Mama Cozzi’s Tavern Style Pizza
Pizza is one of the more popular products Aldi sells. No matter how you like your pizza, Aldi has a pie for you. I’ve found everything from classic thin crust frozen pizzas to stuffed crust frozen pizzas, to take and bake pizzas, and even ready to bake pizza dough if you want to make your own pizza.
A couple of years ago, Aldi introduced some tavern style pizzas as limited-time specials, and they quickly became one of my family’s favorite frozen pizzas. In fact, these made our list of the best pizzas we’ve ever bought at Aldi.
Tavern style pizza originated in Chicago and, as the name suggests, it originally was commonly served in bars. It has a thin, crispy, yet also chewy crust and was often served as a way to encourage customers to drink more. It’s typically sliced into squares and originally was often served on napkins rather than on plates, since some bars didn’t have plates.
Mama Cozzi’s Tavern Style Pizza cost $5.99 in August of 2025. That’s up from $5.49 in February of 2025. They also cost $5.99 when Aldi first sold them in 2022.
It’s sold in two varieties: a 20.40-ounce extra loaded cheese pizza and a 25.55-ounce extra loaded supreme pizza. The cheese pizza box describes it as “thin crust topped with 100% real Wisconsin mozzarella and white cheddar cheese.” The supreme pizza is described as “thin crust topped with Italian sausage, red onion, red and green bell peppers, pepperoni and mushrooms.”
These pizzas are Aldi Finds, which means they’re only in stores for a short time. Each store gets one shipment, and after that sells out, they’re gone unless Aldi brings them back at some other time. Aldi does not offer online ordering for products that aren’t in stock at your local store.
If you’re looking out for allergens, these pizzas both contain milk, wheat, and soy.
To bake these pizzas, preheat a conventional oven to 400 degrees. Remove the pizza from the wrapper and cardboard tray and place the pizza directly on the oven’s center rack. (I baked my pizzas on a pizza sheet.) Bake for approximately 18-23 minutes for the cheese pizza or 20-25 minutes for the supreme pizza, or until the cheese is golden brown. Check because ovens vary. Serve hot.
These pizzas have visibly thick shreds of cheese when you initially remove the frozen product from the packaging. The toppings on these pizzas go right up to the edge of the crust, which is typical for bar pizzas or tavern pizzas, but be aware of that if you choose to bake these directly on your oven rack, since they can drip a little more cheesy mess compared to other pizzas.
These pizzas did not last long when I served them to my family with a salad for dinner. The cheese pizza has a thick layer of flavorful cheese. The supreme pizza has lots of veggies, and the bell peppers even have some crispness to them, which doesn’t always happen with frozen pizzas. The veggie and meat toppings are actually under the cheese layer, so don’t be fooled by all that cheese on top because there are plenty of other toppings. I’m looking forward to picking up more of these pizzas if they’re still in stock during my next Aldi visit.
Each pizza serves four. Keep reading for more information on each pizza flavor.
Mama Cozzi’s Extra Loaded Cheese Tavern Style Pizza
One serving (1/4 of a pizza) has 350 calories, 15 grams of total fat (19% DV), 9 grams of saturated fat (44% DV), 790 mg of sodium (34% DV), 33 grams of total carbohydrates (12% DV), 4 grams of total sugars, and less than 1 gram of added sugars (1% DV).
Mama Cozzi’s Extra Loaded Supreme Tavern Style Pizza
Aldi has tweaked the recipe for this pizza slightly since we first tried it in 2022. As of early 2025, one serving still has 330 calories. One serving in 2025 also has 17 grams or 21% DV of total fat (up from 16 grams), 8 grams or 39% DV of saturated fat (the same as 2022), 750 mg or 33% DV of sodium (down from 770 in 2022), 28 grams or 10% DV of total carbohydrates (up from 27 grams in 2022), 3 grams or 9% DV of dietary fiber (up from 2 grams), 4 grams of total sugars and less than 1 gram or 1% DV of added sugars (the same as 2022), and 18 grams of protein (up from 15 grams).
The Verdict:
Mama Cozzi’s Tavern Style Pizza comes in cheese or supreme varieties, and both are excellent. These thin crust pizzas feature generous amounts of cheese, and the supreme pizza has plenty of veggies. These are worth picking up if you spot them at your local Aldi. We stock our deep freezer with several every time Aldi sells them.
When will Aldi start offering tavern frozen pizza all the time? It’s the best frozen pizza you can get, time to start selling all the time not just a few weeks a year
We agree they’re great pizzas, but that would be a question to ask Aldi: https://www.aldi.us/en/contact/
Exactly Mike! I am eating my last Surpreme one right now and it’s delicious. They need to make this a part of their normal in stock purchases. I will be posting a comment to them below via Rachael’s contact page below.
I remove some of the cheese & make my own garlic cheese bread. Gf & I buy several of the tavern pizzas when we see them. Very good.
My favorite frozen pizza – always buy 3 or 4 when they show up.
Same here. Definitely something we stock up on when we see it.
These are back the week of May 1st, 2024, while they last. Time to stock up!
I agree that these are the best frozen pizzas that Aldi offers! they should definitely make them an everyday item and I have asked Aldi to do that, with no response. If they are so popular, as it seems, why wouldn’t Aldi recognize this? I’ll keep my fingers crossed!
Fortunately, they seem to come around a few times a year, rather than just once a year. I stock up every time, but they never seem to last long in my deep freezer because the whole family loves them.
Aldi’s Tavern Style pizza is a knockoff of Brew Pub’s Lotzza Motzza Pizza. And they can be found almost everywhere for a few dollars more per pie. And when on sale, they can be bought for about the same as Aldi’s.
If you are from or grew up in North Jersey like me, you’ll like this one they taste exactly like Tree Tavern!! I seriously hope they start to carry these on a regular basis, I used to be able to get Tree Tavern up here in the Albany NY area, this is definately a close second, I wouldn’t be surprised if they make them for Aldi.