Consistency of food quality is key to success, and a pizzeria in the Pittsburgh area has the accolades to prove it.

Fiori’s Pizzaria, with two locations in Brookline and McMurray, Pennsylvania, was recently honored as the city’s best pizza spot for the fifth year in a row by readers of Pittsburgh’s City Paper.  The restaurants offer traditional and white pizzas by slices (or “cuts”) and in large and small whole pies, along with calzones, wings, hoagies and salads.

Dan Tallarico of Pittsburgh Pizza News, a Substack newsletter, noted that Fiori Pizzaria has been capturing the award since 2019, followed by the same second-and third-place winners—Mineo’s Pizza House and Iron Born—every year.

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“This city will not rest until every pizza shop is ranked over and over again,” Tallarico wrote. “There is a possibility that we are all in a pizza simulation and we will not be free until the assortment of pizzas in this city are properly ranked. Every day there’s a new best pizza. There’s a new score. Someone has cracked the code and discovered the hottest, best new pizza that must be consumed now. Everyone is fighting to be the promised one that delivers us pizza perfection. The harbinger of pizza justice.”

Tallarico adds, “Am I part of the problem? Hey, come on, no one said it was a problem. Maybe it’s a good thing. Constructive criticism is hard to get these days but can positively change someone’s trajectory.”

Tallarico reported on Fiori’s winning streak in 2023 and interviewed a manager (identified only as Jamie) at the time.  “Most of those guys that have been here, they know we have a really great product,” Jamie told Tallarico at the time. “When you call up and there’s a two-hour wait, and I’m not personally waiting two hours for a pizza, but people that call in and wait for two hours, that’s crazy to me, but people wait. It’s pretty cool that people are recognizing us like that, but we know what we have. The product speaks for itself.”

Along with owner Fiori Moscatiello, Giuseppe “Joe” Pepe helped launch Fiori’s Pizzaria in 1979 and served as its primary pizza maker for 40 years before retiring on New Year’s Eve in 2020, as TribLive reported.

Dave Portnoy paid the restaurant a visit that same year and gave it a score of 7.8. “This kinda tastes like New Haven pizza,” Portnoy said. “It’s a little greasy, but overall very good.”