Best of Boston
2022 Best Detroit-Style Pizza
Avenue Kitchen + Bar
Food styling by Joy Howards, photo by Joe St. Pierre / From left: a Detroit-style square from Avenue Kitchen + Bar; New York slices from Dragon Pizza; Sicilian from Galleria Umberto.
WHAT’S THE VIBE? The kind of lively, late-night-serving neighborhood bar everyone wants in the neighborhood. TASTING NOTES: Cheese is spread to the edges of these thick, focaccia-like rectangles, reflecting the steel auto-part pans in which Detroit-born pizza was first fired. And yet the subtle sweetness of tomatoes shine through thanks to the approach of finishing pies backward, adding the red sauce last and on top.