Discover the best pizza in Manchester

Manchester runs the strongest pizza scene in the United Kingdom outside London. The city's Neapolitan core followed the same mid-2000s wave that started in the capital, and it has since built a depth of independent rooms that few British cities can match.

Neapolitan is the most common style on our map, a soft 24 to 48 hour dough cooked near 450°C in under 90 seconds. The densest clusters sit in the Northern Quarter and neighboring Ancoats, the former mill district that has become the city's food heart.

The most popular pizzeria in the city by review volume is Rudy's Pizza Napoletana Ancoats, one of 15 we list. Ancoats packed more wood ovens into a few blocks than anywhere else in the north, a quiet marker of how far the scene has come.

Prices read fair. A margherita usually lands between 9 and 14 pounds at a serious room. The spots ranked here are ranked by what people who came for the pizza actually thought, not by which room had the longest queue on the strip.