Stuffed with Gratitude: Thanks for Voting us ‘Best Pizza’ in East Bay Times Magazine’s Best of the East Bay!

We are bursting with gratitude for each and every one of you who took the time to cast your vote for us in East Bay Times Magazine’s Best of the East Bay 2024! It means the world to us and we are beyond honored and appreciative.

Winning ‘Best Pizza’ in the poll isn’t just about our delicious pizzas (though that’s of course part of it 😉), it’s also a testament to the unwavering support and love we’ve received from our amazing customers and community. So from the bottom of our doughy little hearts, thank you for your continuous encouragement, patronage, and enthusiasm for Zachary’s.

We also want to shine a light on and give thanks for our unbelievable crew and employee-owners, whose dedication and hard work are what consistently produce those delicious pizzas you’ve come to love and expect from us.

What an honor it is to work with such a great group of individuals and serve such a remarkable community! Let’s raise a slice and cheers for many more delicious pizzas made and shared together! ❤️🍕❤️

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Text-based image listing winners in a food competition. Highlighted is Best Pizza, awarded to Zachary’s Chicago Pizza with multiple Bay Area locations. Website: zacharys.com. There are emoji of pizza, a face savoring food, and a star smiley.

Thank You for Voting Us ‘Best Pizza!’

This is a pure, genuine, heartfelt, customer appreciation post to say THANK YOU for voting us ‘Best Pizza’ in Diablo Magazine and the East Bay Express’ annual Best of the East Bay polls!

We are so honored and humbled by your love and support and so incredibly appreciative of both. We love doing what we do, but being able to share it with all of you is what makes it special ❤️ We say it all the time, but it can never be said enough, we truly have the best community around!

We also want to take a minute to thank our incredible and hard working team. They’re the foundation that allows us to do what we do, and do it with such a commitment to excellence.

Now back to work making those delicious pizzas for you, cuz it’s the weekend, it’s going to be beautiful out, and y’all need some pizza to enjoy with it! 🤗🍕😋

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Thank You for Voting Us ‘Best Pizza’!

This is an appreciation post for you, our amazing, wonderful, supportive community! We want to give a huge, heartfelt THANK YOU for choosing us as ‘Best Pizza’ in the East Bay Times, ‘Best of the East Bay’ poll. Your patronage is not taken for granted and we are overflowing with gratitude and love. It’s been an honor to supply you with delicious, award-winning pizza these last 40 years and we aspire to continue doing so another 40 years!

Humbly yours,
Zachary’s Employee Owners.

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Thank you for voting us Best Pizza in the East Bay!

Thank You for the Accolades, Bay Area!

You cannot imagine how unbelievably honored we are to have been awarded ‘Best Pizza’ in Diablo Magazine, Oakland Magazine, and East Bay Magazine’s Best of the East Bay 2022 polls! Y’all really know how to make a home-grown, employee-owned pizza shop feel special and loved (and grateful, and humbled, and thankful, among other things). ❤️

Seriously though, we love and appreciate you beyond measure and do not take your support for granted. The Bay Area is filled with so many amazing options (it’s a true foodie mecca!) and we fully grasp the honor it is to be selected from that prestigious list. So we just wanted to say THANK YOU, BAY AREA!!!

We also wanted to take a minute to shout out our unbelievably amazing crew!!! Accolades like this are a direct representation of their hard work and continued commitment to excellence. From the newest employee, all the way up to the top, major thanks and congrats for the results of their combined efforts!

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Diablo Magazine, Best of the East Bay 2022

Screenshot of Oakland Magazines webpage featuring an article titled Top Food & Drink Spots in Oakland and the East Bay. Highlighted text reads Winner Reader’s Choice Pizza Places in Oakland and the East Bay in 2022: Zachary’s Chicago Pizza.

Oakland Magazine, Best of the East Bay 2022

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East Bay Magazine, Best of the East Bay 2022

ZACHARY’S AND CHECK, PLEASE! BAY AREA KID’S EDITION!

We were recently featured on Check, Please! Bay Area Kid’s Edition! What a treat it was to be featured with other great, local restaurants and have these up and coming foodies discuss our Chicago Style stuffed pizza. Celeste holds a special place in our hearts. Besides being a serious Zachary’s fan, she also was a winner of our Zachary’s Art Contest! Thank you to Celeste and Check, Please! for choosing Zachary’s to be featured! You can watch the entire episode below.

 

ZACHARY’S WINS OAKLAND MAGAZINE’S BEST OF OAKLAND READERS’ CHOICE FOR PIZZA!

 

Zachary’s is the 2019 Readers’ Choice Winner for Best Pizza in Oakland Magazine’s Best of Oakland and the East Bay! A teal circular badge with a zigzag border features the text BEST of Oakland 2019 in yellow and white. Person in athletic attire playing with a yellow soccer ball on grass. The background features a clear blue sky. Text on the magazine highlights various articles, including Best of Oakland and topics about local winners and news.

Thank you to all of our customers and to everyone who voted for Zachary’s!  We don’t take these awards lightly and are happy to say Zachary’s has received over 200 best pizza awards!A newspaper page lists the 2019 Readers Choice Winners in Food & Drink, featuring categories like bagels, brunch, coffee, and more. A red star highlights Best Pizza awarded to Zacharys Chicago Pizza.

ZACHARY’S WINS BEST PIZZA IN EAST BAY EXPRESS AND #1 OAKLAND RESTAURANT ON TRIP ADVISOR

Best of the East Bay logo with East Bay Express at the top. Bold black text on a bright yellow brushstroke background with decorative lines.We are super thrilled to announce that we won “Best Pizza” in the 2018 East Bay Express Reader’s Poll! There are so many amazing pizza and non-pizza restaurants (that’s how we classify them, anyway) in the East Bay. We are truly humbled to win this award!

 

Tripadvisor logo featuring a stylized owl with large round eyes, one orange and one green. Below it, the word tripadvisor is written, with trip in black and advisor in green lowercase letters.We are also over-the-moon to share that, for the second year in a row on Trip Advisor, we are rated the number one restaurant in Oakland! Wow-ee!!!!!! This is incredible and we are super proud of our amazing and talented Oakland crew (some of whom have been making pizzas since the 1980s!).

ZACHARY’S WINS BEST PIZZA FROM OAKLAND MAGAZINE

Magazine cover titled Oakland: Best of Oakland and the East Bay. It features a person on a sailboat under a blue sky. Theres a sidebar titled The New Teen Vaping with a highlight reading Long Live Mama’s Royal Café’s New Owners Honor What Made it Special. We are super excited to announce that we won Reader’s Choice BEST PIZZA in Oakland Magazine’s Best of Oakland and the East Bay edition. This is a huge honor! We are keenly aware of the number of fantastic restaurants in the East Bay and we are truly thrilled to be acknowledged for our contribution to the pizza scene!

 

A close-up of a magazine page listing various restaurant awards, such as Best Mezcal, Best New Restaurant, and Best Outdoor Dining. Best Pizza is circled in red, awarded to Zacharys Chicago Pizza.

We’ll post a link as soon as the online version is available so you can check out all of the other fantastic Oakland and East Bay joints that won awards too!

 

Huge thanks to Oakland Magazine!

ZACHARY’S WINS BEST PIZZA FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

Illustration featuring the Golden Gate Bridge and a butterfly in shades of blue and orange. Text reads SFBG 2017 Best of the Bay is here! The background has swirling orange and blue patterns.Woo-hoo! We are pleased as pie (!!) to share exciting news from Bay Area Guardian: We won Best Pizza! We feel super honored to receive this award, especially since we don’t have any locations in San Francisco… a city of amazing food and delicious pizza!

Check out all of the winners here. There are some pretty amazing spots on this list! Time to map out our dining-destination-desires for 2018! We could not be more excited.

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Naji and Sammi accepting our award at the Best of the Bay Winner’s Party

EXCITING NEWS FROM HOODLINE AND BAY AREA PARENT

A slice of deep-dish pizza on a white plate, featuring a golden crust filled with layers of spinach, cheese, and chunky tomato sauce, sits on a wooden table.Families!! We were voted Silver by Bay Area Parent readers in the “Best Family Restaurants in the Bay Area: East Bay” category! Check out the list of winners here. Woo-hoo!

In other equally exciting news, Hoodline published, “A Slice Above: How San Francisco Ranks Among America’s 50 Best Pizza Spots“. Guess who is number 6?!!! Spoiler alert: San Francisco ranks just as highly as NYC!

We are super excited about both of these pieces of recognition. We love being a fun and comfortable place for families and we are very proud of our Oakland roots. There are lot of fantastic pizza options in the Bay Area. We are flattered and thankful that our customers love us as much as we love them.