Curioni's Pizza • 1923

This fourth-generation family pizzeria operates from the same Lodi storefront where Walter Curioni's grandparents opened a grocery store to serve Italian-American immigrants. When Curioni's father took over and installed a pizza oven in the late 1950s, he transformed the shop into a neighborhood legend known for thin-crust round pies and Sicilian slices that locals call the best in North Jersey. Pull up one of the ten counter stools where regulars debate town politics between bites of $12 whole pies—a price point that makes this century-old operation arguably the state's best pizza value.