Both Chicago and New York City are the two pizza capitols in the U.S., and Cleveland is fortunate to be smack in the middle of both of them. Having that central proximity has no doubt provided influence to the pizza makers of Northeast Ohio. Whether you fancy thin crust, fold over New York style, or Chicago deep dish area pizzerias have you covered. Because of those two cities, some of our local pizzerias have even become inspired to create a Cleveland style pie taking some of the best edible attributes of the CHI-NYC connection.

Deciding which pizza joints are the areas best spark passionate discussion and debates. So we felt it prudent to separate the Cleveland market into three sections — east side, west/south side, and the downtown, Tremont, Ohio City, and Detroit Shoreway neighborhoods. This list could easily be 25 locales in each sector, but honestly who has all day to click when you have so much pizza to eat.

This article appears in Aug 14-20, 2013.

Jason Beudert has had a dynamic career as a leader with The Walt Disney Company, ESPNZone, The Cleveland Indians, and as a restaurant entrepreneur. He is utilizing his twenty years of hospitality experience along with his love for the Cleveland food scene to contribute exciting and insightful food pieces for Scene. Along with being one of our food writers, Jason is also the food critic for WOIO 19 Action News, and makes a weekly appearance on Q104's Fee's Kompany radio show to promote food and the Scene. Jason is also a contributing writer for Travel + Leisure Magazine.

10 replies on “15 of the Best Pizza Places in Cleveland, East to West”

  6. Vincenza’s is absolutely phenomenal ! Great New York style crust and excellent sauce. Casa Vella was also phenomenal. Unfortunately, they went out of business for unrelated reasons.

  7. You need The Great American Pizza Company in Brunswick. They won Best Chicago Deep Dish Pizza in Northeast Ohio by The Plain Dealer. …….Their pizzas are fantastic!

  8. We ordered my husband’s birthday catering from Augie’s in North Royalton. When we went to pick it up they “lost the order” and insisted we hadn’t made an order. Never again. We ended up getting pizza elsewhere, but everyone was expecting Augie’s BBQ beef. They never bothered to make it right. Awful.

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