Twin Peaks Pizzeria: Detroit-Style Pizza Inside Marana's Continental Ranch
Ted Fisher's Twin Peaks Pizzeria in Marana's Continental Ranch: its Detroit-style pies, the STANDOUT Award, Dominick's, and the pizza trailer he has planned.
Ted Fisher's pizzeria on Twin Peaks Road bakes square pies in steel pans and names its specialties for the streets around it. In September 2026, Marana handed its owner the town's Taste of Marana STANDOUT Award.
The pizza Twin Peaks Pizzeria calls the Motor City starts with a pound of cheese pressed over dough in a square steel pan. Pepperoni, Italian sausage, mushrooms, peppered bacon and hot soppressata go on top, and after it bakes it gets seasoned ricotta, fresh basil, hot honey and a ladle of Detroit pizza sauce. Owner Ted Fisher worked it out the hard way: before he put Detroit-style pizza on the menu of his Marana restaurant, he traveled to Detroit and ate at several pizzerias a day. "It is just about quality, that's what it really is," he told Discover Marana. "There is no magic."
In September 2026 the Town of Marana's tourism office gave Fisher its Taste of Marana STANDOUT Award, the seventh time it has been handed out and, unusually, an award to an owner rather than to a restaurant. The pizzeria it was presented in sits on Twin Peaks Road inside Continental Ranch, the master-planned community west of Interstate 10, and its menu says as much: two of the specialty pizzas are named for nearby roads.
- Sept. 14
- Date Fisher received the 2026 STANDOUT Award at the pizzeria
- 7th
- Recipient since Discover Marana launched the award in 2023
- 3
- Food businesses Fisher owns: two restaurants and a caterer
- 1 lb
- Cheese under the toppings on the Motor City pizza
A Square Pan, and Cheese Out to the Edge
Detroit-style pizza has a specific origin, and the pizzeria tells it on its own website. In 1946 a Detroit bar owner named Gus Guerra wanted something new to serve, and his wife, Anna, adapted a Sicilian dough recipe from her mother. The crust that made the style famous comes mostly from the pans: deep, heavy steel pans that behave more like a cast iron skillet than a cake pan, and that give the pizza a soft, airy middle, crunchy sides and a ring of caramelized cheese where it meets the metal. Legend has it that Guerra got his first pans from a friend at a factory that used them for spare parts. Detroiters, the restaurant notes, "have been fighting for corner slices ever since."
The version on Twin Peaks' takeout menu follows the form. The pizza is cooked in a square pan with Wisconsin brick cheese, white cheddar and whole-milk mozzarella, then topped with Detroit pizza sauce, pecorino romano and oregano, so the sauce sits on top rather than under the cheese. A build-your-own Detroit pie is listed as feeding three to four people, and a personal two-square version covers a lunch. The specialty list runs from a Bianco with ricotta, garlic and basil to a Caprese, a Buffalo Chicken and a Meatlovers, with the Motor City at the top of the price list. According to Discover Marana, the dough and the sauce are still made fresh every day, and Fisher remains in the kitchen.
A Menu Named for the Streets Outside
Detroit is half the menu. The other half is what Fisher described to Discover Marana as the reason the place exists: "This side of town needed a little pizza place, neighborhood joint, nothing fancy." The round pizzas come hand-stretched in an original or a thin crust, from a 10-inch small to a 16-inch extra large, with a gluten-free 14-inch crust available. Jumbo slices are sold one at a time, alone or with a salad and a fountain drink.
Read the specialty names and the neighborhood shows through. There is a Twin Peaks Supreme, named for the road the restaurant is on. There is a Coachline Meat Lovers and a Silverbell Veggie, named for Coachline Boulevard and Silverbell Road, two of the roads around it. Beyond pizza, the menu carries calzones, wings in a dozen sauces and dry rubs, homemade meatballs and lasagna, eight-inch hoagies on local Parisienne bread, and desserts from cannoli to a tiramisu made in-house. The printed takeout menu describes the restaurant in one line, under the address: "Serving the Continental Ranch area."
An Award for the Owner, Not the Restaurant
The Town of Marana started a restaurant task force in 2023 to bring more sit-down restaurants to town, and the STANDOUT Award, launched with Discover Marana that year, exists to draw attention to the ones it already has. The earlier recipients are Nana's Kitchen, La Olla Mexican Cafe, Boba Cucue, Amore, Sky Rider Cafe and Al Gusto Coffee Company. Each receives a custom trophy handcrafted by local artist Trevor O'Toole. Fisher's was presented at the pizzeria on Monday, September 14, 2026, during filming of a National Pepperoni Day promotional video, and the release credits him with an impact on Marana's dining scene, its workforce and its small-business community.
The nomination came from Marielle Ceniceros, a Marana business owner who said Fisher was the first person to hire her when she turned her food photography and media work into a business. "He's also ridiculously detail oriented," she wrote, and she credited him with listening to his staff. Stefanie Boe, the town's tourism and marketing manager, told the Explorer the nomination was for Fisher himself: "Really, this time it was about him." Amanda Wiggins, chief executive of the Marana Chamber of Commerce, put it more broadly: "When we think of the heart and soul of Marana, it is you."
Fisher's own reaction, to the Explorer, was surprise. "I never had any expectation of getting anything, so I was shocked," he said. "I think what it comes down to is supporting Marana." He supports the chamber and donates food to local school teams. Boe's concern is the award itself: Marana covers 122 square miles, and she said residents often do not think of a restaurant at the far end of town as part of their own community. "The biggest struggle is awareness of the program," she said, and asked for more nominations.
Dominick's, a Caterer and a Trailer Still to Come
Twin Peaks is the second of Fisher's restaurants. The first, Dominick's Real Italian, is at 8330 N. Thornydale Road and carries a Tucson mailing address; it describes itself as serving "Real Italian food made in a classic way" from traditional family recipes. The Explorer reported that Dominick's has been named Best of the Northwest for pizza, Italian and dessert, and was called USA Today's best Italian restaurant in Tucson. Fisher's catering company, All City Catering, works out of the same Thornydale address.
The next project is mobile. Discover Marana reports that Fisher plans a wood-fired, Neapolitan-style thin-crust pizza trailer called Dry Heat Pizza, expected to debut in late 2026 or early 2027 and based in the Gladden Farms area of Marana. The pizzeria's own website already notes that delivery now reaches Gladden Farms.
What a Pizza Kitchen on Twin Peaks Road Means for Continental Ranch
Continental Ranch is Marana's first and largest master-planned community: roughly 2,100 acres west of Interstate 10 at the Cortaro Road exit, annexed by the town in 1987 and built out in superblocks by national tract builders through the 1990s and 2000s, to roughly 4,000 homes. The housing is one- and two-story contemporary Southwest, Santa Fe and Spanish Colonial-influenced tract homes, from compact patio homes to larger semi-custom houses in the Continental Estates section. The Continental Ranch Community Association is the master HOA, with assessments billed each May and November, and several sub-neighborhoods carry their own association on top of it. Shared amenities include two community pools, one heated year-round, the town's Continental Ranch Community Park, and walking and biking paths that connect to the Santa Cruz River segment of The Loop.
A tract-home community this size runs on its shopping centers, and the Cortaro Road corridor that serves it is lined with national chains. What a buyer touring Continental Ranch rarely sees on a listing is the independent kitchen inside the community's own street grid that names its pizzas after Coachline Boulevard and Silverbell Road. It does not change a home's value, but it is part of the answer to what a neighborhood is like to live in. Before buying, check the parcel against the right association, since a sub-neighborhood may add its own dues and CC&Rs to the master HOA's. For what homes in Continental Ranch have sold for, how the community is laid out and how it compares with the rest of Marana, see the Continental Ranch page.
Before You Order
Twin Peaks Pizzeria is at 7575 W. Twin Peaks Road in Marana, phone (520) 744-0411. Its website lists hours of 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday through Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, closed Mondays; orders can be placed online, by phone or in person. Dominick's Real Italian, (520) 744-2002, lists 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. To nominate a Marana food business for the next STANDOUT Award, Discover Marana takes nominations at discovermarana.org/food-drink/taste-of-marana/.
Sources
Discover Marana — "Ted Fisher Honored with Taste of Marana STANDOUT Award" (September 15, 2026) — https://www.discovermarana.org/media/press-releases/ted-fisher-honored-with-taste-of-marana-standout-award/ — accessed November 8, 2026
Discover Marana — "Twin Peaks Pizzeria: Quality Starts in The Kitchen" (Brandon Mejia) — https://www.discovermarana.org/blog/twin-peaks-pizzeria-quality-starts-in-the-kitchen/ — accessed November 8, 2026
Explorer (Tucson Local Media) — "A prize for a pizza professional" (Jack Miessner, September 23, 2026) — https://www.tucsonlocalmedia.com/explorernews/dining/a-prize-for-a-pizza-professional/article_8dfed1a4-6c26-498c-887c-5c3381813d3f.html — accessed November 8, 2026
Twin Peaks Pizzeria — Hours, ordering and Detroit-style pizza history — https://twinpeakspizzeria.com/ — accessed November 8, 2026
Twin Peaks Pizzeria — Take-out and delivery menu (PDF) — https://twinpeakspizzeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/TP-Pizza-Takeout-Menu_2026.pdf — accessed November 8, 2026
Dominick's Real Italian — Hours and catering — https://dominicksrealitalian.com/ — accessed November 8, 2026
Hours, menus and availability are set by the businesses and can change; confirm with the restaurant before visiting. Community details are from this site's Continental Ranch page. This post is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase real estate. Kyle Berglund and Tierra Antigua Realty fully support and comply with the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.
Topics
- Local Business Spotlight
- Twin Peaks Pizzeria
- Ted Fisher
- Dominick's Real Italian
- Continental Ranch
- Marana
- Northwest Tucson
- Tucson Restaurants
- Eat Local