Golden Boy Pizza

If you walk a couple of blocks further on you’ll find Golden boy Pizza on Green Street. While the Liguria Bakery has bright blue awnings the whole front of this pizza place is bright red, awning and all. Impossible to miss. This is a tiny place. Inside there are only a few tables but the whole front window is full of pizza.. Huge square pans of pizza. The motto around here is. “where it’s hip to be square,“ It was started in 1978, by Peter Sodini, and is now run by his sons. As you pass the front door, which of course is open to let the smells of freshly baked pizza sail out to the sidewalk, there is no way you can just pass by. You just have to try it.

Golden Boy fills its window with at two or three pans of pizza at all times. Just stick your head inside the door and order what you want. They slide the big square piece on a sheet of wax paper, and there you go. People are standing around outside talking and eating or you can walk back down to the square and sit and enjoy the park and the pizza. If you insist you can eat inside also. They make cheese, pepperoni or sausage, clam and garlic, pesto vegetarian and combination. Big cheesy slices sell for 2.79 for the cheese to 3.75 for the combination. They also sell an entire pan for between 35 and 48 dollars depending on the topping you order.

Trust us this is great pizza. The crust is dense and chewy like a foccacia, the tomato sauce can stand alone, deeply seasoned it is not just another splash of red that you find on a lot of pizza. Then over each topping they spread a thick layer of cheese that melts over the whole…... Well we could go on forever here, but don’t take our word for it go and try it out and let us know what you think.

We award Golden Boy Pizza 5 napkins

Golden boy Pizza

542 Green Street

San Francisco, Calif.

94133