Philly has always had its act together when it comes to pizza. We’ve got our long history of Italian immigration to thank for that. Our […]
Once upon a time, there was a museum in Philadelphia that contained the world’s largest collection of pizza-related memorabilia. It was called Pizza Brain, and […]
Listen to the audio edition here: The ravenous Delco dining scene let out a collective gasp in March 2025 when the owners of […]
Behind the counter at Char, owner and pizza savant Viraj Thomas is cutting pies. He’s working the peel inside the small, wood-fired stone oven, making […]
Jim Rolfing was late. The bus ride from Wildwood had taken two hours, and so there he was, standing in the middle of the Bourse, […]
“I get passionate and obsessive,” Viraj Thomas tells me on the phone. He talks fast. And he talks a lot. He tells me he was […]
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It was January at its dreariest, and Mike Fitzick, the 2004 college dropout and Mack & Manco delivery boy who would eventually become the Shore’s […]
If there’s a short list kept somewhere of American pizza savants, I don’t know where his name would be, but I know Joe Cicala would […]
See that? That’s a Wawa pizza. That’s my Wawa pizza — 16-inch, half-pepperoni, garlic crust, second one in five days, third in two weeks. I […]
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I’ve been sitting here trying to think of a better name for the hybrid stromboli the new-and-improved Joseph’s has on the menu. It’s half stromboli, […]
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I did not anticipate how much I was going to enjoy Paulie Gee’s. How could I? The new slice shop, opened at 13th and Waverly […]
For anyone who has a special, triangle-shaped hole in their heart reserved for New York-style pizza (or a square-shaped hole reserved for Sicilian pies), Paulie […]
