Why is it so hard to find NYC-style pizza by the slice in S.A.?

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San Antonio may be the seventh-largest city in America, but you wouldn't know it if you go looking for that stalwart bastion of the metropolitan lunch hour: a hot pizza sold by the slice.

Bustling pedestrians shuffling to and from their apartments or offices while noshing on a slice are easy find in places such as New York City or Chicago. But San Antonio is just built differently — literally. The population density of those two behemoths stands at 27,000 and 12,000 people per square mile, respectively. In San Antonio, that number is 3,000 people per square mile according to the latest U.S. Census data.

In those areas of town where people do walk to commute or workers are willing to walk to lunch, pizza by the slice entrepreneurs have found some success.Arnold Mendoza opened Broadway Delicatessen in late 2021 on Broadway just a block off of Houston Street. The San Antonio native fell in love with the pizza by the slice restaurants he was exposed to while working on the East Coast and wanted to bottle that magic for diners here.

San Antonio may be the seventh-largest city in America, but you wouldn't know it if you go looking for that stalwart bastion of the metropolitan lunch hour: a hot pizza sold by the slice. Bustling pedestrians shuffling to and from their apartments or offices while noshing on a slice are easy find in places such as New York City or Chicago. But San Antonio is just built differently — literally.

 

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