Over 1,700 pizza lovers cast votes during last month’s Great Westport Pizza Contest.
Sponsored by the Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce, 14 restaurants competed in 7 categories.
When the votes were tallied, you chose:
- Best slice: Westport Pizzeria
- Best plain pizza: Westport Pizzeria
- Best meat pizza: Joe’s Pizza
- Best gluten-free pizza: Joe’s Pizza
- Best veggie pizza: Tutti’s Ristorante
- Best delivered pizza: Jordan’s Restaurant
- Best personal pizza: Rizzuto’s Restaurant and Toscano Pizzeria (tie)
- Honorable mention: Romanacci Pizza Bar and Planet Pizza lost by only 2 votes in the “Best personal pizza” and “Best delivered pizza” categories, respectively.
Mel Mioli’s Westport Pizzeria may have moved to the Post Road, after 45 years on Main Street. But it’s still a Westport favorite.
The victors did not get any dough — just the satisfaction of coming out on top (and free publicity).
Any way you slice it, the Great Westport Pizza Contest was a winner.
March was Westport Pizza Month. That’s not just an idea — it was an official proclamation from 1st Selectman Jim Marpe (2nd from left). Joining him were (from left) Westport Chamber of Commerce director Matthew Mandell; Ira Bloom of event sponsors Bercham Moses, and Joe Canicatti, owner of double winner Joe’s Pizza.