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If something can be made into a pizza, Marvin Kinney is game to try. The founder and president of Reno's R Town Pizza, Marvin recently concocted a red, white, and green holiday pie inspired by chiles en nogada—a traditional Mexican dish of stuffed poblano peppers in a walnut cream sauce with pomegranate-seed garnish.
Highest-ranked pizza restaurants in Reno by diners
Pizza is one of those universal languages that Americans just get. Even if the styles are vastly different based on the region—like a thin wide slice from New York, a thick square cut with crispy edges from Detroit, or deep cheesy pie in a pan from Chicago—many can agree that the combination of chewy dough, tangy sauce, and gooey cheese is a true American classic. The growing number of pizza joints is enough proof: more than 73,000 pizza restaurants were logged in the United States in 2023. Yet, with so many options to choose from, how is a pizza connoisseur supposed to know the best place to grab a slice?
The people behind the pies: Three local pizza purveyors talk about what drives them
Marvin Kinney grew up in food. With both parents in the industry, he was bussing tables at 13 in Seattle, and by 17, he was already managing a restaurant. Having also worked in Reno, he thought it would be a great place to open his own shop. When the former Pirate’s Pizza space became vacant, his dream was off and running.
Finalist for Best Pizza, Best Gluten Free, Best overall restaurant Reno 2023
The winners, finalists and staff picks listed on these pages represent the myriad things that make Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Minden, Gardnerville, Truckee, Incline Village and Lake Tahoe such a spectacular place to live—and they deserve to be celebrated.
Finalist Best Pizza and Best Overall Restaurant Reno 2022
As a result of this disorienting reality, the Best of Northern Nevada poll—the area’s largest, most accurate, and most generally amazing survey of readers in all the land—took an unplanned slumber in 2020 and 2021. But we’ve finally awakened from that most curious dream, and in 2022, we’re back in a big way.