Welcome to the NJ.com Pizza Trail. All summer long, NJ.com food writer and self-purported pizza expert Jeremy Schneider is taking you along the statewide trail, highlighting 12 of the best pizzerias across the state — from the northern tip of Bergen County all the way down. Check back each Wednesday to see the latest stop on New Jersey’s ultimate pizza road trip.
New Jersey’s pizza dominance starts at one of the northernmost points of the state, just miles from the New York border in Bergen County. So it stands to reason the NJ.com Pizza Trail would start there, too. Let’s take a trip up Route 17, drive right past Don Bosco Prep and hit Kinchley’s Tavern.