Buddy's Pizza

Buddy's Pizza invented Detroit-style pizza in 1946, baking the square, deep-dish, crispy-edged pie in blue-steel automotive-parts pans at its original Conant Street corner. Cheese to the edges caramelizes against the pan while the sauce goes on last, in two red stripes — the template every Detroit-style pizza still follows.

Now grown across Michigan, Buddy's traces every pie to that first six-cornered pizza; the Conant Street location remains the birthplace of a style that has since conquered the country.