How times have changed. Only a few years ago, you were lucky if a pizza in Bangkok boasted mozzarella, marinara sauce, and a properly leavened dough, rather than cheddar, ketchup and some oddly sweet sliced white.
These days, the 480°C heat of Neapolitan wood burning ovens competes with Bangkok’s own sweltering temperatures just off the streets of Sukhumvit and beyond, as skilled Italian pizzaiolo make this wonderful city their home and young Thai chefs put their own spin on this beloved dish.
Still, if you’ve decided to forgo your usual som tam in favour of a margherita this evening, this pizza proliferation has made the paradox of choice more omnipresent than ever.
We’re here to help you separate the finely ground durum wheat from the chaff, with our guide to the very best pizza in Bangkok, from Neopolitan to New Yorker and beyond.
Peppina
We had to start here, at Peppina. Here, it’s real-deal Neapolitan pizzas, with authenticity the driving force behind the restaurant group’s (there are now six in Bangkok) continued success.
In fact, Peppina is one of Southeast Asia’s only AVPN certified, Napoli-style pizzeria, with the quality of the ingredients shining most strikingly in the most simple of pizzas, the marinara, with the sweet/tart interplay of the imported San Marzano tomatoes satisfying every craving for ”Western food” you’ll have in Bangkok.
Of course, you don’t have to order in such an austere fashion; there are some real gems to be found in Peppina’s Special Selection section of the menu, too. We particularly like the restaurant’s pizza carpaccio, with the fresh, creamy stracciatella and a smart squeeze of lemon lifting the dish to dizzy (and surprisingly refreshing) heights.
The pasta at Peppina is excellent, too. For us, the best bowls of pasta stay true to two pillars of all great Italian food; number one, the pasta should be the star, and two, the accompanying adornments must be fresh, of clarity, and celebrate the raw ingredient. Peppina follows both thoughtfully.
Their house favourites, which include an excellent vongole veraci and a paccheri pasta with slow cooked pork cheek ragu, are both well worth the visit, even if pizza isn’t your thing.
That clarity of ingredients is found just as keenly in the superb cocktails here; the house negroni delivers every time. This is, quite simply, the best pizza in Bangkok.
Facebook: Peppina
Address: Peppina (Sukhumvit Flagship Branch): 27/1 Sukhumvit 33 Alley, Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Pizza Massilia
Thailand’s top entry in the increasingly influential Top 50 Pizza awards list (we’re not just plundering that list here, honest), Pizza Massilia is currently ranked 4th in the Asia Pacific region and 22nd in the world.
What started life as a food truck has now become an ambitious mini-empire, with a flagship bricks-and-mortar restaurant on Ruam Rudee, a second branch in a small food court in Sathorn and the original pizza truck on Soi Sukhumvit 49. All boast enormous dual pizza ovens built by expert pizza oven maker Stefano Ferrara.
This sense of confidence and aspiration extends to the pizzas here. Whilst Peppina seems to work best when deploying a ‘less is more’ approach, at Pizza Massilia, it’s all about true indulgence in topping form. Though the pizzas are nominally Neapolitan, plenty of luxury French ingredients make their way onto the menu. With that ethos in mind, go for the foie gras, fior di latte and organic figs, followed by a long, satisfied lie down.
Website: pizzamassilia.com
Flagship restaurant: 15, 1 Soi Ruamrudee Community, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Sathorn Branch: 163 2 ซอย นราธิวาสราชนครินทร์ 5 Thung Maha Mek, Sathon, Bangkok 10120 Suan Luang, Bangkok 10250, Thailand
Pizza Truck: 40 ซอย สุขุมวิท 49 Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Pizza Mazzie
Now for something different over in the trendy Ekkamai district, Pizza Mazzie is run by New Yorker Jon Spearman, with the pizzas here an interesting hybrid of American and Italian sensibilities, ingredients and technique.
The oven here is the revered ‘low dome’ Acunto, built in Naples, and the dough is light and airy, owing to its super slow-fermentation process. It arrives blistered and burnished in all the right places, with Spearman’s refined approach to toppings (he believes that there should be no more than three, as a rule) meaning the pizzas at Mazzie are surprisingly delicate.
Our go-to order is the Brooklyn classic cheese (restrained in that it uses just two cheeses, fior di latte and grana padano) which in less capable hands could be a little burdensome, but here it’s sensational.
Biodynamic wines and craft beers complete the package, making Pizza Mazzie an incredibly convivial place to spend an evening. And spend many evenings here we have…
You can read our review of Mazzie here for more.
Website: pizzeriamazzie.com
Address: 17 Park Lane Soi Sukhumvit 63 Road, Khwaeng Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10110
Maru Maru Pizza
Not to be confused with Pizza Maru Korean Pizza & Chicken fifteen minutes up the green line in Central World, Maru Maru Pizza is something else entirely. This, this is a self-styled ‘pizza garage’ at the very east end of Sukhumvit where things otherwise get a little non-descript, a place where Neapolitan pizza meets vinyl culture, and the music you’re hearing is as considered as what’s coming out of the wood-fired oven. It’s putting Phra Khanong on the map, somewhat. In the eyes of the city’s culinary cognoscenti, at least.
The setting is half workshop, half dining room, with steel, timber and concrete softened by good lighting and bottles lined up with intention. There’s a DJ booth opposite the open kitchen, and the reassuring flicker of a classic cupola doing its work, and on any given evening you might drift from modern soul into Japanese jazz, or catch Balearic rhythms threading through the space.
The pizzas are broadly Neapolitan in style, though a little crisper, the pock marks a little blacker. The menu splits into three sections: classic pizzas (your margheritas, your marinaras), Maru’s Pizza (house specials like the smoked pork belly, cherry tomato and chilli), and Maru Maru Pizza, which rotates seasonally and can get quite experimental.
From that latter section, a Thai-influenced gaeng kua goong pizza didn’t quite land and seems to have quietly disappeared from the menu, but the stronger offerings here are the ones that stay closer to Italian foundations. The burro rosso is both the most simple and arguably the signature; it brings butter, anchovies and garlic together in something closer to garlic bread than pizza. It’s bloody good.
The natural wine list runs deeper than you’d expect from a warehouse. Bottles start around the 1,900 baht mark and climb to nearly 3,000 baht, with a decent selection by the glass if you’re not committing to a full bottle.
The pizzas here aren’t huge, so if you’re hungry, order accordingly.
Instagram: @marumarupizza
Address: 14 Sukhumvit 67 Alley, Phra Khanong Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110
Pizza Mania
If you’re looking for a truly American style pizza, then you should check out Pizza Mania, just off Asok BTS Station in Bangkok’s downtown.
The pizzas here are thin-crust and crisp, and generously topped with a whole raft of meats, shellfish, and even pasta sauces (Carbonara pizza? Check. Bolognese sauce pizza? Check.).
Yep, this one wouldn’t pass the Nonna test, sure, but if you get that very specific itch – often brought on by a hangover, admittedly – that only an American pizza can scratch, then Pizza Mania is a very satisfying slice, indeed.
Look out for the restaurant’s monthly deep pan Detroit style pizzas, which are properly indulgent and too infrequently on the menu, in our humble opinion. Make them a regular thing, guys!
Website: pizzamania.co.th
Address: 120, 3 Soi Sukhumvit 23, Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Via Emilia
Next up we’re heading to Bangkok’s Sathorn district, to Via Emilia, which aims to faithfully recreate the food and hospitality of Italy’s famous Emilia Romagna region. It’s pure escapism, and sometimes, after a hectic and hot day in Bangkok, it’s just the kind of place you want to sink into.
Though this tribute to a region that encompasses the foodie meccas of Bologna, Modena and Parma focuses on all the main food groups (pasta, risotto, cheese, salami… You get the jist), the pizzas at Via Emilia certainly aren’t an afterthought.
Made in the Bolognese style (no, not topped with ragu, but rather, with thin and crispy crusts), the dough is naturally leavened and left to ferment for 72 hours, resulting in an enjoyable lightness and depth of flavour. The parma ham and burrata, which is added fridge-cold once the pizza is cooked, and is subsequently refreshing, exemplifies this light touch. Delicious.
IDEAL Tip: We know this is an article about pizza, but you’d be a fool not to order the strozzapreti con le canocchie on your visit – hand twisted pasta with mantis shrimps in tomato sauce – yes, please.
Website: viaemiliabangkok.com
Facebook: Via Emilia
Il Bolognese
Speaking of regional Italian restaurants that do a mean pizza, Il Bolognese is – and does – just that. This trattoria has been a stalwart of the Bangkok dining scene for over a decade, knocking out Italian comfort food, top-notch pizzas and pouring very drinkable claret to the weary masses in an elegant dining room that feels like a film set, so faithfully furnished it is.
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Indeed, you may well forget you’re in Bangkok during your leisurely lunch here, with the Partenopea pizza (essentially, a margherita) a relative steal at under 400 baht. Whether or not you actually want to forget you’re in one of the world’s most exciting cities is another matter. Anyway, on to the next pizza…
Website: ilbolognesebangkok.com
Address: 139/3 ถนนสาทรใต้ ซอย 7 Thung Maha Mek, Sathon, Bangkok 10120, Thailand
Pala Pizza Romana
A very different proposition at Pala Pizza Romana, and our list’s first dalliance with Roman pizza. Here, the metre long, rectangular pizza al taglio sits in the window on a paddle, a pala, enticing Bangkokians inside to grab a slice (or should that be ‘square’?) for a very reasonable 90 baht.
The base is thick, with a crisp bottom and fluffy middle, similar to focaccia and very much in the Roman style, with toppings restrained but refined. The capricciosa here is particularly fine.
Alongside their pizza offering is a good selection of pasta and other dishes. Their fritti (deep fried) offerings are particularly good – think suppli, classic crocchette and our fritti favourite – the Amatriciana, filled with tender as you like cured pork cheek. Squisito!
Website: palapizzabangkok.com
Address: Room 1 BTS/MRT Soi Sukhumvit 23, Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Chef Bing’s Pizza
We promised young Thai chefs putting their own spin on pizza in our introduction, so we had to include Chef Bing’s Pizza, which has been making waves in Lumphini in recent months.
We say ‘had to’, but the New York style pies here more than deserve their inclusion on merit alone, and the inventiveness of the toppings here is certainly a refreshing change.
Run by Navapan ‘Chef Bing’ Puangpakdee, who moved from Thailand to New York at the age of 7, there are some pretty out-there pizzas on the menu here, including one – the kor moo yang pizza – which repurposes the beloved Thai streetfood staple of grilled pork neck into a gorgeous pizza topping, finessed further with sawtooth coriander and toasted rice powder. Trust us; it works!
Website: chefbing.com
Address: 924/5 Soi Ruam Rudi 2, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Nonna Nella By Lenzi
We return to something more traditional to finish, to a restaurant that sits on the other side of Lumpini Park to the aforementioned Chef Bing; Nonna Nella By Lenzi.
The only place on our list to be featured in Bangkok’s Michelin Guide, it’s the quality of the ingredients that sets Nonna Nella apart. All the hams and cheeses are produced on chef Lenzi’s farm, and other ingredients such as the tomatoes for the superb pizzas are 100% organic and hand-selected by the chef himself.
Those pizzas, by the way, boast a thinner, crisper crust than their Neopotlian counterparts, and are generously adorned with that excellent produce from the Lenzi family farm. It’s a wonderful way to finish our list of Bangkok’s best pizzas. Now, excuse us, we need a lie down for several days.
Website: nonna-nella.com
Address: 83, ออล ซีซั่นส์ เพลส, 20 Witthayu Rd, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
PST (Pizza Studio Tamaki)
One of Tokyo’s most celebrated pizzerias has now made its way to Bangkok, bringing its unique Tokyo-Napoli hybrid style to Sukhumvit 49 with a quiet but confident January 2025 opening. In a suave, expensive-feeling room which feels more suited to one of Bangkok’s Michelin-starred experiences than humble ol’ pizza, PST’s are anything but.
Characterised by their distinctive use of Okinawa salt, which is thrown into a specially commissioned Japanese wood-fired oven before each pizza is cooked, lending a subtle yet compelling salinity to every bite, these are precise, skilful pizzas that still manage to keep that cherished lack of uniformity – blisters, bubbles and all – that mark the planet’s truly great pizzas.
The dough at Pizza Studio Tamaki undergoes a meticulous 30-hour proofing process, resulting in a crust that’s wonderfully light and airy, with a pleasant salty-sour tang. Their signature Tamaki pizza (priced at a premium 590 baht) showcases this perfectly, topped with smoked mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, sheep’s milk cheese and fresh basil. For something with a bit more kick, the Nduja brings a welcome hit of spice from its namesake spreadable salami, which is produced for the restaurant back in Japan to a bespoke recipe.
The attention to detail extends beyond the pizzas; their PST Meatballs – a blend of pork and wagyu beef slow-cooked in tomato sauce – are a must-order, as is the showstopping matcha panna cotta finale, which uses green tea from Uji, Kyoto, offering a distinctly Japanese twist on an Italian classic.
Instagram: @pst.bangkok
Address: Town Hall, Sukhumvit 49, Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
90 Grams
Taking its name from the precise weight of sourdough required for the perfect pizza, this newcomer to Silom opened in late 2024 but has already carved out its own niche in the city’s competitive pizza scene.
Housed on the second floor of The Quarter Hotel, 90 Grams specialises in both traditional Neapolitan pizzas and inventive focaccia-style variations. Their margherita (a relatively affordable, but relatively small, 190 baht) arrives with a crust so comically canotto’d that it’s almost risen on itself and subsumed the toppings. Christ, it’s light, digestible work though, and you could take two or three down quite comfortably in a single sitting.
The signature focaccia pizzas are more sizeable. The mortadella version (a more sizeable 520 baht), topped with four types of premium cheese, wild rocket and pistachios, is particularly noteworthy. The space stays open until the wee hours (2am most nights), making it perfect for those post-midnight pizza cravings. The addition of sparkling wines by the glass makes this an excellent spot for a casual evening out, whether you’re starting your night or ending it.
Instagram: @90gramsbkk
Address: Silom 18, Suriyawong, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand
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