3 Best Pizza Places in Oakland, CA

“ Zachary's Chicago Pizza is an award-winning Chicago-style restaurant and has been acknowledged with over 200 'Best Pizza' awards. Their dedicated pizzaiolos are experts in making fresh, housemade pizza dough, and it is rolled to an even thickness, dusted with cornmeal, and tucked into a deep-dish pizza pan. Their pizza is covered with their zesty, diced tomato sauce, and it's slowly baked in their oven. Their stuffed or thin-crust pies are made to order with a special tomato sauce. Zachary's Chicago Pizza restaurant also serves in San Ramon, Oakland-Grand Lake, and Berkeley locations. They started an art contest in the mid-1980s and have continued the process every two years since then. They have over 300 pieces of Zachary's pizza art from the past three decades.”

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“Pizzaiolo offers wood-fired pizzas and seasonal Italian eats in a lively setting. They always use fresh and locally sourced ingredients to make pizzas. They use organic flour mixed with water and are allowed to ferment for some hours. They offer beer, wine, cocktails, or spirits by the bottle on their takeout menu. Customers can build any pizza with their choices of ingredients, especially for housemade sausage, prosciutto di parma, pancetta, arugula, Calabrian peppers, black olives, anchovies, and a farm egg. Pizzaiolo is a vegan and vegetarian-friendly pizza restaurant. The restaurant has gluten-free options. All organic and local, with a menu that constantly changes in the restaurant.”

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“Forge Handcrafted Pizza is a casual pizza restaurant that serves Artisanal, wood-fired pizzas. The restaurant is spread over 4,100 square-foot waterfronts. Their dedicated teams use the most reliable quality ingredients to make pizzas. They use the high-quality 00 organic flour from Central Milling and their own directly made and maintained leaven. Their menu items are cooked using the imported Italian Valoriani oven, which allows them to build a pizza like no other. The Forge offers the best relaxed, casual dining experience. The restaurant is a calm, casual dining experience around for their customers through their dog-friendly patios at both of their locations.”

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