The Best Pizza Near La Dolcekca Bakery Cafe, by the Record

New York style slices done with the obsessive raw-material sourcing you'd expect from somewhere with a much more serious dress code. Pizza Baby is a casual pizza shop with two Charlotte locations, a tight Italian wine list, and bread good enough that they sell it separately. The pies run from a no-apology pineapple to a Sicilian, and the team landed a spot on 50 Top Pizza USA, which is exactly the kind of thing regulars mention while waiting for a table.

1. 50 Top Pizza #42 · 50 Top Pizza USA
2. Charlotte Magazine New Pizza Joint · BOB Awards

The wood-fired oven sits open to the room in a space that feels more like a late-night bar than a pizza parlor, which tells you something about the crowd. This is a Neapolitan pizza spot with a serious reputation, ranked in the 50 Top Pizza USA and a James Beard semifinalist. The dough is the whole argument here, and the team has been refining it long enough that regulars tend to skip the menu.

1. 50 Top Pizza #19 · 50 Top Pizza USA
2. Eater 18 Essential Restaurants in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
3. James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Southeast · Peyton Smith