Who's Got The Best Pizza in Metuchen?

Metuchen, NJ - Who's got the best pizza in Metuchen?! Find out this Friday, Oct. 7, at the first-ever Metuchen Pizza Throwdown.

This Friday night, all seven pizzerias in the tiny borough will deliver their pies to Mt. Zion Lodge #135, located at 483 Middlesex Avenue in Metuchen. Tickets are sold at the door. For $10, you will get 7 raffle tickets and a voting ballot. Each raffle ticket entitles you to one half slice, to be given at the tables where the pizza is located. Also provided are cookies, chips, soft drinks, etc. The tasting goes from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The winner of the "Best Pizza in Metuchen" will be announced at 8:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30.

At the conclusion of each person's taste test, they will deposit voting tickets into the ballot box. All of this will be within the same couple of rooms, on the same floor. Participating pizzerias include: D’Novo, Buon Appetito, Mangia Toscano, Joey D’s, Antonio’s, La Rosa, & What’s the Scoop. (There are 7 pizzerias in the 2.5-mile community of Metuchen.)

“Metuchen is a great community and as pizzeria owners, we all work together," said Jason Coppola, who has owned Antonio’s Brick Oven Pizzeria for over 20 years. That's Jason, above, on the left. "I remember back when Hurricane Sandy hit, some of the local shops didn’t have electricity or supplies and we all worked together to help each other. That’s what we do here, that’s what we’re about. This will be a fun, friendly competition for us, but at the end of the day we ALL succeed with the success of one another in Metuchen.”

The pizza competition is the brainchild of the Mt. Zion Lodge #135 of Free & Accepted Masons and the Metuchen Downtown Alliance. Get Patch breaking news alerts sent right to your phone with our new app. Download here.

“This is a great way to highlight all the delicious pizzas in our town," said Jake Shulman of the Masons, and one of the event organizers. "We hope to make this an annual event."