Wisconsin Pizza Joint Makes Top 101 U.S. List

MILWAUKEE, WI — There's one place in Wisconsin that ranked among America's top pizzas.

The Daily Meal released its list of the "101 Best Pizzas in America" at the end of September, and restaurants from 30 states made the ranking, including one from the Badger State.

The food blog considered nearly 1,000 pizzas and looked for such qualities as a nuanced sauce, well-distributed cheese, a flavorful crust and an overall balance of ingredients.

The "101 Best Pizzas in America" list is culled from a preferred pool of perfect pies. The Daily Meal then reached out to a diverse list of pizza chefs, bloggers, critics and writers, and asked them to take a survey on the pizza shops where they actually had eaten.

At the end of the process, there was one Wisconsin pizza joint that made the rankings.

• 70 Zaffiro’s Pizza (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

Here's what they said about Zaffiro's:

"First-generation Italian-American brothers Bobby and John Zaffiro opened Zaffiro’s in its present location in 1956, and the restaurant is still family-owned, run today by Bobby’s son. The tradition of a thin-crust Milwaukee pie topped with about three to four times more cheese than crust lives on at this Wisconsin icon."

Best In The U.S.

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut was named the best pizza joint in the nation for the third year in a row.

Connecticut might have had the No. 1 pizza, but New York led the way overall with 28 pizza places on the Daily Meal list. New York was followed by Illinois with nine, California with seven, and Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey all with six.

Here are the top 10 overall pizzas in America:

10. John's of Bleecker Street (New York, New York)
9. Lou Malnati's Pizzeria (Chicago, Illinois)
8. Patsy's (New York, New York)
7. Sally's Apizza (New Haven, Connecticut)
6. Totonno's (Brooklyn, NY)
5. Buddy's Pizza (Detroit, Michigan)
4. Pequod's (Chicago, Illinois)
3. Razza Pizza Artigianale (Jersey City, New Jersey)
2. Lucali (Brooklyn, New York)
1. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (New Haven, Connecticut)