Rome's Best Pizza is Not Roman! Our Top Ten, Rome, Italy (B)

How many times have you thought of Rome as the cradle of Italian food, as the best place to try it in all forms and shapes? How many blogs, articles and tours tell you the wonders of Roman food? Too many, I am afraid as Rome is one of the worst places in Italy with regards to food. Seriously, it is very expensive and the local cuisine is one of the poorest in our country. Much better places for foodies are Bologna, Naples, Turin, Genoa, Sicily, Tuscany, Umbria and Puglia (not necessarily in this order). No doubts about it.

Anyway you’re here or are planning to come to Rome and you want to have the best pizza in town. And here we are to tell you that, of course, Pizza was not made in Rome first. It comes from Naples and Romans only got to know it a century ago during the 1911 expo, when each Italian region had a restaurant with local cuisine and Italians tried what people were eating in other parts of the country.

Roman-style pizza is an incredibly thin, burnt crust. Forget about it! Go for the Neapolitan version. Even if Romans are so proud of their pizza (biggest food mystery in town) don’t follow them while they’re having their pizza and go with our top ten. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).