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12 Great Places To Get Pizza By The Slice
By Nina ReederJuli Horsford,
12 hours ago
In case it wasn’t already clear, we have a longtime love affair with pizza. We’ve already got recs for the best pizza in Atlanta and where you can eat pizza on a bougie date night. Yet, as much as we love the classic dish, there are rare times when we can’t commit to eating a whole pie by ourselves. So this guide points you to the best places to fill that slice-sized hole in your heart.
This old school pizzeria in Virginia-Highland offers slices ranging from $3.50 to $5, depending on toppings. We come to Pielands to relive our youth by snagging a slice of classic pepperoni and playing the old Pac-Man arcade game in the corner of the dining room. Or take a slice to go and walk the quaint streets of VaHi and pretend we’re in a romantic comedy waiting for our meet-cute with a fellow pizza-lover. Either way, the real joyful moment is in the slices—thick and chewy with the perfect cheese to sauce ratio.
When it comes to convenience, Glide’s O4W walk-up window has all the other Atlanta slice shops beat. Get a classic cheese within minutes, and be back on the BeltLine without ever having to unstrap your rollerblades. Starting at $3.50, each tasty slice has fresh and low-moisture mozzarella, and you can top it with options like sausage, jalapeño, and capers. Our favorite part about this NYC-style pizzeria is their housemade ranch dip. It may sound blasphemous to pizza purists, but dipping our crispy edges in the tangy sauce makes us “finish our crust” folks.
The main dining space of this Inman Park pizzeria looks like an off-brand Pizza Hut with wood paneling and red leather booths. Thankfully, the pizza here is better than those Book-It personal pans. And after 9pm, they sell their nice flaky pies by the slice—and those slices are giant. Pair the $3 (plus topping additions) slice with a $4 pint of Miller High Life, and it’s a whole meal for under $10. Lloyd’s is one of our favorite hangouts in the city (and apparently is for everyone else too), so be prepared to 30 to 40 minutes wait for a table.
This ATL pizza chain has been around since the '80s and is the most well-known slice shop in the A—and it’s for good reason. We love that we can slide into any one of the seven locations around the city when we need one of Fellini’s reliably tasty, generously loaded slices. While no location is the wrong choice, post up on the spacious Ponce patio for the bubbling fountain in the center that drowns out nearby cars. It’s not the Trevi, but it still sets the mood. A slice starts at $3.25 and since we can get ‘em ‘til midnight every night here, this is a frequent detour after a few drinks at nearby bars like The Local, Friends On Ponce, and Bookhouse.
For more than 30 years, this East Atlanta Village spot has been serving up huge New York-style slices of pizza. During that time, they’ve perfected the art of thin crust, so you get the maximum amount of cheese and toppings in every bite. They’re not doing anything too fancy here—from the run-of-the-mill toppings to the no-fuss interior with exposed brick and wooden booths. But the $3-ish pizza slices are giant and tilt more toward that classic NYC slice (thin and foldable middles with big, crispy edges) than some of the other spots on this list.
This casual, counter service spot on Cheshire Bridge has nostalgic black- and white-checkered tablecloths, a giant menu, and is conveniently open until 6am on weekends. All of their pies are available in single slices and are under $4, so consider Gino's the late-night move when decision-making is hard (or when otherwise incapacitated) and you need to create your own pizza buffet. Must-gets include an amazing lasagna slice with a rich meat sauce and melty mozzarella and the tasty garlicky white slice with mounds of ricotta. But all of Gino's slices are worth a taste, even the Sicilian slice that’s thick, rectangular, and weighed down with melted mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
A disclaimer on the menu warns that you cannot get jeans at this Ponce City Market food stall, but pizza slices are fair game. Classic margherita, pepperoni, and five-cheese slices range from $4.50 to $6.50 for the Mall Slice. We usually get the Mall Slice because it’s bigger than the paper plate it’s served on. The melted mozzarella sits on top of a tomato sauce that doesn’t overpower the cheese and a sturdy sourdough crust that doesn’t get droopy. So when you want a decent slice and a reasonably priced beer, there’s always a bar seat available at Pizza Jean’s vinyl stickers-covered counter.
Being gluten-free can be a lonely place, especially on pizza nights when your crew is reluctant to split a whole pie with you. Enter St. Angelo’s in Vinings, where you can order gluten-free pizza by the slice—a rare offering around the city. The cracker-thin crust is good. It holds up under a heavy blanket of gooey cheese and toppings and can do that NYC-style pizza fold without falling apart. Slices start around $3.50. To-go orders are the popular choice, but on special event days and trivia nights, a crowd of families and locals fill up the small dining room and roomier patio.
When we need a giant slice of pizza with a side of sports, The Elbow Room is our spot. And since it’s open until 2am most nights, this Buckhead sports bar and pizzeria is one of our favorite late night haunts. At $3, their dependably good slices are easy on our pockets. And they have plenty of topping options, which range from pineapple to banana pepper. We don’t even mind the tacky copper tiled walls since we’re usually focused on TV highlights from the day’s games. And if we’re ever with a group of non-pizza lovers (we don’t actually know these people), The Elbow Room’s giant menu of calzones, burgers, and a foot-long hot dog has enough for those haters to explore.
This Summerhill pizza joint has pizza graffiti on almost every wall and their actual slices are almost as big as the wall art. While slice size matters, we’re really here for Junior’s options. The family-friendly spot offers a ton of choices from a basic cheese ($3.25) to the delicious Forever I Love Atlanta slice ($4.50), which includes chicken, waffle fries, and lemon pepper sauce. Plus, they do a vegan slice, which is surprisingly tough to find in the city despite our abundance of top-notch vegan restaurants. The super casual interior is rarely full because most visitors (including us) opt for the umbrellaed tables on the large patio.
If Grant Central East has the slices that taste the most like NYC pizza, then Rosa’s interior feels the most like a tight-fit Big Apple slice shop. The narrow pizzeria isn’t optimal for eating, making it a grab-and-go downtown staple. Pizza makers pluck spicy sausage and mushrooms from tubs and toss ingredients onto giant $2.55 slices of pre-made cheese pizza before reheating in the oven. While you wait, avoid looking too hard at the countertops and floor, which have the well-worn look of a pizzeria that’s more focused on getting you out the door quickly. After a few bites of the giant, decently good cheesy slices piled high with whatever you selected, your napkin won’t be pristine either.
When the end of the month rolls around and your bank account is looking light, consider this super affordable takeout pizza operation in Buckhead. A slice of cheese or pepperoni pizza is only 99 cents here, making Brix one of few places in the city where you can grab a quick bite for a dollar. Sure, the slices aren't wining any quality awards, but this is the cheapest slice in the city, and we appreciate a good budget meal.
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