Frank Pepe

New Haven


Pepe's lays claim to baking the 'best pizza in America,' a title it's won three times running. We'll let you be the judge, but can confirm this joint cranks out tasty pies fired in a coal oven, just as it has since 1925; only now it has locations across Connecticut (and New York), making consistency harder to master. Cash only.

The white-clam pizza is the pie the people praise.


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