Bologna's best pizza: top 10 picks

Soft, thick and small. Or large, thin and crunchy? Even in Bologna there are hundreds of different ideas about pizza.
I love it so much that I've even added it to our food tour in Bologna.

Here's the list of my best pizza restaurants in Bologna, always updated.

Where to eat the best pizza in Bologna

Pizza in Bologna is changing.
Many new restaurants and street food places are opening and the quality is rising.

Bologna doesn't have its own pizza style, but you can find all the classic ones if you know where to look.

Think soft, like in Naples, crusty and square, like in Rome, or even the new gourmet pizza with quality ingredients and stuffing.

Here is the list of my best pizza in Bologna:

Call it gourmet pizza, pizza for foodies, or whatever you like. It’s a different way to eat the most known Italian food.

First choice ingredients, 7 different types of flours and 48 hours ripening - through sour-dough born from apple and pomegranate - make it a must for pizza lovers.
Berberè is in the heart of the university area, not the quietest on Friday and Saturday nights.

Book online, in advance.

Recommended pizza
Speck, gorgonzola cheese, honey, walnuts and fior di latte cheese. But the menu changes seasonally.
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Price
30€ pizza and craft beer. But you won’t regret it.

Info
Via Petroni, 9/b, 40126 Bologna
Tel: +39 051 2759196

Piazza di Porta Saragozza 6/A
Tel. +39 051 0185193

Via Augusto Murri, 71
Tel: +39 051 098 8135

www.berberepizza.it

Bologna FC bought Roberto Baggio from Milan in 1997.
O' Fiore Mio opened in Bologna in December 2014.
Both great deals for the city.

Compared to the other places on this list, O' Fiore Mio is different: you can sit inside, but it is more a street food place than a restaurant. The menu is made of 10 different kinds of pizza that constantly rotate.
Some of them are also for vegetarians and vegans, like the one with chickpeas, lentils and dried tomatoes.
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If you've been to Bonci in Rome you know what I'm talking about.

Recommended pizza
'nduja, bufala and tomatoes or zucchini flowers and sardines
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Price
​15€ for 4 slices of pizza and craft beer

Info
Piazza Malpighi, 8, 40123 Bologna
Tel: +39 051 040 2308

ofioremio.it

Outside the city centre, you will find this classic and reliable pizza restaurant.
The dough is soft and tasty but light and has quality toppings.

Try tagliere, a larger pizza for 2 served on a wooden board. Caruso is usually very busy and a bit noisy. At the weekend booking is a must.

They're famous for a good gluten-free pizza and well-made fish dishes.

Recommended pizza
Verace, with sausage and wild broccoli
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Price
18€ pizza and beer

Info
Via del Parco 13, 40138​ Bologna
Tel: +39 051 531341

www.ristorantepizzeriacaruso.it

It is a classic pizza restaurant, the only one in the city center that belongs to the association of true Neapolitan pizza.

Pizza is soft but slightly crispy and very digestible. Margherita with buffalo cheese is always a safe choice. The staff is friendly and booking is not required.

One of the rooms looks like a cave, but it's not as weird as it seems.

Recommended pizza
Cafona, with sausage and friarielli (broccoli). In summer they use zucchini flowers, even better if possible.
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Price
17€ pizza and beer

Info
Via Cairoli, 16, 40121 Bologna
Tel: +39 051 588 2700

www.ristorantelaverace.it

The atmosphere of a pub, with a surprising pizza: this is Ranzani 13.

Great care to the ingredients like San Marzano tomatoes and organic flour. Great selection of Bologna craft beers on tap.
​Their hamburgers are also remarkable.

Reservation is required, but now you can find Ranzani's pizza also at the amazing location of Borgo Mameli.

Recommended pizza
Krotone, with zucchini, smoked provola cheese, bacon, salted ricotta cheese and pepper
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Price
​25€ pizza and craft beer. Free amaro when you pay

Info
Via Camillo Ranzani, 5/12H, 40127 Bologna ​
Tel: +39 051 8493743

www.ranzani13.it

Mozzabella is the Roman Empire of street pizza in Bologna.
First a cozy shop in Via del Pratello.
Then a stall inside Mercato delle Erbe.

And now straight to conquest the heart of our food tour in Modena: Albinelli food market.
What's next? Turkish friends, I'd worry if I were you.

Michele Leo, an award-winning pizza maker, is proud and passionate about his work like only people from Naples can be. Luckily we have him in Bologna and Modena, always busy creating new toppings for his soft pizza.

Tropea onion, potatoes, zucchini and cherry tomatoes, or bacon, pecorino cheese and bean cream, or why not radicchio, burrata, speck, and walnuts?
Perfect for lunch or a Bologna aperitivo.

Recommended pizza
Zucchini flowers, ricotta, and anchovies. Or just a simple red one with tomato sauce and oregano.
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Price
​10€ for lunch with pizza and water.

Info

Via del Pratello 65/B 40122, Bologna
Tel. +39 051 550506

Mercato delle Erbe
Via Ugo Bassi 40121, Bologna

Mercato Albinelli
Via Albinelli, 13, 41100 Modena

For lunch a restaurant with many options for vegetarians and vegans.
For dinner also a stunning pizza place.

Their philosophy?

They don't shop based on the menu, but we build the menu based on the seasonal ingredients food around Bologna food markets.

The result is stunning.

About 8/10 pizzas to choose from, but don't expect the "Classic" ones.
Be open to new flavors. You'll be rewarded.

Recommended pizza
Rovescio, with mozzarella, caramelized tomatoes, bacon, red onions and ricotta.

Price
20€

Info
Via Pietralata, 75a, 40122 Bologna BO
Tel. +39 051 523545
rovescio.it

Pasquale Penne has a red rose tattoo on his right arm. But not only flowers grow from his hands.

Opened in November 2017, Bianco Farina is a small pizzeria in Bolognina, a workers' neighborhood behind the train station (the same as #1 restaurant on Tripadvisor Trattoria di Via Serra). It's not the most romantic place to propose to your girlfriend but...what a pizza!

2 days of leavening, 70% hydration, and only 2 pizzas at a time in the wood oven to keep the temperature. If you love Napoli-style pizza you must go.

Recommended pizza
Borgo vergini: stuffed with endive, taggiasche olives, Salina's capers, Cetara's anchovies and smoked provola

Price
20€ for pizza and beer on tap

Info
Via Domenico Zampieri 36, 40129 Bologna
​Tel. +39 346 611 2769

biancofarinabologna.eatbu.com

Ok, this is controversial.
This is not the best pizza in Bologna.
This is the pizza of Bologna.

Open day and night, it's probably the one and only street food of Bologna.

You don't go to Altero for delicious mozzarella, organic flour, or glamour toppings. It's a square of volcano temperature simple pizza cooked in an electric oven.

But since 1953 generations of Bolognesi ended their sweet young nights there. You have to try it to come back and say you've been to Bologna.

Recommended pizza
Margherita

Price
3€ for a double Margherita

Info
Via dell'Indipendenza, 33, 40121 Bologna
Tel. +39 051 234758

pizzaltero.it

Now you know where to eat great pizza, what about the rest?

Now you have a list of pizza places to fill a week in Bologna.

But what about tortellini, gelato, mortadella, balsamic, parmigiano and all the rest?

Join our Bologna food tour to meet our local food experts and enter the small family shops that make the best food of Bologna.

Small groups and happy people, always.