Photography by Stuart Mullenberg

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Type
Pizza
Features
Child Friendly, Dinner, Reservations, Takeout
Price Scale
$$
Description

Who makes Portland’s best pizza? Arguments rage here like Scripture debates. But for a strong contingency, 20-year-old Apizza Scholls is the Bible: muscular, almost forbidding behemoths of neo-Neapolitan splendor, made with eccentric perfectionism and fine-tuned toppings. Build your own pie, revel in an East Coast classic, add some tongue-sized smoked belly bacon, or dive into the Diablo Blanco, a sauce-free wonder of creamy ricotta pools, jalapeño wheels, and a roasted tomato–pumpkin seed pesto that tastes, somehow, like chorizo. The whole-leaf caesar has its own believers. The menu rarely changes, so it’s easy to forget, seven nights a week, one of America’s best pizzas is emerging from an electric oven on SE Hawthorne. 

Apizza Scholls

4741 SE Hawthorne Blvd , Portland, OR, 97215
Hawthorne/Belmont  •  503-233-1286
Mon-Sun: 5 pm-9:30 pm Sat-Sun: 11:30-2:30