Better known as “Beard Bear” (鬍子熊), Foste’s branding centers a cute smiling teddy bear-like caricature of himself, and stepping into Pizza Bear, we feel that rush of hospitality and smiles; customer ...

But what you’d actually find is pizza, the cultural and emotional bedrock of a city that can’t even coalesce around a single baseball team. Here, finding a decent slice is as easy as jaywalking.

Columbus is serious about pizza. In October, food industry magazine Chef’s Pencil ranked the city as the fourth most pizza-obsessed city in the world based on Google searches. This interest is likely ...

When we decided to repeat a time-honored Columbus Monthly tradition and name the best pizza in Columbus, the conversations were intense. How would we choose? How could we make this the most credible ...