San Francisco named fourth-best city for pizza by TripAdvisor

The Romana 1/4 meter pizza with Prosciutto, Arugula, and Sweet Peppers at Tony's Coal-Fired Pizza in San Francisco, Calif., is seen on Monday, December 5th, 2011. The Romana 1/4 meter pizza with Prosciutto, Arugula, and Sweet Peppers at Tony's Coal-Fired Pizza in San Francisco, Calif., is seen on Monday, December 5th, 2011. Photo: John Storey / Special To The Chronicle Photo: John Storey / Special To The Chronicle Image 1 of / 30 Caption Close San Francisco named fourth-best city for pizza by TripAdvisor 1 / 30 Back to Gallery

San Francisco is the home to the Mission-style burrito, Irish coffee and sourdough bread. But according to a new ranking by TripAdvisor, The City is now a contender as one of the best cities for pizza in the United States.

In a ranking of 10 American cities and their pizzas, San Francisco landed at No. 4, following the predictable pillars of the pizza game, New York City (No. 1) and Chicago (No. 2), and, for some reason, Las Vegas.

San Francisco, which is known to have a complicated relationship with pizza, nevertheless came in at a high ranking, likely to the chagrin of the residents of New Haven, Connecticut (who didn't even make the top-10 cut).

The rankings took into account reviews by TripAdvisor users, as well as the quality and quantity of those reviews. Extra weight was added to reviews pizzerias received in the past year.

San Francisco's high status was no doubt bolstered by the success of Tony's Pizza Napoletana, which boasts 2,270 great reviews, and its affiliated offshoots like Tony's Slice House and Capo's.

Curiously, though, Tony's didn't wind up on a second ranking of the best pizza restaurants in the U.S. Those honors went to pizza restaurants in Boston (Regina Pizzeria, No. 1), New York (Bleecker Street Pizza at No. 2 and Juliana's Pizza at No. 6), and New Haven (Modern Apizza at No. 3).

See the full ranking here.

Alyssa Pereira is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at apereira@sfchronicle.com or find her on Twitter at @alyspereira.

