The 10 cities with the best pizzerias in the world – With which Rome shares the top spot

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The Italian experts of 50 Top Pizza have published their survey of the best pizzerias for 2022 in the world.

Whether you like the thin-crust pizza you can find in New York or prefer a thicker option like Detroit’s, you likely have a pretty strong opinion about what makes the perfect pizza and where to find it.

The Italian experts of 50 Top Pizza have published their survey of the best pizzerias for 2022 in the world.

They rank pizzerias based on the following characteristics:

  • customer service,
  • cleanliness and beauty of the environment and
  • taste and general hygiene of the food

In first place: New York and Rome

In the first place of the cities with the best pizzas are equal: h New York and the Rome.

Each city had five of the best pizzerias in the world, which was more than any other city on the Top Pizza’s 50 list.

At New York, the top pizzeria is Una Pizza Napoletana. The Lower East Side restaurant is famous for its 12-inch Neapolitan pies baked in a wood-fired oven by self-taught chef Anthony Mangieri. Next up are Ribalta NYC, Song’E Napule, Kesté Fulton and Ops.

According to the survey, the top pizzeria in Rome it’s the Seu Pizza Illuminati. The chef behind the restaurant, Pier Daniele Seu, is known for creating extremely light dough and using experimental toppings.

The other pizzerias on the list in Rome are 180g Pizzeria Romana, Qvinto, Sbanco and Sant’Isidoro – Pizza & Bolle.

After New York and Rome, some of the cities with the most pizzerias appearing on the 50 Top Pizza list are Naples, London and Tokyo, with each city having four restaurants on the list.

Notably, Naples had all four of its pizzerias rank in the top 10 of the overall list.

According to the survey, the undisputed “birthplace of pizza” is home to four of the best pizzerias in the world: 50 Kalò, 10 Diego Vitagliano Pizzeria, Francesco & Salvatore Salvo and La Notizia 94.

São Paulo, Brazil also deserves an honorable mention, as the city has three pizzerias ranked in the survey’s top 100.

The top 10 cities in the world with the best pizzerias:

1. New York, USA and Rome, Italy

3. Naples, Italy
4. London, United Kingdom
5. Tokyo, Japan
6. Castera, Italy
7. Paris, France
8. Milan, Italy
9. Copenhagen, Denmark
10. Hong Kong, China

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