Conte's Pizza • 1950

Conte's Pizza slings New Jersey bar pies from the same Witherspoon Street building where Sebastiano Conte first served Princeton's inaugural pizza on October 13, 1950, using a recipe learned from a New York City baker he hired every Thursday to train him. Still family-run and operating in what was once the Conte family home, the pizzeria remains loyal to its origins with classic thin-crust red pies—no green vegetables, no gourmet toppings—and house-made sausage and meatballs prepared fresh every Tuesday. The original bar, spelled out in red glass bricks, anchors the dining room where locals claim the same tables weekly and Dave Portnoy awarded the pizza an 8.9.