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Best Pizza San Francisco Bay Area: Slices, Pies & More

Best Slices San Francisco, Best Pizzas Bay Area, Detroit Style Pizzas Oakland, Berkeley, Best Pizza in Marin, Sonoma, Thin Crust, Tavern New York, Neopolitan & More

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Eddie Hernandez
May 07, 2026
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Del Popolo, Hayes Valley, April 2019

Best Pizza San Francisco Bay Area

While New York and Chicago get all the praise for pizza, as they should, the Bay Area is having a pizza moment right now with lots of incredible places surfacing offering a range of styles from Detroit style, tavern, Neopolitan and New York.

One of my favorite places for pizza is OG Roberta’s in Bushwick, but I am agnostic when it comes to pizza styles so you will see a range below of places across the Bay Area. Sadly one of my favorite pizzas Del Popolo is closing tomorrow (May 8)

Roberta’s Bushwick

For a long time, the Bay Area put up with mediocre pizza from corporate & private equity owned places and lacked crowds (and turnover) to make slices worth it but these days, as prices for food has skyrockted, people are resorting to takeout, grab & go and quick bites more than ever.

Similarly, famous institutions have launched spin-outs creating their own businesses or opened new locations across the Bay Area to harness the momentum that their flagship locations have created.


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Best San Francisco Bay Area Pizza: Slices, Pies & More

Below are my favorite pizza places in the San Francisco Bay Area with most of the residing in San Francisco, Berkeley & Oakland but a few other spots in the surrounding areas as well.

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