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The Pizza Joints You'll Be Glad You Found

Looks like you’ve found the part about pizza. For your efforts, we will now reward you by helping you find more pizza. Hidden pizza. Old-school pizza. Old World pizza. In conclusion: pizza.

SoMa · Restaurant
Save up your podcasts and grab a book (or better yet, friends), because there will be a totally-worth-it wait here. Una Pizza Napoletana is arguably the best pizza in the city, if not nation, made by one man who has created simple perfection with five pizzas he makes from 5pm until "out of dough." Come on Saturday for the special sixth pie named after his daughter, which is the only one to bear meat.
Lower Haight · Restaurant
Bring a date with you to this cozy, unassuming little pizza spot on Divis. Come sans reservation (they're walk-in only) and be seated in the dining room among pictures of the owner's family. Grab a glass of wine, order an Amatriciana with tomato, pancetta, Calabrian chilies, pecorino, oregano and an organic egg, and you won't regret it. If you're with a group, call ahead about their heated outdoor patio, which combines your love of outdoor pizza with your love of not being cold.
Bernal Heights · Restaurant
It's worth the trip you'll be making to Bernal for this hidden neighborhood gem. PizzaHacker, which started slinging pies off a rigged Webber grill outside bars has come up in the world. Come with friends and take a seat at one of many picnic benches and take a look at the day's menu written on the full-wall chalkboard. Order a "Top Shelf Margherita," pair that with a beer and make a terrible joke about how you're double-fisting.
North Beach · Restaurant
Head to North Beach for an authentic pizza experience with flour imported from Naples and tomato sauce made from certified Italian tomatoes. Yes, certified tomatoes. Set up camp in the charmingly old-school Italian restaurant surrounded by white tile and cans of tomatoes (seems to be a theme). Order up the titular Il Casaro with mozzarella, grana padana cheese, cremini mushroom and San Daniele prosciutto and consider how much you saved on a trip to Naples by coming here.
Nob Hill · Restaurant
The brick-and-mortar location of the giant glass pizza truck, Del Popolo, is no less impressive, if slightly more probable. Grab a seat at the green tile counter facing their huge, wood-burning pizza oven and watch them make delicious pies on self-leavened dough. Order the Broccoli di Cicco with beef salami, mozzarella, pecorino, red onion and lemon. Ponder whether or not you've ever liked broccoli more. No, you haven't.
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