Santa Fe, NMPizza

Back Road Pizza builds its pies on a thin crust that keeps some chew, wheaty and slightly sweet and crisp without turning brittle, with a light crunch from the cornmeal worked into the dough. Locals often tout that thin, cornmeal-dusted crust, and the toppings are carefully built on top of it. Order the pie with roasted chicken, green chile, mushrooms and feta.

The Santa Fe outpost of Il Vicino, a wood-oven pizzeria that began in Albuquerque's Nob Hill in the early 1990s, sits on San Francisco Street. Its Italian-style pies are small and not overly cheesy, on a thin crust that bubbles at the edges and stays tender, sweet and chewable, and the menu adds calzones, salads and piadine flatbread sandwiches. Order the pizza bianca or the calzone vegetariano, with a spinach salad and tiramisu.

Pizza Centro makes New York-style pies on Cerrillos Road, the style that East Coast transplants in Santa Fe vouch for when the city argues over where to get a good slice. Order a New York-style pie.