Pizza by the slice: from New York to North Richland Hills, via Texas A&M
Hideaway Pizza is not our first famous college-town pizza restaurant.
With a lineage going back to College Station and Texas A&M — and before that, colleges across Massachusetts and New England — Kabylo’s Pizza by the Slice is a New York-style urban-munchies classic.
Except this pizzeria is in the very boring and suburban Tarrant Parkway Plaza, 8700 North Tarrant Parkway at Davis Boulevard, North Richland Hills.
Kabylo’s is a spinoff from the Ferhi family’s Antonio’s Pizza by the Slice, which made TV news when it closed in College Station in 2021 after 17 years.
Antonio’s was known as one of the best New York-style pizza-by-the-slice restaurants, and Kabylo’s keeps that tradition.
At the time, the Ferhis said the restaurant would be moving to the Dallas area.
It arrived in 2022 as Kabylo’s, named for the family’s roots on the Mediterranean Sea in the Kabylia region of Algeria.
None other than The Washington Post listed Kabylo’s along with the Slice City Pizza locations as the best New York-style pizza in Texas.
It definitely has all the requirements for a New York-style pizza stand:
Lots of mind-boggling signage? Check.
Pizza by the 8-inch slice? Check.
Bare-bones pizza stand with a walk-up counter? Check.
Strong smell of pizza sauce? Check.
Endless menu of options and toppings, plus 11 different chicken pizzas and 12 different calzones? Check.
Thin 16-inch pizza crust, foldable? Check.
Like you remember from your college years on Sixth Street or Bourbon Street or wherever? Check.
Kabylo’s had 60 cardboard boxes folded and ready to go the other day, as if any minute a customer might walk in and order 60 pizzas to go.
It’s entirely possible.
North Texas has dozens of New York-style pizzerias. But Kabylo’s stands out for its light crust, generous toppings and odd choices like a pizza with apples, pico de gallo or chorizo; a “crazy chicken” pizza with grilled, barbecued and spicy chicken; a mac-and-cheese pizza with provolone; or a dill pickle-and-ranch pizza.
Two giant slices and a Greek, Caesar or apple-cranberry salad sell for less than $9.
Don’t expect ambience or decor. There’s nothing here but pizza.
(The very highly regarded Golden Crown Cookies & Mochi Donuts is next door, and Kindred Coffee is nearby.)
Kabylo’s is open for lunch and dinner daily; 817-849-2600, kabylos.com.
This story was originally published January 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM.
