Mangia Apizza

Unreal. Perfectly cooked (asked for well done) and sauce tasted amazing. Definitely worth a stop.

Loved the sauce!

Pizza crispy, cheese is great, good sauce… the owners are hilarious just like in the video

8.2 is the right score. The sauce is phenomenal. Cheese is great. My only criticism may be a personal preference, I like a thin crust New Haven pie. This is crust is crispy, but a little thicker than I like. Only thing for me that prevented it from being higher.

Great taste nice firm under carriage

Mangia Pizza in North Haven of Quinnipiac Avenue is a hidden gem in the New Haven Connecticut Apizza style. I first visited this location the other night and immediately was greeted by Steve. He was very accommodating and personable and even gave me a quick history of his career and explain his experience in the pizza business. He has been making pies for over 30 years including Frank Pepe’s and Modern. He also has acting cred! Such a cool guy and the pizza…! I ordered a large mozz Apizza and it was outstanding. My new go to!

This pie was perfectly cooked, zero flop. Sauce is tangy and there’s plenty of cheese. This place needs more reviews, amazing

Solid all around pie. Sauce was a little sweeter but not too much. The pie in the photo is their house special. Generous sure toppings. Leftovers the next morning hit the spot.

One of the best cheese blends for sure. Sauce is vibrant. Dough has a good flavor but a tad spongy? Cook this a few more minutes and it gets into the 9s.

I believe this spot has only been open since 2019; but the pizza makers behind the scenes have been in the business for roughly 50 years. With imitation being the greatest form of flattery, this is a New Haven style pie located just north of the “Pizza Holy Land.” In classic New Haven fashion, it’s a well done pie, deeply charred, fantastically firm, and plenty crunchy despite a somewhat chewy and tougher texture. The flavor of the dough is on-point with a sublimely crispy crust, charred beautifully. The cheese is rather similar to Pepe’s mozzarella blend, nearly as tasty, just heavier and a smidge too thick. With an oily orange tinge, there’s a decent amount of grease atop the pie, possibly created by a lower quality shredded cheese blend. While the excess oil doesn’t affect the overall flavor of the pizza, the grease flow definitely adds weight to the pie. With a great mix of sweet & savory, the sauce is plenty flavorful. Balanced well with the cheese and dough, the sauce has zesty zip, terrific tang and splendid spice throughout the tomato blend. While this pie isn’t as thin as typical New Haven pizza, it’s very well constructed; and even though the cheese is a bit thick with a tad too much extra oil, this pizza is delicious nonetheless. Not quite up there with the other legends of the area but this is a travel-worthy pie for sure. A few minor tweaks like scaling back the cheese, controlling the grease and thinning out the dough could elevate the overall rating into the high 8s and even push for Hall of Fame low 9s status. No doubt, this is quality New Haven style pizza just a little further north without the hype or the ridiculous wait times.

Absolutely the Best pizza around! Delicious Sauce, cheese, & the perfect crisp!

this was a very good pie. sauce was exceptional. crisp to the center.

I tried Mangia Apizza after Dave did his review. Here are my takeaways. The pizza is very good. I think my favorite element was the sweet sauce. I’m really big on the sauce and this pizza delivers. Is it on par with Modern and Sally’s, not really but YUM. It’s very good pizza. Loved it and will go back to again. Dave gave it 8.2 but I think he’s a bit low. I’m 8.4.

Excellent overall pie and one of the better pizzas as you leave New Haven proper. Crispy thin crust, sneaky good sauce and cheese. One of my go to options.

Still top dog in the whole Haven area in my opinion…. Very crispy and awesome sauce

No photo needed. Best pizza in the state. I’ve eaten almost all of it. This place is superior. Oh, and try the sausage with hot cherry peppers. Blew my ass off. Order all pies well done. Leave nothing to chance. It’s better than Sally’s since Sally’s changed owners.

First time trying Mangia heard great things and oh man did it deliver. Of course I knew the pies would be cooked correctly as no one says good things in these parts without it being a traditional thin crispy pie. But the sauce absolutely overloaded with flavor the crust was not just cooked perfectly but had delicious freshly baked flavor. Mangia is up there with the big dogs imo. As good apizza as it gets.