The 17 Best Restaurants in Oakland, CA | Eater

"A small shop straddling the Berkeley border turns out Oakland’s best pizzas. The crisp sourdough crust supports toppings of superior quality (a mushroom mix that includes foraged specimens; or merguez sausage; or sweet corno di toro peppers) that nevertheless fail to distort the basic mission of pizza, which is to satisfy the primal need for an unintimidating, hot slice. Owner Nick Yapor-Cox, a trans man who identifies as queer, has made his business a place of safety and support for a diverse clientele, especially LGBTQ customers. “I think the shop itself,” Yapor-Cox says, “as a physical location for community, is really how we champion queer causes.” The pizzas champion the cause of Northern California’s sourdough-crust and topping supremacy. [$]" - John Birdsall