Dragon Pizza
Pizza restaurant · Somerville
233 Elm St, Somerville, MA 02144
Highlights
This chill pizzeria whips up delightfully thin, bubbly slices and whole pies, alongside fresh salads and house-made gelato, perfect for dine-in or takeout.
This chill pizzeria whips up delightfully thin, bubbly slices and whole pies, alongside fresh salads and house-made gelato, perfect for dine-in or takeout.
"It’s inevitable that you’ll get hungry while running errands around the neighborhood, and for a quick, cheap bite, you can’t do much better than Dragon Pizza. We can’t get over the maple bacon cheddar slice with its sweet and spicy maple sauce drizzle, the simple and fresh margherita, and their classic pepperoni. The pizzas here are thin crust, enormous, and an exceptionally great value ($5 per slice) for their quality. We can’t promise that the pizza will heal your ego after Buffalo Exchange rejects all the clothes you tried to sell that day, but hey, at least you won’t be hungry." - lala thaddeus
"After a brief renovation and the addition of a liquor license, this pizza parlor reopened with some flair. In addition to local beer on tap and a small selection of wine, it now serves refreshing, simple cocktails, such as a blueberry shandy and a rose gimlet, which seem to pair well with its famous pies that went viral in 2023, like the classic margherita and the kung pao chicken pizza." - Valerie Li Stack
"Dragon Pizza has gotten some buzz lately, but all you need to know is the pizza is excellent and the vibes are great. The counter-service spot has murals of cassettes and a framed photo of John Dalton (that’s Patrick Swayze’s bouncer character in Roadhouse) on the walls. They don’t serve booze, just New York-style pizza by the slice. The cheese and pepperoni are solid, and they also do stuff like nacho slices that NYC places wouldn’t be caught dead serving. Definitely save space for whatever homemade gelato they’re serving that day—the dark chocolate is rich in all the right ways and the Gucci vanilla delivers on the designer name." - tanya edwards
"In early September, he posted a video trashing Boston pizzeria Dragon Pizza, which he described as the 'worst pizza place in America.'" - Jaya Saxena
"When Charlie Redd opened Dragon Pizza in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 2018, his mission was to make pizza with 'local ingredients and craftsmanship.' What he did not intend to do is put himself at the center of a media firestorm. But that’s exactly where he’s landed after a video of a profanity-laden back-and-forth with Dave Portnoy went viral last week." - BySam Stone
