Austin's Best Pizza 2008

New York style thin-crust pizzas made with your choice of regular or gourmet toppings; salads, cheesecakes, tiramisu and baklava available.

Reviews:

• “Only pizza in Texas”
• “Your own personal cravings satisfied!!!”
• “It’s NY in TEXAS!”
• “Yummy!”
• “wouldn’t go anywhere else!”

The Original Brooklyn Pie Co. or email The Original Brooklyn Pie Co.

The charming building, located in the southwest part of the city, is famous for thin-crust pizza.

Reviews:

• “Delicious! Great price!”
• “Great pizza from an Austin Original”
• “Great Building, Great Atmosphere, Great Pizza!”
• “Move over Gatti’s! This is the best pizza in town!”
• “What a huge disappointment! Who is runnning this place Dumb and Dumber?”

Tips: Try a complimentary iced tea when you order pizza and salad during thier lunch special Mon-Fri 11am-2pm.

Austin Pizza Garden or email Austin Pizza Garden

Traditional East Coast pizza pie invades this hip SoCo neighborhood.

Reviews:

• “GREAT EXPERIENCE!! Great food & fast service!!”
• “Pizza is so-so”
• “Very good pizza, may be the best in town but not close to the best I’ve ever had”
• “The White Pizza!!”
• “The Real Deal Pizza”

Tips: Whole pies are only served until 11pm weeknights, until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and until 10pm on Sundays.

Home Slice Pizza

California pizza chain opens this first location in Texas, offering pasta, salads, wings, potatoes and more; all-you-can-eat lunch buffet available.

Reviews:

• “Good Pizza”
• “Great Pizza!”
• “Pizza!”
• “The Best Pizza in Round Rock.”

Lamppost Pizza

This unassuming joint serves up serious slices of New Jersey pizza.

Reviews:

• “best pizza in town”
• “Good Pizza!”
• “No thanks east coast pizza fans”
• “Rudino’s still better than this one!”
• “Great Pizza and sandwiches”

Tips: One Saturday a month, the restaurant hosts performances by small acoustic bands from 11pm to 1am (21 and older only). Dates vary, so call the restaurant for more information.

Saccone’s Pizza

Laidback South Congress pizzeria focuses on fresh pies and pastas for dine-in, take out and delivery.

Reviews:

• “Best Pizza in Austin!!!”
• “Best Stromboli ever”
• “AMAZING food!!”
• “So bad I actually wrote a review”
• “Best pizza in town. Everybody claims it, but they deliver!”

Southside Flying Pizza or email Southside Flying Pizza

Pizzeria specializes in East Coast Napoletana-style pies made with all fresh ingredients. Also serve salads, wine and beer.

Reviews:

• “Great pizza, spotty service "
• “Man Oh Man”
• “Pizza lover, loves Salvation”
• “Best Pizza yet!”
• “Highly recommended Pizza joint”

Salvation Pizza or email Salvation Pizza

Thin-crust pizza takes center stage at this sophisticated, yet friendly cafe perfect for a quick bite or family dinner.

Reviews:

• “Awesome Customer Service…and good pizza too.”
• “I LOVE MANGIERI’S!”
• “Can’t get any better than this!!!”
• “Custom Orders? Not a problem here!”
• “Poor pizza… crust is lame and toppings are cheap”

Tips: The Escarpment Village shopping center, located in the Circle C development, was built in accordance with the Green Building Program and features beautiful native landscaping.

Mangieri’s Pizza Cafe or email Mangieri’s Pizza Cafe

A cafe-style eatery with reliable, soul-soothing Italian food.

Reviews:

• “Great Italian option”
• “Tasty, but…..”
• “Good service, but the food just doesn’t measure up to these reviews”
• “Reale’s is a treat!”
• “best NY style pizza,great food,i,ve tryed it all!”

Reale’s Pizza & Cafe

Casual, dependable Italian featuring thin, crispy New York-style pizzas and fresh homemade pasta.

Reviews:

• “Closed on Memorial Day?”
• “Great Lunch!”
• “My Cloak of invisibility”
• “SMALL Pizzeria – BIG on Taste!”
• “Totally tops pizza parlor”

Tips: Try one of the tasty $5.50 weekday lunch specials from 11am to 2pm. For dinner, have the two-for-one $7.95 veggie pizza special.

Frank & Angie’s Pizzeria

Casual, casino-themed restaurant features inexpensive hand-tossed New York pizza.

Reviews:

• “Boring Food, Uncomfortable Atmosphere”
• “Good Pizza, Horrible Service”
• “Great PIzza, Great Date Place”
• “Great Pizza, Unique Setting, Austin Vibe”
• “i don’t understand how they advertise delivery service”

Tips: Except for quick pickups, don’t park in the lot behind the restaurant before 5pm on weekdays. It’s only for neighboring daytime businesses.

Rounders Pizzeria

Local favorite makes doughy, yet crunchy, pizzas for takeout and catering. Choose from three sauces and over 20 toppings.

Reviews:

• “Only as a last resort.”
• “THE BEST!!!”
• “Yum Yum in my Tum”

Tips: The salads are a lotta greens for a little green. The Greek salad includes kalamata olives, feta cheese and a vinaigrette with garlic and other herbs.

Pizza Nizza Catering or email Pizza Nizza Catering

Downtown pizza spot serves slices and pies to satisfy the late-night Sixth Street party crowd.

Reviews:

• “Avoid This place”
• “The ONLY Late Night Pizza Option”
• “The BEST Pizza in Austin”
• “Pizza for a cause”
• “Best of 6th!”

Roppolo’s Pizzeria

A convenient downtown option for a by-the-slice lunch or late-night munchies.

Reviews:

• “Really great pizza!”
• “I’ve had a great pizza!”
• “Pizza rolls. Gotta do the pizza rolls.”
• “Best Late Night Pizza”

Tips: Check out the lunch special—a slice and soft drink for is less than $5.

The Onion

Hot Italian sandwiches in 27 varieties and gourmet pizzas served with salads, lasagna, baked ziti, cinnamon sticks and beer.

Reviews:

• “Why are you waiting? Go! Order NOW!”
• “BEST Pizza in Austin”
• “lots of cheese & great toppings= best pizza around austin”
• “The best pizza, awful service”
• “Best pizza I have tasted in Austin (Mangia who?)”

Rudino’s Pizza

Hot wing and pizza emporium dishes out piping hot buffalo wing selections, Chicago-style deep dish pizzas, burgers and more.

Reviews:

• “Great wings, bad location.”
• “Great sauce”

Tips: They sell a special burger combo weekdays at lunchtime.

Pflugerville Pizza & Wing Pfactory

This casual, Italian bistro anchors the sparkly, new Second Street district.

Reviews:

• “Horrific service”
• “lukewarm mimosas, shotty service if you don’t fit “the look”"
• “Good drinks and that’s about it.”
• “Rudest Manager and Terrible Service”
• “Taverna ……Treat your tastebuds to some sophisticated morsels!”

Taverna or email Taverna

Expect refined casual cuisine from this airy eatery close to downtown.

Reviews:

• “All around great place!”
• “Great Food and Friendly Service…”
• “Great service and food!”
• “Delicious! Great Lunch”
• “Good Food, Great atmoshpere”

Tips: Zax boasts a happy hour from 4pm to 7pm Tuesday to Friday and 4pm-10pm Monday. Drinks are $1 off and appetizers, burgers and pizzas are discounted.

Zax Pints and Plates or email Zax Pints and Plates

Burgers and wood-fired pizzas with pizzazz.

Reviews:

• “Veggie Burgers with Great Toppings”
• “The Joint you hang out after classes”
• “50’s like Diner”
• “yay for diner food done perfectly”
• “Tasty burgers and the best shake ever.”

Tips: Sodas are all-you-can-drink from a self-serve fountain. Shakes are thick and come in a variety of flavors—cookies-and-cream to plain vanilla.

EZ’s Brick Oven and Grill

Reviews:

• “Horrible”
• “Not so great”
• " Best pizza anywhere"
• “BEST delivery pizza in Austin. This is not debatable!”
• “Gag!”

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