The ranking of Europe’s best pizzerias from the guide 50 Top Pizza has been revealed, arriving with few surprises near the top of the table, but with one important novelty: this year the list size has stretched (like a good dough) to 60 establishments. According to the organizers, this increase is the direct result of the sector’s profound evolution, driven by increasingly fierce competition and a generalized improvement in quality standards.
At the Top of the Podium
The London-based Napoli on the Road revalidates, for the third consecutive year, its title as the best pizzeria in Europe. A business that travels on wheels (or rather did) since Michele Pascarella founded it a decade ago aboard a Piaggio Ape truck equipped with a wood-fired oven. Since then, the ascent has been meteoric: Pascarella was crowned World’s Best Pizzaiolo in 2023, was named the fifth-best pizzeria in the world in 2025, and that same year his creation Ricordi d’Infanzia was crowned the best pizza on the planet.
Madrid-based Baldoria also remains in second place on the podium. Thus, Ciro Cristiano’s project solidifies its status as the indisputable leading reference and number one in Spain. His venue, inspired by the island of Procida and located at No. 100 on Madrid’s José Ortega y Gasset street, earned last year the country’s best pizza award thanks to its Bufala Fest.
The big rise in the upper ranks goes to IMperfetto. The French venture by Tonino Cogliano and Simone Lombardi in Puteaux continues its hot streak and leaps from fifth to third place. It thus claims a bronze that in 2025 went to the Barcelona-based Sartoria Panatieri, which drops to fifth place behind 50 Kalò, in London.
The second half of the ranking is occupied, from sixth to tenth place respectively, by the German Pizza Zulu in Fürth, the Amsterdam-based pizzeria nNea, Sapori Italiani U Taliana in Bratislava, the Lisbon-based Forno d’Oro, and finally Vienna’s Via Toledo, which this year closes the European top ten.
