Here’s some piping-hot foodie news: Las Vegas has become a world-class pizza city to rival famous pie towns like New York, Chicago, Rome and Naples. From the Strip to Downtown, skilled pizzaioli are baking amazing creations, so let’s get saucy with these nine fabulous slices.
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1. Margherita pizza at Eataly
Take a delicious virtual trip to the epicurean motherland at this astounding display of Italy’s amazing food culture with a margherita pie at the La Pizzeria alla Romana kiosk. There, handcrafted dough is topped simply with succulent San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese and fragrant basil. Quickly fired in a blazing oven, everything unites into chewy perfection. Mangia! (Park MGM, 702.730.7617)
2. Tuna Pizza at Greene St. Kitchen
Pizza and seafood is a perfect combination, and at this stylish eatery, sashimi-grade tuna is gorgeously draped on a cracker-thin crust with black garlic-soy aioli, pickled pearl onion slivers, a sprinkling of micro-greens and glistening white truffle oil for an edible masterpiece. (Palms, 702.942.7777)
3. The Vince at Sixth + Mill Ristorante
This puffy beauty is the perfect complement to its eye-popping, canal-lined St. Mark’s Square surroundings. The artful pie is topped with dollops of velvety burrata cheese, flowers of thin-shaved mortadella, a sprinkling of crunchy pistachios and a touch of zippy orange zest. Mamma mia! (The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian and The Palazzo, 702.414.1227)
4. Pepperoni slices at Pin-Up Pizza
Sometimes you just want a gigantic slice of good ol’ pepperoni pizza, and this informal walk-up joint can hand you a huge crispy wedge housed in a cool triangular container. Or, if you’re totally hungry, get a ginormous 30-inch cheesy disk to go —that cardboard box is definitely big. (Planet Hollywood Resort, 702.785.5888)
5. French toast pizza at Flour & Barley Brick Oven Pizza
Pizza pies can be sweet, too, especially at weekend brunch with French toast pizza. Its eggy crust is lavished with honey-infused ricotta, cream cheese, berries, powdered sugar and maple syrup. Add bottomless mimosas on the side—or are they mimozzas? (The Linq Promenade, 702.430.4430)
6. Cipollotto e speck pizzette at Lago by Julian Serrano
What goes famously with a delectable pie? The gorgeous Bellagio fountains, of course. Snack on a petite but elegant pizzette topped with scrumptious speck (a cured pork cousin of prosciutto), buffalo ricotta cheese and cippolini onions with an upper-crust view of the famous water attraction. (Bellagio, 702.693.8865)
7. Mushroom pizza at Cucina by Wolfgang Puck
If anyone deserves credit for first elevating Las Vegas pizza to stratospheric levels of quality and creativity, it’s the renowned Wolfgang Puck. Visit the über-chef’s visually stunning establishment for gourmet-level fungi pie complete with melty Taleggio cheese, leeks and chives. (The Shops at Crystals, 702.238.1000)
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8. Detroit Red Top at Pizza Rock
Get revved up for Detroit-style pan-baked, thick-crust munchability with melty white cheddar and Wisconsin brick cheese under the hood and racing stripes of bold marinara sauce on top, with oregano and Romano cheese for colorful accents. Start your engines! (Downtown Grand, 702.385.0838)
9. The Snake River Special at Evel Pie
For the funkiest, most revved-up pie in town, venture to Fremont East Entertainment District for zesty slices topped with caramelized onions, roasted red peppers and—wait for it—rattlesnake sausage. Does it taste like chicken? Be a daredevil and find out at this friendly punk rock pizzeria filled wall-to-wall with authentic Evel Knievel memorabilia. (508 Fremont St., 702.840.6460)
