Chris turned 40 at the end of 2025, and I wanted to do something special without throwing a big party that he wouldn’t appreciate. So I gave him what I knew he’d appreciate the most: 40 slices of pizza!

Our twenty-sixth stop was: Secret Pizza Club SLC
1000 S Main St Ste 101, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Pizza Location and Hours

We were back in Utah for this slice, and similar to Pie Boy Pizza, it’s another “secret” place that we only found out about because Dave Portnoy rated it when he came to Utah. Dave Portnoy’s rating was 8.2, the highest rating he gave in Utah!

They make and sell the pizza out of Leavity Bread & Coffee, but only on certain days, and due to the high demand, they only sell a certain amount of pizza for each time slot. Getting in on one of the time slots can be difficult!

They open their site for preorders on:

• Thursdays at 3:00 PM for Friday orders
• Saturdays at 3:00 PM for Sunday orders.

You have to be ON TOP OF IT to get an order. You order at http://www.hotplate.com/sammakespizza. You can’t actually place an order until 3:00 PM on those specific days, but you’ll notice at 2:55 PM when you are getting ready for the 3:00 PM drop that there are already dozens, if not hundreds, of people in the waiting room! As the time draws closer to 3:00 PM, the best strategy is to be ready to just keep clicking the button to order repeatedly until it lets you in. We have eaten there twice, the first time we had to do a later pickup because all of the earlier time slots had already been taken within the first minute!

Is it worth the trouble?? Yes, yes it is.

The Pizza

This is pretty close, if not identical, to true New York City pizza.

You don’t need to bother arriving early for your pickup, it will be ready right on time. You’ll be there at the same time as a few other people who ordered for pickup at the same time. It’s never crowded, and that’s by design. Before they call your name, you’ll get to watch as they take the fresh pizza from the oven, put oil on the crust and then grind fresh cheese over the oil before boxing it up.

The dough is very crispy.
The sauce is very delicious.
The pizza is very fresh – and incredible.

We ordered one cheese and one pepperoni. The thin crust makes it so you can eat more without it feeling heavy. However, do not order more than you and your family can eat while it’s fresh, as it does not reheat well.

The Score

Chris rated the cheese pizza at 8.4 – a very high score!
Chris rated the pepperoni pizza at 7.9 – still a very high score, and it’s a clue to the fact that this place has excellent building blocks to their high quality New York-style pizza.

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