Discover the best pizza in Marseille

La Casa di Mario sits at the top of our Marseille list, though the city's most historic addresses are judged as much on the moitié-moitié tradition as on any single ranking.

Moitié-moitié (half-half) is Marseille's own pizza format, one pie split down the middle: mozzarella and emmental on one side, anchovy, garlic, and oregano on the other, both on the same tomato base. It is the dish to order at the city's oldest addresses.

As the story goes, yes. A wood-fired oven mounted in a trailer first appeared on Marseille's streets in 1962, and the format spread fast enough that a trade union for pizza truck operators formed within about a decade. The exact founder's story varies by who is telling it, but the truck itself is well documented.

Le Panier, the city's oldest quarter, and neighboring Noailles hold the highest concentration of historic pizzerias. Cours Julien and the Vieux-Port waterfront both have a younger, more mixed scene.

The most historic addresses often do not take reservations at all, some do not even take cards, and build a line by evening on a first-come basis. Newer Neapolitan pizzerias are more likely to book ahead.

Not entirely. The city's signature moitié-moitié tradition predates the more recent wave of Neapolitan wood-fired pizzerias that now sit alongside it, and the two styles are judged on different terms.

Alongside the local moitié-moitié tradition, a real Neapolitan wood-fired scene has grown up over the last decade, closer to what you would find in Naples itself than the older Marseille style.

Yes, though the waterfront skews toward a younger, more varied crowd than Le Panier just uphill, where the city's oldest and most historic pizzerias are concentrated.