Philadelphia, being the historically working-class East Coast city with a large Italian population that it is, undoubtedly has great pizza. Regional specialties like tomato pie and the pizzaz (American cheese, sliced tomatoes, and banana peppers) live among uber-Italian, wood-fired Neapolitan pies and Roman al taglio. A new crop of spots offering naturally leavened pies only rounds out the already excellent selection. This map is a collection of Philly's staples when it comes to cheese on sauce on bread — or, sometimes, sauce on cheese on bread.
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