Best Pizza in Erie County, PA: Nominate Your Favorite Slice!

Who has the best pizza in Erie County, PA? Nominate your favorite local pizza shop and help crown the 2026 champion!

There are certain questions you can ask in Erie County that are almost guaranteed to start a debate.

Who has the best wings?Where’s the best place to watch a Lake Erie sunset?And perhaps the most dangerous question of all…

Who has the BEST pizza in Erie County PA?

We’re not going to pretend there’s an easy answer.

From thin and crispy crust to thick, cheesy slices loaded with pepperoni, Erie County has plenty of pizza choices—and everyone seems to have a favorite.

So instead of telling you who has the best pizza, we want YOU to decide.

🍕 What Makes a Great Pizza?

Before we can crown the best pizza in Erie County PA, we have to settle another delicious debate: what exactly makes a pizza worthy of the title?

What actually makes a pizza great?

Is it the crust?

The sauce?

The amount of cheese?

The pepperoni?

Fresh toppings?

That perfect crispy edge?

Or is it simply the pizza you grew up eating—the one that immediately tastes like home?

For some people, the perfect pizza has a thin crust with just enough crunch. Others want a thick crust that can handle a mountain of cheese and toppings.

And then there are the people who judge a pizza by one very important standard:

How good is it cold the next morning?

No judgment here.

🍕 Erie Has No Shortage of Contenders

A quick look at local recommendations shows just how difficult it is to crown one winner.

Among the names appearing in Erie-area pizza discussions are Pizza Pete's Pizzeria, Passalinqua's Pizzeria and John's Wildwood Pizzeria.

But that's nowhere near a complete list.

Recent Erie pizza conversations continue to produce different answers depending on whether someone wants thick crust, thin crust, traditional pepperoni, specialty pizza or something completely different.

And that's exactly why we're turning this over to the people who really know:

Erie County pizza lovers.

🏆 The Erie County Pizza Showdown

Here’s where you come in.

We want to find the pizza place that Erie County residents believe deserves the title:

BEST PIZZA IN ERIE COUNTY

Nominate your favorite pizza place and tell us why it deserves to win.

Don't just give us the name.

Tell us what we need to order!

For example:

Pizza Place: Your favorite pizzeriaTown: Where it's located Must-Try Pizza: Pepperoni, supreme, white pizza, specialty pizza, etc.Why They're the Best: Tell us what makes it special

🔥 Let's Make This More Interesting

We also want to settle a few side debates.

Which Erie County pizza place has the:

🍕 Best Pepperoni Pizza🧀 Best Cheese Pizza🥓 Best Specialty Pizza🔥 Best Crust🍅 Best Sauce💰 Best Value👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Best Family Pizza Night🏠 Best Small-Town Pizza💎 Most Underrated Pizza

And here's an important one:

What pizza place is missing from everyone's “best pizza” lists but absolutely deserves more attention?

Those hidden gems may be the most interesting answers of all.

❤️ Support Your Favorite Local Pizza Shop

There's another reason we're asking.

Local restaurants are part of what makes Northwest Pennsylvania special.

They're the places where families grab dinner after a ball game, friends meet on Friday night and someone behind the counter already knows your regular order.

When you recommend a locally owned restaurant, you're doing more than answering a pizza question. You're introducing other people to a business they may have never tried.

So don't keep your favorite place a secret.

🍕 NOW IT'S YOUR TURN!

Who has the BEST pizza in Erie County?

👇 Drop your nomination in the comments.

Name the pizza place AND tell us what pizza we should order.

Then tag someone who thinks they know Erie County pizza better than you do.

And please share this article—we want nominations from Erie, Harborcreek, North East, Girard, Fairview, Waterford, Edinboro, Union City, Wattsburg and communities throughout Erie County.

Once the nominations are in, we may just have to put the favorites head-to-head and let Erie County vote for its 2026 Pizza Champion. 🍕🏆

One rule:

There are no wrong answers…

Well, at least until somebody says your favorite pizza place isn't that good. Then you're on your own. 😂

What do you think? Who gets your vote?