The Best Pizza Near QuarantunoDodici, by the Record
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Rank 1. Clementina
Wood-fired Pizza
A pizza restaurant in Fiumicino where the counter is the show, five different doughs rolled Roman-style and slid into a wood-fired oven while you watch. The chef Luca Pezzetta works with seafood pulled from nearby boats, and the fried starters are worth arriving hungry for. Thin, well-cooked pies with serious toppings, a wine list that rewards the curious, and a room lively enough that "pizza place" undersells it a little. It ranks on both 50 Top Pizza Italy and the World list.
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Rank 2. Seu Pizza Illuminati
Roman Pizza
A neon sign reading "In pizza we trust" greets you inside this Roman pizza restaurant tucked between Porta Portese and Trastevere. The airy, ethereal crust is the foundation everything else is built on, from precise fried starters through to the desserts, with a serious wine list running alongside. It holds a spot on 50 Top Pizza World and took the Pizza dell'Anno award for 2026.
- 50 Top Pizza #6 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza #2 · 50 Top Pizza Italy
- 50 Top Pizza 2026 · Pizza dell’Anno · 50 Top Pizza Italy Special Awards
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Rank 3. Avenida Calò
Neapolitan Pizza
The open oven is the first thing you clock at this enopizzeria in Parioli, where the chef returned from Vienna with strong opinions about dough. The Neapolitan tradition is the starting point, not the destination, and the result is a crust that manages to feel both serious and light. Reservations run by time slot with the precision of a rail timetable, and the room fills on weekdays without effort. Ranked sixth on 50 Top Pizza Italy.
- 50 Top Pizza #89 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza #6 · 50 Top Pizza Italy
- 50 Top Pizza 2026 · Pizzaiolo dell’Anno · 50 Top Pizza Italy Special Awards
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Rank 4. TAC – Thin and Crunchy
Roman Pizza
Colorful pizza triangles cover the walls of this bright, modern Roman pizzeria, which is built around the scrocchiarella, the thin, aggressively crisp style native to the city. The dough is featherlight and the crunch is the whole point. The menu wanders past the usual fritti into a broader spread of Italian small plates, and the pizzas run from classic to a little unexpected. It landed on the 50 Top Pizza Italy list, which tracks.
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A Monteverde pizzeria that has been around forever without feeling like a museum piece, La Gatta Mangiona sits outside the usual Roman pizza camps and does things its own way. The dough is light and handled well, holding up under toppings that lean into stronger ingredients without losing balance. Evenings only, reservations a good idea, and a room that fills with people who have clearly been coming for years.
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Roman pizza gets very serious about its crust, and 180 Grammi is where that argument is made most crisply, in a renovated room in Centocelle that feels more like a restaurant than a slice shop. The thin, crackling edge is the whole point, and the menu shifts with the seasons so regulars have a reason to keep coming back. Ranked on both 50 Top Pizza Italy and 50 Top Pizza World, it also does fried starters and desserts that people actually finish.
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Roman-style pizza, done thin and crispy the way the city has always insisted it should be, anchors this relaxed pizza spot along the Tiber. The fried starters get as much attention as the pies, coming out fragrant and genuinely light, which is harder than it sounds. A solid list of sparkling wines makes the pairing case for itself. The room is informal and unhurried, the kind of place where the service moves fast enough that you never feel forgotten.
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A Roman pizzeria that splits its loyalties cleanly: thin and crispy Roman style on one side, high-crusted Neapolitan on the other, and no apparent anxiety about the contradiction. The dough is well matured and light, and the kitchen clearly thinks about what goes on top of it. The room is tidy and relaxed, the kind of place that works equally well for a quick weeknight dinner or a longer table with friends.
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Rank 9. Spiazzo
Gourmet Pizza
Three pizza styles, same weight, all made from a dough that ferments for 48 hours before it sees any heat. Spiazzo is a gourmet pizza spot near the Gasometer in Ostiense, offering the high-crusted Spiazzante, a pan-style padellino, and a Roman flat. The kitchen takes the format seriously enough that choosing between them feels like a small but genuine decision. Outdoor seating softens the industrial neighborhood nicely.
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Roman-style pizza shop in Pomezia where the dough gets a 48-hour rise before being stretched to near-translucent thinness. The menu runs through red, white, and specialty pies, plus the Panozzo, a thicker stuffed format that splits the difference between pizza and sandwich. Fried snacks and a solid beer selection round things out. The crust is the point here, so eating it fresh off the pass rather than letting it sit is the move.
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Rank 11. Baccio e i gradini
Roman-Neapolitan Pizza
A pizzeria steps from the Piramide metro stop, built around a dough that splits the difference between Roman and Neapolitan: thin and crispy through the middle, with a crust that actually has some height to it. The wooden-furnished room leans rustic and unhurried. The supplì and the house croutons with creative toppings are the kind of starters that make you forget a pizza is coming. Good beer list, friendly service.
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Rank 12. Magnifica
Pizza
A neighborhood pizzeria in the Trieste quarter where the dough gets 72 hours to think things over before it meets the oven, and you can taste the difference. The crust stays low and light, letting the toppings carry the conversation. The room is small and carefully put together, the staff pay attention, and a little complimentary snack arrives before you've decided anything. The craft beer list runs deeper than you'd expect.
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Fried pizza is the opening argument here, and the kitchen in Rome's historic center makes a case for Neapolitan style that the city's own pizza partisans find hard to dismiss. Montanarine and pasta frittata do their work as starters before the wood-fired pies arrive. It's a quick, no-fuss pizzeria, the kind where the service moves faster than you expect and the menu does most of the talking.
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An agri-pizzeria outside Cerveteri where the dining room is all heavy wood and the setting is countryside green in every direction. The pizza is Roman style, thin and crisp, and the menu leans into the classics, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, that territory. The house-made supplì come in rotating flavors and tend to disappear fast. It's the kind of place where the drive out feels like part of the point.
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Rank 15. KLU Pizza Club
Contemporary Neapolitan Pizza
A cocktail bar greets you at the entrance before the pizza even enters the picture, which tells you something about KLU's ambitions. This contemporary Neapolitan pizza spot in Prati does thin bases with properly puffy, fragrant crusts, a short list of around twenty pies leaning on the classics with a few clever twists, and a wine list deep enough to order by the glass without embarrassment. The staff has that warm, lightly theatrical southern Italian energy.
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Frescoed vaults and Liberty wood paneling in a sixteenth-century palazzo: not the usual backdrop for a pizza dinner. This is a pizzeria on Piazza Rondanini, and the wine list skews Michelin-level, which tells you something about how seriously the team takes the whole operation. The room is genuinely grand, which makes the brevity of a pizza meal feel almost rude to the architecture.
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Rank 17. Brucio
Roman Pizza
A thin, crispy Roman-style pizza is the whole point at this elegant pizzeria in the Prati neighborhood, a short walk from Lepanto metro. The menu leans into Roman tradition, with toppings like artichoke white pizza and a carbonara-inspired pie that somehow doesn't feel like a gimmick. A decent wine list and cocktail selection keep things interesting beyond the dough. The room is relaxed and the service moves quickly without feeling rushed.
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Rank 18. Ardecore
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan-style pizzeria in the Esquilino neighborhood, Ardecore fills colorful, comfortable rooms with the kind of crowds who come for the fried starters as much as the pies. The dough follows a thin-base, soft-crust tradition, and the toppings lean hard on sourced Irpinian products, including soppressata, Carmasciano pecorino, and cave-aged Calitrano provolone. The menu runs red pizzas, white pizzas, and montanare, all landing light enough that a second round feels reasonable.
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The pizza here is almost aggressively thin, a crisp, barely-there wafer with toppings kept minimal enough that nothing buckles it. It's a Roman-adjacent pizzeria in the Colli Albani neighborhood, done up in high ceilings and industrial bones that feel more like a design object than a neighborhood joint. The fried snacks are worth ordering alongside, and the wine list runs longer than you'd expect for a pizza dinner.
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A visible wood oven anchors the room at this Roman pizzeria, where the pizza a ruota di carro, stretched to cart-wheel proportions, is reason enough to visit. The fried pizza delivers on its promise of intensity, and the artisanal croquettes and small omelettes upstage most of the starters you'd find nearby. Craft beers, a spacious terrace, and a younger crowd keep the energy loose. The bill lands where it should.
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Rank 21. Angelo Pezzella
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan-born pizzaiolo running a bright, renovated pizzeria on the Via Appia Nuova, with a summer veranda that fills up fast. The dough is the light, elastic kind that serious pizza people argue about, and alongside the classics, fried pizzas, and calzones, the kitchen slides in seasonal dishes and old Neapolitan recipes that have no business being this good this far from Naples.
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A San Lorenzo pizza shop where the dough gets more attention than most people give their houseplants, fermented long enough that the menu leads with digestibility as a selling point. Three sizes run from a small aperitivo round up to a rolling-pin-pressed Spianata Romana, and the kitchen rotates a new pie each week. Craft beers and natural wines fill out the back half of the menu, and the room stays informal without getting sloppy.
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Roman-style pizza here means a rolling pin, not a toss, turning out thin, crisp rounds the way the neighborhood has always expected them. A Rota is a no-ceremony pizzeria in Tor Pignattara, sister spot to the trattoria next door, with a short menu of classic pies and a fried-foods list that reads like old Roman dialect. About fifteen pizzas, a seasonal special, and service that moves without making you feel rushed.
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A neighborhood pizzeria in the residential Trieste quarter, far enough from the tourist circuit that you'll hear mostly Italian at the tables around you. The dough is the story here, soft and slow-fermented in a way that means you won't feel weighed down afterward. The menu runs from straight-ahead classics to quieter original combinations that don't try too hard. Staff move fast without being brusque, which in Rome is its own achievement.
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Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza is the draw at Tonda, a casual neighborhood pizzeria in the Montesacro quarter where the dough gets properly long-leavened before it ever sees the oven. The menu wanders beyond the classics into unexpected combinations, and the trapizzini make a strong case as a starter. Cold beer pairs well with all of it, and the staff have clearly been told that a relaxed table is a returning table.
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Rank 26. Svario
Pizza
Thin, light dough that practically disappears is the baseline at this modern Roman pizzeria, where the combinations lean sophisticated and occasionally tip into unexpected, almost exotic territory. The pizza shells served as appetizers, somewhere between tapas and leavened snack, are a fun detour before the main event. The room is colorful and energetic, with a communal counter up front that actually earns its keep. Cocktail pairings on the menu complete the picture.
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A pizza spot on Rome's eastern outskirts where the tasting format is the main event, built for a table of friends passing plates around. The crust is thin, well-leavened, and satisfyingly crunchy, and the combinations lean creative without losing their balance. Fried starters hold their own, and a short list of wines and beers keeps things moving. There's parking, which in Rome feels like its own kind of miracle.
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Rank 29. Crunch!
Roman Pizza
A Roman-style pizza spot in Talenti where the menu is organized by intensity levels, which is either very logical or a little extra depending on your mood. The crust is thin and crispy without turning to crackers under the toppings, and the fried starters come out properly dry and greaseless. A reimagined amatriciana sits alongside more elaborate combinations, with solid vegetarian options throughout. The room reads new-generation pizzeria in all the ways you'd expect.
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Rank 30. Dazio
Neapolitan Pizza
A pizza spot on the Nomentana that offers both Neapolitan and Roman styles under one roof, which sounds like hedging but here reads as genuine range. The dough is made using autolysis, a slow hydration technique that produces a crust light enough to keep the peace between the two camps. Start with the frittata, and leave room for the pistachio tiramisu, which earns its place at the end of the meal.
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A Roman-style pizza shop in Velletri where the crust is thin, crisp, and built on pre-fermented doughs and carefully chosen flours. The team fries well and takes the dough seriously, which shows in how the slices hold their structure without going rigid. It's a young operation that already draws a local following, and 50 Top Pizza named it Young Restaurant of the Year for Italy in 2026. The room is cheerful and unpretentious, and the staff seem to mean it.
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Italy Excellent Pizzerias
- 50 Top Pizza 2026 · Giovane dell’Anno · 50 Top Pizza Italy Special Awards
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A Neapolitan pizza spot on the Civitavecchia waterfront, with harbor views that make waiting for a table feel like a reasonable life choice. The wood-fired oven is front and center, turning out soft, light pies with that tell-tale puffy crust. The lingotto cacio e pepe, fried to a crackly shell, takes a hard left from the pizza menu and lands well. Staff are the kind that notice when your glass is empty.