Buddy's Pizza
Best Detroit-Style Pizza in Detroit · MI
The square pie that named a style
Buddy's Pizza invented Detroit-style pizza in 1946, baking the square, deep-dish, crispy-edged pie in blue-steel automotive-parts pans at its original Conant Street corner. Cheese to the edges caramelizes against the pan while the sauce goes on last, in two red stripes — the template every Detroit-style pizza still follows.
Now grown across Michigan, Buddy's traces every pie to that first six-cornered pizza; the Conant Street location remains the birthplace of a style that has since conquered the country.
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2025 Centurion Award
Best Detroit-Style Pizza in Detroit Detroit, MI · Awarded under the 2025 evaluation View the 2025 award →Awards run one calendar year and renew only if the business clears the bar again. Selection is by published criteria, never for sale.
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