Discover the best pizza in Genoa

Genoa approaches flatbread differently from the rest of Italy. The Ligurian capital is the home of focaccia di Recco, a thin, cheese-filled sheet with no leavening and PGI protection, and of the thick, oil-dimpled focaccia genovese that locals eat at breakfast.

Pizza proper runs alongside those traditions, and Neapolitan is the most common style on our map, much of it in the contemporary idiom shared with nearby Milan. The city sits under the Liguria region hub, and its rooms cluster in the caruggi, the narrow lanes of the old port.

The most popular pizzeria in the city by review volume is La Pizza di Egizio, one of 12 we list. Did you know focaccia di Recco has no yeast? It is two paper-thin sheets of dough sealed around soft cheese and baked hot, closer to a filled cracker than a bread.

Prices read fair. A margherita usually lands between 6 and 10 euros. The spots ranked here are ranked by what people who came for the pizza actually thought, not by which room sat closest to the harbor.