The best pizzeria in Europe stays in Paris

2022-05-13T09:31:00.170Z

Peppe, in the 20th, of the Neapolitan Giuseppe Cutraro, wins, for the second consecutive year, the classification of the transalpine guide 50 Top Pizza outside the Boot.

Bis repeat!

The title of best pizzeria in Europe - outside Italy - remains in France.

He returns, for the second consecutive year, to Neapolitan Giuseppe Cutraro for his Peppe address, at the top of rue Saint-Blaise, in Paris 20th.

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Peppe is ahead of Fratelli Figurato, in Madrid, and 50 Kalò, in London - which had won the first two editions of this ranking launched in 2019 by the transalpine guide 50 Top Pizza.

Peppe Pizzeria opened in January 2020 and is always full (reservation required!).

Cutraro also opened a second left bank address, Casa di Peppe (222, rue Saint-Jacques, 5th), last summer.

The 30-year-old born in the working-class neighborhoods of Naples has worked his way up, notably as executive chef of the successful French trattoria group Big Mamma.

In 2019 he won the Neapolitan Pizza World Championship, with a recipe with yellow cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, Parma ham, provolone, grilled almonds and fig jam (see photo above).

It offers delicious discs with thick edges, in the purest Neapolitan tradition, with a dough worked to make it more digestible and classic but also creative fillings, imagined in the style of a cook.

Four Ile-de-France pizzerias in the top 50

Four addresses located in France - all in Île-de-France - are in the top 50 (compared to 5 in 2021): in addition to Peppe, the new 400° Laboratorio (11th) by Gennaro Nasti (ex-Bijou and Popine), at the 17th place;

the safe bet Guillaume Grasso (15th), in the 23rd;

and the surprise of the new IMperfetto (Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine) at the 40th.

London ranks 5 pizzerias in the 50, asserting itself as the most awarded European capital ahead of Copenhagen, with 4 addresses (including Baest, 4th).

Spain is also doing well with 3 restaurants in the top 10.

Top 10:

1/ Peppe Pizzeria (Paris)

2/ Fratelli Figurato (Madrid)

3/ 50 Kalò di Ciro Salvo (London)

4/ Baest (Copenhagen)

5/ Sartoria Panatieri (Barcelona)

6/ Via Toledo Enopizzeria (Vienna)

7/ Pizza Zulu (Fürth, Germany)

8/ La Piola Pizza (Brussels)

9/ Kytaly (Geneva)

10/ La Balmesina (Barcelona)