Always a hit: the 50 best pizzas in Europe

When an Italian organization announces a competition to determine the 50 best pizzas in Europe, you know they mean business. I mean, that’s surely just a little more weighty than when, say, Sweden presents a pizza award… Which of course isn’t to say that they don’t know good food in Sweden, but just as we in the Netherlands don’t hand out awards for Swedish meatballs, we take an Italian verdict on pizza most seriously. And that’s why we’re absolutely delighted with this list! And, well… Italy itself obviously didn’t take part in the competition, because the fact that they make the best pizzas anyway is, naturally, beyond question for the country where pizza originated.

Not only does the Netherlands make a remarkably strong showing with a fairly high ranking, we now also know where to go anywhere in Europe for the best pizza on our continent. Whether you get a pizza craving in Copenhagen, Riga, Ljubljana, Brussels, London, Paris or Madrid, according to 50 Top Pizza Europe 2022 (the world’s most influential pizza guide), you’ll absolutely get your money’s worth at these pizzerias:

These are the 50 best pizzas and pizzerias in Europe 2022 (Italy excluded):

1. Peppe Pizzeria – Paris, France
2. Fratelli Figurato – Madrid, Spain
3. 50 Kalò London – London, England
4. Bæst – Copenhagen, Denmark
5. Sartoria Panatieri – Barcelona, Spain
6. Via Toledo Enopizzeria – Vienna, Austria
7. Pizza Zulù – Fürth, Germany
8. La Piola Pizza – Brussels, Belgium
9. Kytaly – Geneva, Switzerland
10. La Balmesina – Barcelona, Spain
11. nNea – Amsterdam, Netherlands
12. La Pizza è Bella Gourmet – Brussels, Belgium
13. Napoli on The Road – London, England
14. Malafemmena – Berlin, Germany
15. Pizzeria Luca – Copenhagen, Denmark
16. Forno d’Oro – Lisbon, Portugal
17. 400° Laboratorio – Paris, France
18. L’Antica Pizzeria – London, England
19. The Dough Bro – Galway, Ireland
20. San Gennaro – Zurich, Switzerland
21. ‘O Ver – London, England
22. Forza – Helsinki, Finland
23. Guillaume Grasso – Paris, France
24. Surt – Copenhagen, Denmark
25. Futura Neapolitan Pizza – Berlin, Germany
26. Pizzeria Luca – Helsinki, Finland
27. 60 Secondi Pizza Napoletana – Munich, Germany
28. Ostro.– Gdańsk, Poland
29. 450°C – Turku, Finland
30. Ciao a Tutti– Warsaw, Poland
31. Verace – Nova Gorica, Slovenia
32. Marcella – Brussels, Belgium
33. Belli di Mamma – Budapest, Hungary
34. De Superette – Ghent, Belgium
35. Majstor I Margarita – Belgrade, Serbia
36. Oro di Napoli – Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
37. Pietra – Belgrade, Serbia
38. Cinquecento – London, England
39. Casa Nostra – Munich, Germany
40. IMperfetto – Puteaux, France
41. Matto Napoletano – Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
42. Demaio – Bilbao, Spain
43. Pop’s Pizza – Ljubljana, Slovenia
44. Kaja Pizza Köök – Tallinn, Estonia
45. Franko’s Pizza & Bar – Zagreb, Croatia
46. Street Pizza – Riga, Latvia
47. Zielona Górka – Pabianice, Poland
48. Animaletto Pizza Bar – Bucharest, Romania
49. Arte Bianca – Aljezur, Portugal
50. Pizzeria MaMeMi – Copenhagen, Denmark

The winner sits firmly at the top

First prize goes to Peppe Pizzeria in Paris. The pizzeria owned by Italian Peppe Cutraro can even call itself the best in Europe for the second year in a row. Second place goes to Fratelli Figurato in Madrid, followed by 50 Kalò in London, and then we happily skip ahead to number 11: Nnea in Amsterdam! Yes! If you read FavorFlav regularly, you may already have known that this is an unbelievably good pizzeria, because we sang its praises here before.

And apparently the Italian experts agree. The first 25 places also compete for a spot among the 100 Best Pizzerias in the world, an awards ceremony taking place in New York in mid-June. You’ve got this, Nnea!

Perfect pizza guide

So this top-50 ranking is incredibly useful and can immediately serve as a guide. Never again will you set out in Europe only to suffer the misfortune of a bad, soggy pizza. Your city trips can only get better!

Image: pizza from Nnea

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