Pizzas I Trust

Graham Pickersgill

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I used to spend my weekends assessing fire damage; now I spend them assessing pizza. Same basic brief: structure, load-bearing crust, and whether the toppings are likely to slide off under stress. This is the dozen I keep circling back to around Manchester when the premium for leaving the house feels justified. Mostly classics, a few daft ideas that somehow pass underwriting, all road‑tested after long drives back from the Peaks or daft arguments in Chorlton beer gardens.

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Name	Pizza	Style	Best for	Address	City	My take
1CIAOOO (HOT HOT) at Ciaooo	CIAOOO (HOT HOT)	Spicy Neapolitan with jalapeño cream base	Those evenings when you claim you ‘fancy something light’ and immediately prove yourself wrong	CIAOOO Pizzeria, 62–64 Swan St, Manchester M4 5JU	Northern Quarter edge, Manchester	Heat level sits somewhere between ‘pleasant tingle’ and ‘questionable life choices’, depending how much red wine you’ve already had.
2Cali Pepps at Ramona	Cali Pepps (pepperoni, burrata, hot honey)	Detroit-style, thick and square with cheese crown	When you want one slice to do the work of a three‑course meal	Ramona, 40 Swan St, Manchester M4 5JG	Ancoats / city fringe, Manchester	Structurally robust enough to survive being eaten outdoors in a crosswind; the hot honey is pure moral hazard.
3Sweet Peps at Dough Club Oxford Road	Sweet Peps (pepperoni with hot honey)	Detroit-style pan, takeaway specialist	Late‑night refuelling after pretending Oxford Road traffic ‘wasn’t that bad’	Dough Club, 403 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9WG	Oxford Road corridor, Manchester	Feels like someone did a risk assessment on crust‑to‑topping ratio and then ignored it in favour of pure enjoyment. Correct decision.