(Hotel restaurants are not eligible in this category)
Best Pizza
The familiar Pizza Hut stores around town combined to win Best Pizza with local readers.
Readers' Pick:
PIZZA HUT
Multiple locations
Another perennial readers' choice testifies to Pizza Hut's status as a pepperoni-covered slice of Americana, a tomato sauce glue that bonds ... (begin patriotic music now) ... our diverse society into one round unit. In less cheesy terms, the company's creative promotions and aggressive transition into home delivery also kept it in first place for another year, with relative newcomer Papa John's Pizza a distant second.
Our Pick:
THE TAP HOUSE
5589 W. Charleston Blvd.
Longtime readers of this beloved special section watch out for the Tap House like a Hitchcock cameo -- this venerable newsroom hangout is sure to turn up somewhere in the staff picks. But you don't have to fraternize with the R-J bullpen to take the same liberties with great thick- or thin-crust pizza at a good price, which gets even better when it's sliced in half after midnight.
