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Buddy's Pizza (Conant St, original)

This is the address the Detroit square pan pizza is dated to: Gus Guerra's first square pie in 1946, baked in blue steel pans borrowed from local auto plants. It is also the significant boundary finding of this research pass — of the lineage's three founding names (Buddy's, Loui's, Cloverleaf), this is the only one still standing inside the city of Detroit; Loui's is in Hazel Park and Cloverleaf is in Eastpointe, both separate cities.

17125 Conant St, Detroit, MI 48212 · Detroit · Detroit · est. 1946

The exterior of Buddy's Pizza on Conant, its painted sign and awards board on a pale brick wall.
From Buddy's Pizza (Conant St, original)

Why it is here

This is the address the Detroit square pan pizza is dated to: Gus Guerra's first square pie in 1946, baked in blue steel pans borrowed from local auto plants. It is also the significant boundary finding of this research pass — of the lineage's three founding names (Buddy's, Loui's, Cloverleaf), this is the only one still standing inside the city of Detroit; Loui's is in Hazel Park and Cloverleaf is in Eastpointe, both separate cities.

What to order

the original square pepperoni

What we looked at

Square pan pizza baked in repurposed automotive parts traysRecipe based on Anna Guerra's family sfincione, refined by employee Connie Piccinato, per the business's own accountThe founding address itself, still operating