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Who would suspect that Nashville's finest pizza makers (regularly voted Best Non-Chain Pizza by readers of Nashville's alternative newsweekly) were not from Italy, or even New York City, but Iran? Ami and Ali Arab came to Nashville to attend college in 1978, but with the fall of the Shah in 1979, their family fortunes went up in smoke and the brothers got their first jobs in one of Nashville's few Italian restaurants. In 1983, they purchased a former donut shop and turned it into a pizza parlor, calling it Pizza Perfect. "Iranians are not thought of as typical pizza people," explains Amir. "We thought we would have to make perfect pizza to get over not being Italian." Their big, crispy-crusted pies are pretty darn close, hand-tossed with homemade sauce and generously covered with fresh toppings. The store also serves calzone, sub sandwiches, and baked pastas, but it's the perfect pizza that feeds the family.