The Best Pizza Near Mothership, by the Record

The building was a post office once, and the open kitchen has replaced the sorting floor with a wood-fired oven at its center. Tribute is a neo-Neapolitan pizza shop that also does grandma-style and New York slices, with pies named as nods to figures from the American pizza world. The bar leans heavily into tequila and whiskey, and the staff can walk you through all of it without making you feel slow for asking.

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A floor-to-ceiling photo of Sophia Loren watches over the dining room at this Neapolitan pizza and pasta spot in North Park, where the concrete-and-exposed-pipe look is exactly as cool as the neighborhood demands. The kitchen leans traditional Southern Italian underneath all that industrial chic, turning out wood-fired pies and handmade pastas with real conviction. Dinner gets lively; lunch is for people who prefer to think.

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