You don’t come to Phuket for pizza. You come for gaeng som hot enough to realign your spine, for roti whose flakes you find in the folds of your skin for days after, and for mangosteen so ripe it stains everything in its orbit.
And yet, sooner or later, the craving lands. It always does. The good news is that Phuket’s pizza scene has grown into something deeply impressive in recent years, with AVPN-certified Neapolitan, Roman al taglio, Detroit-style deep dish and everything in between now represented on the island. Two of Phuket’s pizzerias feature in the 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific 2026 rankings, and the overall standard has risen sharply enough that a dedicated pizza crawl here is no longer a guilty indulgence but a legitimate itinerary.
Should a carb-shaped craving hit during your stay, then it’s to these places you should head; the best places for pizza in Phuket.
Five Olives, Bang Tao
If Phuket has a destination pizza restaurant, Five Olives is, quite simply, it. Run by chef-owner Korn Kantapat Sinpradit and his sister Kwang out of a contemporary space just inland from Bang Tao, this is where the island’s pizza conversation begins and, for many visitors, ends. The Michelin Guide agrees, as does the increasingly influential 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific list, where Five Olives now sits at 26th for 2026, its fourth consecutive year on the list and a steady climb from 34th in 2024.
The style is contemporary Neapolitan, canotto-style, which means a dramatically puffed cornicione with charred leopard spots from the wood-fired oven and a base that remains thin, soft and just the right side of floppy. The nduja and stracciatella at 480 baht is the one that keeps bringing us back, packing heat, creaminess and salt into a single, deeply satisfying package. There’s an attention to detail here that marks Five Olives’ quality; the stracciatella is added ice cold post-oven and maintains its integrity, and halves of fresh Chiang Mai tomato temper some of the spicier, saltier elements.
The restaurant’s signature, however, is a truffle, stracciatella and prosciutto number. Priced at 650 baht, it layers 18-month prosciutto with fresh grated truffle on a San Marzano base. For those moved to take the whole funghi thing further, the ‘Truffle Truffle Truffle’ is the full send at 1,190 baht. Sure, a kind of showy opulence is de rigueur in Phuket, but this triple truffle affair does actually deliver on flavour beyond the flexing.
Back down to earth, and the margherita starts things off at a more palatable 320 baht, and is the true marker of any pizzeria. This one is exceptional. Faultless. No amendments or additions necessary.
The wine list punches well above what you’d expect from a Phuket pizzeria. By-the-glass pours start at 350 baht, but the bottle list runs deep into serious Italian territory; Gaja Barbaresco, Tignanello, a Brunello di Montalcino from Renieri, and a considered natural wine section that includes Foradori and Ampeleia. France gets strong representation too, particularly Burgundy and the Rhône. It’s the kind of list that could carry a standalone wine bar, let alone a pizza restaurant. But then, as we’ve already established, Five Olives is a serious proposition indeed.
Five Olives opens daily from 11am to 11pm.
Website: fiveolives.co
Address: 2/1 Cherngtalay, Thalang District, Phuket 83110, Thailand
Marni, Phuket Old Town
Five Olives’ sister restaurant Marni is also run by Korn and Kwang. You’d think the duo grew up in the glow of a 500-degree Acunto Forni, owing to their innate understanding of what makes authentic Neapolitan pizza rise to attention, but they’re from southern Thailand, not southern Italy, not that it makes a jot of difference.
Marni occupies a converted shophouse on Montri Road in the Old Town, not far from the clock tower roundabout. Where Five Olives goes broad with its Italian menu, Marni keeps the focus a touch tighter: pizza, a handful of pastas, good wine, and not much else. Sometimes, it’s all you need.
It’s the better of the two for a focused, no-fuss pizza dinner, and the more intimate room (around five tables inside, a few more on the terrace) gives it a familial energy that the bigger Bang Tao space may lack.
Marni holds its own spot in the 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific rankings, and has done so for four consecutive years. The dough here is the same contemporary Neapolitan approach as Five Olives, with a cornicione so inflated it borders on theatrical, and a centre that stays thin and pliable. The nduja and stracciatella makes an appearance here, and is every bit as good as its Five Olives counterpart, but Marni’s menu has its own draw. The mortadella, stracciatella and pistachio at 350 baht is a softer, more elegant combination, and the quattro formaggi at 380 baht lets the dough do most of the work. Margheritas start at 280 baht.
The wine offering is more modest than Five Olives’ deep list, but it’s well judged; house pours from around 320 baht by the glass, with a short blackboard of Italian bottles that includes a Terlan Pinot Bianco and a Roero Arneis from Piemonte. It suits the room.
Open daily from noon to 10pm. Book ahead, particularly at weekends. This one fills up fast.
Website: @marniphuket
Address: 95, 18 Montri Rd, Talad yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83000, Thailand
Peppina, Wichit
Anyone who has spent time eating pizza in Bangkok will know Peppina. The Sukhumvit 33 original has been a benchmark for Neapolitan pizza in Thailand for over a decade now, and its expansion to Phuket, inside My Front Yard Community Mall in Wichit, brought with it the same AVPN certification that sets Peppina apart from essentially every other pizzeria on the island.
That certification, from the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, means the dough follows strict rules: only water, sea salt, flour and yeast, with a minimum 24-hour fermentation using Caputo flour, cooked at extreme heat for a very short time. It matters more to pizza nerds than it does to the average diner, but you can taste the difference in the dough. The result is a highly digestible crust that’s chewy and blistered at the edges, soft and slightly oily in the middle, and messier than you’d ideally like when wearing a white shirt. But what mad bastard is wearing their best officecore for a pizza on a tropical island?
The signature La Peppina at 360 baht is a margherita built on buffalo mozzarella from Andria and sweet piennolo tomatoes from Mount Vesuvius, and it’s the right place to start if you want to understand what the AVPN fuss is about. La Corona at 590 baht is the bigger spend, topping prosciutto culatta and rocket with a whole fresh burrata from Andria that collapses across the base the moment you cut into it, threatening to sink the whole dinghy there and then.
The pizza carbonara is the more compelling order, taking the classic Roman pasta treatment and putting it on dough; egg yolk, pecorino fondue, guanciale and black pepper, and it works better than it probably should. It works very well, in fact, a gloriously rich, slightly funky affair that pairs very well with a tall glass of Peroni on tap.
Peppina is open daily from 11am to 11pm.
Website: peppinabkk.com
Da Moreno Pizzeria, Patong
If you were – theoretically speaking, of course – kidnapped after a mahjong game gone wrong, blindfolded, bundled into the back of a cab, dumped by the side of the road somewhere and spun around five times for good measure, chances are that once you’d picked yourself up and dusted yourself down, you’d still be within walking distance of a Da Moreno Pizzeria.
You don’t open five branches on one island without getting the fundamentals right. Those fundamentals are a 72-hour fermented, wood-fired, chewy and pillowy pizza, with a range of toppings that, while not necessarily Neapolitan Nonna friendly, will have everyone in the squad satisfied, whether they’re a pizza purist or a ham and pineapple punkah.
Da Moreno’s secret weapon is a simple one: the Vaiano family make their own cheese and cold cuts inhouse via the La Saporita Cheese Factory right here in Phuket. The signature Pizza Bufalina uses fresh buffalo mozzarella from that dairy, and you can taste the difference; it has a sweetness and give to it that imported or factory-produced mozzarella simply can’t match.
For those in the purist camp, the capricciosa is particularly good, both earthy and piquant and downright lovely. And if pizza’s not your thing (why are you here?), Da Moreno does a more than capable clutch of pasta dishes, with the spaghetti vongole hitting the spot in that saline, by-the-beach way that’s hard to beat. Pizzas start at 240 baht for a marinara, and 260 for a margherita. None top 500 baht.
They also have branches in Kathu, Koh Kaew, Cherngtalay and Phuket Old Town.
Website: damorenopizzeria.com
Address: 128 Nanai Rd, Pa Tong, Kathu District, Phuket 83150, Thailand
MODO, Phuket Old Town
Every pizza scene needs something that breaks the consensus, and on an island dominated by Neapolitan dough, MODO is it. This is Detroit-style pizza, which means thick, rectangular slices baked in steel pans until the edges caramelise into a crisp, cheesy crust while the centre stays soft and airy.
If you’ve never encountered the style before, think of it as the polar opposite of a Neapolitan: where Naples goes thin, charred and floppy, Detroit goes thick, golden and structured. They are built in reverse – the cheese goes directly on the dough, then the toppings, with the sauce spooned on last. Both have their place, and MODO makes a strong case for the latter. At least, as the occasional treat…
The Old Town original occupies a small, air-conditioned room with a blue-and-red colour scheme and the kind of relaxed, communal energy that suits the food. The pepperoni at 375 baht is the bestseller and the right starting point, with a sauce that’s spooned on top of the cheese rather than underneath it, in classic Detroit fashion. There’s a create-your-own option from 325 baht with sauce choices that include vodka and BBQ, which tells you everything you need to know about MODO’s relationship with tradition. Pizzas are big enough to share between two.
The OG Old Town outpost is open daily, from midday until late. There’s a second location in Nai Harn now too.
Website: @modopizza.th
Address: 101, Subdistrict, 1 Soi Sun Uthit, Talat Nuea, Muang, Phuket 83000, Thailand
+39 Italian Street Food, Kata Beach
If Naples has dominated this list so far, +39 is where Rome gets a word in. Named after Italy’s international dialling code, you won’t need to call the motherland for a second opinion; the Italian expat crowd that packs the place most evenings has already given theirs.
+39 is Phuket’s only dedicated purveyor of Roman pizza al taglio, and it’s been doing it since 2016, which makes it something of an institution by island standards. The al taglio style is Rome’s contribution to the pizza lexicon: rectangular, baked in large trays, sold by the slice, with a 72-hour fermentation and low-temperature bake that produces a crust with a crisp exterior and a surprisingly airy, open crumb inside.
The format here is closer to street food than sit-down restaurant. You choose your slices from a rotating selection behind the counter, from 130 baht per slice, wait for them to be warmed through, and eat them at a table or take them down to the beach with a six-pack of Singha from the 7-Eleven five minutes down the way.
Though things naturally rotate as much as the regularity of paddle to oven to counter allows, the speck e zucca is the one to look out for; pumpkin, gorgonzola and scamorza on a crisp Roman base, smoky and sweet and properly indulgent, while the gricia carbonara with pancetta, pecorino and romano is rich, salty and very much a glass-of-wine slice. A three-slice mix at 400 baht is the smartest way to graze, or go the whole way with a six-slice pala mix at 780 baht.
An aperitivo deal of one cocktail and two slices for 400 baht runs from 5pm to 8pm at both locations. Well, it would be rude not to…
There’s a second branch of +39 in Nai Harn.
Website: @plus39italianstreetfood
Address: 48, 26 Kata Rd, Karon, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83100, Thailand
Goodfellas at Courtyard by Marriott, Patong
A pizzeria tacked onto the side of a major hotel chain. On Patong Beach. Called Goodfellas. Every instinct tells you to walk past, but every instinct would be wrong. Operating alongside the hotel’s Endless Summer Beach Club on the beachfront strip, Goodfellas has a wood-fired oven and a kitchen that takes its Italian credentials more seriously than the wiseguy branding might suggest.
The pizzas lean Italian-American in style (they are, of course, referred to as ‘pies’), with a crisper, more burnished crust than other entries on this list. The sourdough base has a satisfying tang to it. The marinara at 325 baht is a good litmus test, stripped back to tomato sauce, cherry tomatoes, garlic confit and oregano. It works. The quattro formaggi at 415 baht, loaded with mozzarella, ricotta, gorgonzola and parmesan, is a heavier proposition, but delivers.
The cocktail list leans into the theme; a Gangster Amaretto Sour and a Fat Negroni (we think this references Fat Tony off the Simpsons, but we can’t be sure?), and there’s Peroni on tap. ‘Peroni Soprano’? Nah. Anyway, wines from 150 baht by the glass represent excellent value.
But as with many of the better Italian hotel restaurants in Phuket, the non-pizza items can be just as compelling: meatballs in a rich, deeply reduced tomato sauce, a pesto pasta that’s loose and vibrant, and an aubergine parmigiana that’s lovingly layered rather than hastily assembled. For Patong, where the pizza competition is not exactly fierce, Goodfellas is a welcome outlier.
Website: goodfellaspizzeriaphuket.com
Address: 44 Thaweewong Rd, Pa Tong, Phuket, 83150, Thailand
Pizza Sondrio, Kamala
As cyclical as pizza itself, we’re back in the warm embrace of a Neapolitan to finish…
If you’re based around Kamala and don’t fancy the drive to Old Town or Bang Tao, Pizza Sondrio is the answer. Tucked into a low-traffic side street beside Laan Kamala Market, it’s a small, cosy room with a wood-fired oven and a Neapolitan-style approach to dough that produces a thin, pliable base with a satisfying char. The Napolitano is the standout, assertive and briny and full of character, and there’s a seafood pizza using Andaman catch that plays well to the location.
It’s newer than most of the entries on this list and less well-known, but friends living in the neighbourhood swear by it, and the prices are reasonable for the quality. Worth the detour if Kamala is your patch.
Facebook: @pizza.sondrio
Address: 33 Kamala, Kathu District, Phuket 83150, Thailand
For a broader look at Bel Paese’s culinary canon on the island, check out our guide to the best Italian restaurants in Phuket next.
