Cam's Pizzeria has been serving slices since 1980 when it opened its first location in Geneva, and in the decades since it has expanded to locations in Penn Yan, Camillus, Oswego, Watertown, and even Port St. Lucie, Florida. That kind of growth usually signals franchise blandness, but Cam's has managed to maintain what made it work in the first place: monster-sized slices of New York-style thin-crust pizza with fresh ingredients and dough that actually tastes like something. The Geneva location remains the flagship, and it won Gold for Best Pizza at the 2025 FLX Finest awards (Silver in 2024), which in a region not exactly famous for pizza is a meaningful distinction.

The thin crust is the star — reviewers consistently describe it as the best in the area, with a crisp bottom and real chew. The sausage-pepperoni combination gets called out repeatedly, partly because the mushrooms are cut fresh rather than coming out of a can (a low bar, perhaps, but one that plenty of pizza places fail to clear). The specialty pizzas include a Buffalo Chicken Wing, BBQ Chicken, and a Grand Supreme, and the wings — available in Mild, Medium, Hot, BBQ, Sweet & Tangy, and Garlic Parmesan — are a solid secondary order. Calzones, stromboli, subs, and wraps round out the menu for the non-pizza crowd.

This is emphatically not a sit-down dining experience. It is a pizza shop — order at the counter, grab a booth, fold your slice in half like a civilized person. The Geneva and Penn Yan locations make Cam's an easy pickup after a day of tasting, and the slices are big enough that two will fill most adults. If you are renting a lake house and need to feed a group without overthinking it, Cam's is the call.