National Pizza Day is coming up on Feb. 9, and what better way to celebrate than savoring a slice from some of the best pizza joints in the Panhandle. Here are some of the most popular pizza options across Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, ranging from thin, crispy Neapolitan to a deep-dish.
20 tried and true Pensacola area pizzerias to check outSky’s Pizza Pie
5559 N. Davis Highway and 4275 Woodbine Road
Sky’s Pizza has been a Pensacola pizza fan-favorite since 2013 for its cheesy and wide-sliced pizza pies. If there’s one thing that’s true about Sky’s, it’s that you won’t leave hungry. While they prioritize locally sourced, high-quality ingredients and fresh, daily-made dough, they offer a pizza that appeals to a broad audience due to its affordability.
East Hill Pizza
2030 N. 12 Ave.
East Hill Pizza is a local, veteran-owned family business that is a neighborhood staple. It is also known for its charitable community initiative, the Pizza Pay It Forward Project, which offers free meals to those in need, no questions asked. In addition to their humanitarian efforts, they are known for their creative flavor concoctions, including a specialty Cuban pizza, bacon cheeseburger pizza, Korean BBQ pizza and most recently added, a pickle pizza.
Papa’s Pizza
18 E. Garden St. and 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd.
When you walk up to the counter of Papa’s Pizza, you’ll likely notice the hand-stretched dough being tossed high in the sky, and New York-style slices being pulled in and out of the oven. The special thing about Papa’s Pizza is that you can customize a single slice to your liking with unlimited toppings for about $5. If a full-blown specialty pizza is too much for you, you can recreate all your favorite flavors for just a single slice.
Graffiti Pizza
210 S. Palafox St.
Positioned in the heart of downtown Pensacola, there are few places more satisfying when late-night hunger hits than Graffiti. The dining room already stays open fairly late, but even after the chairs get stacked inside, pizzas can still be ordered one to two hours afterward from the bar outside. Specializing in New York-style pizza, Graffiti delivers pizza either by the pie or slice, with a variety of signature flavors and a rotating pizza of the month.
Tuscan Oven
4801 N. Ninth Ave.
The Tuscan Oven, inspired by the food scene in Southern Italy, is best known for its signature zesty marinara sauce, fresh-made dough, and a wood-fired oven. Here, you will find high-quality ingredients to load up on, unlike anywhere else, including imported fontina cheese, spicy capicola ham, whole milk mozzarella, capers, lean prosciutto, and anchovies. When we polled our readers for their top pick for pizza in 2024, Tuscan Oven took the crown.
Georgio’s Pizza
3000 E. Cervantes St.
Georgio’s has been a Pensacola fixture since 1984, and it hasn’t been by accident. The quaint diner-like restaurant, still with its original oven intact and black-and-white checkered floors, brings people back to old-school Italian eating. Be prepared for a thick pizza, reminiscent of a Chicago deep-dish, but not quite as deep. The crust, glazed with a garlic butter, is just as much of a treat as the fresh toppings and gooey cheese.
Dieci
10 S. Palafox St.
Dieci brings Neapolitan American-style pizza to Palafox Street using a 900-degree oven. The oven is the focal point of the dining room, and customers can watch as their pies are quickly fired up in real-time, with a thin, perfectly blistered crust and topped with premium ingredients of the customer’s choosing. While the restaurant shares a space with German restaurant, Bavaria, Dieci has carved out a clientele of its own for popular picks such as the Quen Margherita pizza, Sofia Loren, Diavolo, or decadent Meat Lovers.
Flour-ish Comfort Food Truck
Mobile food truck
Husband and wife duo Chase Gilroy and Jess McAtee launched Flour-ish Comfort Food Truck in 2022 to create pizza that not only tasted good but felt good in your body. This starts with sourcing high-quality ingredients. One of the menu standouts, and the pizza that started it all, is the white pizza with a house black garlic ricotta sauce, smoked chicken, spinach and feta.
New Yorker Deli and Pizzeria
3001 E. Cervantes St.
A Pensacola staple since 1991, the New Yorker is a neighborhood restaurant specializing in – you guessed it – New York style pizza. Each pie is made with its own sauce and hand-tossed dough with a variety of signature combinations on the menu to choose from. One of the specialty items being the New Yorker Special, made with extra cheese, ground beef, mushrooms, onions, Italian sausage, tomatoes, black olives, meatballs, green peppers and pepperoni.
Founaris Brothers
6911 Pensacola Blvd.
When you think about where to go for a slice of pizza, a Greek restaurant probably isn’t at the top of your list, but Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant will change your mind. When it comes to its Greek Pizza, Founaris keeps it simple. A few specialty pizzas are offered, like meat lovers, smothered, house and Super 7. Or you can make your own from a selection of regular, premium and ultra premium toppings.
Lillian’s Pizza
14514 Perdido Key Drive
After spending the day on the beach, sometimes all you want is a delicious pizza. Well, Lillian’s is the place for you. After serving up pies since 1989, they’ve become a bit of an institution in Perdido Key. Though pizza is their bread and butter, they have a pretty eclectic menu with items like seafood quesadillas, hot wings and even reuben sandwiches. Their specialty pizzas include pesto, hot Hawaiian, stuffed, taco and more.
Lucky Dough
104 E. Gregory St.
Pensacola’s new sourdough-based Neapolitan-style pizza restaurant, Lucky Dough Pizza, brings satisfying outdoor wood-fired pizza to the table. Owner Arpan Patel has been doing for pop-ups around Pensacola since 2024, gaining recognition while serving at the Palafox Market each week, and now has a permanent home in downtown Pensacola. The ingredients matter, according to Patel, with key items in his pies including Italian San Marzano peeled tomatoes and all-natural flour from Italy.
Angelena’s
101 E. Intendencia St.
Angelena’s might not be the first restaurant you think of when it comes to pizza places, but let this change your mind. Angelena’s makes all of their pizzas in their brick oven for an authentic flavor. Each pie is about 12 inches and is made from the freshest ingredients. There are only five varieties to choose from, but each is high quality.
The standouts are the Diavola, which features salami, Calabrian chili and 196 black garlic honey; the Fun Guy, which has local mushrooms, gorgonzola and bacon marmalade; and the Prosciutto Di Pharma, which has garlic butter, Parmesan and arugula. Grab a pizza and a bottle of wine every Tuesday for just $25.
Piazza Pizza Pensacola Beach
5 Via De Luna Drive, Suite G
Piazza Pizza brings New York-style pizza to the white sands of Pensacola Beach. Piazza started as a carry-out-only pizza place inside the Hampton Inn Pensacola Beach hotel, but has grown into a beautiful brick-and-mortar restaurant, now named Piazza Pizza and Beach Bodega. Piazza is a chef-driven, from-scratch style kitchen. Dough is made and rolled by hand, drizzled with a house-made sauce and topped with high-quality ingredients before being loaded into a custom-made pizza oven to create a thin, crispy crust. Play it safe with a classic such as the margherita, or experiment on the menu’s wild side with an option such as the Spicy Hawaiian.
O’Zone Pizza Pub
1010 N. 12th Ave.
Nestled in the basement of the Old Sacred Heart Hospital, the eclectic pizza joint is delightfully spooky, but still welcoming and friendly. You’ll likely see locals lining the bar and children’s coloring pages slathered over the walls. The shop makes a special Roman-style pizza dough daily, along with a homemade pizza sauce and special mozzarella cheese blend. Also worth noting, the shop offers a vegan cheese on any pie.
Lost Pizza
1200 Barrancas Ave. and 550 E. Nine Mile Road
An East Nine Mile Road favorite, Lost Pizza Co., opened its second Escambia County location in December in downtown Pensacola. Lost Pizza is a Mississippi-based pizza company that first made its way to Pensacola in 2018, marking the farthest South that the franchise had ever ventured. It has maintained a reputation across the country for its signature house-made dough, hand-cut vegetables and creative flavors. Even though it’s a franchise, there is no uniform way of decorating at Lost Pizza, which gives each shop its own fun, unique identity.
Petrella’s Italian Café
2174 W. Nine Mile Road
Petrella’s Italian Café is a family-owned Italian restaurant that has operated in Pensacola for over 20 years. All foods are handcrafted with house-made sauces, including their pizza. There are two types of pizza available: hand-tossed or thin and crispy. The café keeps it simple, offering regular cheese with additional toppings being $1 each, a meat lover, veggie lover, supreme, white pizza and garden.
Elbow Room
2213 W. Cervantes St.
The Elbow Room is just as much about the experience as it is the pizza. Speaking of pizza, the pub offers a pretty customizable experience. There are no signature pizzas with fancy names. You get cheese pizza and a pretty extensive list of toppings you can add on for an extra price, and premium toppings for an extra premium price. Regular toppings include things like pepperoni, ham, sausage, olives, roasted garlic, cashews, broccoli, etc. Premium includes goat cheese, anchovies, vegan cheese, tofu, genoa and more.
Santino’s Pizza & Grinders
Multiple locations
Santino’s has four locations in the Pensacola area, with the goal of offering the best salads, pizza and grinders (signature toasted sandwiches) on the Florida Panhandle. Everything on the menu is made to order, and the pizza dough is homemade and prepared in-house. Some of the specialty pizzas include the Greek, Hawaiian, Garlic Chicken and Mighty Meathead, a house meat lover’s pizza.
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