Forkelo ranking · Updated September 2026
6 pepperoni pizzas across San Jose, ranked on what people say about the dish itself — never the restaurant's overall rating.
A Slice of New York · West San Jose
4 dish-specific mentions · 75% positive · 4 source types · menu verified September 2026
Big, thin, crisp pepperoni slices with rendered fat curling at the edges on a foldable hand-tossed NY-style crust. Pepperoni is the most-beloved topping at this worker-cooperative shop.
Bona Pizza · South San Jose
5 dish-specific mentions · 60% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
Halal beef pepperoni cups and pools on a hand-tossed crust with golden-browned mozzarella; the named pepperoni pie at a family-owned 100% Zabiha shop on W Capitol Expy.
King Kong NY Pizza · Cambrian Park
4 dish-specific mentions · 75% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
Cupping pepperoni with browned edges, generous cheese, and a crisp thin crust on a hand-tossed NY-style pie. A Cambrian Park neighborhood favorite for pepperoni slices and whole pies.
Pizzeria Rosa Maria · Downtown
2 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
Hand-stretched Neapolitan-style pie with cupped pepperoni, fresh mozzarella, and bright tomato sauce on a charred cornicione. The Peppone is the named pepperoni SKU.
Cicero's Pizza · West San Jose
3 dish-specific mentions · 67% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
Crispy thin-crust pie with cupped pepperoni and well-browned mozzarella; the named one-topping pepperoni at a family-owned shop on Bollinger Rd. Light, foldable slices with a snappy chew.
Tony Di Maggio's Pizza · South San Jose
2 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
Hand-tossed classic pepperoni pie with tomato sauce and mozzarella on a family recipe crust at the 42-year-old Monterey Hwy original. Named as a top seller by press.
Every score is built from evidence about the specific dish: how often locals recommend it, how strongly, how recently, and whether independent sources agree. A restaurant's overall star rating is never converted into a dish score.
Quality and confidence are reported separately. A dish two people loved can score high, but it is marked early ranking until more evidence backs it up. The whole calculation — every constant, and three dishes worked through line by line — is written out on the methodology page.
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