Customers walking into Shenandoah Pizza these days are finding a restaurant very different from the one they knew a half-block away ...

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Food, Glorious Food
Where locals get the grub they love
by Kirsten Parmer/dining@eightyone.info

It’s human nature to want what you don’t have. Our annual reader survey – which in late 2007 focused on local food and dining – was no different. Readers from Harrisonburg voted mostly for Harrisonburg restaurants, yet considered Staunton to be the best dining town.

Shenandoah Pizza
Best Pizza

A pizza can’t be any better than the sum of its parts; so if those parts include the highest-quality ingredients, it’s bound to be one fine pie. John Huggins scrutinized pizza parlors up and down the East coast before moving from the Outer Banks to Staunton and opening Shenandoah Pizza two years ago. What he found was simple—use the best ingredients you can find and you’ll make the best pizza. They’ve already outgrown their original location and moved to a new renovated place up Beverley Street serving just that: the best pizza. Many are named after familiar local spots—Sherando, Beverley, Queen City, Blue Ridge and even Dairy-Rite.

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