Pizza
Ammazza
591-A Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30312
404-228-1036
The pizzas, charred on the bottom and with the proper swollen edges, are sized for sharing at sixteen inches. Home in on classic combinations like the Bolognese, crowned with meatballs, sausage, housemade mozzarella, and ricotta.
Website: http://ammazza.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Old Fourth Ward
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
Antico Pizza Napoletana
1093 Hemphill Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30318
404-873-3799
Among the finest pizza in Atlanta. Home of Neapolitan-style pies cooked in ovens imported from Naples, this Westside eatery is an ebullient madhouse on weekends.
Website: http://anticoatl.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Westside / Home Park
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Baraonda
710 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, 30308
404-879-9962
Thin Euro-style pizzas baked in the wood oven are the house specialty at this cozy Italian restaurant just a few blocks down from the Fox Theatre.
Website: http://baraondaatlanta.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Baroni
1745 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-724-9100
Affordable, familiar Italian cuisine cooked with skill that belies the prices. The thin, Neapolitan-style pies hold their own.
Website: http://baroniatl.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead, Midtown
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Bottega Luisa
1 Piazza San Gennaro, Atlanta, GA, 30318
404-844-2707
Giovanni Di Palma recently expanded his empire with Italian grocery Bottega Luisa, across the street from his own Antico Pizza, Caffe Gio, and Gio’s Chicken Amalfitano.
Website: http://littleitalia.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Westside / Home Park
Category: Dessert/Ice Cream/Yogurt, Food, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Shopping
Don Antonio by Startita
102 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-844-2879
For the next chapter in Atlanta’s unexpected pizza preeminence, a restaurant run by two New York–based pie masters has opened quietly in Buckhead.
Website: http://donantoniopizza.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
Double Zero Napoletana
5825 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, GA, 30328
404-991-3666
Besides the handsome pizzas, the sweeping menu offers a dozen small plates; pastas; and main courses like seared scallops served with fennel and orange salad.
Website: http://www.doublezeroatl.com
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Fellini’s Pizza
909 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30306
404-873-3088
The decor has evolved from grungy to civilized, but the pie, best by the slice in our humble opinion, remains as tender, fragrant, and well risen as any on the streets of New York.
Website: http://www.fellinisatlanta.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Poncey-Highland
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
Fritti
309 North Highland Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30307
404-880-9559
One of Atlanta’s serious pizza destinations, with a range of traditional Italian and creatively topped pies baked in a beautiful Italian-made wood oven.
Website: http://frittirestaurant.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Inman Park
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Piola
1080 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-249-7019
With a menu that lists more than fifty variations of pizza, you can go traditional, retro, or choose from among ten white pizzas. Stop by on the twenty-ninth of each month when the restaurant serves all-you-can-eat gnocchi.
Website: http://www.piola.it/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Romeo’s New York Pizza
1401-A Oxford Road, Atlanta, GA, 30307
404-373-6199
The restaurant’s first venture inside the Perimeter, in Emory Village, opened in October and delivers a true New York experience: thin, crisp, foldable crust that holds ingredients without turning to a sodden mess; zesty red sauce; and toppings that cost $1.40 to $1.90 apiece.
Website: http://romeosnypizza.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Druid Hills/Emory
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
Sapori di Napoli
314 Church Street, Decatur, GA, 30030
404-371-0001
Neapolitan pizza is the house specialty at the informal restaurant that brothers Ambrogio and Daniele Florio created as a beacon of Southern Italian authenticity.
Website: http://saporidinapolipizzeria.com/
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Shorty’s – North Druid Hills
2884 North Druid Hills Road, Atlanta, GA, 30329
404-315-6262
More than a simple pizza joint, Shorty’s offers mashed-to-order guacamole with flatbread, spaghetti squash salad, and for the kids, homemade kosher pigs-in-blanket.
Website: http://shortys-pizza.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Druid Hills/Emory
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
Shorty’s – Tucker
3701 Lawrenceville Highway, Tucker, GA, 30084
770-414-6999
More than a simple pizza joint, Shorty’s offers starters like mashed-to-order guacamole with flatbread and spaghetti squash salad. The Tucker location also serves burgers and entrees cooked on a wood-fired grill.
Website: http://shortys-pizza.com
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
STG Trattoria
102 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-844-2879
What a casual, welcome departure for the Buckhead restaurant scene. Brian Lewis, owner of Westside’s Bocado, brings modern Italian dining to a redeveloped shopping center next to the St. Regis Atlanta.
Website: http://stgtrattoria.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
Tartufo Pizzeria
3137 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-806-9957
This adorable new pizza joint transcends Italian machismo and Buckhead pretensions. Ingredients such as grilled artichoke, sweet peppers, pesto, and fresh mozzarella rest on delicate, handsomely charred crusts.
Website: http://tartufopizza.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
Varasano’s Pizzeria
2171 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-352-8216
Everyone who crosses the threshold of Jeff Varasano’s south Buckhead pizza joint seems to have divergent opinions. When it comes down to the pies in question, though, we’ve had some stellar snarf fests.
Website: http://www.varasanos.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Pizza, Restaurants
Varuni Napoli
1540 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30324
404-709-2690
A true son of sunny Naples who previously worked at Antico Pizza, Luca Varuni has built a spacious dining room around a shiny, open kitchen that delivers appropriately thin and beautifully charred pies.
Website: http://varuni.us/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown, Morningside / Lenox Park
Category: Italian, Pizza, Restaurants
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