With a crisp golden crust, a good layer of home made sauce, melted cheese dripping off the perimeters, and the freshest toppings, pizza is considered one of humanity’s best items to itself.
Just as this democratic meals has modified our weight-reduction plan over time, so has the native pizza panorama shifted. Newcomers to Miami have amassed a following by means of their modern creations, whereas established joints endeavor to keep up their reign with no-fail recipes. Bottom line: You can discover a pie that matches you it doesn’t matter what you fancy.
Below, listed alphabetically, are Miami’s ten finest slice spots.
Andiamo Pizza
5600 Biscayne Blvd., Miami
305-762-5751
andiamopizzamiami.com
Don’t let the truth that this pizza joint was as soon as a tire store distract you. The focus at Andiamo is on the pie: greater than 30 gourmand brick-oven pizzas. Take within the view of bustling Biscayne Boulevard as you dine alfresco on a breezy patio and luxuriate in favorites such because the “New Yorker,” made with contemporary mozzarella, tomato sauce, Parmesan, extra-virgin olive oil, and contemporary basil, or the “Godfather,” a meat lover’s dream topped with sausage, pepperoni, meatballs, and mushrooms. The “Sunday Pie” can also be value a strive for its seamless mix of candy, spicy, and meaty flavors courtesy of tomato sauce, pepperoncini, mozzarella, ricotta, Parmesan, and basil.
Frankie’s Pizza
9118 Bird Rd., Miami
305-221-0221
frankiespizzaonline.com
Frankie’s has been in enterprise since 1955 and stays a basic, no-fuss, mom-and-pop store dispensing its famed square-cut pies at rock-bottom costs. Sure, the eating room is adorned with a worn Formica counter, pale sports activities posters, and a rattling cooler of sentimental drinks. And, sure, there is not any beer or booze. But actually, who cares? Frankie’s has a few of the finest pizza round, and that is why you are right here. It’s all concerning the crust at Frankie’s: crisp on the underside, barely chewy on the heart, and tastes of fresh-baked bread. Cheese and toppings are beneficiant with out being overindulgent, and a cut price — slices begin at just below two bucks.
La Leggenda Pizzeria
224 Española Way, Miami Beach
305-763-8566
laleggendapizzeria.com
To say that Giovanni Gagliardi is obsessive about pizza is like saying Wynton Marsalis dabbles within the trumpet. The complete lifetime of this pizzaiolo from Naples revolves round excellent pies. He was born right into a household well-known for a roving truck that dished out first-rate variations of the stuff. He’s received a number of world championships, and an armory of awards litters his small South Beach spot. The world’s famed Neapolitan flour corporations, which produce the one flour acceptable for making true Neapolitan pies in keeping with European Union requirements, fly him across the globe to stretch, gown, and bake on their behalf. Visit his Miami Beach restaurant for your self and watch him pull pies from the oven. Now after which, you will see him snip a pie crust with scissors to make sure it is puffing up and crisping good.
Lucali
1930 Bay Rd., Miami Beach
305-695-4441
lucali.com
Lucali’s pizza makers take their time prepping pies for the wood-burning oven. Crusts emerge skinny and blistered, their surfaces puffed by blackened bubbles of golden dough. Melted buffalo mozzarella and shredded Parmigiano-Reggiano cocoon easy tomato sauce (a secret recipe that may be ordered as a facet dish). Add pepperoni, artichokes, onions, purple peppers, shallots, porcini mushrooms, or scorching peppers. If you’ve got obtained room for dessert, do not miss the Nutella pie, slathered in gooey, heat chocolate-hazelnut unfold.
Miami Slice
1335 NE Miami Ct., Miami
305-217-5423
miamislicepizza.com
This Miami pizzeria has gained a viral following since its humble beginnings as a pop-up out of the La Latina kitchen in 2019. After dozens of recipe modifications in a quest to create the Magic City’s finest artisan New York-style slice, the idea was crafted into a correct slice store. Open Thursday by means of Sunday beginning at 5 p.m., the strains are identified to increase far previous the doorway properly earlier than opening. Arrive early, and you will be given the choice to dine in or take out. Don’t miss the possibility to take a seat on the bar the place you possibly can watch workers shuffle large slices out and in of ovens earlier than plating them on picket boards the place they obtain a closing dusting of fresh-grated cheese, sauce, or add-on toppings. The menu gives 5 slices that may be gussied up with a alternative of 4 “extras,” together with scorching honey, a purple sauce, three-cheese dip, or just a few dollops of creamy stracciatella. Pro tip: the stracciatella makes for an completely chic top-off to the “Pepperoni Proper” or mushroom-truffle slices.
The star-shaped pizza from Mister 0-1 is what units this pizzeria other than all the remaining.
Mister 0-1 photograph
Mister O1
Multiple space places, together with:
2315 N. Miami Ave., Miami
786-991-9343
mistero1.com
Owner and grasp pizzaiolo Renato Viola makes use of solely the freshest elements and premium-quality cheeses (vegan cheese is offered for a further cost) to prime Mister O1’s thin-crust pies. While there are greater than 15 choices, the signature pie stays the 13-inch “Star Luca,” named for its star-shaped factors that type excellent little dough pockets full of creamy ricotta cheese and a middle layered heart with the home Italian tomato sauce together with mozzarella and spicy salami. That star units Mister O1 other than different native pizzerias — and what led to the pizzeria’s enlargement to Madrid, Saudi Arabia, and Naples (Florida, that’s).
Old Greg’s went from pandemic pop-up to serving considered one of Miami’s favourite pies from a brick-and-mortar location.
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Old Greg’s
3620 NE Second Ave., Miami
866-653-4734
oldgregspizza.com
Miami pizza lovers flock to Old Greg’s for a style of its sourdough pies. Regulars have come to anticipate the look ahead to Old Greg’s, named after the sourdough starter restaurateur Greg Tetzner and his girlfriend, Jackie Richie, affectionately dubbed “Old Greg.” What started as a pandemic pop-up is now a brick-and-mortar store providing Tetzner’s well-known pies and slices. For a crust that is almost an inch thick, it is notably mild, boasting a well-toasted backside and coated with a slick of tomato and cheese that caramelizes into these extra-crisp patches that beg to be eaten first. While ordering the plain pie isn’t a nasty concept, do not overlook the “O.G. Roni.” The record of facet dishes consists of breadsticks with garlic-hollandaise dipping sauce, meatballs, and big breaded hen wings. Those, and desserts just like the olive oil-based lemon poppyseed tres leches, gussied up with Sicilian pistachio, fennel pollen, and stracciatella-rich cream, make this greater than your common pizza pit cease.
The charcoal-infused dough is a specialty of O’Munaciello in Miami’s MiMo District.
Photo by Nicole Danna
O’Munaciello
6425 Biscayne Blvd., Miami
786-907-4000
munaciello.com
With roots in Florence, Italy, O’Munaciello in Miami’s MiMo District is the stateside outpost of the unique pizzeria inbuilt an annex of the Seventeenth-century Florentine Santo Spirito Basilica. Owner Valentina Borgogni’s objective was to re-create the texture of the Italian authentic. That consists of the restaurant’s grasp pizza chef, Carmine Candito, who grew up working at his household’s pizza store in Naples. Candito’s pies — almost two dozen to select from — arrive with crisp edges and doughy facilities. Try the “Vesuvio,” a panoramic marriage of mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, black truffle, and burrata. Pies begin at $13, and any choice will be ready with the restaurant’s signature black dough made with activated charcoal. The pizza arrives with an attention grabbing charcoal hue and is alleged to assist digestion — and even deal with hangovers. The black crust imparts a smoky style however would not overwhelm the opposite flavors.
Square Pie City
3918 N. Miami Ave., Miami
786-408-3591
squarepiecity.com
A lifelong Miami resident and former personal chef for rapper Rick Ross, Miami chef Jeremiah Bullfrog has carried out all of it — from working in a few of the most exalted eating places on the earth, together with El Bulli in Spain and Noma in Copenhagen, to towing considered one of Miami’s first meals vans, Gastropod. The chef additionally turned identified for his Miami-based meals occasions, Duck Duck Goose and P.I.G., which introduced collectively native and nationwide cooks to prove dishes specializing in fowl and pork, respectively. Bullfrog is creating a few of the Magic City’s finest pizza at Square Pie City, the place he delivers his personal riff on the deep-dish sq. pie. Pies can be found in half or entire pans and ready with Bullfrog’s 72-hour, double-fermented dough, which bakes up tremendous crisp. Like most Detroit pies, it is topped with cheese earlier than being smothered in a layer of sauce. Two varieties supply takes on each purple and white pies, with the choice for vegan/gluten-free substitutes. Standouts embrace the “All White E’rrything,” topped with mozzarella, ricotta, Parmesan, and roasted garlic; and the “Many Magical Mushrooms,” with cremini mushrooms, porcini mud, mozzarella, asiago, and garlic; and the “Red within the Head, Fire within the Bed,” made with spicy Calabrian chilies, chili-infused oil, mozzarella, and provolone.
Steve’s Pizza
12101 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami
305-891-0202
For greater than 40 years, this longtime North Miami staple is finest identified for serving up the quintessential “New York” slice, priced at $3.75. While the northern Biscayne hall is usually quiet throughout the late-night hours, Steve’s is the only exception. Dining in is the best choice, particularly when you’re on the prowl for some late-night eats. The restaurant is open to 2 a.m. on the weekdays (3 a.m. on weekends), and its Formica tables riddled with graffiti are the proper spot to deal with these giant, two-plate-worthy, cheese grease-slicked slices. An extra-large 18-inch cheese pizza will arrive scorching and prepared in 20 minutes, with an hermetic layer of mozzarella cheese blanketing a skinny crust with a purple sauce bursting with tomato taste in between. Toppings? Totally pointless right here — however when you insist, get the thin-sliced meatball or specialty pies just like the lover’s, a sauce-free white pizza, or the veggie.