Cheese Board Collective Pizzeria
Pizza restaurant · North
1512 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
Highlights
Thin crust sourdough pizza, bakery & cheese shop
Thin crust sourdough pizza, bakery & cheese shop
"Ask 10 people where to go if you’re visiting Berkeley for the first time, and the answer will likely be Cheese Board Pizza. The worker-owned co-op, an offshoot of the famous Cheese Board a few doors down, has been attracting a line out the door for over 20 years. The fact that they serve one type of pizza a day (it rotates) and do their own thing with them has a lot to do with it. That thing is taking a bunch of the super fresh ingredients and mashing them together to create sort-of-unusual flavor combos (like green tomatoes, mozzarella, and garlic breadcrumbs). The result is thin, sourdough pizza goodness. Line up at least once, and then, inevitably, many more times." - julia chen 1, lani conway
"A Berkeley institution that exemplifies a local, seasonal approach to pizza—thin, crisp pies topped with seasonal produce such as local artichokes and goat cheese—demonstrating the intersection of community bakery traditions and inventive toppings." - Becky Duffett
"When we say that Cheese Board does one thing and one thing only, we don’t mean that they only make pizza. We mean that they only make one single type of pizza per day and they’re beyond good at it. You’ll find yourself waiting in an out-the-door line for something like a lemon pizza, but after your first trip here, you’ll be planning when you can come back to Berkeley for another slice." - will kamensky
"Cheese Board has been around long enough — and has been consistently excellent for so long — that it almost feels unnecessary to praise it. Ignore the fact that there’s always a notoriously long line since it goes by quickly. As it always has, the restaurant offers one special pizza and one special salad every day, and the pizza is always vegetarian." - Noah Cho
"Ask ten people where to go if you’re visiting Berkeley for the first time, and the answer will likely be Cheese Board Pizza. The worker-owned co-op, an offshoot of the famous Cheese Board a few doors down, has been attracting a line out the door for over 20 years. The fact that they serve one kind of pizza a day (it rotates), and do their own thing with them has a lot to do with it. That thing is taking a bunch of the super fresh ingredients, and mashing them together to create sort-of-unusual flavor combos (like green tomatoes, mozzarella, and garlic breadcrumbs). The result is thin, sourdough pizza goodness. Line up at least once, and then, inevitably, many more times. " - Lani Conway
