Hot Box is a relative newcomer to the game, having opened in late 2018. This Bow Market purveyor — which also serves North Shore-style roast beef sandwiches — features an homage to the wildly popular pickle pizza at Town Spa in Stoughton (more on that below), only its version is also topped with hot peppers.

Hoey’s is tucked inside the American Veterans Post in Randolph and features a number of excellent bar pies, including specialties such as the Irish pie (bacon and potatoes), and a version topped with baked beans.

There are plenty of South Shore bar pizza acolytes who’d tell you that Lynwood is the cream of the crop. It would be hard to argue with those people. It’s a great place to drink a beer and an even better place to eat a hamburger and onion pizza. Planning to travel? Lynwood offers half-baked pizzas to freeze and finish cooking elsewhere.

Stop laughing at the name. Stop it! A Pembroke gem, Poopsie’s opened in the 1970s and has been turning out some of the best bar pies on the South Shore ever since. Note: These babies have almost cracker-thin crusts, even more than the other pizzas on this map.

Nothing says pizza like an Irish pub, am I right? The lacy, crunchy, cheesy edge is an exemplar of the genre. Pastrami and pickle is the play here.

Cape Cod Cafe, established way back in 1939, claims to be the original South Shore bar pizzeria. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t — either way, it makes exceptional bar pizza, and that’s all that matters. It has four locations now, and you can probably find its pizza in the freezer of your nearest grocery store. Hit the original location in Brockton, though.

J’s has been serving bar pizza in Bridgewater since the 1970s. Its specialty pizzas include a taco pizza that feels like a perfect match for burnt cheese and a crispy thin crust.

Another Irish Pub, another very solid spot for South Shore bar pizza.