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- The News Journal/Delaware Online is hosting a “Munch Madness” tournament to find Delaware’s best pizza.
- Readers will nominate their favorite pizza places, and the top 42 will compete in a single-elimination bracket.
- Cafe Napoli in Milltown is the reigning champion from the last tournament held in March 2023.
The hunger games are returning to Delaware, where your favorite pizza spots from all three counties across the state will step into a saucy arena, armed with lots of cheese, and not a shred of fear.
It’s been nearly three fully baked years since readers crowned Cafe Napoli in Milltown as Delaware’s best pizza place in Delaware Online/The News Journal’s annual Munch Madness tournament in March 2023.
We’re not sure if another pizzeria is worthy of a seat on the mozzarella throne of glory because (once again) that’s not our call. It’s your job to vote and ultimately crown your cheesy champion.
We’re just here to count the votes, one slice at a time.
How does the tournament work for the best pizza in Delaware?
Readers will kick things off by filling out an easy survey below, which simply requires you to provide the name and city/town of the Delaware place that makes your favorite pizza.
From there, we’ll tally up the top 64 pizza contenders for this single-elimination showdown. Each week, pizza shops will be cut in half, based on reader votes. The bracket will look like this: Round 1 (64 contestants), Round 2 (32), Round 3 (Sweet 16), Round 4 (Elite 8), Round 5 (Final 4) and Round 6 (the winner).
Now, let’s paint the town red like Ragu.
Cafe Napoli is the reigning pizza champion in Delaware
This Milltown shop on Kirkwood Highway has been in the pizza game for over 30 years, and the pizzeria hangs its hat on authentic Napoletano cuisine and Southern Italian hospitality.
Cafe Napoli was founded by four brothers: Domenico, Antonio, Pasquale and Mario. They left Italy and decided to run a winning restaurant.
Although this pizza shop is defending its throne, one bite at a time, that doesn’t mean you should leave your guard down around their mozzarella sticks. Those bad boys are light, yet they’re deceptively filling.
In 2023, during their epic Munch Madness run, General Manager Tim Widdoes, who has worked at Cafe Napoli for 30-plus years (though you’d never guess it), told us the top pizza his customers dream about.
“Our most popular would probably be the chicken bruschetta. That’s our breaded chicken, homemade bruschetta, on a white garlic pizza, topped with a little bit of ranch dressing,” Widdoes said.
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The pie is on point like a Katniss arrow aimed straight at your appetite.
“People love that pizza.”
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