While Columbus is known for thick crust pizza or as they like to call it in this Georgia city, old-world style pizzas, the pizzerias in Columbus don't miss a trick. On the menus of the pizzerias in Columbus you'll find about every variation of pizza there is. Even though thick crust is the main star you can still get deep dish, thin-crust, New York-style, Sicilian, and Neapolitan among others.

Old world-style they may be, but thick crust pizzas are also very much of the modern world. The basic thick crust pizza recipe has gone unchanged for centuries and looks fit to remain that way, unless space food sachets become a thing, for centuries to come. No matter how many variations of thick crust pizzas are invented by creative pie chefs, things like cheese-stuffed crusts can never replace the simple goodness of a well-baked thick crust pizza.

Best delivery pizza in Columbus, Georgia

When you want the best delivery pizza in Columbus you need to get it from a city pizzeria that has been winning some prestigious awards for baking pies. You'll find the pizzeria in Columbus that's been doing just that is Cerrone's Brick Oven Pizzeria on Veterans Parkway. The type of pie that Cerrone's wins awards for is their brick oven-baked New York-style so if thick crust isn't your particular favorite this is the delivery pie for you. Cerrone's works out of a premises that has an old world-style created by a low ceiling, bare brick walls, and enormous chalkboards stating what's on the menu. The brick oven is the main feature of the open-plan kitchen and helps keep the dining area warm when the weather is chilly outside. From that oven comes great pies from Cerrone's like their Quattro Formaggi and their Pesto Chicken which, if you have one delivered, you'll devour in minutes.

Best takeout pizza in Columbus, Georgia

If you've been over in the Woodruff Riverfront Park taking a stroll alongside the Chattahoochee River, you're just a couple of blocks away from being able to get your hands on the best take-out pizza in Columbus. Picasso's Pizzeria is located on Broadway in a homely looking place where there's usually plenty of locals hanging out inside, on the small front patio, or on the garden terrace. To say the pizzas from Picasso's are absolute works of art may be a slight exaggeration, but they do all have artful topping combinations which will have your mouth watering. Picasso's Mafiosa and Mahalo Pablo are a meat-eaters feast and their veggie pizza selection is just as good. Whichever one of Picasso's pizzas you get for your take-out, you won't be anything but very pleased with it.

Best pizza near Columbus, Georgia

Opelika

Leave Columbus behind, cross over the Chattahoochee River into Alabama, and a thirty-mile drive northwest will see you in Opelika. There's a surplus of nature preserves around Opelika like the Kreher Preserve and the Siddique Nature Park which are worth spending time exploring. In the center of the city, you'll find the Museum of East Alabama which has collections of artifacts related to the area's local history that ranges from pedal-powered ice cream delivery wagons to vintage armory. When you've seen all the sights, stop off at the Brick Oven Pizza Company on Enterprise Drive for a pie.

Crawford

When you're lacking a little excitement in your life, jump in your car and head for Crawford in Alabama. It's around a fifteen-mile drive and at the end of it you'll find the East Alabama Motor Speedway Track. Take a seat in the stands, then plug your ears with your fingers for when the flag goes down and the cars roar off around the track. It's noisy, it's nail-biting, and it’s great fun to watch the souped-up cars race around the half-mile track. After the chequered flag goes down, head to Nonna's on The Lane for a calming pizza.

Little Texas

There's not much to write about Little Texas in Alabama itself or any particular reason you should make the forty-minute trip there from Columbus other than the fact it's bordered by the Tuskegee National Forest. The woodlands spread over eleven thousand acres and are interspersed by a network of hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian trails as well as special wildlife viewing points. Once there you'll want to spend a good few hours beneath the tranquility of the trees so pick up a pizza from the Little Italy Pizzeria on East Magnolia Avenue in Auburn before you go to get lost in the woods.