Ten pizza spots worth the drive, one bakes a 30-inch pie
A Naples-born oven, a 30-inch pie, and a Trenton tomato pie tradition sitting one bridge from Jersey.
The Philly suburbs run deep on pizza. There is a Neapolitan place working an oven shipped from Naples, a Greek-style pan pizza shop in Keswick Village, and a Yardley spot carrying the Trenton tomato pie tradition with sauce ladled on top of the cheese. Here are ten worth the order, from Collegeville to Sellersville.
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Bakery, Neapolitan pizzeria, and Italian grocery under one roof on Ridge Pike since 1994, with breads and rolls made from scratch on-site every morning.
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Family-run Neapolitan pizzeria on Richboro Road working an oven imported straight from Naples.
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West Chester's first pizza parlor by its own telling, hand-tossing dough over homemade sauce since 1959. Closed Tuesdays.
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A Main Street spot carrying the Trenton tomato pie tradition, sauce ladled on top of the cheese, plus a stuffed pizza with two layers of dough and ricotta and mozzarella in between.
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Greek-style pan pizza baked in oiled pans for a crisp bottom and an airy middle, from a family that has run the Keswick Village shop since 2001. Cheesesteaks come on Liscio's rolls.
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Family-run since April 2014, rolling house-made pasta and baking a 30-inch pizza that needs its own table. BYOB with no corking fee.
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The grandma pie is the reason to order: thin, square-cut, crispy at the edges. Order online Monday through Thursday and 15% comes off the total.
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On Haverford Road since 1970, three generations on from the family's first Philly restaurant in 1947. The Down Under Special is the one they lead with. Closed Sundays.
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Family-run since 1982 and named for the year Italy lifted the World Cup, with four decades of old-world Italian on Lincoln Highway.
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Family-run since 1976, with the Grandma pizza (thin crispy crust, tangy sauce, cut into squares) as the thing to order on South Main. House-made gelato and espresso to close it out.
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