The Best Pizza Near Terracotta, by the Record
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Rank 1. Sottoriva
Pizza
A pizzeria near the Piave River where the dough is the conversation starter. The chef works with Italian type-1 and type-2 flours, offering a few distinct styles, including a high-hydration double-cooked version with a soft, open crumb and a crackly edge. Toppings are seasonal and assembled to order. The room feels young and relaxed, and the beer and wine list is broad enough to give the pizza pairing some thought.
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The Alpini Bridge fills the window and the Brenta runs below, which is a pretty solid backdrop for a pizza place. This Bassano del Grappa pizzeria works several dough styles, from puffy Neapolitan to a thinner Venetian version, piling them with Southern Italian imports alongside local Asiago and cod. Desserts come with a nod to the local grappa tradition, and the wine list punches above its weight. Ranked in 50 Top Pizza Italy.
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Brama treats pizza as a design problem, running doughs through water kefir, sourdough, and spontaneous fermentation until they land somewhere lighter than you expected. The result covers a lot of ground: crispy round pies, small skillets, Roman paddles, each with its own texture and leavening. Toppings lean on seasonal produce and small producers. The room looks the part, the wine and beer list is short but considered, and 50 Top Pizza has taken notice.
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Rank 4. Gustificio
Italian Contemporary Barbecue
The smell of baked pastry hits you at the door, but the charcoal grill is what this place is about. It's a lively trattoria-style restaurant in a small Veneto town where prime cuts are the main event, cooked over embers with obvious conviction. The menu nods to season and tradition while slipping in the occasional contemporary detour, and Wednesdays bring a short run of gourmet pizzas that feels less like a gimmick than it sounds.
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Rank 5. Baschera
Friulian Pizza
A country inn and pizzeria in a small Friulian village, Baschera has been around forever and still feels like a family is actually running it, because one is. The dough is long-leavened, the flours are organic, and the thin, fragrant pizzas lean on local dairy and regional flavors rather than chasing trends. Wednesday nights bring a Neapolitan version with a taller, softer crust, which is either a nice change of pace or a minor scandal, depending on who you ask.
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Rank 6. Grigoris
Pizza
A pizzeria in the Venetian mainland that seats 300 people and still runs multiple shifts on weekends, which tells you something. The chef is self-taught and built his reputation on high-hydration sourdough, with San Marzano tomatoes and fiordilatte from Agerola keeping the sourcing honest. The seafood pizzas are the move, built around Sicilian anchovies, Scardovari mussels, and octopus. It placed on 50 Top Pizza Italy.
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The wine cellar here could embarrass a proper restaurant, which tells you a lot about a pizza place. Prego is a sit-down pizzeria where stone-ground flour keeps the dough light and the pairings lean on a nutritionist's input, an unusual touch. Craft beer shows up, but wine is the real thread running through the meal. Desserts nod to Campania, so save room. It's on the 50 Top Pizza Italy Excellent Pizzerias list.
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A pizzeria in the Venetian hinterland where the dough gets lighter every season and the seafood toppings are worth the detour from Venice proper. The beer list is taken as seriously as the pizza, which tells you something about the crowd. Dessert shows up at the end, which sounds obvious until it doesn't, and here it earns its place. A neighborhood spot that keeps quietly raising its own bar.
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A pizza restaurant in the Trentino hills where the dough gets a long, slow ferment and comes out of the oven with that blistered, airy crust that people tend to argue about. Toppings lean on local sourcing, and the craft beer list tilts toward nearby microbreweries, which is the right call in this part of Italy. The room manages to feel both contemporary and mountain-lodge without sliding into kitsch. 50 Top Pizza lists it among Italy's excellent pizzerias.