The Ultimate Connecticut Pizza Round-Up (Yes, We Know, Another One…)

CONNECTICUT — If you’ve lived in Connecticut for more than five minutes, you’ve read at least a dozen “Best Pizza in CT” lists. You’ve argued about them. You’ve texted them to friends with the note: They forgot Modern. Or How is that even on here?

And yet — here we are. Because for all the pizza fatigue, Connecticut still quietly (or loudly) dominates the American pizza conversation. New Haven-style apizza. Coal-fired classics. Neapolitan imports. Hot oil bar pies. Peanut butter experiments. This is a state that refuses to be boring with dough and tomatoes.

The editors over at the popular foodie website Tasting Table don't care. They're stirring the pot of sauce again, with a reveal of their bodaciously headlined "15 Absolute Best Pizza Places In Connecticut." Go Big, or go back to Jersey.

Anyway, here’s their slightly weary, still deeply committed tour of the best pizza spots in Connecticut — from the giants to the cult favorites, as determined by Tasting Table.

The Legends

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana

Multiple locations in Connecticut

The 100-year-old standard bearer. The coal ovens. The white clam pie. The chewy, charred crust that launched a thousand arguments. Frank Pepe isn’t just a pizzeria — it’s Connecticut culinary infrastructure.

Sally’s Apizza

Multiple locations in Connecticut & Massachusetts

The tomato sauce loyalists will meet you outside over this one. Sally’s lighter base and crisp crust keep it in permanent rivalry status with Pepe’s. The cheese pie is deceptively simple. The clam pie wins over seafood skeptics. Expansion hasn’t dulled its edge.

Modern Apizza

874 State St, New Haven

Quietly (or not so quietly) voted a top favorite on the Connecticut Pizza Capital Trail. The clam pies are obsessive-thought material. The room hums. The wait is worth it.

Zuppardi’s Apizza

Multiple locations

The house-made fennel sausage is the headline here. Started by a master baker in the 1930s, it’s the kind of place that feels like it has flour in its DNA.

The Old-School Coal Crowd

The Little Rendezvous

256 Pratt St, Meriden

The Connecticut Originals (Beyond Apizza)

Colony Grill

Multiple U.S. locations

The Neapolitan Contingent

Zeneli Pizzeria

138 Wooster St, New Haven

Swyft

3 Maple St, Kent

The Inventive Rule-Breakers

BAR

254 Crown St, New Haven

One6Three

163 Foster St, New Haven

The Local Heroes

Ernie’s Pizzeria

1279 Whalley Ave, New Haven

Roseland Apizza

350 Hawthorne Ave, Derby

Little City Pizza

152 Simsbury Rd, Avon

Grigg Street Pizza

1 Grigg St, Greenwich

Zephyr’s Street Pizza

968 Farmington Ave Rear, West Hartford

New York-style slices with chef-driven toppings. Street Taco pizza? Honey sriracha chicken? Creative without losing balance.

Final Thought (Yes, We’re Still Talking About Pizza)

As the Tasting Table round-up underscores, Connecticut doesn’t just have good pizza. It has density. History. Regional variations within 30 minutes of each other. Coal-fired tradition next to Neapolitan craft next to hot oil bar pie minimalism.

So yes — this is another pizza round-up.
And yes — you’ll probably still disagree with it.

Which is exactly how it should be.