50 Top Pizza 2023: I Masanielli by Francesco Martucci and 10 Diego Vitagliano Pizzeria tied as Best Pizzerias in Italy.
Second place has gone to I Tigli by Simone Padoan, third to Seu Pizza Illuminati by Pier Daniele Seu.
The Special Award Pizza Maker of the Year has been captured by Sasà Martucci from I Masanielli by Sasà Martucci in Caserta. The Pizza of the Year is La Parmigiana Viaggiatrice at 180g Pizzeria Romana, in Rome. Gabriele Bonci has received the City of Rome Prize.
I Masanielli by Francesco Martucci, in Caserta, and 10 Diego Vitagliano Pizzeria, in Naples, tied as Best Pizzerias in Italy for 2023. This is the official result according to the most influential guide in the worldwide pizza sector, 50 Top Pizza. The news was announced yesterday at the Teatro Argentina in Rome during the heavily followed captivating awards ceremony broadcast live across the guide’s social media platforms and presented by Federico Quaranta.
In second place is I Tigli by Simone Padoan in San Bonifacio; and closing out the podium is Seu Pizza Illuminati by Pier Daniele Seu in Rome.
In fourth place 50 Kalò in Naples by Ciro Salvo; in fifth position is 180g Pizzeria Romana by Jacopo Mercuro in Rome who also captured the special award Pizza of the Year 2023 – Latteria Sorrentina Award with their La Parmigiana Viaggiatrice; in sixth position is I Masanielli – Sasà Martucci in Caserta, which has also received the coveted Pizza Maker of the Year 2023 – Ferrarelle Award; in seventh position is Francesco & Salvatore Salvo in Naples who has also received the Best Beer Service 2023 – Birrificio Fratelli Perrella Award; in eighth place is Dry Milano in Milan with Lorenzo Sirabella at its helm; in ninth position Cambia-Menti di Ciccio Vitiello in Caserta; and in tenth place La Notizia 94 in Naples by Enzo Coccia.
Other special awards have been conferred: 10 Diego Vitagliano Pizzeria in Naples has taken home the Best Service 2023 – Goeldlin Award; Confine in Milan has received the New Entry of the Year 2023 – Solania Award; La Cascina dei Sapori in Rezzato (BS) has captured the Best Fried Pasta Pie 2023 – Pastificio Di Martino Award; BOB Alchimia a Spicchi in Montepaone Lido (CZ) has been recognized with the Performance of the Year 2023 – Robo Award; Allegrìo in Rome has taken home the One to Watch 2023 – Fedegroup Award; Sbanco in Rome has received the Best Fried Food – Il Fritturista 2023 – Oleificio Zucchi Award; and finally Meunier Champagne & Pizza in Corciano (PG) has captured the Best Wine List 2023 – Asti DOCG Award.
Alessandro Onorato, Commissioner of Events, Sports, Tourism and Fashion, came to welcome the guests at the event, who had traveled from all over the country to be reunited for the first time in the nation’s capital for the 50 Top Pizza awards ceremony. Mr. Onorato conferred the Premio Città di Roma (City of Rome Prize) upon Gabriele Bonci.
Eight Green Oven Awards, a recognition given to pizzerias with rigorous environmental sustainability standards and practices, have gone to: I Masanielli di Sasà Martucci in Caserta; Le Grotticelle in Caggiano; Pupillo Pura Pizza in Frosinone; Denis in Milan; Pizzeria Le Parùle in Ercolano; Pizzeria Gigi Pipa in Este; Pizzarium in Rome, and Grotto Pizzeria Castello in Caggiano.
Three Benemerito della Pizza (Notable Pizza Merit) awards for 2023 have gone to: Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Davide Civitiello and Giancarlo Casa.
Campania is the most represented region in the countdown with 28 pizzerias. It is followed by Lazio with 13 and Tuscany with 11.
The 2023 Italian guide contains over 500 pizzerias. The first 100 in the ranking and others are classified as “Excellent Pizzerias.” The top 40 positions will enter by right into the list of the 100 Best Pizzerias in the World which will be announced at a ceremony in Naples at the Palazzo Reale on September 13th.
“It has been an exciting and very intense year for us,” declare the curators Barbara Guerra, Luciano Pignataro and Albert Sapere “first in Barcelona for the European guide, then Tokyo for the Asia-Pacific guide, then New York for the USA guide: it has been a journey full of emotion for the great worldwide pizza community. Now we are in Rome for the first time for the Italian final. This has come about thanks to the wishes of the Roman Capital and Alessandro Onorato, Commissioner for Events, Sport, Tourism and Fashion. Mr. Onorato was convinced of the boost to tourism that pizza and the eno-gastronomic sector in general could bring to the capital city. It has been a non-stop year, which is far from over, as now we prepare for the grand finale at the Palazzo Reale in Naples on September 13th when we will reveal the top 100 pizzerias in the world.”
The “Party After Prize,” held at the Teatro India, welcomed almost 500 guests from around the Italian peninsula. Not only did the event celebrate this prestigious ranking, but it also provided an opportunity for the Italian pizza community to exchange ideas and impressions.
Project Partners:
Birrificio Fratelli Perrella, Consorzio dell’Asti DOCG, Fedegroup, Ferrarelle, Goeldlin, Latteria Sorrentina, Oleificio Zucchi, Pastificio Di Martino, Robo 1938, Solania.
The following is the Complete Ranking for 50 Top Pizza Italia 2023
1 10 Diego Vitagliano Pizzeria – Naples, Campania
1 I Masanielli – Francesco Martucci – Caserta, Campania
2 I Tigli – San Bonifacio (VR), Veneto
3 Seu Pizza Illuminati – Rome, Lazio
4 50 Kalò – Naples, Campania
5 180g Pizzeria Romana – Rome, Lazio
6 I Masanielli – Sasà Martucci – Caserta, Campania
7 Francesco & Salvatore Salvo – Naples, Campania
8 Dry Milano – Milan – Lombardy
9 Cambia-Menti di Ciccio Vitiello – Caserta, Campania
10 La Notizia 94 – Naples, Campania
11 Confine – Milan, Lombardy
12 Le Grotticelle – Caggiano (SA), Campania
13 Carlo Sammarco Pizzeria 2.0 – Aversa (CE), Campania
14 Pepe in Grani – Caiazzo (CE), Campania
15 La Cascina dei Sapori – Rezzato (BS), Lombardy
16 Apogeo – Pietrasanta (LU), Tuscany
17 Denis – Milan, Lombardy
18 BOB Alchimia a Spicchi – Montepaone Lido (CZ), Calabria
19 Allegrìo – Rome, Lazio
20 Pizzeria Da Lioniello – Succivo (CE), Campania
21 400 Gradi – Lecce, Puglia
22 Pupillo Pura Pizza– Frosinone, Lazio
23 ‘O Scugnizzo – Arezzo, Toscana
24 Renato Bosco Pizzeria – San Martino Buon Albergo (VR), Veneto
25 Frumento – Acireale (CT), Sicily
26 Sbanco – Rome, Lazio
27 Fandango – Potenza, Basilicata
28 Pizzeria Le Parùle – Ercolano (NA), Campania
29 Giovanni Santarpia – Florence, Tuscany
30 Giangi Pizza e Ricerca – Arielli (CH), Abruzzo
31 Pizzeria Panetteria Bosco – Tempio Pausania (SS), Sardegna
32 Modus – Milan, Lombardy
33 Clementina – Fiumicino (RM), Lazio
34 La Bolla– Caserta, Campania
35 Palazzo Petrucci Pizzeria – Naples, Campania
36 ‘O Fiore Mio – Faenza (RA), Emilia-Romagna
37 Sant’Isidoro – Pizza & Bolle – Rome, Lazio
38 I Borboni Pizzeria – Pontecagnano Faiano (SA), Campania
39 Maiori – Cagliari, Sardegna
40 Pizzeria Chicco – Colle di Val d’Elsa (SI), Tuscany
41 Enosteria Lipen – Triuggio (MB), Lombardy
42 Crosta – Milan, Lombardy
43 Antica Friggitoria Masardona Roma – Rome, Lazio
44 Grigoris – Mestre (VE), Veneto
45 L’Orso – Messina, Sicily
46 Pizzeria Gigi Pipa – Este (PD), Veneto
47 Saccharum Pizzeria Ristorante – Altavilla Milicia (PA), Sicily
48 Meunier Champagne & Pizza – Corciano (PG), Umbria
49 Pizzeria I Vesuviani – Pomigliano d’Arco (NA), Campania
50 Sestogusto – Turin, Piedmont
51 La Gatta Mangiona – Rome, Lazio
52 I Fontana – Somma Vesuviana (NA), Campania
53 Guglielmo & Enrico Vuolo – Verona, Veneto
54 Gusto Divino – Saluzzo (CN), Piedmont
55 La Piedigrotta – Varese, Lombardy
56 Pizzeria Elite Rossi – Alvignano (CE), Campania
57 Framento – Cagliari, Sardegna
58 Officine del Cibo – Sarzana (SP), Liguria
59 Patrick Ricci – Terra, Grani, Esplorazioni – San Mauro Torinese (TO), Piedmont
60 Il Vecchio e il Mare – Florence, Tuscany
61 La Braciera – Palermo, Sicily
62 Giotto Pizzeria – Bistrot – Florence, Tuscany
63 La Contrada – Aversa (CE), Campania
64 Angelo Pezzella – Pizzeria con Cucina – Rome, Lazio
65 Battil’oro – Querceta (LU), Tuscany
66 Piccola Piedigrotta – Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna
67 Mater – Fiano Romano (RM), Lazio
68 Da Attilio – Naples, Campania
69 A Rota – Rome, Lazio
70 Umberto – Naples, Campania
71 Sa Scolla – Cagliari, Sardegna
72 Pizzeria Luigi Cippitelli – San Giuseppe Vesuviano (NA), Campania
73 Il Segreto di Pulcinella – Montesarchio (BN), Campania
74 Pizzeria Mamma Rosa – Ortezzano (FM), Marche
75 Don Antonio 1970– Salerno, Campania
76 Bottega Dani – Cecina (LI), Tuscany
77 Capuano’s Pizzeria 7.0 – Milan, Lombardy
78 Bas & Co – Pesche (IS), Molise
79 Pizzeria Gorizia 1916 – Naples, Campania
80 La Pergola – Radicondoli (SI), Tuscany
81 Archestrato di Gela – Palermo, Sicily
82 Pizza Canneto Beach 2 – Margherita di Savoia (BT), Puglia
83 Foorn – Mariglianella (NA), Campania
84 La Fenice Pizzeria Contemporanea – Pistoia, Toscana
85 Bella ‘mbriana Pizzeria – Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige
86 Pizzarè – Rizziconi (RC), Calabria
87 Lievito 72 – Trani (BT), Puglia
88 Bro. Ciro e Antonio Tutino Pizzeria – Naples, Campania
89 ZenZero – Pisa, Tuscany
90 La Piazzetta del Pisacane – Genova, Liguria
91 Mama – Lendinara (RO), Veneto
92 Pizzeria Fiore di Latte – Baveno (VB), Piedmont
93 Piano B – Siracusa, Sicily
94 Claudio Alvicolo – Orvieto (TR), Umbria
95 Luppolo & Farina – Latiano (BR), Puglia
96 CUORE di Luca Brancati – Marano Vicentino (VI), Veneto
97 La Sorgente Pizzeria – Guardiagrele (CH), Abruzzo
98 PiGreco Pizzeria – Volla (NA), Campania
99 I Belcastro – Rome, Lazio
100 Il Vecchio Gazebo – Molfetta (BA), Puglia
Special Awards – 50 Top Pizza Italia 2023
• Best Service 2023 – Goeldlin Award
10 Diego Vitagliano Pizzeria – Naples, Campania
• Pizza of the Year 2023 – Latteria Sorrentina Award
La Parmigiana Viaggiatrice by 180g Pizzeria Romana – Rome, Lazio
• Pizza Maker of the Year 2023 – Ferrarelle Award
Sasà Martucci by I Masanielli – Sasà Martucci – Caserta, Campania
• Best Beer Service 2023 – Birrificio Fratelli Perrella Award
Francesco & Salvatore Salvo – Naples, Campania
• New Entry of the Year 2023 – Solania Award
Confine – Milan, Lombardy
• Best Fried Pasta Pie 2023 – Pastificio Di Martino Award
La Cascina dei Sapori – Rezzato (BS), Lombardy
• Performance of the Year 2023 – Robo Award
BOB Alchimia a Spicchi – Montepaone Lido (CZ), Calabria
• One to Watch 2023 – Fedegroup Award
Allegrìo – Rome, Lazio
• Best Fried Food – Il Fritturista 2023 – Oleificio Zucchi Award
Sbanco – Rome, Lazio
• Best Wine List 2023 – Asti DOCG Award
Meunier Champagne & Pizza – Corciano (PG), Umbria
• Premio Città di Roma 2023
Gabriele Bonci – Pizzarium – Rome, Lazio
Benemerito della Pizza – 50 Top Pizza Italia 2023
• Giancarlo Casa
• Davide Civitiello
• Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Green Oven Awards – 50 Top Pizza Italia 2023
I Masanielli – Sasà Martucci – Caserta, Campania
Le Grotticelle – Caggiano (SA), Campania
Pupillo Pura Pizza – Frosinone, Lazio
Denis – Milan, Lombardy
Pizzeria Le Parùle – Ercolano (NA), Campania
Pizzeria Gigi Pipa – Este (PD), Veneto
Pizzarium – Rome, Lazio
Grotto Pizzeria Castello – Caggiano (SA), Campania
Click on the following link for a complete list of the 2023 Excellent Pizzerias: