Bar Stool Sports founder Dave Portnoy of Swampscott, Massachusetts , certainly loves a good slice.

Ever since 2013, Portnoy has been reviewing pizzas as part of his famous online video series: One Bite Pizza Reviews .

Portnoy grades a pizza shop off his personal criteria: the store-owners' vibes and the attitude of the patrons eating there, the ambience and atmosphere of the place and, arguably the most important part: the quality of the pie.

Lower ratings on Portnoy's scale tend to be around the 6's and the low 7's. Exceptional pizzas are given high 7's and even low 8's if Portnoy is really wowed by them.

In his 2025 Massachusetts pizza tour, Portnoy was so disappointed with the pizzas that he reviewed on Cape Cod, he created a "Cape scale" to grade Cape pizzas more leni

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