After Ranking Arizona’s Finest Pizza Spots, Only Seven Slices of Perfection Made Our Final Cut

Ninety seconds. That’s roughly how long a Neapolitan-style pie can spend in a blazing wood-fired oven at one of the spots on this list. I love that detail because it flips the usual idea of slow comfort food. A fire that hot can char a crust in the time it takes to find a napkin. Arizona turns out to be full of pizza makers chasing that kind of fire. Some lean on sourdough. Some work with brick ovens. One even sits on a winding canyon road in an old mining town. I went looking for the plac