Who makes the best Canadian pizza? I crisscrossed the country to find out | Best of 2024

You can’t go wrong with pizza. From coast to coast to coast, in small towns and big cities alike, pizza brings people together. What started as a flatbread with tomato sauce, with or without cheese, brought to Canadian shores by Italian immigrants has become a staple. It all began with the Italians, but since Canada’s first pizzeria, Pizzeria Napoletana, opened in Montreal in 1948, countless communities have made pizza their own. The Greeks created regional styles with staying power in the Maritimes and the Prairies — not to mention what might be the most divisive pizza of all time, Hawaiian. Indian, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese immigrants have merged flavours and techniques from their homelands to make something entirely new. Read More