From its humble origins using just a few simple ingredients, pizza has become the ultimate blank canvas inviting endless culinary creativity. Pizza has traveled the world, and shapeshifted along the way.
In the Sacramento region, we have myriad pizza joints representing the great diversity of styles. It would be impractical for us to catalog every place, but we’ve picked a bunch that most often bubble up as community favorites, and broke them out by style.
With so many styles, it begs the question: Does Sacramento have its own unique style of pizza?
Neapolitan
What it is
The mother of all pizza, Neapolitan-style pizza hails from, as the name suggests, Naples, Italy. True Neapolitan pizza adheres to a strict set of rules governed by a consortium called Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana…