{"id":246701,"date":"2026-05-28T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246701\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:38:07","slug":"sorry-nyc-california-dominates-top-of-americas-best-pizza-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246701\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry NYC, California dominates top of America’s best pizza ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that over the past five or more years, Los Angeles has been in\u00a0a pizza boom<\/a>, with pop-ups born out of the pandemic becoming brick-and-mortars across the city and serving styles ranging from Neapolitan to Detroit and beyond. The Bay Area\u2019s pizza scene has been thriving for years, too, with spots like Jules<\/a> and Flour + Water<\/a> making the New York Times\u2019 newly updated list of the 25 best restaurants<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Now, a new ranking of national pizzerias is finally giving California pie shops their due, with Golden State pizzerias handily dominating the top of the list over New York or New Jersey.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 50 Top Pizza, an Italy-based culinary guide, released its 2026 list of\u00a0the best pizza shops across the country<\/a>. New York City pizzeria Una Pizza Napoletana<\/a> \u2014 which was originally launched in New Jersey in 1998 but came of age during its eight-year stint in San Francisco starting in 2010 \u2014\u00a0nabbed the top spot for chef Anthony Mangieri\u2019s laser focus on Neapolitan pies.<\/p>\n

Two California pizzerias tied for No. 2: LA\u2019s Pizzeria Sei, which has been serving puffy-crusted Tokyo-style pies since 2022, and award-winning pizza guru Tony Gemignani<\/a>\u2019s now-seminal, 17-year-old Tony\u2019s Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco, which has been on the list since 2021. New Jersey\u2019s acclaimed Razza came in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The California pizzeria to round out the top five, at No. 4, was Dana Point\u2019s Truly Pizza, which also won the special category of Pizza of the Year for its umami mushroom pie. Miami\u2019s Francesco Martucci scored the fifth spot.<\/p>\n

Other California pizzerias to make the list include Flour House in San Luis Obispo (No. 22), Nardo in Huntington Beach<\/a> (No. 25) and San Diego\u2019s Tribute Pizza (No. 38).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although New York City has long been regarded as the country\u2019s best pizza city \u2014 and does have more representation on the list overall \u2014 the top of this ranking suggests that California hasn\u2019t just arrived on the national scene, it\u2019s proudly standing on its own.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need their water, but we will gladly take their tears,\u201d said LA-based pizza influencer and community organizer David Turkell<\/a> when asked about California dominating the top five.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2018, 50 Top Pizza ranks the world\u2019s best pizzerias via anonymous inspectors who evaluate each one based on factors like quality, technique, dough, ambiance and more. In 2025, Pizzeria Sei, Tony\u2019s Pizza Napoletana and Truly Pizza landed at Nos. 2, 3 and 9 on the list, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no secret that over the past five or more years, Los Angeles has been in\u00a0a pizza boom,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,71092,72982,72983],"class_list":["post-246701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sfgfood","tag-sfgla","tag-sfglafood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}