
Ottawa's Best: Epic Pizza
For restaurants where pizza is a defining reason to go: notable crust, oven style, signature pies, or slice culture strong enough to lead the menu.
Ottawa's Best: Epic Pizza

Epic Pizza
13 spots make the list in Ottawa · ranked by Restaurantica's epic pizza scoring evaluation
Outstanding
Heartbreakers Pizza
9.2Pizza is the defining reason to go, with Sweetheart, Fun Guy and Fennel & Sausage giving the menu a clear center instead of a generic pie list.
Bistro Ristoro
9.5Pizza is the clearest promise here: long-fermented dough, Canadian type 00 flour and an Italian-imported high-heat oven support Margherita, Leek & Mushrooms, Diavola and richer cheese-and-cured-meat builds without making pizza feel like an afterthought.
Excellent
Cumberland Pizza
9.3Pizza is the center of gravity here, with Cumberland Special, Greek, Meat Lovers, Vegetarian, Combination, and Sujuk pies giving the menu a clear reason to exist beyond generic takeout. The house-name pizza is the best first order because it shows the generous topping style immediately.
Bread & Sons
8.7Bread & Sons currently makes its strongest case through a short Saturday pizza menu: thin-crust pies with roasted vegetables, basil oil, feta, olives, and mushroom sauce. It feels less like a token bakery add-on and more like the reason to time a visit.
Giulia
9.0Giulia earns this through a pizza program that feels specific rather than generic: Sweet Tony, Spicy Clarice, Margherita, and the supporting crust sauces give diners several clear ways into the oven-led menu.
Ember
8.2Wood-fired pizzas are one of Ember's clearest anchors, especially the beef cheek pie with prosciutto meat sauce, braised beef cheek, mushrooms, rosemary, and reggiano. The pizza path is specific enough to plan the meal around it rather than treating it as a backup order.
Spark Beer & Pizza
8.9The pizza list has its own character: 10-inch West Centretown style pies, 24-hour fermented dough, St Albert mozzarella, Vietnamese parsley finishes and specific builds that read as Spark rather than generic taproom food.
Dominion City Brewing Co.
9.0Stubby's gives the taproom a real pizza identity, led by the hot-honey Stubby's Special and a detailed Mushroom White Pie.
Del Piacere
9.2Pizza can be the meal here. Margherita, Hawaiana, Genovese pesto, and Prosciutto E Funghi give groups enough variety to build around pies instead of pasta.
Good Options
Tooth and Nail Brewing Company
9.0Pinsa gives Tooth and Nail more than a snack-bar role. Spicy Sopressata Pinsa, Mediterranean Veg Pinsa, Triple Pepperoni Pinsa, and Prosciutto & Arugula Pinsa make the brewery a credible dinner stop for groups sharing beer.
Retro Gusto
8.6Retro Gusto is most legible as a pizza-first Italian dinner room: the kitchen gives real space to Roman-style tonda pies, with Salamino, Funghi, Margherita con Bufala, Cosacca, and Greca forming the core choice set.
Rabbit Hole
8.6Pizza is not a side note: twelve red and white options give the food menu a reliable centre, with White 4's prosciutto, artichoke, pear, and honey profile standing out as the clearest order.
Queen St. Fare
8.8Wicked Good Pizza gives the room a full pizza-counter identity, with hand-stretched stone-fired pies plus panuozzo sandwiches such as the Prosciutto Panuozzo.







