LaRosa's pizza is the Cincinnati regional style: square-cut pie with a thin crust and a sweet tomato sauce, finished with a blanket of provolone over Italian sausage or pepperoni.

Buddy LaRosa opened the first LaRosa's Pizzeria on Boudinot Avenue in Westwood in 1954, using his aunt Dena's secret pizza sauce recipe. The square-cut, sweet-sauced regional style differs from New York thin or Detroit deep, becoming the defining Cincinnati pizza. The chain now has more than 60 locations across the metro and the original Boudinot Avenue store still operates.

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