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Pizza near California State University-Long Beach
Open map listings put 7 pizza places within a mile of California State University-Long Beach, 3 of them within a ten-minute walk, and 62 within 3 miles. The busiest streets are Bellflower Blvd (3) and Palo Verde Ave (3).
The closest pizza places to Cal State Long Beach
- Sbarro Pizza · 0.2 miles
1212 N Bellflower Blvd Ste 242, Long Beach - Pizzamania Pizza · 0.4 miles
1785 Palo Verde Ave, Long Beach - Round Table Pizza Pizza · 0.5 miles
1212 N Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach - zpizza Pizza · 0.7 miles
5718 E 7th St, Long Beach - Domino's Pizza · 0.9 miles
2221 Palo Verde Ave, Long Beach - Avenue 3 Pizza and Subs Pizza · 1 mile
2226 Palo Verde Ave, Long Beach
Chosen local-first, then listed by distance from campus: a starting point, not a ranking. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); they carry no prices or opening hours, so check before you go.
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What to order
- Neapolitan — Soft, fast-baked at around 900°F, eaten with a knife and fork, centre deliberately wet. Margherita is the test — nothing to hide behind.
- New York — Large, thin, foldable, sold by the slice. Judge it by the fold: it should bend without cracking and hold without flopping.
- Detroit — Rectangular, thick, baked in a steel pan with cheese to the edges so it caramelises into a crust against the wall of the pan. That edge is the entire point.
- Tavern / Chicago thin — Cracker-thin, cut into squares, a Midwestern tradition largely unknown elsewhere and excellent.
How to spot a good one
- The crust edge tells you the oven — Leoparding — irregular dark blisters on the rim — means a very hot oven and a properly fermented dough, and it is the signature of good Neapolitan. An even golden-brown rim means a cooler deck oven, which is what New York style wants. Uniform pale crust with no colour variation usually means a conveyor oven.
- Dough that was fermented, not just mixed — Long-fermented dough tastes of something on its own and has an open, irregular crumb when you tear the rim. Dough made that morning tastes of flour and is uniformly dense. Places that mention 48- or 72-hour dough are telling you something real.
- Restraint with the toppings — Overloading is the most common failure, because moisture from too many toppings steams the base. Good pizzerias put three things on a pie, not nine.
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Questions about pizza places near Cal State Long Beach
- How many pizza places are near Cal State Long Beach?
- Open map listings put 7 pizza places within a mile of California State University-Long Beach, 3 of them within a ten-minute walk, and 62 within 3 miles. About 14% are independent rather than chains.
- Which pizza places are closest to Cal State Long Beach?
- Sbarro (0.2 mi), Pizzamania (0.4 mi), Round Table Pizza (0.5 mi), zpizza (0.7 mi) and Domino's (0.9 mi).
- Where are most pizza places near Cal State Long Beach?
- The busiest streets are Bellflower Blvd (3) and Palo Verde Ave (3).
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