"While City House’s meatball-only pie stands alone, Nashville has some solid options when meatballs are used in tandem with other ingredients. Five Points Pizza’s T-REX is a meat-lover’s dream (pepperoni, sausage, sliced meatballs, spicy capicola), while Hermitage’s Gondala House Pizzeria takes a supreme approach with their House Special: pepperoni, onions, green peppers, meatballs, sausage and mushrooms. The best use of meatballs as a supporting actor, though, is at downtown’s Red Phone Booth. The chef came from Pastaria, so the pizza dough is exceptional, and he loads up the Carne Pie with every meat you can imagine: bacon jam, salami, spicy-sweet sausage and, of course, meatballs. All that is layered with zippy San Marzano sauce and bubbly Fior de Latte mozzarella (made with cow’s milk, not buffalo). It’s a pie so good it’s worth braving the cigar smoke to get it." - Ashley Brantley
