New York Times Names Hamtramck Pizza Shop One of Top 22 in U.S.

Impressive, particularly with all the great pizza joints in Metro Detroit. 

Amar Pizza at 12195 Joseph Campau Ave. in Hamtramck has made the list of the New York Times' top 22 pizza shops in the U.S.

Bangladeshi ingredients seems to be the secret in a town that has a big Bangladeshi community. All the ingredients is Halal.

Brett Anderson writes for the Times:

The idea of using Bangladeshi ingredients at Amar Pizza was born of necessity. “We’re in a neighborhood where there are pizzerias that had been around 20 to 30 years,” said Khurshed Ahmed, Amar’s owner. “We had to come up with something unique, to separate us.” The most delicious of the resulting inventions: a pizza made with a dried fish paste based on a condiment that was a dinner-table staple in Mr. Ahmed’s household when he was growing up. This mostly takeout restaurant has been in Hamtramck since 2010, long enough for its Bangladeshi pizzas — you’ll also want one sparked with Naga chiles — to become locally famous, and for good reason. There is a second location in Troy, owned by Mr. Ahmed’s brother Albor Alam.