No. 5: Cheese pizza from d’Bronx

To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7.

A pizza place is only as good as its cheese pie. What you want: ample red sauce with more spice than sugar, sloppy cheese that bubbles toward the edge, and a crust crisp enough to drown out conversation but with chewy give at the center. D’Bronx supplies these basic elements so expertly that you might take its pizza for granted or — out of habit formed by chains and delivery coupons and all-around bad living — lard your pie with … stuff. Cut it out. A 16-inch cheese pizza at d’Bronx costs less than $15 and cures all ills, from pepperoni to night terrors.