Come Enjoy the Best Pizza in Tacoma...

Classic  Italian-style
Pizza in Tacoma

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Welcome to APIZZA---pronounced "Ah-beetz"!

Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker
Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker
Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker
Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker
Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker
Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker
Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker
Photo credit: Stephen Whitaker

What makes Apizza Little Italy the BEST PIZZA in Tacoma?

Our customer reviews speak for themselves, but this is what goes into making Apizza Little Italy the best pizza you'll have.

Authenticity

Come enjoy the thinnest crust you've ever had made with delicious and wholesome scratch-cooking with our own style of warm, dedicated, friendly, personal hospitality.

Wholesome Ingredients

We designed APIZZA's large, open kitchen to have something for everyone: fresh delicious salads, antipasto, gelato, mouth-watering apizza, Italian cured-meats, kid-friendly beverages, soft drinks and fabulous wine and beer on tap.

Love of Cooking

Chef Marshall Jett began his cooking career prepping vegetables for his mother when he was ten years old. Many decades later Marshall took his love and passion for cooking, ceramics and built his first mobile clay pizza oven and launched Veraci Pizza.

Looking for something FUN to do in Tacoma?

Come check out our LIVE MUSIC!

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Performing Arts Series:

  • No cover
  • All ages - very family friendly
  • Featuring local Tacoma musicians
  • Featuring student performances (The Tacoma School of the Arts* (SOTA - see below)
  • Third pillar of APIZZA Little Italy's "Arts Integration" vision (culinary art, visual art and now performing art) designed to bring pleasure to all five senses.
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OUR STORY

Our ship left the dock and set sail on December 21st., 2022 - the Winter Solstice.

After 599 days of work building this amazing place, we are absolutely delighted to be finally open for business and serving you.

Please come say hello (ciao!) and experience our brand new, state-of-the-art demonstration & performance kitchen.

Bring the whole famiglia* and try a huge slice of our mouth-watering, uber-thin Neapolitan pizza!

*We always have plenty of wholesome and delicious real food for kids.

Our mission is to combine delicious and wholesome scratch-cooking with our own style of warm, dedicated, friendly, personal hospitality.

Our family recipes are made with extra care from scratch ----bursting with flavors, textures and natural goodness.

We designed APIZZA's large, open kitchen to have something for everyone: fresh delicious salads, antipasto, gelato, mouth-watering apizza, Italian cured-meats, kid-friendly beverages, soft drinks and fabulous wine and beer on tap.

A full European dessert and pastry program (including cannoli's of course), craft cocktails, pasta made to order and Sicilian style pizza are coming in 2023!

Thank you so much. We are here to serve!

Chef Marshall Jett.

Chef Marshall Jett
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We are here for you, through thick and thin!

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Love

APIZZA Little Italy is about love: love of cooking and serving others; love of restaurants and hospitality, love of Italian culture and traditional Italian-style pizza.

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Family

APIZZA Little Italy is a family business with the simple goal of bringing our extraordinarily delicious and wholesome family recipes to the Tacoma community.

We use only the freshest ingredients, source locally whenever we can----and use traditional, "old-school" techniques to create our mouth-watering menu items.

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Vision

APIZZA Little Italy is the latest creation of chef Marshall and represents his exciting new hospitality vision: to bring culinary happiness - Italian-style - to downtown Tacoma.

  • Literally a little piece of Italy right here in T-town, from pizza to gelato they have it all. Looking for an espresso or Italian liquors, maybe both ¯_(ツ)_/¯ no problem. Highly recommend stopping in. The open kitchen is always a plus and their pizza is jumping to be one of the best in town, traditional and great ingredients.

    That's Tacoma Avatar That's Tacoma

    Excellent pizza! Very authentic Italian. Loved it. There are lots of different options also. Vegetarian options: Lots of yummy veggie options.

    Nicole Avatar Nicole

    We ordered the Deluxe #13 and the Classic Margherita pizzas and highly recommend. The quality ingredients and love that was put into these pizzas by exceptional chefs. By far the best wood fired pizza that we have eaten. The customer service was amazing as well. Great atmosphere for dine-in and take-out. There are daily slices available as well.

    Rachell Avatar Rachell
  • Awesome pizza!!!! 😋🍕

    Nitish Sharma Avatar Nitish Sharma

    The staff is super nice, the pizza was delicious. We will be going back very soon. Gelato made my wife very happy.

    Robert Mcdowell Avatar Robert Mcdowell

    Great family dinner...Marshall was such a great host!!

    Barbara Nielsen Avatar Barbara Nielsen
  • Very nice experience

    Gloria Coyle Avatar Gloria Coyle

    Oh my, I love their Pizza. Pizza was never something I enjoyed, but the pizza here forever changed my mind. Highly recommended.

    kay ye Avatar kay ye

    Great first time coming here. You can taste the quality ingredients. We savored every bite. Even my picky eater devoured their entire pizza here. Atmosphere was chill and kinda like being home away from home? Will def be coming here again. Thank you!

    angel “puakenikeni” t. Avatar angel “puakenikeni”
  • Best pizza this side of New York. Most authentic pizza in Washington. Outstanding crunchy thin crust and superior ingredients all around. Tried the Spicy Tony at lunch and am back to try more the same night for dinner! It’s that good folks.

    Derek Riggle Avatar Derek Riggle

    I went in specifically for the Gelato, which is the best!

    Linda M Avatar Linda M

    Truly amazing! Chef Marshall is friendly and always makes time to check in with his guests. More importantly, the pizzas, salads and drinks are always well worth the visit. The Hot Copa is particularly delicious. This has become our go to place for occasions and when we have visitors from out of town.

    Ken Gibson Avatar Ken Gibson
  • I LOVED this whole place. The food was good, the atmosphere is cozy. Bruschetta 10/10 Cesar salad 10/10 Pizza 10/10 Service 10/10 We will be coming back next time we are in the city 😊

    Ella Krohn Avatar Ella Krohn

    Really good hospitality, hard to find anymore, where the workers are polite and go out of their way to be extra nice to you, and good pie—it's actually delicious, not cheap gas station pizza, which most pizzerias are slinging around. They were voted the best in Tacoma, and I believe it. Not too spendy either. You can get a huge wide slice with a soda for around $10.

    Bryce Appling Avatar Bryce Appling

    Hands down the best pizza in all of Tacoma. I have been on the hunt for amazing pizza throughout Tacoma and surrounding area and this place is above and beyond the best. It is a true Neapolitan pizza, with perfectly baked thin crust, robust sauce in perfect proportion, and the toppings and cheese are perfectly paired for the given size ordered. My family consists of 3 kids (age range 6-13), my wife and I and we ate 2 entire pizzas as we could not stop eating it was soo good. We ended up ordering again the next evening and had the exact same experience. We have since ordered 2 more times and the quality never varies. If you want the best pizza experience you have ever had around this area you must eat at APIZZA.

    Heath Jarchow Avatar Heath Jarchow
  • Got a slice after work and was a good price, super gooey delicious 3 cheese slice. Staff was very friendly, was waiting for someone and made me feel not so lonely 😂

    Ivy “hederahelix” Adsila Avatar Ivy “hederahelix”

    I ordered the #13 best pizza I’ve ever had!

    Chloe Avatar Chloe

    Thin on crust, heavy on toppings. The PNW isn't known for pizza, but APIZZA steps up to the challenge.

    Garrett S. Avatar Garrett S.
  • I ordered the Vesuvius from Uber, this pizza is absolutely delicious. I'm very excited to come down there and try it in the restaurant. There are a lot of pizza places in town but this is really good.

    Robert Stocker Avatar Robert Stocker

    Amazing, found it on a road trip. Super friendly staff and amazing pizza.

    Kalid Azad Avatar Kalid Azad

    Had the Spicy Tony pizza. It was really good. No red pepper flakes needed. The crust is fairly thin with a little chew. Haven't had a restaurant with a thin crust that was at least a little crispy. In this case, it made this pizza different in a good way. There was a little crunch on the ends, but the ingredients are what carried the pizza. The sausage was sliced rounds from a link, but again we're high quality with a nice flavor profile and the sauce was extremely well balanced with enough Italian seasoning in it to cut through any paste flavor you might find at some other local places like Bar Rosa. It also wasn't acidic. Extra points right there for me. I mention these details because I believe that it will help better to figure out if you're wanting to try one of the many, many new pizza places in town. Service was attentive enough for my needs as they checked in a couple of times. The drinks were ok at least on the mixed drink. The beers weren't bad. A large pizza for around 40 after tax was easily shareable for two or three people and the chew in the crust helped keep it filling while it was still thin. I'll definitely be back based on the light sauce profile and toppings.

    Mark Nickel Avatar Mark Nickel
  • From initial order phone call to last bite, experience at Apizza was top notch. Person at counter was super friendly, personable and efficient. We picked up the Deluxe #13, ingredients off their menu: Cascioppo Bros sausage, mushroom, roma tomato, scallion, fresh mozzarella on garlic olive oil The pizza… oh the pizza, sublime! Sausage had excellent flavor, but did not overpower the other ingredients, Roma tomatoes diced tiny, added to the perfection. The thin crust had a light flavor and so edges were oh so crispy. Best pizza I’ve ever had. Don’t read this - do your self a favor, call them, place an order, and try it for yourself. Parking: Easily found a parking spot on the street just around the corner.

    M Con Avatar M Con

    Great spot for pizza and some live music. Winning this place is kind of funky little downtown pizza shop with a really great pizza oven right inside the door. Thought we just eat light and get a pizza by the slice but oh my God. My one slice of pizza was essentially 1/4 of a 16-inch pizza. The Caprese salad was really excellent as well and much larger than I expected. They also have really good gelato for after pizza. And what I hear is that they have really good tiramisu. Saw that after I already had the gelato. Have to give that a try next time

    Stephen Stoops Avatar Stephen Stoops

    Really great pizza! Super crispy and toppings were delicious and fresh! Highly recommend.

    Rudik Rsr Avatar Rudik Rsr
  • My husband was walking by this pizza spot going to another place. As we were walking by we noticed owner or employee giving a slice of pizza to a homeless man going through the trash. She said here it’s cold outside! We took a mental note to come back and support this establishment, just so happened we had to wait for our seats for 25 mins. So we went back and had a slice of the best pizza I have had thus far. I would definitely recommend this place. We were there for only a little bit but their service was still excellent! Thank you your delicious pizza and giving to the community!

    Jameela Parks Avatar Jameela Parks

    Delicious food and friendly service. We had a party of 10 and everyone left with full bellies and happy hearts. Tacoma is lucky to have this gem!

    Fae Phalen Avatar Fae Phalen

    I came to try the thin crust pizza like I remembered loving in Italy 🇮🇹 and this place did not disappoint = ) Delicious thin crust and a great variety of toppings in both ready to eat slices and made to order pies ♥️. Cute decor and good atmosphere both inside and in outdoor seating. Staff was welcoming and efficient. I'll definitely be back!

    Lynda Best Avatar Lynda Best
  • Adorable place, And the best pizza. Got spicy Tony..yumminess. crust super thin. Perfectly done will visit in future.

    mo W Avatar mo W

    This place is next to The Forum. On Thursday, it has live music from 7-9pm. Outdoor seating is available. All ages ar welcome. No cover charge. They sell NY style pizza by the slice. I had pepperoni. It was delicious. They also serve alcohol and Italian sodas. I got the Peach Bellini, which was great. Overall, it is a great place to pop in for a bite to each or just a drink.

    Karen Reynolds Avatar Karen Reynolds

    If you haven’t had this place you’re missing out on an amazing and authentic experience. Moving away and my heart is staying with APIZZA. Marshall, you are the BEST! Family style and run. You cannot go wrong with any item here. If you enjoy wine, highly recommend Barolo. A gem in downtown Tacoma.

    Karissa Hernandez Avatar Karissa Hernandez