The best pizza in Austin spans every style: Detroit squares at Via 313, Neapolitan at Bufalina and Pieous, New York slices at Home Slice and Allday, and New Haven apizza at Small’s.
The best pizza in Austin, ranked for range across every regional style instead of crowning one school: Detroit squares, wood-fired Neapolitan, foldable New York slices, charred New Haven apizza, puffy Roman al taglio, and the trailer and brewery pies worth a detour. Austin’s pizza scene got deep fast, with serious dough people doing one style obsessively well, so this spans the East Side, downtown, the south, Crestview, and the Hill Country. For each spot we tell you the style and the one thing to order. Built from citywide research, updated as places open, move, and close.
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Via 313
Multiple (Oak Hill, Campus, Rainey) · Detroit-style · $$The gold standard for Detroit-style squares in Austin, and the trailer-to-empire success story of the local scene. The thick pan crust goes crispy and lacy where the cheese caramelizes against the edge, and the Detroiter, with its double pepperoni cupped and charred, is the order. It is rich, it is the opposite of dainty, and it is excellent. The original started on a sidewalk on East 6th; now you can get it across town.
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Bufalina
East Cesar Chavez + Burnet · Neapolitan · $$$The critics’ pick and the most serious pizza in the city, a wood-fired Neapolitan room paired with a deep natural-wine list. The margherita is the benchmark, but the spicy red pie with double garlic, double parmesan, and chili is the one regulars chase. No reservations and a small room mean a wait, and it is worth it. This is where you take the meal seriously.
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Home Slice Pizza
South Congress + North Loop · New York-style · $$The South Congress institution that gave Austin a genuinely good New York pie, by the whole pie sit-down or by the slice at the More By the Slice window next door. It is the East Coast transplant’s comfort answer, thin and foldable and open late on weekends for the post-bar slice. Not the fanciest pizza on this list, but maybe the most beloved. The plain cheese tells you everything.
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Allday Pizza
Hyde Park + Tarrytown · New York-style · $$The newer name a lot of locals will now tell you makes the best New York-style slice in town, built on a tangy, well-balanced sauce and a crust with real structure. Finish with the soft-serve. It is the proof that Austin’s NY-pizza ceiling kept rising. Go for the straightforward slices done exactly right, and save room for dessert.
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Pieous
West (Hwy 290) · Neapolitan · $$Worth the drive west for chewy, slightly blistered Neapolitan pies and, the cult move, the house-cured pastrami, which is some of the best in the city whether or not it is on a pizza. The setting is unfussy and the cooking is not. Order a pie, add a side of the pastrama, and understand why people make the trip. A destination, not a convenience.
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Pinthouse Pizza
Rosedale (Burnet) + South Lamar · NY-Neapolitan · $$Great personal pies and great beer under one roof, from a brewpub whose hazy IPAs win actual awards. The 10-inch pizzas split the difference between New York and Neapolitan, which makes them an easy crowd-pleaser, and the rooms are built for a casual group night. Come for the pizza-and-a-pint combination that Austin does so well. Reliable, central, and fun.
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Feral Pizza
North Loop · New York-style trailer · $$New York-style pies from a trailer, with a crispy, chewy crust built on two-day fermented dough. It punches well above its window, good enough to seek out and not just stumble into after a beer at the bar it parks outside. It also earns a spot on our food-trucks guide for the same reason. Whole pies and slices, made with real care for the dough.
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Side Eye Pie
South · Neapolitan · brewery · $$Wood-fired Neapolitan from a trailer parked at a brewery, with the blistered, leopard-spotted crust the style is judged on. It is the move when you want serious pizza in a relaxed patio setting with a beer in hand. Another crossover with our food-trucks list, because the pizza is that good. Go when the weather is right and settle in.
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Little Deli & Pizzeria
Crestview (Woodrow Ave) · Jersey-style · $A beloved Crestview neighborhood spot doing thin, foldable Jersey-style pies you eat at picnic tables out front, alongside genuinely good Italian subs. It is unpretentious, family-friendly, and the kind of low-key local institution every neighborhood wishes it had. Get a pie and a sub for the table. Charming, cash-friendly, and quietly excellent.
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Small’s Pizza
East (Springdale General) · New Haven apizza · $$The rare New Haven-style apizza in Texas, with oblong, coal-fired-look pies, charred edges, and the crispy, chewy bottom that style lives or dies on. Owner Kelsey Small grew up outside New Haven and trained at Bufalina, and it shows. The clam pie is the New Haven move if it is on. Weekend bagels too. A distinct style done by someone who clearly cares.
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Pedroso’s Pizza
Brentwood (Airport Blvd) · NY + grandma slice · $An unassuming slice shop near Cherrywood that quietly nails several formats, New York, American, and grandma-style, plus solid Italian subs. It is the everyday by-the-slice answer when you do not want to commit to a whole pie or a wait. No frills, good crust, fair price. The kind of dependable corner shop a real pizza city needs.
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Jester King
Hill Country (Fitzhugh Rd) · Neapolitan · brewery · $$A full Hill Country day as much as a pizza, with wood-fired Neapolitan pies built on farm and foraged ingredients, served alongside the farmhouse beer that made the brewery famous. The pizza is genuinely good, but the setting, rolling acreage west of town, is the reason you go. Make a trip of it, get a few pies and a flight, and stay for the sunset. Destination dining.
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Baldinucci Pizza Romana
West Lake Hills · Roman al taglio · $$Roman-style pizza al taglio, the puffy, airy rectangles cut by the slice, with a shatteringly crunchy bottom that is unlike anything else on this list. It is a genuinely different style, lighter than it looks, and a smart pick when the table is split on what kind of pizza it wants. West of downtown and worth knowing about. Order a few squares across the toppings.
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The things we passed on are part of the value. Documented for editorial discipline.
- Delivery-first local chainsAustin’s Pizza and East Side Pies are fine for a night in and a known quantity, but this list ranked for the destination pie, the one you go out of your way for. We sent you to the ovens worth the trip.
- All-you-can-eat and gaucho pizzaThe Brazilian rodizio-style pizza spots are a fun novelty and a different kind of night out. We ranked for the quality of a single great pie, not the volume, so they sat out.
- The national chainsFine when you need delivery and certainty. In a city with this many obsessive independents doing Detroit, Neapolitan, and New Haven right, there is almost always a better pie within a few minutes.
- What is the best pizza in Austin?
- It depends on the style you want. For Detroit squares, Via 313. For Neapolitan, Bufalina and Pieous. For a New York slice, Home Slice and Allday. For New Haven apizza, Small’s. The full ranked list below tells you the style and the one thing to order at each.
- What is the best Detroit, New York, and Neapolitan pizza in Austin?
- Detroit-style: Via 313, the gold standard for the caramelized-edge square. New York-style: Home Slice on South Congress and Allday in Hyde Park. Neapolitan: Bufalina for the serious wood-fired pie and Pieous out west, with Side Eye and Jester King for the brewery-patio version.
- Where is the best pizza by the slice in Austin?
- Home Slice runs a dedicated by-the-slice window (More By the Slice) next to its South Congress restaurant. Pedroso’s near Cherrywood is the everyday slice-shop answer, and Allday does excellent slices in Hyde Park. Feral, a trailer, sells slices too.
- What is the best pizza trailer or brewery pizza in Austin?
- For trailers, Feral in North Loop and Side Eye Pie do top-tier New York and Neapolitan pies from a window. For brewery pizza, Pinthouse pairs personal pies with award-winning beer, and Jester King makes a Hill Country day of it.
- Where is the best pizza for groups or late night in Austin?
- Home Slice on South Congress is open late on weekends and built for the post-bar slice. Via 313, Pinthouse, and Jester King are the easy group picks, with whole pies, beer, and room to spread out.
- Is Austin a good pizza city?
- More than people expect. The scene runs deep and spans every regional style done seriously, from Detroit squares and New Haven apizza to Neapolitan and Roman al taglio, with several trailers and breweries turning out pies as good as the brick-and-mortar rooms.
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