Iron Born Pizza

Tucked in the corner of the strip district between iconic Primantis and Pamela's sits Iron Born Pizza. The wait times aren't long and the pizza is fantastic. There are pizzas for all shapes, sizes and food preferences. The drink selection to correspond with the pizza rivals any other restaurant and the staff is super friendly. My go to pizzas are the Spicy and the Nashville Hot Chicken. Always go when we have the time.

Iron Born's Detroit style pizza is so good. The dough is fluffy and chewy but the edges are crispy. I thought brownie edges were the 💣 but I was wrong...Iron Born's pizza edges are 💯 times better!! The Strip District location, which offers dine in, is relaxed and chill. In addition to pizza, they have pastas and bar snacks. We had the house made french onion dip and chips. It was a yummy and fun shareable app. Iron Born's menu is great for sharing with a group. I will definitely be back.

Pittsburgh locals (yinzers) swear by their classic pizzerias (of which there are no shortage) such as Fiori's, Beto's, Mineo's, etc, but this new comer has quickly become my favorite pizza place in the city. While it may be considered sacrilege here to not award this title to the classics, the younger generation will agree that this is one of the best pizza spots in town. What to get: Iron Born serves Detroit deep dish pizza with crispy edges. You can't go wrong here, every pizza is fantastic. Origins: This place opened as part of the Smallman Galley food hall (I believe around the mid-2010's), then opened it's first standalone location in Millvale (no seating at this location but order a pie and head to the brewery down the street to eat it), opened it's second location (this one) back in the Strip District down the street from where it began.

The pizza was delicious and filling, but next time we will just get it to go ahead of time due to lack of seating... Wish we could have eaten in, but they only have a handful of tables and some bar seats. Having a baby, we would have had to wait a while to get one of the actual booths (which were also quite high and I'm not sure if they had a high chair that tall, so he would have had to sit on the bench). They wanted us to wait outside in the blazing hot sun, which we decided it wasn't worth it for the sake of our baby, so we ordered some pizza to go and hid across the street in the shade. At least there are tables at the produce terminal mall thing.. But it wasn't really what we expected.