As we round out the second month of this weekly column, one thing is becoming more clear with every slice — Houston's pizza treasures are abundant. The city of fajitas and dumplings hides, in plain sight, a sprawling community of pie joints as bountiful as they are delicious.

Many of them exist inconspicuously in strip malls and business centers, around the corner neighborhood joints tossing dough for those lucky few in the know, or award winning Italian kitchens making waves in the national food media — this town's got them all.