Classic Italian-style
Pizza in Tacoma
Ciao!
Welcome to APIZZA---pronounced "Ah-beetz"!
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!
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.
APIZZA UPDATES!
We are planning on opening 7 nights for dinner in 2025, as soon as we can make it happen. Thank you so much for your support! Stay tuned!
We are very excited to add Grub Hub as our third delivery partner, which is a real bonus due to their close partnership with Amazon------providing FREE APIZZA DELIVERY for Prime Members.
Also, Grub Hub is offering 60 days of free delivery for APIZZA customers as a thank you for signing up with their delivery service.
We will let you know as soon as Grub Hub is live!
In the meantime, HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all and thank you for a terrific 2024.
We are so excited to begin our 3rd year serving the community with the very best PIZZA we have to offer!
With gratitude and love,
Chef Marshall
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.
We are here for you, through thick and thin!
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.
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.
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.
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The staff is super nice, the pizza was delicious. We will be going back very soon. Gelato made my wife very happy.
Robert Mcdowell
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.
Ample seating with spacious tables. Everything is truly made from scratch and attention to detail is immaculate. Don't worry- if you are in a rush order by the slice. We lived the Goddess pizza, 12" was perfect for 2.The roasted fresh garlic was next level. Great thin crust. Pesto was flavorful, not salty! The Cannolis are top notch. Hunter makes a great hot chocolate if you aren't taking a cappuccino or wine. Grab a great t shirt for $20 and join the Fandom this place is worthy of. Easy & cheap metered parking. Accessible bathrooms, I noticed hand rail to right & rear of toilet in one of the 2 restrooms available. Space to maneuver in hallway and entry to the restroom for wheelchair.
Kerry Mc
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Really great pizza! Super crispy and toppings were delicious and fresh! Highly recommend.
Rudik Rsr
Had a great maybe the best dine In experience here the owner is a honest hard worker and was a Joy to chat with the food was amazing and timely can’t wait to come back
Goul Bebe
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
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Best slice in Tacoma. Awesome people get down there it's a great place to eat and to hang
Joseph Carter
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
Great service, great pizza and great atmosphere! Drive 30 minutes over here every other week to get a slice because it truly is the best!!!
Allie Jones
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We’d been meaning to try this place out for months and finally did on a Thursday. First group in around 5, then it filled up quickly. Friendly staff and good atmosphere. Most importantly, the pizza was phenomenal. Perfectly cooked thin crust and a really flavorful, delicate red sauce. We frequent brick oven spots with small, artisan options like Bar Rosa or E9, or occasionally Camp Colvos if we want a classic pizza slice meant to be folded. This place felt like a wonderful marriage of those two elements. Get the tiramisu though (made in house). It’s as good as you’d hope for a place that feels this authentic.
Josh Barnes
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
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
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Delicious pizza, super friendly service!
Alicia Barevich
Hands down best pizza to eat in Tacoma!
Nina Schoepflin
Great service and enthusiasm from the staff and fantastic pizza, salad, and cannoli!
Zulfiqar Ahmad
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Seriously the best pizza ever. I always wondered why they were more expensive and that kept me from eating here for a while. Let me tell you what a mistake that was! I could live off only this pizza for the rest of my life. My wife, who doesn't like wood fired pizza, said we could have only this wood fired place, because it was so good! I was a little sad that they were out of cannoli but that's ok, I will just have to come back and have another amazing pizza. ...oh! And their sweet tea... I dunno if they make it themselves but it is perfect too.... ... OH! And ask for the hot sauce peppers dip thing.. *chefs kiss*
Michael Savage
Super good pizza!! Will be back!!
Cameron Wheeler
This place is amazing. Great pizza, the friendliest people, cute and unique atmosphere. I’m so happy they sell pizza by the slice! My new favorite place to eat in Tacoma!
Lee R
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Had a Negroni and Margarita pizza. Best pizza in the city hands down. They serve by the slice as well which makes this place a budget friendly option. Phenomenal classic Neapolitan style pizzas and top notch customer service. Antipasto was lovely too!
L. Byas
APIZZA Little Italy's food is next level! I have no idea how they cram so much flavor into their pizzas. We sat outside (out front) and got to listen to street performer while we at with friends. Such good atmosphere.
Grab Shot Photo
Great pizza. Maybe the best in Tacoma. Seriously, you should eat here.
Sean Dean
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What a delicious spot right in the heart of downtown! Great for a quick, easy, savory lunch with pizza by the slice, or bring the whole family for dine in family-style seating. You can sit at your table and watch them make pizzas in the giant wood-fired pizza oven. On a nice day, grab a spot outside on the patio. You'll love the tasty food menu. Add in the variety of beverages and top it off with gelato for dessert. This place is clean, open, with great vibes and a friendly staff. Hot tip: Be sure to check out their performing arts schedule for live music and entertainment throughout the month.
Andy Vargo: Own Your Awkward
Amazing pizza, cheese has flavor, tomato is rich and has a tiny kick to it, and the bread is light.
Mohammed Osman
Excellent pizza! Very authentic Italian. Loved it. There are lots of different options also. Vegetarian options: Lots of yummy veggie options.
Nicole
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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
Great food good vibes. Will come again
Amanda Hornyak
I went in specifically for the Gelato, which is the best!
Linda M
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Opens at 1pm on weekends not 12 😐
Jerry Locklear
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
Incredible people, and an incredible place. One of the best pizza spots in Tacoma.
Eli Cherpak
