Discover the best pizza in Istanbul

Istanbul runs a young pizza scene in a city that already has a deep flatbread culture of its own. The wood-fired Neapolitan room is a recent arrival here, sitting alongside rather than replacing the local traditions, and the independents have taken it seriously.

Neapolitan is the most common style on our map, cooked fast in a wood oven. The rooms cluster on the European side in the Beyoğlu and Şişli districts. The city groups under Turkiye.

The most popular pizzeria in the city by review volume is NAPOLIST, one of 5 we list. A city that straddles two continents was always going to fold a new bread tradition into its repertoire without much fuss.

Prices read fair for a major city. A wood-fired margherita sits toward the mid-range of the local dining scale. The spots ranked here are ranked by what people who came for the pizza actually thought, not by which room had the view over the Bosphorus.