Here is the list of the 18 best pizzerias in Barcelona

Many of us have been (very young) and have bought frozen pizzas thinking that there is no bad pizza, and that any dough with stuff on top fulfills its function because pizza, that divine food, is good even when it is bad.

Little did we know that we lived in a lie, and that just as parents filled our ears with the “you’ll understand when you grow up” refrain, surely behind every frozen pizza we ate there was an omnipresent Italian god looking down on us with pity saying: You will understand when you grow up.

And so it has been. We’ve grown up, and although fridge pizza has a place in our hearts we know that bad pizza takes us to heaven, but good pizza takes us to paradise, and that when you try a really good pizza, with its well-fermented dough  and just right, topped with a well-melted authentic mozzarella and level ingredients, there’s no turning back.

Fortunately, Barcelona has become an authentic capital of the Italian star dish But beware, all that glitters is not gold, so we bring you a list of the best pizzas in town so you can learn to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, and to see, the next time you have, that there are incredible (and homemade) pizzas just a few meters from your house.

Pummarola, the Neapolitan capos of Sant Antoni

At the neighborhood of Sant Antoni on the corner of Ronda de Sant Pau, you will find this Neapolitan pizzeria that, in addition to the essence of its cuisine, also seeks to maintain the prices of a Neapolitan pizzeria. Here you can order a top quality margarita for 6 euros, which in Barcelona is a rara avis. Its endless queues  and its furnace of unstoppable activity endorse it. Better call ahead to make a reservation, it will be worth it.

 Carrer de la Granada del Penedès, 25

NAP when growth means improvement

They started only ten years ago, but already have six stores in Madrid, three in Barcelona, two in the Basque Country and one in Mallorca. But don’t be confused by its speed of expansion, which does not go against its quality, on the contrary.  NAP is like a Neapolitan pizza branch, a safe place where, wherever you are, you know you’ll find good dough and quality ingredients.

We went there and met Alessandro, a pizza genius and pretty much everything else who taught us how a pizza should be eaten, what consistency the dough should be and what happens every time someone pours pizza on a pineapple somewhere in the world. But to know all this you will have to see it in the video that we leave you at the beginning.

Av. del Paral-lel, 94 | Av. de Francesc Cambó, 30 | Carrer del Baluard, 69

Mother Lievito the secrets of the dough

Its name says it all: in Italian, madrelievito means “sourdough”. If Barcelona’s pizzas have improved substantially, it is because pizzaiolos like the ones here have brought their own pizzas to Barcelona sourdoughs the Italian bakery, fed for years from Italy, has literally brought the flavors of the country of the boot to the ovens of Barcelona. In the case of Madre Lievito, specifically, there are already four pizzerias, with their four ovens, from which this dough is produced.

At Madre Lievito, their pizza maker Osvaldo prepared one of the most curious pizzas we have ever seen: the Queen’s horn, which consists of stretching a part of the edge of the dough and making a kind of shell with it, which is filled with ricotta, ham and pistachio. Like the cheese-stuffed rims of those franchise pizzerias, but better.

Carrer de Mallorca, 270 | Carrer de la Llacuna 1 | Carrer Dels Almogàvers 148 | Carrer Creu Coberta 105, 08014 Barcelona

Frankie Gallo Cha Cha Cha, the hipster pizza

Frankie’s pizzas are innovative and a bit more expensive than the previous ones, but they are worth it. They are the work of the Colombo brothers, also owners of Xemei one of the top Italian restaurants in Barcelona. The Colombo’s signature on any restaurant in the city is usually a sign of quality, and with Frankie’s pizzas it is no less.

Their four cheese pizza with sage and sweet potato or their carbonara pizza are a must. And now, in addition, they have just added pasta to their menu. By the way, their take-away pizza boxes come with instructions on how to reheat the product when it arrives home, to give it a final touch that leaves it just as perfect as when it left the store, a level touch that leaves it perfect.

Carrer Marquès de Barberà, 15

Gina Balmesina, the best pizza is also on the menu

Her managers define Gina as the little sister of Balmesina (awarded as one of the 50 best pizzerias in Europe). A more casual feel but with the same top quality pizzas as their other location. Here, of course, they have excellent cocktails to start the night.

By the way, at their locations their pizza (tremendous) is included in the lunch menu, so you can’t have it easier to give yourself the pizza craving you deserve at any time of the week.

Carrer Riera de St. Miquel, 29

Sartoria Panatieri, literally the best pizza in Europe

Only a pizzeria as brilliant as Sartoria Panatieri could come from the union of two chefs trained in Michelin-starred restaurants. This pizzeria is another level, haute cuisine made pizza. And although we might have suspected it, now an award has come to confirm it: Sartoria Panatieri prepares the best pizza in Europe (outside Italy).

Its prices, obviously, surpass almost all of the above, but it may be our favorite. A whim that is well worth it, and where you can go hungry to try not only their pizzas, but all the other dishes of haute cuisine or artisan sausages they prepare. By the way, they dominate so much, that they have also opened a steakhouse, Brabo where we went to  to try the food that, according to them, they like to eat when they leave their pizzeria.

Carrer de l’Encarnació, 51 |  Carrer de Provença, 330

Can Pizza the Sagrada Familia’s anti-tourist shelter

It may seem impossible, but if you manage to poke your head through the hordes of tourists surrounding the Sagrada Familia you can see the light at Can Pizza, a haven of great pizza prepared in a small alley next to the basilica. Can Pizza Sagrada Familia is, like Frankie Gallo Cha Cha Cha, the work of the Colombo brothers, in this case allied with Isaac Aliaga, with whom they have arrived here after colonizing the outskirts of Barcelona with Can Pizza restaurants in El Prat, Vilanoca y la Geltrú and Molins de Rei.

In Barcelona they also have premises in Poblenou, and their slogan says it all: Respect the Pizza. 72 hours of fermentation for the dough and an award in 2021 for the best pizza in the country with its Jerry Tometo (with burrata and cherrys) are enough to make you run and look at their menu and start salivating

📍Ptge. de Simó, 21

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As soon as you enter the restaurant you can see the stone oven where they bake their handmade pizzas such as the exquisite and simple Marinara, la Roberto, with parmesan cheese and gorgonzola D.O.P and their special Buon Appetito with smoked salmon and dried tomato.

📍Av. Marqués de Argentera, 19

Four Corners detroit pizza arrives in Barcelona

We have already told you about it but we do it again here. Four Corners is located on the first floor of a hotel in Glòries, and is the first Detroit-style pizzeria in the city. What does Detroit-style mean? American style, that is to say, in a big way.

Forget the subtlety of a thin Neapolitan dough or a melted burrata. The Detroit pizza is thick and square, with a focaccia-like dough that is just another pizza topping, and where every bite fills your mouth with flavor and enjoyment. The pizzas, made by Anthony Falco, prophet of this type of dough in the United States, give you what they promise, a square (that is, four corners) and three fingers high of pure pizza pleasure.

📍 Av. Diagonal, 205

Sports bar sport is the excuse

The name does not do it justice. Sports Bar is not an Irish pub where you can go to watch rugby and Premier League games, but a hideaway where they prepare authentic pizza and where yes, you can watch sports on TV screens, but, above all, you can try one of the Neapolitan quality pizzas that have been spreading love in the city for the longest time.

They started in the gothic Quarter and have been growing, and in their menu there are classics of Italian cuisine, such as cottoletta a la milanesa (what in Argentina they call milanesa) or grilled fish, but their classics are the pizzas that come out of those wood-fired ovens painted as if it were a soccer ball. Classic pizzas so you can’t go wrong with any of them.

c/ Ample, 51 | Av/ Diagonal, 123 | C/ Marina, 290 | C/ De la Boqueria, 26 | C/ D’en Tantarantana, 20

Grosso Napoletano the good pizza (gluten free)

Good gluten-free pizzas are available. Grosso Napoletano and its enormous growth prove it. Their awards as well. Its third place in the 50 TOP Pizza’s “First World Pizza Summit 2022” proves that great pizza for celiacs is a reality. 

But they are not only that, exists Grosso Napoletano and Grosso Napoletano without glutine. With 3 stores in Barcelona and about 20 throughout Spain, they are already a consolidated chain that does not fail. By the way, for dessert, their nutella pizza is also famous.

📍 Several locations

Parking Pizza/ Pita pizzas in a former parking lot

Yes, that’s right, a former parking lot. Perhaps one of the coolest places to eat in Barcelona. A former parking lot that has been preserved (almost) as is, on Paseo San Juan has given way to a restaurant split in three: a pizzeria, a pitas place and, as of this year, in the basement, a sirloin steak place.

But the pizzas, which are what we’re interested in, nail it. Wood-fired oven, artisan pizzas with thin crust and more daring mixes than the classic ones, and a short but fine menu of starters. A sure hit to enjoy a pizzaza  in a local to the height.

📍 Av. Diagonal 421

Trafalgar cocktail & pizza club

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Yes, pizza, cocktails and, in short, partying. The Trafalgar pizza club looks like a cocktail bar but cooks like a pizzeria, and in its large industrially decorated premises hides a wonderful oven that makes Neapolitan-style pizzas that, to warn you of the tone, are numbered on the menu in the form of songs like a record ready to be played.

In the background, electronic music, which accompanies pizzas with great dough and great product, which, frankly, are short of how delicious they are. To accompany , a menu next door with as many cocktails as pizzas (of course, several spritz) that serve to mark a round night without leaving the premises.

📍C/ de Trafalgar, 19, L’Eixample, 08010 Barcelona

Da Nanni inception of the margherita pizza

Da Nanni smells of Naples. Aroma of street pizza, authenticity and fried food. It is not for nothing that its colors are the blue of the Napoli soccer club and, apart from pizzeria, it is also defined as frigitoria, that is to say, fried food. Here you can find authentic Neapolitan food and a secret, one of the cheapest pizzas in town.

Their pizzas also come out, as in few places, in individual format, so you can have a tremendous margarita for only three euros, or another one with sausage and friarelli for five. An apparent joke that hides a very serious pizza. With three locations in Barcelona, you’re spoilt for choice.

c/Rec, 30 | C/ Llibreteria, 10 | Rambla del Poblenou, 20

Antica pizzeria Da Michele, the embassy of the world’s best margarita

If the name of this pizzeria sounds familiar from a trip, you’re right: The Antica Pizzeria Da Michele BCN is the branch in Barcelona of the Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Naples a pizzeria that has been in operation since 1870 and which, they say, makes the best margarita in the world, the canonical and original one.

Therefore, if you go to Da Michele in Barcelona, we recommend that you try at least a basic margarita so that you understand what it has to taste like, and then get to experimenting. You’ll be thankful you’re lucky enough to have one of the world’s great pizzerias open a branch right in your own city.

c/ del Consell de Cent, 336,

Fel-la Pizza, secret Roman pizza in Borne

In a neighborhood that doesn’t seem to know how to keep secrets, there are still a few. Fel-la Pizza has just won the first vegan pizza contest in the city with a special proposal: Roman pizzas with crispy and honeycombed dough, which disappear at the first bite in your mouth. First class ingredients to try a different kind of pizza in this small restaurant in Borne.

📍Fel-la Pizza, C/ de Sant Pere Més Baix, 69

El Vato Loco, the vegan pizzeria

In the Borne hides a pizzeria with a Mexican name and pizzas without animals that, despite being so far away from the canonical pizza tradition, makes great pizzas. Neapolitan vegan pizzas that are a pleasure to try and where you feel like going without the need to have Go Vegan! tattooed on your forehead. High level pizzeria free of any living being.

📍  Carrer d’en Tantarantana, 20

Il Filgio di Emiliano

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We told you about Eric Ayala at the time, because of the phenomenon that meant that a pizza maker who only had an oven at home, an Instagram account and a lot of personality had become the most popular pizza maker in Catalonia. We went to interview him shortly before he opened his pizzeria, Il Figlio di Emiliano, a traditional Neapolitan pizzeria in Sabadell where he makes the pizzas that we tasted at his house, very good, and with a menu with half a dozen different margaritas for the authentic lovers of the stripped pizza to take a bath of true Neapolitan pizza.

📍  Carrer Mare de Déu de les Neus, 6, 08202 Sabadell,