Ispent the past couple of years living in Los Angeles, and one thing I noticed on my return to Atlanta: major shifts in the local pizza scene.

Nina & Rafi on the Eastside Beltline closed. Humble Pie in West Midtown also shut its doors, as did Ammazza in Old Fourth Ward and Decatur. Meanwhile, Anthony Spina, the son of popular Atlanta pizzaiola Anthony Spina Sr., is aiming for a fall opening of his new pizza shop, Spina , next door to his restaurant Small Fry at Atlanta Dairies on Memorial Drive. And Pizza Jeans (Ponce City Market) owner Jeremy Gatto is working with Pour Taproom to fill the Nina & Rafi space with a New York–inspired Pizza Dynamo .

But amid all of this, from Old Fourth Ward to OTP, there is also evidence of a fresh (or re freshed) trend: an effort by mid- to hi

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