25 September 2026 · 8 min read
Austin's pizza scene doesn't sit in one neighborhood — it's scattered across the bungalow blocks of South Congress, the brewery lots along South Lamar, the student streets around Hyde Park, and the after-midnight sidewalks of West 6th. Walk or drive between a handful of these spots and you get a real cross-section of how the city eats pizza: by the slice on a porch, by the pie with a pitcher of beer, or by the box at 1 a.m. This guide sticks to Austin, Texas and points to specific pizza restaurants and takeout counters already listed on We Go Pizza, organized by the part of town they're in.
None of these seven spots are secret finds — most sit on streets Austin residents already cross regularly — but grouping them by neighborhood makes it easier to answer a more practical question than "what's the best pizza in Austin": which pizza place actually fits tonight, given who you're with, what time it is, and whether you're walking, driving or ordering in.
South Congress Avenue, known locally as SoCo, is where Austin's pizza identity is easiest to see. It's a walkable stretch of restored houses turned into shops and restaurants, and pizza has staked out real estate on both ends of it.
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Home Slice Pizza anchors the strip at 1415 S Congress Ave, open 11 AM to 11 PM daily according to its listing, with a second nearby location a few blocks down at 1421 S Congress. It's the kind of place people plan a SoCo afternoon around — order by the slice at the counter or sit down for a full pie.
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A few blocks north at 2118 S Congress Ave, Sammataro Slice Shop keeps shorter, evening-only hours (4–9 pm, Wednesday through Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday per its listed hours), which fits its identity as a New York–style slice counter rather than a sit-down dinner spot. Between the two, this stretch of South Congress covers both the long-lunch pizza crowd and the grab-a-slice-and-walk crowd.
One block over, South Lamar and South 1st Street add a second cluster, and this one leans toward groups.
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Pinthouse Pizza, at 4236 S Lamar Blvd, is listed as a brewery and brewpub as well as a pizza restaurant, and it caters too — a combination that makes it a natural pick for a group that wants beer flights and pizza on the same table rather than splitting up between a bar and a restaurant.
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A short drive away at 2809 S 1st St, Show Me Pizza is also listed as a wine bar, giving the South Lamar/South 1st corridor two different pizza-plus-drinks options depending on whether the group wants beer or wine with the pie. Both are open 11 AM to 10 PM daily per their listings, so they work for either a late lunch or a dinner stop.
North of the University of Texas campus, Hyde Park and North University have their own pizza pocket, shaped by a mostly residential, walkable neighborhood rather than a commercial strip.
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Pizza Di Roma, at 3316 Harmon Ave, carries the highest rating of any pizzeria in this guide and is listed as an Italian restaurant with pizza delivery, which makes it a fit for both a sit-down dinner and a delivery order to a nearby apartment or dorm.
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A few blocks away at 2908 Fruth St, Li'l Nonna's is listed as a vegan restaurant in addition to pizza takeout — worth knowing if the group includes someone who doesn't eat dairy or meat, since not every pizzeria on this list offers that. It keeps evening hours (4–10 pm most days, 2–8 pm Sunday, closed Monday per its listing), so it's built for dinner rather than lunch.
Downtown pizza in Austin runs on a different clock than the rest of the city, timed to when the bars on 6th Street let out rather than to lunch or dinner service.
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Stony's Pizza on West 6th, at 701 W 6th St, is listed as pizza takeout with hours that only start at 8 pm and run to 2:30 am Thursday through Saturday (2 am Sunday), and it's closed the rest of the week. That schedule alone tells you what it's for: a slice on the way home from a downtown bar, not a dinner destination. It's the one stop on this list where checking the hours before you go actually matters, since it isn't open at all during the day.
Pizza isn't the only Italian food on these same streets, and it's worth knowing the alternative when a group can't agree on pizza versus a full Italian menu. The South Lamar area, already home to Pinthouse and Show Me Pizza, also has two listed Italian restaurants: Fig Italian Kitchen & Bar on S Lamar Blvd and Juliet Italian Kitchen on Barton Springs Rd, both sit-down spots with a broader menu than a pizzeria. Neither serves pizza as its focus, so they're a fallback rather than a replacement for the list above, but they're worth knowing about if the plan is dinner in this part of town and pizza turns out to be a hard no for someone in the group.
| Spot | Neighborhood | Category | Hours pattern | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Slice Pizza | South Congress | Pizza restaurant | Daily, 11 AM–11 PM | Sit-down or slice-and-go on SoCo |
| Sammataro Slice Shop | South Congress | Pizza takeout | Evenings, Wed–Sun | NY-style slice counter |
| Pinthouse Pizza | South Lamar | Pizza restaurant / brewery | Daily, 11 AM–10 PM | Groups wanting beer with pizza |
| Show Me Pizza | South 1st | Pizza restaurant / wine bar | Daily, 11 AM–10 PM | Groups wanting wine with pizza |
| Pizza Di Roma | Hyde Park | Pizza restaurant / delivery | Daily, 11 AM–10 PM | Dinner or delivery near campus |
| Li'l Nonna's | Hyde Park | Pizza restaurant / vegan | Evenings, Tue–Sun | Vegan or dairy-free orders |
| Stony's Pizza – West 6th | Downtown | Pizza takeout | Late night only, Thu–Sun | After the bars close |
Not every pizzeria in this guide handles orders the same way, and it's worth matching the spot to the occasion rather than defaulting to whichever one is closest. Pizza Di Roma lists delivery as one of its categories, which makes it a reasonable choice if the plan is to eat at home rather than go out. Home Slice, Pinthouse and Show Me Pizza read as sit-down restaurants first, with takeout as a secondary option, so they suit a table of people rather than a single delivery order. Sammataro, Li'l Nonna's and Stony's are all listed under pizza takeout, meaning the counter-and-box format is the default rather than the exception — check current prices and any delivery radius directly with each place, since that kind of detail changes and isn't part of the directory listing.
For a genuinely large order — an office lunch, a birthday party, a watch party — it's worth calling ahead regardless of which spot you pick. A restaurant built around table service, like Home Slice on a Saturday afternoon, may not be set up to fire fifteen pizzas at once the way a dedicated takeout counter can.
Austin's pizza spots split cleanly by how you'd actually get to them. The South Congress and South Lamar cluster sits close enough together that it's realistic to walk or bike between Home Slice, Sammataro, Pinthouse and Show Me Pizza in one outing, especially since South Congress is one of the more pedestrian-friendly commercial strips in the city. Hyde Park's Pizza Di Roma and Li'l Nonna's sit on residential streets a few blocks apart, closer to campus foot traffic than to a parking lot, which lines up with their identity as neighborhood spots rather than destination restaurants. Downtown's Stony's Pizza, on West 6th, is squarely inside the entertainment district, and its hours confirm it's built around foot traffic leaving bars rather than anyone driving in.
Hours are the detail that trips people up most in this part of town. Several of these listings — Sammataro, Li'l Nonna's, Stony's — are closed for large chunks of the week or only open in the evening, which isn't obvious from a glance at a map. Checking the listed hours before heading out saves a wasted walk, especially for the two spots on this list that don't open at all before 4 pm.
Parking and access details aren't part of any of these listings, so it's worth checking a spot's own website or calling ahead if that matters for your trip — several of the businesses above list a website on their We Go Pizza page, and that's the more reliable place to confirm parking, seating capacity or accessibility than guessing from the address alone.
Austin doesn't have one pizza neighborhood — it has at least four distinct ones, each built around a different way of eating: SoCo for the classic slice-shop experience, South Lamar for pizza-plus-beer with a group, Hyde Park for a neighborhood dinner or delivery near campus, and West 6th for the after-hours slice. Picking the right spot is less about which pizzeria rates highest and more about matching the neighborhood's rhythm — sit-down versus takeout, daytime versus after-midnight — to what you actually need that night.
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