Best Pizza Places in Austin
Austin, Texas — updated August 22, 2026
Four Austin pizzerias, ranked by how settled their ratings are: a Crestview deli counter with nearly 2,400 reviews, a campus-adjacent slice shop, and two small East and North Austin kitchens.
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Austin's pizza scene is scattered rather than clustered: the strongest-rated places sit in Crestview, near the UT campus, on East Cesar Chavez and out on East 51st, with no single pizza district to walk. That means ranking matters more than proximity. Below, the four are ordered by how much evidence sits behind the rating, starting with the one that has been tested by the most people.
1. Little Deli & Pizzeria
This is the most thoroughly proven pizza rating in the city: 4.8 stars across 2,399 reviews, a sample large enough that the score is not going to move much. It operates as a combined deli and pizzeria at 7101 Woodrow Ave in Crestview, in a small unit off the main north-south drags, which is a useful thing to know before circling the block. A 4.8 that has survived that many diners says more about consistency than any higher average from a few hundred visits. Go expecting a counter operation rather than a sit-down room, and plan for company at peak hours given the volume of people who have found it.
2. Pizza Di Roma
The highest-rated dedicated pizza place here with a mid-sized sample: 4.9 stars from 364 reviews. It sits at 3316 Harmon Ave in 78705, which puts it in the dense student blocks north of the UT campus, an area where parking is tight and walking is usually faster. A 4.9 across more than 350 reviews is not a fluke, though it is a fraction of the sample behind Little Deli. Campus-adjacent addresses tend to swing with the academic calendar, so expect the room to feel different in August than it does in July.
3. Possum Pizza
A 4.9 rating from 200 reviews, at 2324 E Cesar Chavez St in East Austin. The review count is smaller, so treat the score as promising rather than settled: two hundred people is enough to establish a pattern, not enough to guarantee it holds at a thousand. The location is on one of the busier East Austin corridors, close enough to the bar strip that late-evening traffic and street parking are the practical concerns. Worth the trip if you are already east of I-35 rather than crossing town for it.
4. Feral Pizza
The smallest sample on the list, and the guide says so plainly: 4.9 stars from 162 reviews. That is a strong early signal from a place at 500 E 51st St, north of the river and east of Duval, but it has not yet been stress-tested the way Little Deli has. Ratings this high with counts this low can drift in either direction as more people show up. Go if you want to see something before it is settled, and check ahead on hours, since smaller kitchens in this part of Austin often keep limited schedules.