In Search of Tavern-Style Pizza

What Exactly Is It? Where Can you Find It? And Is It Exclusively a Midwestern Thing?

Kinchleys’ Tavern, a bar pizza standard bearer in Ramsey, NJ.

Whenever I am back in my home state of Wisconsin and am faced with a whole pizza and armed with a pizza cutter, I reflexively cut the pie into 16 small squares. This is what is known in the Midwest as the “party cut.” I didn’t know the technique was called the party cut when growing up the 197…