The Best Pizza Near Houlme, by the Record
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Rank 1. Goldie’s and The Roost
Creative Pizza
A pizza spot in two stacks: a casual counter downstairs and an adults-only dining room up top, both turning out wildly creative pies built on heirloom Red Russian wheat milled by nearby sixth-generation farmers. The meat pizza somehow reads as a vegetable dish, with kale, squash, and Moroccan-spiced toum doing the heavy lifting and bacon playing backup. Upstairs pastas are quietly serious. The soundtrack on any given night might go from '90s hip-hop to something resembling the Inspector Gadget theme.
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Rank 2. Nightingale
Wood-fired Pizza
The Neapolitan-style pizzas come out of a wood-fired oven with properly blistered crusts, which is a fine way to anchor an otherwise wide-ranging menu of shareable rustic plates. This stylish, high-ceilinged downtown restaurant pulls in business lunches by day and groups of friends by night, and the room handles both without breaking a sweat. The Michelin Guide has selected it, and Vancouver Magazine gave it gold for Best Informal Contemporary.
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Sommelier of the Year · Chris Rielly
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
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Rank 3. Di Beppe
Italian
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee Shops In Vancouver, BC
- Golden Owl Awards Runner Up · Best Pizza Experience
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Rank 4. Straight Brooklyn Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 5. AJ's Brooklyn Pizza Joint
New York Pizza
The dough takes three days to make, which partly explains the line of rain-soaked Vancouverites camped under the East Broadway awning. This is a casual New York pizza joint doing three styles: classic New York, Sicilian, and Detroit. The thick, crispy-edged Detroit pies in particular have developed a following that shows no signs of thinning out, regardless of weather, which in Vancouver is really saying something.
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Rank 6. Pizza Carano
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 7. Via Tevere Main Street
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 9. Via Tevere Pizzeria Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 10. Thank You Pizza
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