The best pizza in Zurich

🙌 Italian-inspired sourdough pizzeria that questions the original Italian principles and rethinks them with a variety of other influences and nationalities.

"Allowed" are 😳 Pizza Hawaii 🍍, sourdough pizza mit🇨🇭Schweizer mozzarella - and then in creations like Lahmacun and with Wiedikerli sausages (Vanilla Sky 🤩).

👩👨 Co-founders Meagan & Simon believe that traditions and processes must be respected, but culture must also move with the times.

Working sustainably with products from small producers, if possible from the local area, is close to the team's heart. Imports are only made where necessary, e.g. the tomatoes and olive oil come from southern Italy.

👨‍🍳👨‍🍳 The two pizzaiolo Gennaro and Carmine, who have Italian roots, know their craft and are constantly coming up with new pizza creations.

My tip: Pizza Vanilla Sky (Hawaii is unfortunately not yet permanently on the menu ;-)) and the buffalo milk soft ice cream for dessert (definitely try it!).

Fine pizza with a very thin, crispy base can be found at Azzurro. For many people the best pizza in Zurich. On each pizza there is a mozzarella ball in the middle. In summer you can sit outside in the garden.

My tip: Pizza Margherita or with Parma ham

Concept Butegar Pizza al Taglio

Light, fluffy, airy and easy to digest with the best ingredients from Italy. The facts:

• 72-100 hours proofed dough
• San Marzano tomatoes
• Stone-ground flour
• Unique creations
• 100% homemade

Good to know @butegar

The small pizza parlour Butegar is a take-away at Wiedikon station. Moritz, the founder, will be happy to explain all the details to you on your first visit. He himself grew up in Italy and has fulfilled his dream with Butegar.

Moritz is constantly surprising his customers with new, ingenious creations. For example, the Amore Melato pizza is flavoured with homemade apple juice caviar. The best apple juice from Thurgau apples is used for this. The Scandalosa creation with pineapple jam (scandal ;-)) even has its own song and is served scandalously with smoke.

🧘🏻‍♀️There is a cooperation with "Das Yogahaus" from the neighbourhood. With every full stamp card you get a piece plus the first yoga lesson for free.

🍹The pizza is best enjoyed right next door in the Elisaburg bar with a drink.

My recommendations at Butegar

Scandalosa, Luna di Miele and Amore Melato. Three pieces correspond to a round pizza.

Chianalea prepares Calabrian cuisine according to these three basic principles: simple, fresh and homemade. Only fresh and seasonal products are used and prepared à la minute. In addition to pizzas there are also changing lunch menus, take-away possible. In the evening guests are spoiled with antipasti, changing primi (pasta dishes) and secondi (meat or fish). The dishes vary according to the season and the chef's mood. Very cordial service.

My tip: homemade pasta and pizza

In search of the best pizza in Zurich, I came across 'da Michelangelo'. I wouldn't say it's the best pizza, but it's definitely one of my favorites. The homemade tagliatelle with seafood could not convince me, because the taste was a bit too bland and the seafood could be of better quality. The restaurant is quite large and bright due to the large windows and is also very popular with families.

My tip: Pizza with Parma ham, rocket and fig

Restaurant

Pizza Napoletana, one of the best in Zurich. The San Gennaro on Wipkingerplatz has moved and the Pizzeria Da Pone has reopened with a surprising number of familiar faces ;-) A large part of the San Gennaro team, including pizzaiolo Francesco Pone, are (newly) at work here.

Kitchen

Francesco Pone trained in Naples with one of the world's best pizzaiolos, who also created the recipe for the Margherinara, which has already won awards. The flour for the pizza dough is a proprietary mixture and is ground in the Swissmill opposite. The pizza dough is left to rise for 48 hours and the pizza is baked quickly and very hot at 500 degrees with an airy crust and high-quality ingredients such as selected San Marzano tomatoes.

Ambience / Details

The restaurant has 170 seats and has different rooms; the conservatory is a little noisy. Guests who are more sensitive to noise are better off sitting in the other area. In summer, you can sit outside with a view of the Limmat.
I think the pizza and the ambience are even better than before. :)

My impressions on Instagram (video)

😋 The recommendations:  

- Tris di Montanara classica - three small deep-fried pizzas with various sauces
- Pizza Margherinara & Pizza Funghi e Coppa
- Straccetti da Pone - a kind of churros made from pizza dough with chocolate and pistachio cream

Don Leone is a Zurich institution for good bourgeois Italian food and pizzas are freshly prepared in the pizza oven. Ideal for a convivial evening with friends, preferably in the cosy vaulted cellar.

My tip: The heart-shaped pizza in the picture is topped with roast beef, parmesam and truffles - perfect in taste and prepared with lots of 'amore', but generously sized for one person. ;)

The Miracle convinces in Seefeld with its wafer-thin pizzas with crispy base and fresh topping. Also a must are the homemade pasta, the veal cordon bleu and as a crowning conclusion the homemade ice cream. At noon there are different lunch menus to choose from. The ambience is down-to-earth and cosy, in summer there are a few tables outside.

My Tip: Pizza

In Napulé in miles you get excellent pizzas. These are prepared by the multi-award-winning Pizzaiolo World Champion Raffaele Tromiro in a wood-fired oven according to a Neapolitan recipe. The Mozzarella di bufala for 4 francs extra should not be missed. The restaurant itself is rather noisy, with tight seating and very fast service, because the table is probably reserved several times in the evening. Not for a romantic evening, but with fantastic pizza. Also possible as take-away.

In Zurich, there are now also two take-away options. One in district 1 (near Stadelhofen) and one in district 5 (near Limmatplatz).

My tip:best to share with one person - for the natural taste Pizza Margherita - and the excellent Pizza Cornucopia

A great concept - SO Pizza. The guest does not have to decide on a pizza, but is served various pieces of pizza à discrétion fresh from the oven. Vegetarians also get their money's worth. Before the pizza feast there is a bowl of crisp, mixed salad and pizza bread.

My Tip: Lunch for CHF 19 - Pizza à discrétion

It took quite a while until I became aware of the tavern da Angelo. There's fantastic pizza here. The restaurant is a bit inconspicuous from the outside, but due to its great popularity a reservation is recommended. With a neighbourhood stain feeling, friendly service and green olives to get you in the right mood, you feel welcome right away. Besides the deliciously crispy pizza, the risotto and the fennel, orange salad is highly recommended.

My Tip: Pizza Verdure

🍕The Baasler Gundeli has made it to Züri 🤘😍 VITO - endless pizza love. Airy / thick crust (Pizza Napoletana), Mutti tomato sauce and various side dish options. You have the choice of picking individual pieces at the counter or you can order a whole one at the table. We ate these with four of us.

👉 for 39.- you get a whole (vegi/vegan) with up to 3 side dishes 😍 | 🥩 +2.- per 1/3
🍹VITO Iced Tea with Orange & Basil 🙌

My tip: Top the whole 3-piece and homemade iced tea