Anxious Pete’s
25 Kent Street
The Pizza Cult
Barras Market, Suffolk Street entrance
Two spots from the same team. Pizza Cult is in The Barras and does super-fast Neapolitan pizza when the market is on. More exciting is Anxious Pete’s round the corner, which is the pinnacle of Glasgow’s New York slice scene with its ultra-thin, perfectly oily wedges of pizza served into the evening.

Caesar’s Social
2 Clarkston Road
The aroma of baking dough permeates a room of plants, candles and mismatched furniture. Toppings, which celebrate both Scottish and Italian ingredients, are bold; we’re talking ’ndjua sausage, pickled chillis, roast pineapple and Cora Linn cheese. Crusts are blackened and blistered, undersides charred as far as they possibly can go, and the overall vibe is gorgeously neighbourhoody. BYOB and sit outside if the weather’s up for it.

Errol’s Hot Pizza
379 Victoria Road
Thin and crispy are taken to supreme levels here as vigorously seasoned pizza stamps all over your taste buds in the best way possible. Sharing is the norm and it’s BYOB. Try the white option, with gorgonzola, mushrooms, chives and cream. And get on board with the hard rock soundtrack.

Sear’s
8 Chancellor Street
Sear’s flourishes in the true spirit of the New York slice shop: unassuming, stylishly no-frills and damned cheap. Pop in for a slice and with any luck you’ll be on your way, paper plate in hand, in under a minute. The white-based truffled mushroom and smoked mozzarella or the Sears (pesto on a vodka sauce base) are good options if you want to get adventurous.

Sub Rosa
Unit 34, 147 Drakemire Drive
This understated spot in an industrial estate on the city outskirts is a masterclass in accuracy. They do Detroit-style pizza with a majestic cheese climb, where pepperoni is nicely blackened on one edge, guindilla peppers are scorched and spiky, and pulpy San Marzano tomatoes soak into the dough before a sesame base finishes things off.

Thundercat Pub + Diner
86 Miller Street
Goes an impressive way in recreating the Chicago deep-dish pizza pie style where one slice is so filling it might be enough. The spacious, biscuity crust and an intense tomato base that almost becomes one with crumbles of fennel sausage are genuinely pretty close to the Lou Malnati’s and Giordano’s of Chi-town itself.

Also try… 313 for Detroit pizza that nails all the traits, Paesano’s three locations for ever-dependable and great-value Neapolitan-style, Civerinos for skateboardy New York slices, and Frank’s trio of spots for formidable thin and crispy pies with more tomato, less cheese.

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