Come Enjoy the Best Pizza in Tacoma...

Classic  Italian-style
Pizza in Tacoma

Ciao!

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!

image000000

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.
image000001
IMG_0157

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.

Chef Marshall Jett
IMG_0362
IMG_2087
IMG_8885

We are here for you, through thick and thin!

IMG_3476

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.

IMG_1779

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.

MarshallEdit

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.

  • Hands down best pizza to eat in Tacoma!

    Nina Schoepflin Avatar Nina Schoepflin

    Delicious thin crust pizza. Nice staff and a relaxed atmosphere.

    Meg Baker Avatar Meg Baker

    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 Avatar Kerry Mc
  • 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

    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

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

    Barbara Nielsen Avatar Barbara Nielsen
  • Great spot for a date

    brownfb fbrownfield Avatar brownfb fbrownfield

    Very nice experience

    Gloria Coyle Avatar Gloria Coyle

    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.
  • 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

    Decided to finally come check this place out and I think we will definitely be taking the trolley down regularly. The inside is charming and cozy. The menu isn't overwhelming and has just what you need and the pizza is out of this world. Best pizza I've had since visiting the east coast! The slices are huge too and reasonably priced. The staff is also super friendly, made us feel like family. We had such a great experience Parking: Take the trolley! Way mote convenient and you can park free at freigthouse square Kid-friendliness: They had kid friendly stuff, it is pizza after all, and a kid friendly vibe. Our 11 yo picky eater loved it and there was another family with toddlers there when we went.

    Christal Bailey Avatar Christal Bailey

    I was in the area and saw this pizza restaurant, So I go in and order their pizza a "Spicy Tony" with the woman at the counter. I then take a seat after asking for a to go box as I explained I wouldn't be able to eat a whole large pizza. A few minutes later I get my pizza, which was admittedly delicious. However, the waitress never brought me my to go box or even interacted with me other than to bring out the pizza. On the other hand, the employee Mike saved this experience for me. Mike noticed I was using a lot of red pepper flakes on my pizza because I love spice, So he asked me if I would like to try Red Pepper Calabrian on my pizza and provided me a small dish to sample it. I absolutely love it. He even checked up on me while I was eating the pizza and when I told him how I like the Calabrian he brought more for me. When I was done eating, I got up to talk to the waitress and request a to go box, again. However, before I could ask, Mike saw that I was done eating and offered to get me one. The employee Mike is a gem and is the reason I am giving this restaurant 5 stars. He saved this from being just another restaurant with decent food and transformed it into a fantastic dining experience.

    Trevor Fuhlman Avatar Trevor Fuhlman
  • Stopped by after seeing a show on a Saturday night. Even though it was 10 minutes to closing they made us a pizza to go. The pizza was so good we would definitely go back.

    Jessi H Avatar Jessi H

    This is THE place to get pizza. You take your first bite and you can just tell that the owner is from New York and brought a piece of it with him here. The service and atmosphere are so good, and the pizza is the best I've ever had in my life. Ever. As someone who is always crazy for a quality slice, that's a recommendation you might want to take.

    Chelsie Coons Avatar Chelsie Coons

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

    Nicole Avatar Nicole
  • 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

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

    Linda M Avatar Linda M

    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 Avatar Grab Shot Photo
  • Delicious pizza, super friendly service!

    Alicia Barevich Avatar Alicia Barevich

    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

    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 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

    Oh my goodness! Delicious food, great service, and amazing live music!

    Panna Mama Avatar Panna Mama

    Pizza was as good as I was hoping it would be. I like my pizza a little on the floppy side and this pizza was just that. Great flavor in the sauce and the cheese was just right. Give this place a shot. It’s worth the price.

    Landmark Creations Avatar Landmark Creations
  • Delicious thin crust pizza, friendly owner and staff, and live jazz performance. We enjoyed our luncheon and are looking forward to returning.

    P Loo Avatar P Loo

    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 service and enthusiasm from the staff and fantastic pizza, salad, and cannoli!

    Zulfiqar Ahmad Avatar Zulfiqar Ahmad
  • Amazing pizza, cheese has flavor, tomato is rich and has a tiny kick to it, and the bread is light.

    Mohammed Osman Avatar Mohammed Osman

    Best pizza in Tacoma

    Timothy Rasor Avatar Timothy Rasor

    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