Montco Pizzeria Among Best In Country, Popular Website Says

KING OF PRUSSIA, PA — Forget New York or Chicago. Some of the best pizza in all of America can be found right here in King of Prussia.

At least, that is, according to a popular food website, The Daily Meal, which recently released a ranking of the "101 Best Pizzas in America."

King of Prussia's Pizzeria Vetri made the cut, coming in 62nd out of 101 pizzas.

Pizzeria Vetri, located on 640 W. DeKalb Pike, also has a pair of locations in Philadelphia: 1939 Callowhill Street and 1615 Chancellor Street.

Founded by award winning chef Marc Vetri in 2013, Pizzeria Vetri rapidly expanded to three locations in a few short years. The King of Prussia spot opened up in 2016.

In King of Prussia, Pizzeria Vetri features a spacious floor plan with bar seating and craft beers.

The Daily Meal considered nearly 1,000 pizzas and looked for such qualities as a nuanced sauce, well-distributed cheese, a flavorful crust, and an overall balance of ingredients.

The "101 Best Pizzas in America" list is culled from a preferred pool of perfect pies. The Daily Meal then reached out to a diverse list of pizza chefs, bloggers, critics and writers, and asked them to take a survey on the pizza shops where they actually had eaten.

Here's what The Daily Meal editors had to say about Pizzeria Vetri:

"Be sure to check off the Speck (smoky cured speck, pistachio pesto, balsamic, mozzarella, roasted cippolini onions and Parmigiano); the Gambaretto (rock shrimp, salsa verde, scallions and Parmigiano); and the Salciccia (fennel sausage, roasted fennel, tomato sauce and mozzarella). But don’t leave without trying the Rotolo, a crispy pizza dough pinwheel stuffed with house-made mortadella sausage and ricotta crowned with pistachio pesto."

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut was named the best pizza joint in the nation for the third year in a row.

Connecticut might have had the No. 1 pizza, but New York led the way overall with 28 pizza places on the Daily Meal list. New York was followed by Illinois with nine, California with seven, and Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey all with six.

Here's how the ranking's top 10 looked:

10. John's of Bleecker Street (New York, New York)
9. Lou Malnati's Pizzeria (Chicago, Illinois)
8. Patsy's (New York, New York)
7. Sally's Apizza (New Haven, Connecticut)
6. Totonno's (Brooklyn, NY)
5. Buddy's Pizza (Detroit, Michigan)
4. Pequod's (Chicago, Illinois)
3. Razza Pizza Artigianale (Jersey City, New Jersey)
2. Lucali (Brooklyn, New York)
1. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (New Haven, Connecticut)