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Craig Melillo cuts a pizza with crescendo cheese, asparagus, spinach, green garlic and mozzarella at Gracie’s Apizza.
Craig Melillo cuts a pizza at Gracie’s Apizza.
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Where to Find Exceptional Pizzas in Portland and Beyond

Portland's standout pizzerias for everything from Detroit squares to sourdough slices

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Craig Melillo cuts a pizza at Gracie’s Apizza.
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As divisive as it is when anyone says it, multiple national pizza aficionados have called Portland the country’s greatest pizza city. And, although many of Portland’s top pizzaiolos aren’t looking for superlatives, there’s a reason the world’s dough nerds are paying attention to Portland: This city’s influx of pizza capital ex-pats, access to heritage grains for naturally leavened dough, and thriving agricultural market make Portland a natural hotbed for an eclectic mix of noteworthy pizzerias.

Like many of Portland’s dish-specific restaurants, the city’s pizzerias slice an astounding range of pies, from the thick and cheesy Detroit squares to the soft and thin Neapolitan-style, and the market has gotten even more crowded in the last few years: Home cooks and restaurant vets have started offering even more regional styles, ranging from Chicago tavern-style to New-Haven-adjacent. Almost all of these variants aren’t looking to be “authentic” (what does that word even mean, anyway?); they’re all influenced by the city they’re in, creating some hodgepodge of styles that defines our city’s scene. This map attempts to capture that variance, that culinary diversity, that makes Portland one of the country’s great pizza cities. Find a broader selection of slices or square pies via their specific maps.

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Hapa Pizza

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What started as a farmers market stand has become one of Beaverton’s most exciting new restaurant openings. Hapa Pizza uses a foundation of soft, chewy, char-speckled crust for toppings inspired by a cool collection of pan-Asian dishes. For example, a heavily reduced pho broth becomes a sauce for a pizza inspired by the Vietnamese noodle soup, topped with fall-apart tender brisket, mozzarella, and a handful of bean sprouts. A massaman curry base comes with a scattering of red bell peppers and onions, with a choice of lemongrass pork or fried tofu. And the banh mi pie cuts the richness of pork with pickled radish and carrots. Sticklers and purists will find the standards here as well, like pepperoni and margherita.

Gracie’s Apizza

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Gracie’s, the St. Johns pizzeria, is back and better than ever in a sunny new space. Here, Pacific Northwestern grain gets its noteworthy tang from a rye sourdough starter, the canvas for a rotating selection of fun house-made touches or seasonal treats. Pies drizzled with Oregon green garlic arrive alongside pizzas topped with a handful of hazelnuts and crescendo cheese fonduta, accompanied by a classic, intentionally simple tomato pie; for those looking for something different, Gracie’s calzone is also one of the city’s finest.

Tastebud

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Before Portland’s pizza scene became nationally relevant, this cart-turned-restaurant was the spot carving out the city’s pizza niche, a trailblazer in the seasonal-produce-topped, wood-fired pizza space. The restaurant’s peach-topped pie is a bucket-list item in the summer, while winter pizzas arrive strewn with things like rutabagas or marinated dried tomatoes. Although there are many new pizza players in town, topping combinations at Tastebud remain some of the most inventive around. Tastebud remains takeout only, with online ordering.

Pizza Thief

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Darby Aldaco served as the executive chef at the lauded Nancy Silverton pizzeria Triple Beam before opening this Slabtown pizzeria with his best friend, entering the already-crowded sourdough pizza scene with a New-York-style shop. However, Pizza Thief still stands out for its take on a New York-style pizza, which retains the unfussy joy of a pepperoni slice with the notable tang of a sourdough pie. The shop’s pepperoni has a nice char-dotted base with a serious dose of stretchy cheese, and the Hot Tony is absolutely piled with cured meats and peppers.

A sourdough crust pizza from Pizza Thief comes topped with sliced peppers and pepperoni
A pepperoni and jalapeno pizza from Pizza Thief.
Patrizia Montonari

Ranch PDX, NW 21st

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The rebellious pizzaiolos at Ranch aren’t interested in doing anything conventionally. With their cheesy edges and crispy bottoms, the restaurant’s pies aren’t traditional Sicilian squares, and the restaurant’s eponymous ranch is an essential part of the experience. Still, these pies are hard to forget, with a pleasantly spongy crumb, thick slabs of pepperoni, and a garlicky dipping sauce best swabbed with a hunk of crust.

Two squares of Ranch Pizza sit on plates at the now-closed Poison’s Rainbow
Ranch PDX pizza slices.
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The Star Portland

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In a big, lofty Pearl District dining room, this Bay Area transplant specializes in deep-dish pizzas filled with things like artichoke hearts or roasted zucchini. Think of the Star’s deep-dish as a well-made pie: A crunchy, buttery crust with a dry base has a flavor almost like cornbread, filled with cheese and a sweet-not-sugary tomato sauce. The balance of textures is a true marvel, saucy and messy at its core, fluffy-not-gummy inside the crust, and satisfyingly crisp at the base and edges.

Lovely's Fifty Fifty

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Sarah Minnick’s pizzas really live up to the name: Often garnished with flowers and seasonal vegetables, Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty’s pizza is just, well, lovely. Almost all of her ingredients come from Pacific Northwestern sources, with a heavy emphasis on seasonality, and the restaurant’s Oregon whole grain crust is becoming the model for Portland-style pizza. Minnick’s restaurant has reopened for indoor service, a bustling and warm dining room with an ice cream counter at the front.

A picture of a whole pie covered in seasonal vegetables at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty.
A seasonal pie from Lovely’s Fifty Fifty.
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Cafe Olli

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The last thing Portland needed was another pizzeria, but Cafe Olli isn’t just a pizzeria: From morning baked eggs to evening panna cotta, the restaurant wears many hats in its Northeast Portland space. In the evenings, the restaurant’s wood-fired oven crisps pizzas with a beautiful array of toppings, which complement (but not distract from) the nuanced flavor of the crust. Some days, pies may come topped with a slather of ricotta or petals of mortadella; others, oyster mushrooms cover the pie alongside dollops of grits, of all things. It’s extremely hard to go wrong.

Pop Pizza

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Pop Pizza’s square pies feel distinct from the deliciously maximalist pies at Ranch or the true-to-form Detroit found at Assembly Brewing; instead, owner Marius Pop approaches his pizzas with the eye of a pastry chef, which makes sense — Pop is known for his bakery, Nuvrei, with its rose croissants and various hues of macarons. The dough here is light and soft, just a touch sweet, with a consistent cheesy crunch baked into the edges. Toppings hew pretty traditional here, with standards like pepperoni and sausage.

A rectangular pan pizza at Pop Pizza is covered in small, curly pepperoni
A pepperoni pizza from Pop Pizza.
Pop Pizza

Dimo’s Apizza

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Dimo’s was pitched as a New Haven-style pizzeria designed for takeout; to consider it that way is to do it a disservice. Its crust is hard to categorize, crunchier and less chewy than a typical New Haven, but it’s also unlike any other pizza in Portland, with a nice balance of crisp and char. But chef Doug Miriello’s approach to toppings is particularly special: Its clam pie, a nod to legendary apizza shop Frank Pepe, comes covered in wood-roasted clams with clam liquor and parsley, a brisk hit of seawater tempered with herbs and parmesan. Those intimidated by seafood pizzas should go for the shop’s delicate tomato pie, which gets little more than a few shavings of garlic and Sicilian oregano.

A pizza topped with chopped clams, parmesan, and parsley is surrounded by a crust blotted with char.
A clam pie from Dimo’s Apizza.
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Pizzeria Stellina

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When it comes to neighborhood pizzerias, Sellwood’s Stellina is punching above its weight. Slow-fermented dough made with Pacific Northwestern flour gets a gentle stretch, resulting in an airy, sturdy crust with lots of flavor. The 12-inch pies come with toppings like herbed ricotta and ribbons of prosciutto, or poached pears with honey and Gorgonzola. In the summers, pies show off the seasonal bounty, from juicy cherry tomatoes or pearls of sweet corn.

Nostrana

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Marda Stoliar of the International School of Baking helped develop the starter and dough for the pizzas at this vaunted Italian restaurant, which serves Neapolitan-esque pies topped with gaping-mouthed clams or kale-pistachio pesto. This restaurant is known for its seasonality, so some pies change fairly often; the funghi, however, remains on the menu in some form or another almost always, a layer of earthy mushrooms sitting under a pile of dressed, peppery arugula. Simplicity at its finest.

No Saint

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Like Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty, No Saint — a newcomer to Portland’s pizza scene — covers its pies in an eclectic and ever-rotating cast of vegetables, ranging from purple Brussels sprouts to rainbow carrots. The crust has nice flavor from the wood-fired oven, with toppings that are elegant and fun but not showy. Some pizzas pull from the Italian American culinary canon, like a vodka sauce pie paired with n’duja; others are more Pacific Northwestern in style, pairing beets with summer berries and fresh sheep’s cheese. The restaurant’s standard cheese, here called a “plain” pizza, is pure comfort food.

Scottie's Pizza Parlor

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Scottie’s namesake Scottie cooked pizzas in both New York and New Haven before hitting Portland, and his Pacific Northwestern pies balance a touch of naturally leavened tang in the crust with the creaminess of ricotta and mozzarella. While the traditional rounds are always a hit, Scottie’s has developed a reputation for its nonna pie, a square pizza covered in a layer of fresh basil leaves. Order online for pickup at the Southeast Division pizzeria, or visit the new location in Northwest Portland.

Paladin Pie

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This Alberta pizza cart from Oven & Shaker alumnus Leo Brill is a distinct departure from the Pearl District pizzeria’s pies, with a somewhat New York-style approach and a gently tangy, naturally leavened crust with exceptional chew. The toppings include standards like pepperoni and tomato pies, but the real move here is to order one of the rotating specials: Past pies have arrived topped with kimchi and bacon, birria, and roasted buffalo chicken.

Ken's Artisan Pizza

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Ken Forkish isn’t running his illustrious pizzeria anymore, but he didn’t want to leave the business until his pizza recipe had reached the platonic ideal of a good pie. Forkish says the restaurant is making its best pizza ever now, and he’s right: The crust is now a blend of sourdough and traditional yeast doughs, topped with a fine-tuned house mozzarella that blankets the pie evenly. The one thing that remains: The restaurant’s wood-fired ovens, which leopards the crusts in char.

Red Sauce Pizza

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Not only has Red Sauce’s Shardell Dues developed a serious following for her killer menu of chewy pies topped with aged mozz, she’s donated a hunk of her proceeds to various humanitarian causes over the years, from Taking Ownership PDX, which helps renovate Black-owned homes to fight gentrification, to Rose Haven, a shelter that serves women and gender-nonconforming folks in need. It’s hard to go wrong here — the Georjean with vodka sauce and ricotta, the pepperoni-pineapple-jalapeño, or the Hot Nancy with house spicy honey are all standouts.

Apizza Scholls

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Apizza Scholls is often considered the home of Portland’s best pizza crust, with textbook-ideal crumb. However, adorned with toasted pumpkin seeds, roasted tomato pesto, or house-cured Canadian bacon, Apizza Scholls’ pies are just as much about the toppings as the crust. The Apizza Amore, sporting very little other than delicate petals of Portland-made capicola, is stunningly beautiful in its simplicity.

Vincenzo's Pizza

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This Rose City Park pizzeria relies on the family dough recipe of owner Vincenzo Coco Jr., one his grandfather brought to New York from Sicily after World War II. The shop currently sells two styles of pizza: A hand-tossed round and a thicker Sicilian, which offers a distinctive fluffy crust with a crispy bottom. The Sunday sugo arrives as dollops on the Sicilian square pie, tender meatballs balanced on top; it’s a decadent treat, especially compared to the simplicity of the shop’s white pie.

Assembly Brewing

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This Foster-Powell’s brewery and pizzeria is likely serving the city’s best Detroit-style pie. Co-owner George Johnson learned to make his crispy pan pizzas at the award-winning Detroit Style Pizza Company, and it shows: In an industrial brewery space with outdoor picnic tables, servers deliver crispy-chewy-soft pizzas with tons of crispy baked-on cheese to neighborhood locals and pizza nerds. The result: a perplexingly juicy pie smothered in dollops of tomato sauce and almost saucy cheese.

A Detroit-style pizza from Assembly Brewing, with dollops of brick-red tomato sauce.
A pepperoni pie from Assembly Brewing
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This Sandy food cart from Andina and Pizzeria Otto alum Roberto Hernandez Guerrero doesn’t just serve soft Neapolitan-style pies topped with Mama Lil’s Peppers or pesto; visitors can also order the cart’s take on a baleada, a pizza crust adorned with a layer of beans topped with clouds of sour cream and mozz. There’s nothing like it in town, though even the cart’s simpler pies — crowded curly pepperonis mingling with red onion and jalapeno, a standard margherita with a lovely tomato base — are sure to stun. Keep an eye out for specials that pull from the Latin American culinary canon, whether it’s a mole negro-topped pizza or meatballs with sunny salsa Huancaína.

East Glisan Pizza Lounge

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This Montavilla neighborhood pizzeria has cozy, old-school bar vibes, but its Detroit pan pizzas make it a pizza destination. The crust is sufficiently airy, not weighed down by its significant layer of cheese and super-herbaceous tomato sauce, with those crispy, cheesy edges almost blackened in the oven. The restaurant also offers 12- and 16-inch rounds, topped with everything from garlic oil to puttanesca sauce.

Pizzeria La Sorrentina

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This food cart turned restaurant is known for its meticulous Neapolitan pies, a delicate, flavorful crust layered with rosy prosciutto or bursting cherry tomatoes. Owner Daisuke Matsumoto trained under master pizzaiolo Biagio Longo in Sorrento, Italy, now focusing exclusively on his restaurant’s pies; his business partner and wife, Amy Hernandez Matsumoto, greets customers who pop by the restaurant for pristine margheritas or briny puttanesca pies, covered with olives, capers, and anchovies. The terra mia, an eggplant parm pie with sausage, is a particular standout.

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Hapa Pizza

What started as a farmers market stand has become one of Beaverton’s most exciting new restaurant openings. Hapa Pizza uses a foundation of soft, chewy, char-speckled crust for toppings inspired by a cool collection of pan-Asian dishes. For example, a heavily reduced pho broth becomes a sauce for a pizza inspired by the Vietnamese noodle soup, topped with fall-apart tender brisket, mozzarella, and a handful of bean sprouts. A massaman curry base comes with a scattering of red bell peppers and onions, with a choice of lemongrass pork or fried tofu. And the banh mi pie cuts the richness of pork with pickled radish and carrots. Sticklers and purists will find the standards here as well, like pepperoni and margherita.

Gracie’s Apizza

Gracie’s, the St. Johns pizzeria, is back and better than ever in a sunny new space. Here, Pacific Northwestern grain gets its noteworthy tang from a rye sourdough starter, the canvas for a rotating selection of fun house-made touches or seasonal treats. Pies drizzled with Oregon green garlic arrive alongside pizzas topped with a handful of hazelnuts and crescendo cheese fonduta, accompanied by a classic, intentionally simple tomato pie; for those looking for something different, Gracie’s calzone is also one of the city’s finest.

Tastebud

Before Portland’s pizza scene became nationally relevant, this cart-turned-restaurant was the spot carving out the city’s pizza niche, a trailblazer in the seasonal-produce-topped, wood-fired pizza space. The restaurant’s peach-topped pie is a bucket-list item in the summer, while winter pizzas arrive strewn with things like rutabagas or marinated dried tomatoes. Although there are many new pizza players in town, topping combinations at Tastebud remain some of the most inventive around. Tastebud remains takeout only, with online ordering.

Pizza Thief

Darby Aldaco served as the executive chef at the lauded Nancy Silverton pizzeria Triple Beam before opening this Slabtown pizzeria with his best friend, entering the already-crowded sourdough pizza scene with a New-York-style shop. However, Pizza Thief still stands out for its take on a New York-style pizza, which retains the unfussy joy of a pepperoni slice with the notable tang of a sourdough pie. The shop’s pepperoni has a nice char-dotted base with a serious dose of stretchy cheese, and the Hot Tony is absolutely piled with cured meats and peppers.

A sourdough crust pizza from Pizza Thief comes topped with sliced peppers and pepperoni
A pepperoni and jalapeno pizza from Pizza Thief.
Patrizia Montonari

Ranch PDX, NW 21st

The rebellious pizzaiolos at Ranch aren’t interested in doing anything conventionally. With their cheesy edges and crispy bottoms, the restaurant’s pies aren’t traditional Sicilian squares, and the restaurant’s eponymous ranch is an essential part of the experience. Still, these pies are hard to forget, with a pleasantly spongy crumb, thick slabs of pepperoni, and a garlicky dipping sauce best swabbed with a hunk of crust.

Two squares of Ranch Pizza sit on plates at the now-closed Poison’s Rainbow
Ranch PDX pizza slices.
Katie Acheff / Eater Portland

The Star Portland

In a big, lofty Pearl District dining room, this Bay Area transplant specializes in deep-dish pizzas filled with things like artichoke hearts or roasted zucchini. Think of the Star’s deep-dish as a well-made pie: A crunchy, buttery crust with a dry base has a flavor almost like cornbread, filled with cheese and a sweet-not-sugary tomato sauce. The balance of textures is a true marvel, saucy and messy at its core, fluffy-not-gummy inside the crust, and satisfyingly crisp at the base and edges.

Lovely's Fifty Fifty

Sarah Minnick’s pizzas really live up to the name: Often garnished with flowers and seasonal vegetables, Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty’s pizza is just, well, lovely. Almost all of her ingredients come from Pacific Northwestern sources, with a heavy emphasis on seasonality, and the restaurant’s Oregon whole grain crust is becoming the model for Portland-style pizza. Minnick’s restaurant has reopened for indoor service, a bustling and warm dining room with an ice cream counter at the front.

A picture of a whole pie covered in seasonal vegetables at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty.
A seasonal pie from Lovely’s Fifty Fifty.
Nick Woo/Eater Portland

Cafe Olli

The last thing Portland needed was another pizzeria, but Cafe Olli isn’t just a pizzeria: From morning baked eggs to evening panna cotta, the restaurant wears many hats in its Northeast Portland space. In the evenings, the restaurant’s wood-fired oven crisps pizzas with a beautiful array of toppings, which complement (but not distract from) the nuanced flavor of the crust. Some days, pies may come topped with a slather of ricotta or petals of mortadella; others, oyster mushrooms cover the pie alongside dollops of grits, of all things. It’s extremely hard to go wrong.

Pop Pizza

Pop Pizza’s square pies feel distinct from the deliciously maximalist pies at Ranch or the true-to-form Detroit found at Assembly Brewing; instead, owner Marius Pop approaches his pizzas with the eye of a pastry chef, which makes sense — Pop is known for his bakery, Nuvrei, with its rose croissants and various hues of macarons. The dough here is light and soft, just a touch sweet, with a consistent cheesy crunch baked into the edges. Toppings hew pretty traditional here, with standards like pepperoni and sausage.

A rectangular pan pizza at Pop Pizza is covered in small, curly pepperoni
A pepperoni pizza from Pop Pizza.
Pop Pizza

Dimo’s Apizza

Dimo’s was pitched as a New Haven-style pizzeria designed for takeout; to consider it that way is to do it a disservice. Its crust is hard to categorize, crunchier and less chewy than a typical New Haven, but it’s also unlike any other pizza in Portland, with a nice balance of crisp and char. But chef Doug Miriello’s approach to toppings is particularly special: Its clam pie, a nod to legendary apizza shop Frank Pepe, comes covered in wood-roasted clams with clam liquor and parsley, a brisk hit of seawater tempered with herbs and parmesan. Those intimidated by seafood pizzas should go for the shop’s delicate tomato pie, which gets little more than a few shavings of garlic and Sicilian oregano.

A pizza topped with chopped clams, parmesan, and parsley is surrounded by a crust blotted with char.
A clam pie from Dimo’s Apizza.
Brooke Jackson-Glidden / Eater Portland

Pizzeria Stellina

When it comes to neighborhood pizzerias, Sellwood’s Stellina is punching above its weight. Slow-fermented dough made with Pacific Northwestern flour gets a gentle stretch, resulting in an airy, sturdy crust with lots of flavor. The 12-inch pies come with toppings like herbed ricotta and ribbons of prosciutto, or poached pears with honey and Gorgonzola. In the summers, pies show off the seasonal bounty, from juicy cherry tomatoes or pearls of sweet corn.

Nostrana

Marda Stoliar of the International School of Baking helped develop the starter and dough for the pizzas at this vaunted Italian restaurant, which serves Neapolitan-esque pies topped with gaping-mouthed clams or kale-pistachio pesto. This restaurant is known for its seasonality, so some pies change fairly often; the funghi, however, remains on the menu in some form or another almost always, a layer of earthy mushrooms sitting under a pile of dressed, peppery arugula. Simplicity at its finest.

No Saint

Like Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty, No Saint — a newcomer to Portland’s pizza scene — covers its pies in an eclectic and ever-rotating cast of vegetables, ranging from purple Brussels sprouts to rainbow carrots. The crust has nice flavor from the wood-fired oven, with toppings that are elegant and fun but not showy. Some pizzas pull from the Italian American culinary canon, like a vodka sauce pie paired with n’duja; others are more Pacific Northwestern in style, pairing beets with summer berries and fresh sheep’s cheese. The restaurant’s standard cheese, here called a “plain” pizza, is pure comfort food.

Scottie's Pizza Parlor

Scottie’s namesake Scottie cooked pizzas in both New York and New Haven before hitting Portland, and his Pacific Northwestern pies balance a touch of naturally leavened tang in the crust with the creaminess of ricotta and mozzarella. While the traditional rounds are always a hit, Scottie’s has developed a reputation for its nonna pie, a square pizza covered in a layer of fresh basil leaves. Order online for pickup at the Southeast Division pizzeria, or visit the new location in Northwest Portland.

Paladin Pie

This Alberta pizza cart from Oven & Shaker alumnus Leo Brill is a distinct departure from the Pearl District pizzeria’s pies, with a somewhat New York-style approach and a gently tangy, naturally leavened crust with exceptional chew. The toppings include standards like pepperoni and tomato pies, but the real move here is to order one of the rotating specials: Past pies have arrived topped with kimchi and bacon, birria, and roasted buffalo chicken.

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Ken's Artisan Pizza

Ken Forkish isn’t running his illustrious pizzeria anymore, but he didn’t want to leave the business until his pizza recipe had reached the platonic ideal of a good pie. Forkish says the restaurant is making its best pizza ever now, and he’s right: The crust is now a blend of sourdough and traditional yeast doughs, topped with a fine-tuned house mozzarella that blankets the pie evenly. The one thing that remains: The restaurant’s wood-fired ovens, which leopards the crusts in char.

Red Sauce Pizza

Not only has Red Sauce’s Shardell Dues developed a serious following for her killer menu of chewy pies topped with aged mozz, she’s donated a hunk of her proceeds to various humanitarian causes over the years, from Taking Ownership PDX, which helps renovate Black-owned homes to fight gentrification, to Rose Haven, a shelter that serves women and gender-nonconforming folks in need. It’s hard to go wrong here — the Georjean with vodka sauce and ricotta, the pepperoni-pineapple-jalapeño, or the Hot Nancy with house spicy honey are all standouts.

Apizza Scholls

Apizza Scholls is often considered the home of Portland’s best pizza crust, with textbook-ideal crumb. However, adorned with toasted pumpkin seeds, roasted tomato pesto, or house-cured Canadian bacon, Apizza Scholls’ pies are just as much about the toppings as the crust. The Apizza Amore, sporting very little other than delicate petals of Portland-made capicola, is stunningly beautiful in its simplicity.

Vincenzo's Pizza

This Rose City Park pizzeria relies on the family dough recipe of owner Vincenzo Coco Jr., one his grandfather brought to New York from Sicily after World War II. The shop currently sells two styles of pizza: A hand-tossed round and a thicker Sicilian, which offers a distinctive fluffy crust with a crispy bottom. The Sunday sugo arrives as dollops on the Sicilian square pie, tender meatballs balanced on top; it’s a decadent treat, especially compared to the simplicity of the shop’s white pie.

Assembly Brewing

This Foster-Powell’s brewery and pizzeria is likely serving the city’s best Detroit-style pie. Co-owner George Johnson learned to make his crispy pan pizzas at the award-winning Detroit Style Pizza Company, and it shows: In an industrial brewery space with outdoor picnic tables, servers deliver crispy-chewy-soft pizzas with tons of crispy baked-on cheese to neighborhood locals and pizza nerds. The result: a perplexingly juicy pie smothered in dollops of tomato sauce and almost saucy cheese.

A Detroit-style pizza from Assembly Brewing, with dollops of brick-red tomato sauce.
A pepperoni pie from Assembly Brewing
Brooke Jackson-Glidden/EPDX

Reeva

This Sandy food cart from Andina and Pizzeria Otto alum Roberto Hernandez Guerrero doesn’t just serve soft Neapolitan-style pies topped with Mama Lil’s Peppers or pesto; visitors can also order the cart’s take on a baleada, a pizza crust adorned with a layer of beans topped with clouds of sour cream and mozz. There’s nothing like it in town, though even the cart’s simpler pies — crowded curly pepperonis mingling with red onion and jalapeno, a standard margherita with a lovely tomato base — are sure to stun. Keep an eye out for specials that pull from the Latin American culinary canon, whether it’s a mole negro-topped pizza or meatballs with sunny salsa Huancaína.

East Glisan Pizza Lounge

This Montavilla neighborhood pizzeria has cozy, old-school bar vibes, but its Detroit pan pizzas make it a pizza destination. The crust is sufficiently airy, not weighed down by its significant layer of cheese and super-herbaceous tomato sauce, with those crispy, cheesy edges almost blackened in the oven. The restaurant also offers 12- and 16-inch rounds, topped with everything from garlic oil to puttanesca sauce.

Pizzeria La Sorrentina

This food cart turned restaurant is known for its meticulous Neapolitan pies, a delicate, flavorful crust layered with rosy prosciutto or bursting cherry tomatoes. Owner Daisuke Matsumoto trained under master pizzaiolo Biagio Longo in Sorrento, Italy, now focusing exclusively on his restaurant’s pies; his business partner and wife, Amy Hernandez Matsumoto, greets customers who pop by the restaurant for pristine margheritas or briny puttanesca pies, covered with olives, capers, and anchovies. The terra mia, an eggplant parm pie with sausage, is a particular standout.

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