The Best Pizza Near The Parsons Table, by the Record
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Rank 1. Buon Appetito
Pizza
A neighborhood pizzeria on London Road that's quietly gotten serious about its dough, working it toward a lighter, more digestible structure that holds the toppings without competing with them. The menu tilts contemporary without abandoning the classics, and the ingredients are chosen with more care than the setting might suggest. It ranked 31st in 50 Top Pizza Europe, which is a remarkable thing to achieve on a suburban high street.
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The menu at this Chiswick pizzeria rotates every three months, which is either very principled or a good reason to keep coming back. Michele Pascarella's Napoli on the Road lands at number five on the 50 Top Pizza World list, and the dough is the reason people cite: light, fragrant, and built on what sounds like an almost obsessive amount of technique. The room is casual enough that you won't feel underdressed for ordering a second pie.
- 50 Top Pizza #5 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · Pizza of the Year · 50 Top Pizza World Special Awards
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A no-frills Neapolitan pizzeria tucked into a quiet stretch of SW16, the kind of spot where the room gives you nothing to look at except your pizza, which turns out to be the point. Sharing plates and small bites fill out the table while you wait, and people do travel for it, which says something about the dough. Named on 50 Top Pizza Europe's list of Excellent Pizzerias, it wears the honour lightly, just like the place itself.
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A Battersea pizzeria where the dough is treated as a statement rather than an afterthought, light and carefully finished in a way that politely asks you to pay attention. The room is orderly and calm, more candlelit-date than checkered-tablecloth, and the whole thing is pitched at people who want the craft spelled out without the fuss. Neapolitan tradition run through a precise, contemporary sensibility.
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Rank 5. Pizzeria Pellone London
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan pizza joint on Lavender Hill that doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is, which is the whole point. The dough, the char, the generous hand with toppings all trace back to a Naples family recipe that's been around forever. No tasting menus, no mood lighting, just a proper pizzeria operating on the logic that if you know what you're doing, you don't need to dress it up.
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Rank 6. Vita Mia Pizzeria
Neapolitan Pizza
Long-fermented dough is the quiet argument at this Neapolitan pizza spot in Ealing, where lightness is the point and showmanship is decidedly not. The room leans into warm Italian-trattoria comfort, the kind that makes a Tuesday feel like a reasonable night for a long dinner. It works equally well for a relaxed catch-up or something slightly more date-shaped, which is more than most pizza places can honestly claim.