The net information, curated by Italian-based 50 Prime Pizza, yearly curates the most effective pizzerias in Italy, Europe, Asia, and the USA. With no fashion desire, right now it is thought of one of the influential guides for pizza-making perfection by pie lovers around the globe.
Stateside, 50 Prime Pizza’s workforce of nameless judges selected this 12 months’s recipients utilizing an inventory of standards that takes under consideration the standard of the dough and toppings, the service, wait time, beverage menu choices, the restaurant’s total ambiance, and the expertise of consuming the completed pie.
In response to the 50 Prime Pizza web site, the ultimate rankings are awarded for the whole pizzeria expertise — not merely the most effective slice.
“It is essential to think about that fifty Prime Pizza doesn’t point out the most effective pizza or the most effective pizza chef. It signifies the most effective pizzeria due to the varied elements beforehand set forth,” the 50 Prime Pizza web site states.
Whereas New York and California took residence nearly all of the US picks — with Una Pizza Napoletana owned by Anthony Mangieri in New York awarded 2022’s Greatest Pizzeria in the USA — Florida ranked a complete of 5 areas. Amongst them, three are Magic Metropolis mainstays.
O’Munaciello (6425 Biscayne Blvd, Miami) is a MiMo District favourite that serves as a stateside outpost of proprietor Valentina Borgogni’s authentic pizzeria inbuilt an annex of the Seventeenth-century Florentine Santo Spirito Basilica. The restaurant, one in all New Instances “Ten Greatest Pizzas,” took 50 Prime Pizza’s fifth spot on the 2022 checklist.
Stanzione 87 (87 SW Eighth St., Miami) — not too long ago awarded “Greatest Restaurant Brickell” within the 2022 New Instances‘ “Greatest Of” difficulty — took 50 Prime Pizza’s thirty fourth spot. The pizzeria additionally serves Neapolitan-style pizza, an inventory of crimson and white pies that embrace its $30 truffle pizza, a aromatic mixture of cream, black truffle puree, and do-it-yourself mozzarella, truffle oil, and shaved parmesan cheese.
This 12 months, nevertheless, a brand new Miami pizzeria made the checklist for the primary time whereas additionally capturing 50 Prime Pizza’s “Robo Award” for the efficiency of the 12 months. The eighth US spot went to La Leggenda Pizzeria (224 Española Manner, Miami Seaside), which acquired 50 Prime Pizza’s eighth place.
Right here, Napoli-born and raised chef/proprietor Giovanni Gagliardi — dubbed “la Leggenda” or “the Legend” by buddies in Italy for his pie-making expertise — is making among the greatest Neapolitan-style pizza in South Florida.
The charcoal-infused dough is a specialty of O’Munaciello in Miami’s MiMo District.
Photograph by Nicole Danna
The restaurant, tucked away in a small house on the japanese stretch of Española Manner, has existed as an under-the-radar spot since opening in 2016. For the previous a number of years, locals and people in-the-know pack into Gagliardi’s cramped however homey eating room to sup on from-scratch fare made with substances sourced from small household companies situated close to Gagliardi’s hometown area in Italy (assume tomatoes, anchovies, cured meats, and mozzarella in addition to wines and beer).
Inside, each seat gives diners a view of Gagliardi and his workforce of cooks as they shuffle pies from the domed, wood-fueled oven. Collectively, they produce pizzas which are smooth, ethereal, and completely blistered. It’s, undoubtedly, one in all Miami’s greatest pizzas. And, if we’re speaking genuine, the most effective.
The menu presents an inventory of connoisseur and traditional takes, however the Margherita STG (brief for “specialità tradizionale garantita“) is the closest you will come to discovering a Napoletana fashion like what you’d get from the streets of Napoli.
A large, doughy crust cradles the pie’s molten, nearly soup-like heart, and a light-weight sauce of peeled San Marzano tomatoes is dotted with medallions of mozzarella bufala campana and several other aromatic tendrils of basil.
The dough is made utilizing the normal alchemy of flour, water, and yeast, right here kissed with a contact of salt and a splash of olive oil, Gagliardi tells New Instances. His rendition, nevertheless, bakes up gentle sufficient {that a} single slice folds effortlessly, a needed transfer to maintain toppings in place from plate to mouth.
It is so gentle, actually, that a complete pie can simply be consumed by one particular person. While you’ve completed, it will not really feel like a lead weight in your stomach, both, even in Miami Seaside’s summer season warmth.
For Gagliardi, that is what makes his pizza particular.
“The place I come from, individuals will eat this pizza for nearly each meal,” Gagliardi tells New Instances. “It isn’t heavy. It will not make you’re feeling drained or drowsy. It is easy to digest. You possibly can have it many occasions and by no means really feel unhealthy. That is the pizza of Napoli.”
