List Of 101 Top Pizza Places Includes One Seattle Spot

SEATTLE, WA — Another year, another ranking finding the best pizza in the United States is served in Connecticut, New York City and Chicago —yet quality slices can be found in many other cities as well.

The Daily Meal released its list of the “101 Best Pizzas in America” at the end of September, and restaurants from 30 states made the ranking. The food blog 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 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.

At the end of the process, the evergreen statehad just one pizza joint make the rankings. The food and dining website ranked Serious Pie as the top spot in Washington and 58th overall in the country.

“You’d expect no less than pizza greatness from Seattle, Washington, star chef and James Beard Award-winner Tom Douglas, and at his two Serious Pie spots in Seattle, that’s exactly what you get. These are thin-crust, oblong pizzas about a foot long, light but with structure, cooked in a 600-degree applewood-burning stone oven and imbued with serious soul. The menu features seven pies with toppings like Yukon Gold potatoes, soft-cooked free-range eggs, smoked prosciutto, truffle cheese and house-made bacon, but you’ll want to try the sweet fennel sausage, roasted pepper and provolone pie.”

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 are the top 10 overall pizzas in America:

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)