The 20 most expensive pizzas in Italy

2023 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 11:20

We can also try to pretend nothing but the slap has arrived. We can pretend that the Pizza, the most loved dish on Italian tables, has remained the same as always, the humble disc of leavened dough topped with tomato and mozzarella that can be eaten for a few euros in Neapolitan pizzerias.

We can try to ignore it, but the two dishes with which the TV feeds us, as the first course the programs with the chefs and as the second the programs on the chefs also involve the pizza chefs, humble extras yesterday today playful and elegant men, stars with tufts and tattoos, bangs and rolled up sleeves.

We can refuse to admit that everything has changed with the advent of gourmet pizza, or “tasting” pizza: naturally leavened pizza, with stone-ground flours, with a higher thickness and a different texture, finally with the classic cut into wedges.

Today the quality is different, certainly better, but above all the prices, much higher than the Neapolitan average.

To give you an idea, we have gathered the 20 pizzas which, until proven otherwise, are the most expensive in Italy.

20. ABC MONTECCHIA ALAJMO ABC - Classic pizza

via Montecchia, 12 - Selvazzano Dentro (Pd)

The Alajmo galaxy bistro puts on its menu the three P's at the base of Italian cuisine (it's called ABC for this reason) or Bread, Pasta and Pizza done to perfection, with fragrant leavened products and the same ingredients as the starred restaurant on the first floor.

Pizza prices: from 12 euros

Highest Price: 15 EUROS - Steamed pjzza (black rice pasta, autumn vegetables - vegan)

17. THE CHEERFUL PICCHIO - Classic pizza

via Criano, 18 - Rieti

Rustic bistro in a renovated farmhouse where a Roman-style focaccia, subtle but without exaggerating, is the backdrop to an infinite series of combinations made with quality ingredients.

Pizza prices: from 6 euros

Highest Price: 16 EURO - Pizza Melania (buffalo mozzarella dop, Pata negra gran Riserva 40 months of seasoning).

17. TOMATO AND BASIL - Gourmet pizza

Via Martiri della Libertà, 103 - San Mauro Torinese (TO)

Emerging leavened guru, Patrick Ricci experiments in his pizzeria starting from ancient grains, stone-ground flours and leavening from 24 to 48 hours. The margherita with crushed tomato is recommended as tradition dictates.

Pizza prices: from 5 euros

Highest Price: 16 EURO - Sockeye pizza (wild Sockeye salmon, black truffle)

17. DRY cocktails & pizza - Gourmet pizza

via Solferino, 33 - Milan

Cocktail bar - pizzeria with chef Andrea Berton among the members and a menu of well-kept pizzas, enriched with quality ingredients and references to the Neapolitan style.

Pizza prices: from 8 euros

Highest Price: 16 EURO - Eel pizza baked in foil (turnip tops and smoked provola).

NB: the pizzas are small in size and there is an additional 'topping' system for a fee (from 2 euros for onions to 5 euros for cooked and tuna belly, passing through 4 euros for capers and Taggiasca olives).

15. PATHS OF TASTE - via Leosini

(soon transfer to a new address) - L'Aquila

The reign of Marzia Buzzanca born with tenacity and constancy after the earthquake. It was Gianni Frasi from Torrefazione Jamaica who introduced her to Simone Padoan, since then the pizza in the shadow of the Gran Sasso has never been the same.

Pizza prices: from 6 to 19 euros

Highest Price: 19 EURO - Cod / Corso Emanuele: mozzarella, Norwegian cod, potatoes, Aquila PDO saffron and rosemary

15. DIVINE TASTE - Gourmet pizza

P.zza Cavour, 21 - Saluzzo (CN)

Pizzaiolo-owner arrived from Puglia, after opening a café he returned to pizza and today he runs a nice place in the center of the Piedmontese town. Bread loaves are also highly recommended.

Pizza prices: from 5, 5 euros

Highest Price: 19 EURO - Pizza Castelmagno Dop (beaten fassona with Castelmagno fondue)

14. QBIO - Gourmet pizza

P.le della Vittoria, 16 - Forlì

After a few years from Spaccio, the pizzeria of the San Patrignano community, Ivan Signoretti opened this place with Jonathan Trombini. The excellent use of mother yeast, the lightness and digestibility of the doughs and the alternative pizzas such as Pura & Vegan quickly decreed its success, leading to a second opening in Cesena.

Prices: from 7 euros

Highest Price: 19, 50 EURO - Pizza Tonnara (fiordilatte, pendolini, onion, tuna in tataki with Cervia salt).

13. PEDROCCHINO - Classic pizza

Via Roma, 21 - Campodoro (PD)

Emerging restaurant, with an extensive menu dedicated to pizza. There are many versions (classic, special, light) with unique proposals, 3L pizza that integrates the ingredients into the dough, and Ciambella pizza that recalls a baguette.

Pizza prices from 5, 50

Highest Price: 20 EURO - Pizza La Ciambella (Donut-shaped baguette filled with mozzarella and parmesan, garnished at the end of cooking with mixed salad, datterino tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, Parma ham and parmesan flakes).

12. RESTAURANT DELL’ANGOLO - Classic pizza

via Villoresi 71/73 - Vittuone (MI)

Giuseppe Rizzo, self-taught and then a disciple of Simone Padoan, revolutionized his parents' village trattoria by transforming it into a restaurant-pizzeria, a treasure chest where all types of leavened products (pizzas, Ligurian focaccia, panettone, Venetian, etc …) reign supreme today.

Pizza prices: from 6 to 20 euros

Highest Price: 20 EURO - White pizza with caramelized Tropea onions, Iberian pig, mustard and fiordilatte d'Agerola

11. LE JARDIN DE RUSSIE - Classic pizza / focaccia

Via del Babuino, 9 - Rome

Focaccia branded Fulvio Pierangelini, a chef adored since the time of Gambero Rosso di San Vincenzo, and prepared every day by Nazzareno Graziano Menghini, executive chef of the refined Roman hotel.

Pizza prices: from 16 euros

Highest Price: 22 EUROS - artichoke pizza, black truffle and mountain cheese

10. DAL DOSSO SALAMENSA - Gourmet pizza

via mons. Oscar Romero, 69 - Montichiari (Bs)

Unusual formula, Salamensa is both a bar open for breakfast and a bistro for late risers, with the laboratory for leavened products placed in the center of the room. The pizza chef Luca Giordano serves the pizza leavened 30/36 hours on hot cast iron bases to retain the heat.

Pizza prices: from 19 euros

Highest Price: 24 euros - pizza with San'Ilario ham 30 months

7. FRATELLI MASCOLO - Neapolitan pizza

p.zza G. Marconi, 9 - Gragnano

A tradition, that of the panuozzo, that the Mascolo family have been carrying on since the 1970s, since they have been baking Neapolitan leavened products with the double cooking effigy of street food. The pizzas, inspired by the Sorrento tradition of pizza by the meter, are served here with a particular unit of measurement: the kilo.

Pizza prices: from 8 euros

Highest Price: 25 EUROS - pizza with sausage, rocket, fresh tomatoes, parmesan flakes and mozzarella.

N. B. The size of the pizzas is considerably larger than traditional pizzas.

7. LEAVEN - Gourmet pizza

Via C. Ravizza, 11 - Milan

Milan has another Neapolitan-inspired pizzeria, faithful to the most current quality standards: ground flour and stone, long leavening, many Slow Food presidia among the raw materials. The "Gourmet Extreme" line of Daisies includes the addition of raw ingredients.

Pizza prices: from 8.50 euros

Highest Price: 25 EUROS - Gambero Rosso pizza (stewed red prawns from Mazara, cherry tomato jam, dandelion and orange peel).

7. TASTE - Gourmet pizza

via Ponte, 55 / a - san Martino Buonalbergo (Vr)

Renato Bosco, pizza researcher, often protagonist on Dissapore, moves with identical skill between five different types of pizzas: classic, Roman double crunch, by the slice, by the meter, to finally arrive at gourmet pizza (air of bread).

Pizza prices: from 6 to 25 euros

Highest price: Pizza The classic always good 25 euros

6. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SIMPLY FOOD - Gourmet pizza

contrà S. Giorgio 2, Bassano del Grappa (Vi)

In constant growth from year to year, as the people of Bassano who frequent his restaurant know since 2008, Riccardo Antoniolo is now a kind of leavened guru (in the nineteenth century pizzas are called this), who in the culinary laboratory in Contrà S. Giorgio it also combines pastry, cuisine and an emporium of great goodness.

Pizza prices: from 8 to 26 euros

Highest Price: 26 EURO

5. LA CASCINA DEI SAPORI - Gourmet pizza

Via Almici 1, Rezzato (Bs)

Antonio Pappalardo, young and passionate, brings together classic Neapolitan pizzas (Igt certified), the crispy Roman-style pizza in a pan and the slices of gourmet pizza in his local. Quick cooking and sumptuous toppings complete the profile.

Pizza prices: from 6 euros

Highest Price: 30 EUR - Pizza Jamon Iberico de Bellota Capa Negra Riserva (fiordilatte, stracchino delle Pertiche and rocket).

4. I TIGLI - Gourmet pizza

via Camposolo, 11 - San Bonifacio (Vr)

Simone Padoan does not need long introductions, a pizza maker who is the symbol of gourmet pizza cut into wedges, driven by continuous research on doughs and by a care of the ingredients comparable to that of a starred restaurant.

Pizza prices: from 9 to 33 euros

Highest Price: 33 EUROS - Pizza Foie Gras (brioche bread, liver escalope, roast duck, artichokes and salted hazelnuts).

3. IN THE KITCHEN - Gourmet pizza

via Giuseppe Lunati, 25 - Rome

Since 2009, the tasting pizza has also been in the shadow of the Colosseum, baked with increasingly refined combinations by the collaborators of Edoardo Papa, who in his restaurant in the Portuense area, open only in the evening, serves pizzas with a very light dough cut into wedges to be enjoyed by all diners.

Pizza prices: from 12 euros

Highest Price: 34 EUROS - Pizza Prawns (paranza prawns, Nebrodi black lard, reduction of Etna Rosso)

1. SIRANI - Gourmet pizza

via A. Gramsci, 5 - Bagnolo Mella (Bs)

He doesn't like having children in his restaurant, but Nerio Beghi is among the Italian standard bearers of gourmet pizza, topped with exquisite and impressive toppings with high quality ingredients. Among the very first to keep pizzas worth over 30 euros on the menu.

Pizza prices: from 20 euros

Higher price: 35 EUROS - Pizza Indeciso (2 prawns, 2 lobsters, 2 patanegra, seasonal vegetables).

1. GOURMET TAVERN - Gourmet pizza

Via Maffei, 12 ang. Via Fogazzaro - Milan

New generation pizzeria with large spaces and well-finished furnishings as well as a precise price policy: do not look for the 4 euro pizza, here we start with the 14 euro margherita to get to the pizza with Gambero di Mazara which costs 35. Pizza tasting from 8 slices to 30 euros, typical topping: guacamole, buffalo tartare, red Mazara shrimp and Sorrento lemon zest.

Pizza prices: from 14 euros

Highest Price: 35 EUROS - Gambero di Mazara pizza