First Look: Good Pizza, Opening on East 4th Street Wednesday, January 22

Good Pizza opens on East 4th Street Wednesday, January 22 Credit: Courtesy photo

Since launching his YouTube channel in 2019, Charlie Anderson has amassed 180,000 subscribers who come back time and time again for the host’s no-nonsense at-home pizza-making instruction. Now Anderson has a physical space where people can watch him make New York-style pizza IRL and enjoy the spoils.

This past fall, Anderson announced that he was taking over the former Citizen Pie Roman Café space on East 4th St., which closed in 2024 after four years. Tomorrow, he will open Good Pizza (2057 East 4th St.), a streamlined slice shop in downtown Cleveland

“Our goal is to bring extremely high-quality pizza by the slice to downtown,” Anderson says. “I want to change the way people think about pizza. A lot of people think it’s greasy, heavy junk food. Our pizza is a lot different from that. We approach it from a different perspective, using the highest quality ingredients, made with a lot of care and you don’t feel bad after eating it.”

Anderson describes his pizza as an “artisan take on the classic New York pizza,” mentioning buzzworthy places like Scarr’s, L’industrie and Mama’s TOO! as paragons of the category. At Good Pizza, he will offer 18-inch pies by the slice and whole. To start, the menu will include standard pies such as Margherita, pepperoni, spicy vodka, marinara and white. Guests can expect seasonal pies to come and go.

There will be a couple house-made desserts and possibly salads if the demand is there.