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How to find good Detroit-style pizza
Detroit-style pizza is baked in rectangular steel pans, with cheese spread right to the edges so it caramelises into a crisp, lacy frico crust. The sauce goes on top in stripes after baking.
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What separates a good one from a bad one
- Caramelised cheese edges — The dark, crunchy, almost burnt cheese crown around the edge is the point.
- Airy, focaccia-like crumb — Thick but light, with a crisp, fried bottom from the oiled pan.
- Brick cheese — Wisconsin brick cheese is traditional. It melts and browns well.
- Sauce on top — Ladled in racing stripes after baking.
- Pepperoni under the cheese — Traditionally, so it crisps against the dough.
What to order
- Pepperoni square — The classic.
- Corner pieces — The most crust.
- A cheese pie — To judge the edges.
- Hot honey — A modern favourite.
- Salad — To balance a heavy meal.
Where to find Detroit-style pizza
Detroit-style pizza is mostly found at pizzerias, so that is where to look. Open listings put 95,250 of them across the US, and these are the cities and campuses with the most.
Cities with the most
New York, NY 1,180 Chicago, IL 646 Philadelphia, PA 626 Las Vegas, NV 480 Los Angeles, CA 475 Houston, TX 324 Columbus, OH 323 Indianapolis, IN 305
Campuses with the most within a mile
NYU 273 The Graduate Center 259 Touro University 253 New School University 249 FIT 240 Baruch 239
A few to start with
- Little Italy Pizza - Park Place — New York, NY
11 Park Pl, New York - Union Squared — Chicago, IL
125 S Clark St, Chicago - Yummy Pizza — Philadelphia, PA
1500 John F Kennedy Blvd Ste 8, Philadelphia - 322 Pizza Bar — Las Vegas, NV
322 Fremont St, Las Vegas - Universe Pizza — Los Angeles, CA
123 S Main St, Los Angeles - Bombay Pizza Co — Houston, TX
914 Main St, 914 Main St, Houston
Counts are listings in Overture Maps open data (September 2026), counted by the town in each address. Independent places only in the examples above, and they are a starting point rather than a ranking.
How Savor Scout looks for it
The search reads for Detroit-style, square, crispy edges and brick cheese, and favours pizzerias where reviewers praise the frico crust.
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Looking in a particular city?
Each of these opens Savor Scout with the location already set, so you can say what you want and it searches from there. It covers 1,000 US cities in total — these are simply the largest.
- New York, NY
- Los Angeles, CA
- Chicago, IL
- Houston, TX
- Philadelphia, PA
- Phoenix, AZ
- San Antonio, TX
- San Diego, CA
- Dallas, TX
- San Jose, CA
- Austin, TX
- Indianapolis, IN
- Jacksonville, FL
- San Francisco, CA
- Columbus, OH
- Charlotte, NC
- Fort Worth, TX
- Detroit, MI
- El Paso, TX
- Memphis, TN
- Seattle, WA
- Denver, CO
- Washington, DC
- Boston, MA
- Nashville, TN
- Baltimore, MD
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Louisville, KY
- Portland, OR
- Las Vegas, NV
- Milwaukee, WI
- Albuquerque, NM
- Tucson, AZ
- Fresno, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- Long Beach, CA
- Kansas City, MO
- Mesa, AZ
- Virginia Beach, VA
- Atlanta, GA
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Omaha, NE
- Raleigh, NC
- Miami, FL
- Oakland, CA
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- Tulsa, OK
- Cleveland, OH
- Wichita, KS
- Arlington, TX
- New Orleans, LA
- Bakersfield, CA
- Tampa, FL
- Honolulu, HI
- Aurora, CO
- Anaheim, CA
- Santa Ana, CA
- St. Louis, MO
- Riverside, CA
- Corpus Christi, TX
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