Pizza night just got a westbound lane.
Virginia keeps changing the pie as the road moves from the coast toward Richmond. One stop may hand you an oversized slice, while the next switches things up with sourdough or a family recipe that has been around for decades.
Some places are perfect for a quick grab-and-go slice. Others make more sense when you want to settle in, order the whole pie, and let dinner take its time.
The fun is watching the style change with the route. Familiar favorites keep showing up, but each stop adds its own reason to keep driving.
By the time Richmond comes into view, your original pizza order may feel very far away.
1. La Vera Pizzeria
The Virginia Beach oceanfront gives you plenty of places to eat, but pizza is an easy choice when you want something that can work as a quick meal or a box for the group.
A few blocks from the beach, La Vera Pizzeria currently serves a broad pizza menu from its 25th Street location.
The lineup goes well beyond a basic cheese pie. You can choose from red-sauce pizzas, white pizzas, gourmet combinations, calzones, and stromboli, with pasta and salads also available.
The current menu includes a Margherita and a New Yorker alongside meat-heavy, vegetable, Greek-inspired, and white-pizza combinations.
That range makes the stop useful when several people want different toppings without leaving the pizza category entirely.
If you prefer to keep the order simple, start with cheese or Margherita and add from there. If the group wants more variety, the white-pizza and stromboli sections give you another direction without changing restaurants.
The location also makes sense near the beginning of this coast-to-Richmond route because it sits close to the Virginia Beach resort area rather than farther inland.
Address: 211 25th St, Virginia Beach, VA 23451.
2. Wiseguy Pizza
A newer Virginia Beach stop brings a very different scale to the slice counter. Atlantic Park added a New York-style option in early 2026, built around large 18-inch pies and oversized slices.
At Wiseguy Pizza, you can order a whole pie or go straight for a cut slice. Cheese and pepperoni keep the basics covered, while the specialty menu moves into combinations such as Margherita, mushroom truffle, paneer tikka, chicken variations, and vegan pizzas.
The large-pie format is useful if your main goal is the classic foldable-slice experience rather than a smaller personal pizza.
Wiseguy sits on Arctic Avenue in the Atlantic Park development, placing it within the Virginia Beach resort district. If you are comparing it with the first stop, this one leans much more heavily into the oversized New York-style format and a dedicated by-the-slice menu.
tThat makes it easy to sample one style without committing to a full pie before continuing toward Norfolk.
Address: 1875 Arctic Ave, Virginia Beach, VA 23451.
3. Lo Mo Pizzeria
This Norfolk stop keeps its current menu centered on a relatively focused set of pizzas rather than pages of combinations. Cheese and pepperoni sit alongside pies that use fresh mozzarella, Pecorino Romano, ricotta, Calabrian chile, mushrooms, and seasonal ingredients.
A Margherita combines tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, Pecorino Romano, olive oil, and basil. The spicy pepperoni adds Calabrian chile and ricotta, while the tomato pie uses cherry tomatoes, sliced garlic, oregano, and a finish of stracciatella.
Those choices let you stay close to familiar pizza flavors or move toward something more ingredient-driven without needing a complicated order.
If you want the clearest look at what the kitchen is doing, the Margherita and tomato pie are useful starting points because neither depends on a long list of toppings.
Lo Mo Pizzeria operates from Granby Street in Norfolk, creating a natural inland step after Virginia Beach before the drive bends back toward the water at Ocean View.
Address: 4117 Granby St C, Norfolk, VA 23504.
4. Sour Street Pizza
Sourdough is the defining idea at this Norfolk stop. The crust is naturally leavened and cooked with wood fire, giving the menu a clear identity before you even start choosing toppings.
Owner Nathan Ingram developed his approach to wood-fired sourdough pizza during the pandemic, working with naturally leavened dough and open-flame cooking before turning the idea into the current business.
Sour Street Pizza now operates in the Ocean View area and keeps that sourdough base at the center of the menu.
Current pies include pepperoni, Margherita, marinara, white pizza, vegetable combinations, and an arugula-prosciutto option.
The white pie uses garlic, ricotta, fresh mozzarella, Parmesan, and a chile-oil drizzle, while the marinara strips the formula back to tomato sauce, garlic, and olive oil.
If crust is the part of pizza you notice first, the wood-fired sourdough gives you a clear contrast with the New York-style shops earlier in the drive.
Address: 4035 E Ocean View Ave Suite 400, Norfolk, VA 23518.
5. Chesapeake Pizza
Pan pizza and family history meet in Great Bridge. The restaurant dates to 1973 and remains family owned and operated, with family recipes still forming the basis of the menu.
Pan pizza is the main specialty, but the kitchen also prepares pasta, subs, and salads. Menu preparation begins early in the day, which fits a restaurant built around dough, sauces, and other components made ahead for service.
The business has stayed in Great Bridge for decades without turning the basic pizza-parlor format into something overly complicated.
Chesapeake Pizza also operates on a cash-only basis, which is useful to know before you arrive. If you are building a road trip around these stops, handle that detail before ordering instead of discovering it at the counter.
uFor the pizza itself, the pan format gives you another clear change in texture after the thinner pies and sourdough crusts in Virginia Beach and Norfolk.
Address: 424 S Battlefield Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23322.
6. Dino’s Pizza Shop
A Newport News pizza stop can come with more history than you might expect. Gaspare Merendino, known as Dino, opened his first pizza shop in the Langley Square Shopping Center in 1969 and opened the Denbigh location in 1972.
The current menu still reads like a traditional neighborhood pizza shop. You can order cheese, Margherita, meat lovers, vegetarian, Hawaiian, and Pizza Bianca, and several pizzas are available by the slice.
The Margherita uses house tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and basil, while the white Pizza Bianca skips tomato sauce and combines mozzarella with tomato, black pepper, and garlic.
Dino’s Pizza Shop has also remained a family operation. The next generation took over operations in 1998, continuing the business at the Warwick Boulevard address. If you want to keep this road trip focused strictly on pizza, the slice menu makes that easy.
If you are stopping with a group, whole pies and other Italian-American standards give everyone more room to order differently.
Address: 14357 Warwick Blvd, Newport News, VA 23602.
7. Olde Towne Pizza & Pasta
A Williamsburg restaurant that opened in 2007 adds a full Italian-American dining-room format to the route. Olde Towne Pizza & Pasta is family owned and operated, with New York-style pizza joined by calzones, stromboli, salads, and a wide range of pasta dishes.
That broader menu can be handy if your group is divided between pizza and a full Italian meal. You can keep things straightforward with a cheese or Margherita pie, or move into specialty pizzas before adding garlic knots, a calzone, or pasta for the table.
The format is much closer to a full Italian-American dining room than a narrow slice counter.
Its Olde Towne Road address is away from the most concentrated pedestrian blocks of Colonial Williamsburg.
If you have spent the day around the historic area, this stop lets you switch from sightseeing to a sit-down meal without relying on a restaurant inside the historic core.
The larger menu also gives families and groups room to mix pizza with pasta, calzones, and other Italian-American dishes.
Address: 5540 Olde Towne Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23188.
8. Sal’s By Victor
Williamsburg has another long-running option with roots that go back much farther. The restaurant began in 1974 under founder Salvatore, then entered a new chapter when chef Vittorio Minichiello, known as Victor, acquired it in 1990.
Today Sal’s By Victor remains family run and serves both northern and southern Italian dishes. New York-style pizza is part of that lineup, but the menu also puts significant attention on pasta, including selections made in house.
If your table wants pizza without limiting everyone to pizza, the broader menu leaves plenty of room to order differently.
You can keep the order centered on a traditional pie or use the larger Italian menu to build a longer meal.
The history also separates this stop from Williamsburg’s newer pizza options: the business has been serving the area for more than five decades, while Victor’s ownership dates back more than thirty years.
The Richmond Road location keeps it close to Williamsburg’s main visitor corridor without requiring a trip deep into a residential area.
Address: 1242 Richmond Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185.
9. Belmont Pizzeria
Richmond changes the route again, starting with a Museum District shop that puts Sicilian-style pizza at the front of its identity. Homemade dough is used across the pizza menu, and the shop also offers pasta, sandwiches, rolls, stromboli, and calzones.
Belmont Pizzeria gives you plenty of ways to order pizza without relying on one signature topping.
The menu includes cheese, Margherita, Mediterranean, spinach, basil pesto, and a potato pizza made with garlic-herb butter and sliced potato.
Slices are available, and whole pies come in several sizes, so the stop can work for a quick lunch or a larger order.
If you want to move beyond pepperoni without turning the order into a novelty, the potato, eggplant, and Mediterranean combinations are useful places to look.
Sicilian-style pizza is the identity the shop emphasizes, giving this Richmond stop a different direction from the large New York-style pies that appear elsewhere on the route.
Address: 602 N Belmont Ave, Richmond, VA 23221.
10. Pizzeria Mungo
One of the newer names on this route opened in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition in late 2025. Pizzeria Mungo serves 18-inch New York-style pizzas, with whole pies and slices available from its Arthur Ashe Boulevard location.
The dough is long fermented, and the current menu moves from a house cheese and pepperoni to combinations such as Double Pepperoni and Mushrooms, Classic Ricotta, Rustic Red, and Calabrese Sausage and Honey.
The restaurant also offers a build-your-own option if you would rather control the toppings yourself. Limited dine-in seating keeps the format closer to a slice shop than a large full-service restaurant.
The 18-inch format puts Mungo in the same broad slice-shop tradition as several other Richmond options, but the long-fermented dough and current specialty combinations give the menu its own direction.
Try a slice if you are making several Richmond stops, or choose a whole pie when this is your main meal.
Address: 1017 N Arthur Ashe Blvd A, Richmond, VA 23230.
11. Zorch Pizza
Richmond’s final stop began on wheels before settling into permanent neighborhoods. The business started as a New York-style pizza food truck in 2018.
Then, the Carytown brick-and-mortar shop was opened in 2021. The truck was retired in 2023, and a second restaurant in Forest Hill was opened in 2024.
The Carytown location operates as a neighborhood slice shop. You can order classic cheese, pepperoni, and sausage by the slice or as whole 18-inch pies.
Then, you can branch into options such as the Upside Down, White Out, and square Grandma pizza. Vegan cheese and vegan Grandma versions are also part of the current lineup.
Zorch Pizza still works well as a quick slice stop even after the business expanded. If you want the simplest order, cheese and pepperoni keep the New York-style format clear.
For something different, the square Grandma or sauce-forward specialty pies change the shape and structure without abandoning the shop’s pizza-first focus.
Carytown also makes a logical final stop if you are finishing the drive in central Richmond.
Address: 2923 W Cary St, Richmond, VA 23221.