Ziggie’s Pizza: One Size, No Weak Pies, No. 4 in Orlando
Brothers Christian and Floyd Ziegler serve exactly one pizza — a 12-inch thin-crust personal pie — attached to a craft beer bar. It ranks No. 4 in the city for a reason.
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Every pizza place in Orlando will sell you a large. Ziggie’s Pizza sells you a 12-inch personal pie, thin as a cracker’s ambitions, and trusts you to order a second one if you’re still hungry. It is a discipline that has carried the little Virginia Drive shop to No. 4 in the magazine’s best pizza rankings with a Net Score of 92.5 — the highest food ranking in Ivanhoe Village. Ziggie’s sits at 603 Virginia Dr., and you can find it plotted on the Top Spots Map.
One size, on purpose
Brothers Christian and Floyd Ziegler opened Ziggie’s in 2021, and the concept has not drifted: every pizza is a 12-inch thin-crust pie, finished with basil and an olive oil drizzle, sized for one person or two light appetites. The crust is the argument — crisp at the edges, sturdy enough to fold nowhere, closer to a bar pie than to the puffy Neapolitan rounds elsewhere in town. One size means the kitchen’s whole attention goes to toppings and timing, and it shows in the consistency: this is the rare Orlando pizzeria where the pie you get on a quiet Tuesday is the pie people post about on Saturdays.
The names are jokes; the pies aren’t
The menu reads like a group chat and eats like a serious kitchen. The Killa Beez — a Wu-Tang nod the Zieglers own proudly — is the signature: a hot-honey pie with house-made honey that lands sweet first and stings after. The Green Ranger stacks pistachio pesto with lemon ricotta and vegetables. The Gabagool leans Italian-American deli; Ms. Frizzle, Prince Zuko and Ziggie’s Stardust keep the pop-culture streak going; a Tandoori Chicken pie, with pickled onion for tang, proves the crust can carry flavors well outside the Italian canon. There is a build-your-own option for traditionalists, but honestly, the named pies are the point — each one is a tested combination, not a suggestion.
The other half of the room
Ziggie’s shares its space with The Thirsty Topher, a craft beer bar with a strong Florida-brewed list, and the two businesses operate like one long room: order a pie, carry it to the bar side; order a pint, carry it back. It gives Ziggie’s something most pizza shops never achieve — it is a place to spend an evening, not a transaction to complete. The stretch of Virginia Drive between Mills and Orange Avenues has quietly become one of the city’s best low-key drinking blocks, and Ziggie’s-plus-Topher is its anchor tenant: dinner and drinks without a reservation, a dress code or a plan.
Why the ranking sticks
Plenty of Orlando pizzerias have a great pie. What put Ziggie’s at No. 4 with a 92.5 Net Score in our pizza rankings is the absence of a weak one — the menu is short enough that every entry has been argued over, and the single-size format means the kitchen turns out hundreds of identical canvases a week without the quality wobble that plagues shops juggling four sizes and a pasta menu. It is a lesson in constraint: do one thing, in one size, with jokes on the menu and none in the execution.
How to order
Go with a second person and order two different pies — the format rewards variety, and the Killa Beez plus Green Ranger pairing covers the menu’s whole argument in one sitting. Add a Florida beer from the Topher side. If you’re feeding a group, pies come out fast enough to order in waves rather than all at once, which keeps every crust at its crispiest. Then note the real conclusion: Ivanhoe’s two ranked dining rooms sit four blocks apart on the same street. Start with tapas at Santiago’s Bodega one night and do Ziggie’s the next — or read our full Ivanhoe dining roundup and build the whole weekend.
Best for: thin-crust purists, casual dates, and anyone who believes pizza night should come with a proper beer list attached.
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