The Best Pizza City in America Is Portland, Oregon

Sorry New York, the Modernist Pizza authors ate almost 400 pies across the country before reaching this conclusion.

Images of the Portland skyline from Audrey McCall beach

Photographer: Nathan Myhrvold, The Cooking Lab, LLC

It’s not news that New Yorkers will want to hear.

The best pizza city in America is—drumroll—Portland, Ore. That’s according to the authors of the upcoming Modernist Pizza, Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya, who ate almost 400 pies from coast to coast to come to that conclusion.