New York-style pizza may have been the pizza name on everyone's lips in the 1930s as the newly invented pie's popularity spread across the US, but it's not the pizza Dorchester is known for. Back in the day the cooks in the Dorchester pizzerias stuck to baking what they knew best and what pleased their customers the most. They still stick to it these days too, and so Dorchester is known for thick crust pizza. While many of the pizzerias in Dorchester are not family-owned or run and so don't bake using recipes handed from generation to generation, they still bake traditional Italian thick crust pizzas. You will in fact find very little swaying away from thick crust so variation of pizza base types is hard to come across in Dorchester. But at the end of the day, that's not so important as thick crust pizza is undeniably one of the best kinds of pizza you can get.

Best delivery pizza in Dorchester, Massachusetts

When you want to order in the best delivery pizza in Dorchester you need to know who to call and it won't be Ghostbusters. To get the best delivery pizza in Dorchester you need to call Spukies 'N Pizza. Spukies is one of the few family-owned and run pizzerias in Dorchester so you're guaranteed to get a great thick crust pizza from here. Spukies' premises occupies a corner location on Washington Street that's smart inside and out. The canopied windows give the joint a Mediterranean look externally and the internal wood-paneled walls have a sort of bar-style appeal. The open-plan kitchen is set up for the fast dispatch of delivery orders with the phone right to hand. As soon as the orders come in the pies are cooking. That's good, because as soon as you've tasted a Spukies pizza once, you really won't want to be waiting long for one.

Best takeout pizza in Dorchester, Massachusetts

If you're feeling faint from hunger after being out and about at the Dorchester Shores Reservation or down on Malibu Beach, you're not far from where you can pick up the best take-out pizza in Dorchester. Head over to Dorchester Avenue, which is just off Park Street, and you'll find Antonio's Pizzeria where they bake the best take-out pizza in the neighborhood. Antonio's Pizzeria is housed in one of the premises along this store-lined street. There's no parking lot nearby, but often a street-side space or two if you look hard enough. It's well worth going to the trouble of searching for a space too as you'll find out when you have a slice of Antonio's pie in your hand. Try one of their Rancher or Gambino pies and you'll be running out to feed dimes into the parking meter while you wait for your second pizza.

Best pizza near Dorchester, Massachusetts

Weymouth

The Town of Weymouth is a ten-mile drive south of Dorchester and a place to head for when you want to escape the confines of the city. Weymouth is bordered by the three and a half thousand acres of the Wompatuck State Park where you can disappear into the woodlands to hike alongside streams or encounter any other natural beauty spots on the forty miles of trails there. Unless you take a picnic, you won't find any food in the close vicinity so before you dive off into the back of beyond, pick up a pizza from Capone's Pizzeria and Prohibition Pub on Washington Street.

Framingham

If you're into history, art, or bird spotting then you won't mind the hour's drive it takes to go the twenty-five miles from Dorchester to Framingham. It might not be the best of highways running between the two, but you'll soon forget that once you're there. Historians will be in their element looking around the American Heritage Museum, art fans in happy land browsing the collections at the Danforth Art School, and wildlife spotters over the moon in the Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Wildlife Reserve. Everyone will be well satisfied if they get a pizza from University Pizza on Worcester Road before they head home.

Quincy

Quincy is just a few miles south of Dorchester, but a world away cultural-wise. Quincy has a big maritime history which you can learn all about at the US Naval Shipbuilding Museum and at the lighthouse in the Boston Harbor Islands State Park. Get away completely by sailing over to Spectacle Island, pop into the visitor center to pick up some information, go hiking the trails, or dive into the ocean for a refreshing swim. Once you're back on the mainland, drop by Angelina's Pizza on Hancock Street for a quality pie.