Courtesy of/Emmy Squared Typical Detroit-style pizza is rectangular with a thick crust, cheese and tomato sauce. Pictured above is a pizza from Emmy Squared in the Queen Village neighborhood of South Philly.
Pizza Hut s newest menu item is Detroit-style pizza, available nationwide. The rectangular-shaped pie with a thick crust and cheese to the edges comes in four varieties. There s Double Pepperoni, Double Cheesy, Meaty Deluxe and Supremo.
The chain said it spent more than a year developing its Detroit-style pizzas, trying out more than 500 iterations and creating a new tomato sauce.
That . seems like a lot of work. But it might be a step in the right direction to gain new customers and keep people talking about the brand.
Get Social s Sausage Party pizza. Photo courtesy of HalfSmoke.
Is there any pizza left in Detroit? Motor City’s signature pies thick, rectangular, and gilded with brick cheese are continuing to show up across DC in a surge of pop-ups. It has its pandemic virtues: The pies are easier to assemble than say, Neapolitan rounds. They’re baked in a steel pan, and the result is a sturdy pizza that can withstand some car-travel.
DC has already had plenty of options for Detroit fans, such as Della Barba in Ivy City, Red Light in Logan Circle, and Emmy Squared in Shaw. The newest addition to the scene is Get Social, a ghost kitchen slinging crispy-edged pizzas out of Shaw restaurant HalfSmoke (