Tacconelli's Pizza

Tacconelli's Pizzeria is located at 2604 E Somerset St, Philadelphia, PA. This location is in the Port Richmond neighborhood. This business specializes in Pizza and has 57 review(s) with a star rating of 3.6.

Know Before You Go: You'll need a half-dozen friends, your own booze, a pocketful of cash and a reservation.

Know Before You Go: Pizzas must be ordered a day in advance to avoid the 90-minute-plus wait due to crowds and volume of pies made per day.

Devotees "genuflect" when they walk into this cash-only BYO in its original "nondescript" Port Richmond location or South Jersey offshoot; a "national favorite" earning accolades for decades, the "must go-to" is famous for its call-ahead policy to "reserve your dough" – a practice some find a little "strange" – but it's the "standard setting" thin-crust pies that get the most attention.

A real insider recommendation for pizza is Tacconelli's -- not, as you'd think, in South Philly (and not exactly in Northern Liberties) but way up past Northern Liberties in Port Richmond. This local legend is open until they run out of dough for their pies' famously thin, crispy crusts (usually around 9pm). It's imperative to call ahead to reserve the type of pizza you want, which is prepared...

In Short
This family-style pizzeria is so popular it asks customers to call a day ahead to reserve pizza dough. Once inside, patrons find a jukebox filled with Italian and lounge-hall...

In 1918 Giovanni Tacconelli came to Philadelphia from Italy. After a few years working as a laborer, he decided to do what he had done in his native Italy. "Bake Bread". The best and only way, he said, was to bake it in a brick oven. So along with a few of his friends he built his 20' by 20' brick oven. The bread business went well until the outbreak of World War II when all of his sons who had...