The World’s Greatest Pizzerias, Ranked by 512 Specialists

The place’s one of the best place to seize an distinctive slice? All indicators level to Italy — however there are just a few high joints between right here and Milan.

The world’s finest pizza is discovered on the famend I Masanielli pizzeria in Caserta, Italy, in keeping with the newest rating from this yr’s Greatest Pizza Awards. This high honor goes to celebrated chef Francesco Martucci — a person who’s refined his abilities since he was 10, in keeping with the announcement. He moved up from No. 5 final yr to take the highest spot for his mastery of the beloved pizza.

“It’s an immense happiness to know so many colleagues from all around the world, however additional happiness to win a rating this essential,” Martucci says in a translated video.

Let’s discover these {qualifications}: First, the Greatest Pizza Awards is a world expert-judged rating led by The Greatest Chef Awards, a company acknowledged for figuring out high culinary professionals since 2015. Greatest Pizza initially started as a particular award on the annual Greatest Chef ceremony and advanced into its personal occasion in 2023. This yr’s ceremony was introduced final week with a celebration in Milan.

An impartial panel of 512 specialists from 60 international locations judged the competitors, deciding on places that commemorate “pizza excellence and innovation,” in keeping with the award platform.

Seven of these high 10 pizza cooks have been additionally tossing pies in Italy. That features pizza hotspots in Rome, Fiano Romano, and Caiazzo.

Japan can also be within the operating for one of the best pizza title — two of the highest 10 cooks, Daniele Cason and Tsubaso Tamaki, are based mostly in Tokyo. Globetrotting govt chef Cason has slowly inched towards the highest over the previous a number of years, reaching the No. 7 spot in each 2023 and 2024. He now ranks at No. 6 worldwide, because of his “uncommon expertise for merging conventional Italian cooking with the finesse of Japanese elements,” in keeping with the award web site.

Tamaki, however, says he depends on his progressive strategies to impress diners. He based Pizza Studio Tamaki in 2018, which provides Neapolitan-style pies made with dough fermented for 30 hours from a mix of Japanese and American flour.

Stateside, a number of home pizza locations impressed judges. (Fourteen, to be precise.) Whereas none made the highest 10, Anthony Mangieri earned the No. 17 spot for his Una Pizza Napoletana, a Decrease East Facet eatery that has beforehand been acknowledged as one of the best pizza in America in different competitions.

Throughout the Hudson River, New Jersey’s Razza Pizza Artigianale secured the No. 22 spot. The pizza place provides traditional wood-fired pies (below the steerage of the ‘‘visionary’’ chef Dan Richer) together with charcuterie and craft cocktails.

It’s inconceivable to disregard this win from the American South, both: A pizzeria in Mississippi, Leña Pizza+Bagels (No. 77), scored extremely within the judges’ eyes. It’s headed by chef Marisol Doyle, who discovered the fundamentals of conventional pizza in Naples.

We’re bookmarking this checklist as inspiration for our subsequent worldwide journey.