La Fontana Pizzeria

This cozy pizzeria by brothers Spartak and Tony Tare of Ferrara, Italy, feels like it came fresh off the boat. The pizza is thin, crisp, and creative, with quality toppings placed in classic Italian “less is more” format. Salumi of all types like juniper-cured speck top the pies, alongside artisanal cheeses and a slick of […]

Las Olas RiverFront

Entertainment, dining, and shopping complex features a 23-screen movie theater, the Escape! arcade, and dozens of restaurants and shops.

Louie Bossi’s Ristorante, Bar & Pizzeria

Since it’s July 2015 opening, the scene at Louie Bossi’s Ristorante Bar and Pizzeria in Fort Lauderdale is fueled by intense energy. On any given evening, every inch of the main dining room is jammed like the Dolphin Expressway at rush hour. Except here, people seem perfectly agreeable with being elbow to elbow. From a […]

Luigi’s Coal Oven Pizza

Chef Luigi DiMeo’s menu parallels Anthony’s Coal Fired, with pizza balanced out by family-style house salads, oven-roasted wings, and a few pasta specials. But DiMeo says: “I’m not trying to copy anyone. This is what I know. I try to make it as close as I can [to authentic Neapolitan style].” Close may be the […]

Mauro’s Pizza

Late-night slice-seekers rejoice. If you’re needing a blisteringly-hot slab of mozzarella-laden reliability, look no further than this boxcar-sized mainstay. Not only do the signs scotch-taped to the wall (“NO PARMESAN, DON’T ASK”) make you mind your Ps and Qs, but cashiers will laugh out loud at your debit card (better have a few dollar bills […]

Mellow Mushroom

We are the originators of the hand tossed, stone baked classic southern pizza. Our Spring water crust is unique and flavorful, and all our pies are made with high quality, fresh ingredients.

Mona Lisa Coal Oven Pizza

This Deerfield pizzeria is an offshoot of a Brooklyn bakery that’s been operating for three generations. The walls are covered with photos of gangsters and Mob movies, and the food is all about family. Crisp, coal-oven pizzas are fresh and sport a flaky crust like a quality pastry. And Mona Lisa’s desserts are topnotch — […]

Pa’ DeGennaro’s Restaurant

Pa’ Degennaro’s is the invincible old favorite of generations of pasta-craving Lauderdalians, a restaurant that through a couple of makeovers and many chefs has held onto its base clientele like a showman with a mad tiger by the tail. While over the years the interior and the chefs have changed, the food has remained much […]

Pizza Fusion

Started in 2006 by two Fort Lauderdale school buddies, Vaughn Lazar and Michael Gordon, Pizza Fusion opened in Deerfield purveying organic pizza. But the guys pushed their concept right to the cutting edge: delivering those organic pizzas in Prius hybrids, powering their website with wind, printing their menus and boxes on recycled paper, using biodegradable […]

Pizza Mia

For more than two decades, Pizza Mia, though it’s changed hands a couple of times, has been serving the same menu in its cramped, narrow space in Lighthouse Point – a walk-in closet lined with tables and bad murals – to the sound of slamming oven doors, the grumbling of the dour pizza guy (“I’ve […]

Pizza Rustica

Pizza fanatics went wild when Miami’s Pizza Rustica opened an outpost in Lauderdale — this is designer Tuscan pizza, thinly crusted, topped with imaginative combos like spinach and blue cheese, porcini mushrooms, prosciutto, yellow squash, four cheese, and arugula-rosemary-potato. The “campagnola” features sweet sausage, roasted peppers, sweet onions, and plum tomato sauce; the “putanesca” is […]

Pizza Rustica South Beach

Pizza fanatics went wild when Miami’s Pizza Rustica opened an outpost in Lauderdale — this is designer Tuscan pizza, thinly crusted, topped with imaginative combos like spinach and blue cheese, porcini mushrooms, prosciutto, yellow squash, four cheese, and arugula-rosemary-potato. The “campagnola” features sweet sausage, roasted peppers, sweet onions, and plum tomato sauce; the “putanesca” is […]

Primanti Brothers Pizza

This Pittsburgh-based chain of sandwich and pizza joints is treated like a temple of all things greasy and delicious in Steeltown. Here in Oakland Park, Primanti Brothers serves great Italian-American specialties late into the night. The place is most famous for its “Almost Famous sandwiches,” monstrous slices of Italian bread stuffed with meat, cheese, cole […]

Primanti Brothers Pizza

This Pittsburgh-based chain of sandwich and pizza joints is treated like a temple of all things greasy and delicious in Steeltown. Here in Florida, Primanti Brothers serves great Italian-American specialties late into the night. The place is most famous for its “Almost Famous sandwiches,” monstrous slices of Italian bread stuffed with meat, cheese, cole slaw, […]

Racks Italian Bistro and Market

The concise menu here is slightly more extensive than at owner Gary Rack’s other venue, Table 42 Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar in Boca Raton (formerly Coal Mine Pizza). Both spots specialize in coal-fired pies but also offer starters, salads, and pastas; Racks adds a handful of fish, meat, and poultry entrées to the mix. […]

Rino’s Tuscan Grill

This cozy (40-seat) and romantic country-style Italian trattoria – it’s even on a canal! – has its share of pros and cons. It is pricy, and portions track toward the small end of the spectrum. Quibbles about service and built-in tips aside, Tuscan can be counted on for some decent Italian dishes – though most […]

Riverside Market

Nothing but love for Total Wine & More, but sometimes, you just want to buy where everybody knows your name. Throw your beer budget to the local guy and you might just find widen your social circle even as you stock your fridge with an exceptional array of beers. This beloved neighborhood institution in Fort […]

Sassano’s New York Style Pizzeria

Tucked in the corner of a seedy strip mall, Sassano’s cranks out New York-style pizza and hearty portions of standard Italian-American pizza-parlor fare: traditional and Sicilian pies, calzones, hot and cold subs, and pasta dinners. The family running the place jokes around with customers while making sure that the pies turn out right and that […]