Best of Boston

2022 Best Detroit-Style Pizza

Avenue Kitchen + Bar

WHAT’S THE VIBE? The kind of lively, late-night-serving neighborhood bar everyone wants in the neighborhood. TASTING NOTES: Cheese is spread to the edges of these thick, focaccia-like rectangles, reflecting the steel auto-part pans in which Detroit-born pizza was first fired. And yet the subtle sweetness of tomatoes shine through thanks to the approach of finishing pies backward, adding the red sauce last and on top.

158 Boston Ave., Somerville, 617-764-0879, avenuesomerville.com