanced ingredients, like the Norwalk, which consists of sliced prosciutto, dollops of melted mozzarella, grana cheese, and a heap of fresh arugula greens. It’s not easy to score a pie here — it’s only open from 3:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday through Sunday and occasionally sells out. Get here early.
Know before you go: This pizzeria only does to-go orders; sometimes the online ordering system is down but you can always trying calling in.
The Independent Pizzeria
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Cornelly
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Open for: Dinner, Thursday through Sunday.
Price range: $$$
This naturally leavened dough specialist on Capitol Hill sometimes draws lines on Summit Avenue, and it deserves them. What takes things up a notch here is not just the dough but the artful toppings — delightfully crispy pepperoni cups, honey-roasted pineapple on the Hornet Honeypie, and garlic confit sauce on the vegan mushroom pie. Cornelly has small plates and pasta and limited dine-in seating. A new location is expected to open in Queen Anne in late spring 2025.
Must-order: At this point hot honey and pepperoni seems like a boring order, but the addition of roasted pineapple on the Hornet Honeypie takes the sweetness up a notch and makes the combo seem fresh once more.
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Pizza by Ruffin
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Open for: Lunches on weekdays
Price: $
Tucked away in the ground floor of a massive South Lake Union buildings — which, fun fact, houses the Tommy Bahama corporate HQ — is one of Seattle’s most innovative pizzerias. Pizza by Ruffin serves Roman-style rectangular pizza cut with scissors, and “showcasing the diversity of the black diaspora through our food,” per its website. That comes through in specials like the doro wat (East African chicken stew) slice, which is creamy and aromatic with a strong cumin-y finish. Other strong slices here have included one that swaps tomato sauce for sweet pepper jam, which pairs nicely with funky goat cheese crumbles.
Know before you go: The menu here changes frequently, so don’t expect the same slice selection every time.
Harry Cheadle
Willmott’s Ghost
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Open for: Dinner, Thursday through Sunday.
Price range: $$$
This Italian restaurant from Renee Erickson inside the Amazon Spheres isn’t exactly a pizzeria, but the pizza is the best thing on the menu (next to the tiramisu). The pies are thick, almost foccaccia-style, and come with a pair of scissors you use to cut them up. It’s maybe messier than you want to get if you’re an Amazonia on a lunch break, but ideal for those of us who like our pizza to be on the bread-y side.
Know before you go: It’s inside the Spheres; you don’t need a badge but the entry is tucked away behind some plants.
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Post Alley Pizza
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Open for: Lunch or early dinner seven days a week (it closes at 6 p.m.).
Price range: $$
A few years back this Pike Place Market–adjacent hole-in-the-wall was a footnote on the pizza scene. Under new ownership, it focused on local, high-quality ingredients and really dialed in the dough recipe. The result is a triumph of details: a charred, tangy crust, a richly savory sauce, and seasonal toppings ranging from cherry tomatoes to broccoli rabe.
Perfect for: A quick slice during a market visit.
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Slice Box Pizza
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Open for: Lunch, Tuesday through Friday
Price range: $
This SoDo counter is where you go to get a slice. Get full pies here with toppings like artichoke hearts, goat cheese, and fresh walnut pesto, but it’s also a great spot for a fast and affordable lunch. The pepperoni slice belongs in a museum or a dictionary: cheesy, hot, foldable, little pools of oil in the pepperoni. (There’s another Slice Box location in Magnolia.)
Perfect for: Lunch under $10.
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Mioposto Mt. Baker
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Open for: Lunch and dinner daily
Price range: $$$
Mioposto has been carrying the banner for wood-fired pizza since 2006, expanding to West Seattle, Ravenna, and Mercer Island along the way. It’s easy to be an evangelist for these pies, which are slightly charred but still soft and topped with exceptional seasonal ingredients. Oh, and they also do a breakfast pizza here?! Note: The Ravenna location is temporarily closed after a car crashed into it.
Know before you go: Unless you are a group of six or more, Mioposto doesn’t take reservations.
Mioposto Pizzeria
Bar Del Corso
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Open for: Dinner Tuesday through Saturday
Price range: $$$
The pizzas at Beacon Hill’s Bar del Corso are wonderfully savory and consistent. Though these pizzas can stand alone as a full meal, they’re just as lovely as a shared appetizer before taking a deep dive into a menu of inspired Italian fare. The restaurant also has a lovely dining room, with some newer sidewalk seating.
Perfect for: A small group who wants to split some small plates in addition to the ‘za.
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MOTO
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Open for: Lunch and dinner daily
Price range: $$
What was once a pandemic-born business launched in a West Seattle house has become a rapidly expanding chain, with four locations and counting, plus an outpost in T-Mobile Park. What has made Moto a hit is its sourdough Detroit-style crust and its wild toppings. If you’re the kind of person who whinges about pineapple on pizza, how do you feel about beef adobo and kimchi, or crab, or clam chowder? The answer should be, “Those sound awesome!”
Must-order: The sweet-savory combo of pork belly and calamansi lime sauce on the Mr. Pig is not to be missed.
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Pizzeria Pulcinella
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Open for: Dinner on weekdays, lunch and dinner on weekends
Price range: $$
This Italian restaurant on Rainier Avenue, across the street from the shore of Lake Washington, is known for its dedication to the Neapolitan style; the dough is made with soft wheat from Italy, and the pies are cooked for less than 90 seconds in a scorching hot Italian wood-fired oven. You can’t go wrong with the Margherita, but there are more elaborate options, like the Giovanni, made with roasted pepper and pesto sauce, sausage, onions, and tomatoes.
Perfect for: A family dinner out.
Pizzeria Pulcinella
Stevie’s Famous
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Open for: Lunch and dinner daily
Price range: $$
The owners of Lupo opened Stevie’s Famous in late 2022, featuring casual 80s vibes, vintage arcade games, and crispy-as-hell New York-style pizza, a firm departure from the candlelit Neapolitan pies at Lupo’s. The crowd fave is the Normie MacDonald, with coppa, burrata, and hot honey. In 2024, Stevie’s opened a second location inside Beacon Hill’s Clock-Out Lounge.
Perfect for: Takeout for a crowd.
Stevie’s Famous
Dino’s Tomato Pie
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Open for: Dinner every night but Monday
Price range: $$
Dino’s is sort of a bar (it’s 21-plus) and definitely the kind of place you go after or before you go to another bar. But it’s better than any other soak-up-the-booze slice spot on Capitol Hill, particularly if you go with the square pies. These are shallower than Detroit-style pizzas, but crispy and Malliardized and chewy. With crust this good, the toppings don’t need to be complicated, and apart from the occasional special, they aren’t.
Perfect for: A late-night slice — Dino’s is open until 2 a.m.
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My Friend Derek’s
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Open for: Dinner Tuesday to Friday.
Price range: $$$
What began as a pandemic lockdown–era hobby project has turned into a small pizzeria so hot it has made the “New York” Times best restaurants in Seattle list. Derek’s keeps it simple, with a menu of only a few pies (including rotating specials) and a single salad, a heavy-on-the-anchovy kale Caesar. But who cares about sides when the basics are so good? The crispy, crackly, Detroit-style crust is an ideal vehicle for the rich, slightly spicy sauce, and we’d eat it even sans toppings.
Know before you go: Expect to wait for walk-in orders and for their to be a rush pretty much all the time.
