Double Zero (00 Pie & Pub)

Double Zero Pie and Pub is Chinatown's pizza sleeper — World Pizza Champion Michael Vakneen's neighborhood room on Spring Mountain, which cracked 50 Top Pizza USA's national list (#43, 2025) barely two years after opening. The format runs two doughs, correctly: 11-inch Neo-Neapolitan personal pies and 16-inch Artisan New York rounds built for tables — no Detroit squares, whatever old listings claim.

The menu keeps pub honesty: Neo-Neapolitans $18-24 (the Margherita at $20 shows the champion's hand plainest), New York 16-inchers $24-29 with the cacio e pepe pie as the signature crossover, apps $10-22, and a double-daily happy hour — 3-5pm AND 9pm-close, every day — pouring $5 drafts. Dinner for two with beers lands under $70.

It's a small room that fills on weekends (OpenTable exists; walk-ins usually work), parking plays Chinatown rules, and the two-style discipline means variety-hunters should look elsewhere. As the pizza anchor of a Spring Mountain crawl — between the sushi counters and Raku — it's exactly the right carb stop, nationally ranked.