You asked for it, you got it. A list of where to eat pizza in Rome. It’s a bit of a mixed bag. Some old school places and some quite new. There are a LOT of pizzerias in Rome, and I obviously can’t include them all. These are just the short list of places that I know, and love.
Rather than write extended descriptions/reviews here, I’ve kept it short and sweet. You’ll find the full story on my app, Eat Italy. And where I’ve already written a blog post, I’ve included the link to that as well.
FYI: In case you don’t know, when talking pizza in Rome there are basically three kinds:
- Pizza a taglio: This is sheet pizza, sold mostly in small store fronts that specialize in this type, but also sold in some bakeries. It is sold by the weight and has various toppings. You can either buy it to take away, or (usually) eat it standing up at a counter.
- Pizza: When most people say ‘pizza’ in Rome they mean small, round single serving pizzas. These are made to order at pizzerias, usually in a wood burning oven. Almost always pizzerias are only open at night, so this is a dinner kind of thing (there are some notable and recent exceptions)
- Pizza Bianca: This is white pizza dough that has been baked in a sheet. It is sold in bakeries and is a true ‘street food’ in that it is meant to be eaten while hot, right away.
Roman Pizza vs Neopolitan Pizza: Roman pizza is made with a very thin crust, and barely any rim around the edge. Neopolitan pizza is thicker, doughier, and has a thick puffy crust along the edge. There are also variations that are some where between the two.
Pizzerie
Pizzeria Leoncino
Via del Leoncino 28 (Spanish Steps)
06.686.7757
Lunch & Dinner. Closed Wednesday.
It’s hard to find a good pizzeria that is open for lunch. Also, the area in the center of Rome (Spanish Steps) makes this even more of a challenge. This place is both centrally located and open at lunch. Very much an old fashioned neighborhood place. Speciality: Pizza with onions, beans and sausage. See my post.
Gatta Mangiona
Via Ozanam 30-32 (Monteverde)
06.534.6702
Tues – Sun, Dinner.
Considered by many to be the best pizzeria in Rome. A Roman take on Neopolitan. Inventive toppings. See Eat Italy and this post for full description.
La Fucina
Via Giuseppe Lunati 25/31 (Portuense)
06.559.3368
Sunday – Friday, dinner only. Closed Saturday.
Extraordinary dough and toppings. Very expensive (but worth it) See my blog post.
Pizzeria alle Carrette
Via Madonna dei Monti 95
06.679.2770
Daily for dinner.
Just our local pizza place, which is very, very good. Thin Roman crust. Every neighborhood has a good pizza place, this is ours. See my blog post.
Sforno
Via Statilio Ottato 114 (Tuscolana, Metro: Subagusta)
06.715.46118
Out of the way, fantastic pizzeria, Neopolitan style. See my blog post.
Ai Marmi
Viale Trastevere 53 (Trastevere)
06.580.0919
Dinner only. Closed Wednesday.
If you want to feel like you are in a Fellini movie, head here. Hasn’t changed in about 60 years. Rough and ready service. Don’t worry if there is a line, tables turn fast.
Porto Fluviale
Via del Porto Fluviale 22 (Ostiense)
06.574.3199
One of the few places where you can reserve a table for a pizza, and also is open at lunch. You can choose between either Roman or Neopolitan style. There are certainly better pizza places on this list, but this one is convenient, a nice setting and is good. See my blog post and video
Pizza a Taglio
Pizzarium
Via della Meloria 43 (near Vatican, metro Cipro)
06.397.45416
Most famous pizza place in Italy? Possibly. See my posts here, and here, and here. And Eat Italy as well.
00100
Via Giovanni Branca 88 (Testaccio)
06.434.19627
Daily 12 – 11pm.
Fantastic pizza by the slice from the same owner as Sforno. Also the home of the trapizzini, a triangular pizza pouch filled with things like meatballs and tripe. See this blog post.
Panella
Via Merulana 54
Open daily
Better known as a bakery they have extraordinary pizza by the slice.
Forno La Renella
Via del Moro 15 (Trastevere)
Daily, 9am – 1am.
Known for it’s large loaves of rustic bread, they are also the makers of some of the best loved pizza by the slice in Trastevere. Almost always open.
Roscioli Bakery
Via dei Chiavari 34
06.686.4045
Most famous bakery in Rome? Many say so. Yes, fantastic bread, but also amazing pizza by the slice.Â
Bakeries (pizza bianca, etc)
Forno di Campo di Fiori
Piazza Campo dei Fiori 22
Open daily, 7:30-2; 4:45 – 8. Closed Sunday.
One of the oldest bakeries in town. Fresh, hot pizza bianca all day long.
Roscioli
See above.
Is their pizza bianca better than Forno di Campo dei Fiori? Try both, and you decide.
Renella
See above.
Panella
See above
Antico Forno Urbani
Piazza Costaguti 30 (Ghetto)
Old fashioned bakery that has the best pizza rossa in town. This is thin crusted pizza that is spread with the thinnest layer of tomato sauce, imaginable. No cheese.
Extra: Pizza places that are famous but that I’ve never been to
Da Remo
Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice 44 (Testaccio)
Dinner only, closed Sunday.
Very thin crusted Roman pizza. A real scene, there is always a line. Which is probably why I’ve never been.
Tonda
Via Valle Corteno 31 (Montesacro)
06.818.0960
Located in a suburban neighborhood, and owned by the same owner as Sforno and 00100.
Gluten Free
Mama! Eat
Via di San Cosimato 9
06.580.6222
I’ve actually been here, but have never ordered pizza. The pasta was great. Seriously gluten free, with two separate kitchens.
I can’t include photos of every pizza I’ve mentioned, so here are the highlights. Plus a few fun pizza shots with people you might know.
Pizza bianca from Forno Roscioli
Pizza rossa at Antico Forno Urbani
Ed Levine (Serious Eats) carefully photographing his pizza from Forno di Campo dei Fiori before eating
Piazza bianca from Forno di Campo dei Fiori
Making pizza at Forno di Campo dei Fiori
Bean, onion and sausage pizza at Pizzeria Leoncino
Trapizzino at 00100
Pizza Cacio e Pepe at Sforno
Making pizza at Sforno
Slices of goodness at Pizzarium
Alice Waters and Mona Talbott at Pizzarium
Pizza Quattro Stagione at Le Carrette
Zucchini pizza at Panella
For the full story behind these pizzerias download my app Eat Italy, available at iTunes and for Android.
Why on earth did I read this during lunch time? Dying. Your photos!!
Must run out to the Forno in Campo.
Well, at least the run over will burn off a lot of calories. Not.
Just returned from Rome a couple of days ago and while we tried to get to at least one of the pizza recommendations on your app there were just too many restos we had to try. Alas, we just ran out of time. A good reason to go back!
As a poor student, I went to the Forno di Campo dei Fiori every morning for pizza bianco when I studied in Rome 30 years ago.
What about Pizzeria Baffetto on Via del Governo Vecchio? Is it any good, or just not a favorite?
I actually haven’t been to Baffetto in about 20 years. I don’t really know any Romans that do go, so that doesn’t say much.
Alice looks so different to me from the photos I remember of her…….I am headed to Berkeley today for lunch!The pizza Bianca makes my mouth water!VENICE here I come in two days!!!!!!!!
Wish there was a map to show the general area of these places.
That’s why I included the names of the neighborhoods. But my app has everything mapped out.
Hi Elizabeth,
Really enjoy reading your newsletters – thank you for all the great info – I live vicariously through you. I will be taking an autistic child to Italy who only eats pepperoni or cheese pizza. Can you suggest a pizzeria that would have very basic pizza’s like these?
Thank you, Alice
Unfortunately there is no such thing as peperoni pizza in Italy. But don’t worry, you can always order Margherita, which is tomato sauce with mozzarella cheese at every pizzeria.
OMG, am I ever glad we are coming to Rome in a few months otherwise I would hate you!
Elizabeth, may I suggest you to give a try to “l’Arte Bianca”? It’s a ‘pizzeria al taglio located’ in via di Donna Olimpia 188 (Monteverde Nuovo district)… in my humble opinion, it’s ‘speck e gorgonzola’ pizza is unrivalled!
Thank you Elizabeth-Rome is on the itinerary for my next Italy trip and I will definitely be using your list to eat pizza!
Da Remo is the absolute best pizza in the entire world. The crust is think like a tortilla. Omg I miss it, a MUST eat when in Rome.
I am SO glad that you posted this info on pizza in Rome, Elizabeth!!! After asking this question on a popular travel site, I was nearly laughed to death by others. But you have helped me immensely for my trip to Rome in May. I found your blog a few months ago for my planning and I just love it!
Baci, Grazie mille,
Roz Corieri Paige
La Bella Vita Cucina
Wow that’s a lot of different types of pizza! I wonder if we have any of these types of pizza in Calgary.
Da Remo is indeed wonderful. If you get there at 7:30, you can snag one of the few outdoor tables on that beautiful piazza!
da Remo is worth going to; compared to Nuovo Mondo around the corner, it is a very fine pizza. Although it always seems very crowded, small parties have no problem getting in with a 10 minute wait either on the piazza (Santa Maria Liberatrice, “il giardino”) or inside. The problem comes when a group of 6 shows up and wants a table together. Although I prefer 00100 for the trapizzini which are truly lovely, da Remo is a great choice and is our “neighborhood pizzeria” that I prefer in Testaccio. Of course, if you’ve got a good one in Monti, then why bother going to the land of no parking space?
Anyway, aren’t you obligated to include a discussion of Dar Poeta in any listing of Roman pizza, or are you skipping it on general principles? My own experiences are very 50/50: if you order the “interesting” pizzas, they’re very good; if you go all the way there for a pizza margherita, you really are wasting your time.
wow i just stumbled upon your post. im going to rome in a few weeks and have no idea what to eat and what is good. thank you so much! Besides pizza, are there any good pasta restaurants? =)
Almost every restaurant in Rome serves pasta! But for my favorites, just download my app, Eat Italy, from iTunes.
Hi Elizabeth!
Ok so PLEASE tell me where I can buy that dish in the first photo at the very start of the article? It looks AMAZING! What is it please? And WHERE CAN I GET ME SOME?
Thanks :-)!
x
That first slice of pizza is from Roscioli!
Any leads on a recipe for the thin-crusted Roman-style pie, as at da Remo, Pizzeria alle Carrette, etc.? Can I make a regular pizza/bread dough and just stretch it dough very thin, or is there something else going on there? Advice appreciated.
I make this recipe all the time: http://www.elizabethminchilli.com/2010/06/making-pizza-in-todi/
Fantastic article. To the best of your knowledge is it still current? If you were to pick one for dinner that had a good combination of atmosphere (seating/ ambiance) and pizza quality which would it be? (We are staying near the US Embassy). We are heading over in April and I am looking for a place to take my wife for dinner as I understand for true wood fired pizza you have to wait as it is not available at lunch. THX!
Thank you! Although all those places are still great, there are some newer places to add. My current favorite in the center is Pizzeria Emma, which is also open at lunch. And now you’ve reminded me to update this list!!