Pan or Detroit: Choosing Your Crust
A decision guide to the two crust families at Top Pizza & Spaghetti House. The hand-tossed pan crust carries the numbered classics and the Featured pies and comes in three sizes. The Detroit deep dish is a single-size square with a caramelized cheese edge. Build Your Own is available on both: a two, three, or four topping pan pizza, or a three-topping Detroit square.
On our menu, the crust is not a checkbox — it is the pizza’s identity. Louis’ Special only exists as a hand-tossed pan pie, and The Motor City only as a Detroit square. So the first decision is always the crust.
Pan: The Hand-Tossed Classic
The pan family carries the numbered classics and the Featured pies. Hand-tossed dough, homemade signature sauce, and mozzarella make it the crowd-safe choice. It is also the most flexible: small, medium, and large sizes cover a solo lunch through a family table.
Detroit: The Caramelized Square
The Detroit deep dish is the newest family, a thick single-size square baked until the cheese caramelizes against the pan edge. That crisp, savoury rim is the reason people order it. Choose Detroit when appetite is high and sharing is likely.
When You Want Full Control
Build Your Own runs on both crusts, with the full topping roster at your disposal: a pan pizza with two, three, or four toppings, or a three-topping Detroit square. If the set combinations never quite fit, that is your lane — see how the regulars do it.
Still torn? Order one of each and compare. The debate settles itself by the second slice.
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