Hamilton’s Top 9 Pizza Spots for 2020

Pizza is essentially the ideal food. It is adaptable. It satisfies. It is a beautiful, saucy, cheesy delight from the tip to the crust. And fortunately, Hamilton has a lot of it. We must admit that this top 10 list might be the most difficult we've ever created.  It was challenging to narrow down the top nine pizza places in Hamilton since there are too many beautiful places to dine.

 Finally, we tried to balance the list between time-tested favorites and more recent additions, conventional interpretations, and cutting-edge, inventive dishes. Without further ado, check out our list of Best Pizza Hamilton restaurants for 2020. So keep reading!

1. Alfredo’s Place

It is so underappreciated here. This 16-year-old, family-run business, situated at Upper Gage and Fennell just on Hamilton Mountain, produces excellent and authentic pizza, panzerotti, and pasta from their little, venerable storefront.

In addition to being enormous and fully customizable with a list of all your favorite traditional toppings, the pizzas are also reasonably priced. The city isn't much better for a fantastic, straightforward pie that won't break the bank.

2. Rise Above Pizzeria

Given that it is Hamilton's first vegan pizza restaurant, Rise Above Pizzeria is undoubtedly one of the city's most distinctive places to grab a slice. You hardly even notice the absence of actual meat and dairy. 

Rise Above, a branch of the wildly popular St. Catharine's vegan comfort food café understands how to prepare pizza that rivals many non-vegan options while avoiding the use of any animal ingredients.

In addition, Rise Above offers seitan wings, a wheat gluten product that imitates chicken by being boiled in broth. These babies are not to be missed when covered with house-made wing sauces. If you're up for something a little different, try it out!

3. Earth to Table: Bread Bar

Earth to Table Bread Bar provides excellent thin-crust stone-baked pizzas with creative toppings. Bread Bar is dedicated to using high-quality, locally sourced ingredients. 

This focus is evident in their imaginatively made pizzas, served at their long-standing site on Locke Street and their recently opened sister shop on James North.

There is essentially something on the menu at Earth to Table: Bread Bar for every adventurous palate, with choices like the Bee Sting, which is topped with spicy sausage, honey, basil, as well as lemon ricotta, and the Apple & Bacon pizza with white sauce, mozzarella, smoked cheddar, caramelized onions, and fried sage.

4. The Red Door Cucina

The Red Door Cucina, one of Dundas' best pizza spots, is also one of its most obscure. It truly is a hidden gem. The Red Door, committed to providing the most incredible authentic Italian food in the area, runs out of a modest kitchen behind the Downtown Dundas Strip's main attractions in a small, practical building.

Once you locate the restaurant, get ready for authentic thin crust pizzas of the highest quality, including traditional options like Margherita or Pepperoni and more daring selections like the Mela Fumosa, which is topped with apple slices, bacon, caramelized onions, mozzarella, and gorgonzola. Happy eating!

5.  Bronzie’s Place

Can you say vintage? One of Hamilton's most well-known and enduring restaurants serving inexpensive yet filling Italian food is the family-owned & underground Bronzie's Place, which has been open for almost 30 years.

Bronzie's is renowned for its outstanding pizzas, which they've managed to continue putting up at incredibly affordable pricing, in addition to their towering portions of pasta tossed in handmade sauces and delivered in servings big enough to be three separate meals.

Bronzie's is a no-brainer for a fix of a few of the best pizzas in the city with a few signature pies readily available or the ability to make your own.

6. Chicago Style Pizza

The locals greatly adore this location. Every day of the week, there will probably be a wait of at least 45 minutes to get a table at Chicago Style Pizza. It's not unusual to see crowds gathered outside the restaurant before it opens.

However, there is a good reason: Chicago Style Pizza is one of the few places in the city offering up those insanely delicious, carb-heavy Chicago deep dish pizzas, and they do it incredibly well. 

There are conventional pizzas, portions of pasta, and other foods available, but if you haven't tried some of that packed deep dish, you haven't lived. Since Chicago Style Pizza has been there for a while, its popularity has been steady, which shows how well-known it is.

7. Cafe Baffico

Café Baffico is one of the most authentic places in Hamilton to get Roman-style pizza by the slab or slice. It's almost like having a tiny bit of Italy right here. Owner and Chef Jordan Weisz, former head of Smalls Coffee, first gained experience in the kitchens of renowned restaurants while living and studying in Rome, Italy. 

He has returned to Hamilton with that well-honed knowledge and skill, and our city would be all the richer for it. Simply put, Weisz's sourdough pieces of bread and pizzas are outstanding. With staples like a Margherita or Pepperoni pizza available along with a constantly-evolving menu of features, Café Baffico consistently adheres to the Italian heritage of straightforward food of the highest caliber.

8. Roma Bakery

This location embodies all that is Hamilton. Yes, Roma Bakery offers a wide variety of delicious baked goodies. Still, they're best known for their renowned bread pizzas, which have long been a mainstay at neighborhood barbecues, parties, and picnics.

The ingredients for Roma's slab pizzas are minimal: a thin, airy dough, oil, and liberal amounts of their famous red sauce on top. However, Roma pizzas are still a perennial favorite that taste just as excellent cold or toasted in the oven, even without the glorious cheese.

9. Mai Pai Tiki Bar

Although this restaurant is relatively new to Hamilton's food scene, locals already adore it and give it a high rating. In East Hamilton on Barton Street, MaiPai is known for its square Detroit-style deep dish pizzas, and, oh mama, they're fantastic. 

It is run by Salar Madadi of the city's renowned Poker. You essentially can't go wrong with something MaiPai has had to offer—dense square pies with crispy rims and inventive, enticing toppings.

Final Verdict

There may be an hour or more wait for your pie during the week at Shorty's Pizza due to its extreme popularity, but the delay will be well worth it. A less common option like the White Pizza, which has mozzarella, ricotta, pesto, lemon zest, and a nutty sesame seed crust, is always ready to impress. Standard types like the classic New York Cheese are filled with balanced flavor (that sauce!).