Priya B.
Yelp
An absolute new favorite for pizza in Nashville and a slam dunk for Sean Brock!!
Sho, new to the Riverside neighborhood in East Nashville, specializes in a Tokyo-style pizza. Similar to Neapolitan pizza, this is made in a wood-fired stove with a tall, airy crust, and, if you've done it right, a nice lightly salty crust from the salt throne on the hot pizza stone before baking. I'm long-time Sean Brock fan. Even despite some of the ups and downs in quality of his recent restaurants, I've been wildly excited about this opening. If you follow Sean on social media, you know he's been obsessed with Japanese style pizza for the past several years, and has clearly taken a long time to perfect these recipes.
And man does that time & effort show off in the menu at Sho!! It's hard to impress in a city with already a lot of amazing, craft pizza but Sho really stands out to me for (1) bringing a new style to the mix and (2) just an absolutely perfect execution. I've come twice in one week and gotten the Salumi both times. It's a hot-honey drizzled pepperoni concoction and is truly a masterpiece of punchy, perfectly balanced flavors to me. Absolutely unreal sauce - acidic, sweet, garlicky, with just a light hint of spice. Perfect, light, airy crust and I can distinguish the light sea saltiness that's a hallmark of this style of pizza, just perfect touch of herbiness from fresh basil on top. Fresh mozzarella brings it all together. Get the miso ranch - dippers are a must-have for that perfect, tall crust.
Pizzas are small-medium sized, ideal for a hungry solo diner or I'd get multiple if dining with others. This is Nashville, so like other fancier pizza spots you can expect to pay $18-24 for a pizza (which I will HAPPILY do for pizza this delicious.) Service staff offers Westport scissors with which to cut your pizza, which I found fun and less messy overall. Beautiful indoor/outdoor space with validated parking for 1 hour. They brought water for my doggo on the day I sat outside: which was such wonderful, attentive service. Lots of non-pizza options that I have not tried, but the matcha tiramisu is a must for dessert. Lightly salty, great matcha flavor, not overly sweet. Really perfectly balanced flavors are a hallmark of the dishes here.
Also shout out to the amazing servers and front of house. I made a massive timing snafu on my second visit and didn't realize I was supposed to be at an important work meeting until I had just ordered lunch. (The allure of amazing pizza was too great for me to pay attention to my calendar.) They let me box up my pizza to go rapidly, allowed me to take my work call sitting outside, coordinated me paying at the table via cashless pay, all while I was on my work call. I was kind of a chaotic mess but Kevin (server) and Ash's (host) kindness in just rolling with the punches, letting me quickly make changes so I could get on my work call meant the world to me and was just a true hallmark of above and beyond service. This pizza shop will be a new regular in my East restaurant rotation and I'm already counting down the moments until my next visit!