The best Austin pizza restaurants

Steven Dilley burst on the food scene in 2013, turning out such perfect Neapolitan-style pies that Bufalina immediately became the belle of the pizza ball. Though Dilley had no prior restaurant experience, he studied with master pizza makers in both New York and Italy to achieve perfectly chewy, bubbled dough in a white, dome-like brick oven he had shipped straight from Naples. Due to popular demand, Dilley opened a second (and bigger) location on Burnet Road this past winter, and will soon offer brunch and lunch in addition to dinner.

This dark, divey bar on East 12th Street might not be the first place you’d expect to find amazing pizza…but you probably wouldn’t expect to find one of the city’s best mescal and sotol selections here either, now would you? Ditch all your expectations and come to King Bee hungry—and with a group of friends, so you can sample multiple pies. You can never go wrong with mainstays like the appropriately named The Cheesiest pie, but the extraordinary seasonal specials are not to be missed either (and rotate quite frequently, so get ’em while you can!). Currently on the menu is the Conscientious Objector, featuring queso de Oaxaca, peppered top sirloin, roasted poblanos, red cabbage, avocado, cotija, toasted sesame seeds on a squash mole negra sauce base, drizzled with crema. This pie’s just begging to be eaten between sips of mezcal.