Where to eat the best pizza in Italy? The record comes back to Naples

00 flour, yeast, olive oil, water, salt, tomato, and mozzarella cheese: it seems that there are not many ingredients to prepare the recipe for the best pizza in Italy, and cooking this fantastic dish does not seem difficult. But how does a good pizza become superb? What is the secret of the best pizza in Italy?

A simple dish as pizza can be elevated to a genuine art form as the country's best pizza makers teach us. Every year there are several gastronomic guides that rank the best pizza in Italy and award special prizes to pizza makers who, with their mastery, transform the preparation of an essential dish into a work of high culinary creativity.

Let's find out where you can eat the best pizza in Italy for excellence and some special pizzas for real gourmets!

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10. In tenth place we remain in Campania, in the province of Caserta, with Pizzeria Da Lioniello.

9. In ninth place we find the fascinating region of Vesuvius, and precisely in Naples, where we see the pizzeria Salvo.

8. The pizzeria La Notizia, located in Naples, takes the eighth place

7. In seventh place we go up the peninsula to Milan, where we find the pizzeria Dry Milano

6. It is a pizza from Caserta that takes sixth place in the ranking: the pizzeria I Masanielli di Sasà Martucci

5. It is instead a pizza from Rome that takes fifth place in the ranking: the pizzeria Seu Pizza Illuminati.

4. In fourth place we find the 50 Kalò pizza from Naples

And here is the podium.

Bronze medal: The third place for the best pizza in Italy in the 50 top Pizza ranking goes to Pizza dei Tigli di San Bonifacio in Verona: a nice surprise for the Veneto region.

Silver medal: The real breakthrough, however, came from the pizzeria Confine in Milan.

Gold medal: The top step of the podium does not surprise the experts: for the third year in a row, the best pizza in Italy (and therefore in the world) is that of Francesco Martucci of the Masanielli in Caserta and, with equal merit, that prepared at Diego Vitagliano's Pizzeria in Naples

Among the award-winners for this category in 2024 is the delicious pizza prepared by Pizzeria Chiere in Piacenza. Here are the ingredients: spinach, ricotta, mozzarella, cooked bacon and sage powder, Grana Padano, and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

A marvelous combination of ingredients.

This type of pizza, also known as pizza al trancio (pizza by the slice), is characterised by its quadrangular shape, baked in large rectangular trays, and sold in slices. Pizza by the slice is a special type of pizza whose base is a Roman-style pan pizza, appreciated for its lightness and irresistible crunchiness. For this category, the best pizza in Italy is the 'cardoncelli, parsley, tomatoes, and buffalo yogurt’ from the pizzeria Frumentario in Rome. It is made with delicious salted cardoncelli and prepared with oil, thyme, garlic, parsley sauce, confit tomato, and natural buffalo yogurt.

An explosion of taste featuring the finest made-in-Italy products and artwork worthy of the most refined palates.

The most common version of pizza is undoubtedly the savoury one, but let's not forget its sweet version, particularly appreciated by the sweet tooth. For this category, the winner is the pizzeria Luppolo & Farina in Latiano. The pizza that earned him this prize is the Come un Caffè Leccese (Like a Leccese Coffee), made with a fragrant pan pizza base, subsequently caramelised and decorated with plenty of icing sugar, garnished with a delicious coffee-flavoured white chocolate namesake, made even more delicious by an almond gel and a crumble of bitter almonds from San Michele Salentino.

A gourmand's paradise created from the most authentic ingredients of Campania.