15 Bangkok Pizzerias That Will Bring Out Your Inner Italian [Update 2020]
Mapping out Bangkok's top restaurants with some of the best homemade Italian-style pizza recipes that will get you to munch down on more than just a slice or two.
Pizza, another traditional menu straight from Italy, has built an excellent reputation globally and is among the many cuisines that have been a hit in Thailand for decades. Bangkok is no exception, having long been a hot spot for some of the best trattorias and pizzerias in the world, the city's a heaven for pizza-lovers.
Each place offers a perk of their own, including delicious homemade recipes, unique food varieties, and even a world-renowned chef's team. With a plethora of reviews from food bloggers and critiques, it can be hard to pinpoint which restaurant should be next on your list. Now, we've helped you narrow things down to a list of 15 restaurants to browse through. No matter which you pick, we guarantee that you'll enjoy the authentic Italian dining experience and traditional pizza recipes each of them has to offer.
Bacco
Known more for its other Italian dishes, many underrate Bacco’s exceptional pizza quality in favour of their pasta or meats.
But it is up there along with the others on this list, albeit favouring those that prefer a thin crust for their pizzas. What makes Bacco another impressive option is their wide array of flavours, with no less than 53 types to choose from Pizza Blanche (White Pizzas), Calzoni, and some hipster Specials.
The restaurant itself is designed to make you feel like you’re grabbing a bite in Italy, well-decorated with excellent staff to guarantee your satisfaction.
Basilico
Basillico has been serving its homemade Italian dishes for over 15 years. One of their best-selling items on the menu is, of course, the pizza where you'll get to pick from over 50 unique toppings. The restaurant uses an authentic masonry oven imported from Italy to bake each pizza to perfection. If you visit, you'll see the giant oven at work as the owners decided to put it on display right in the middle of the restaurant.
After baking in the oven for the right amount of time, the resulting pizza will sport a crispy, thin-crust, and an irresistible, smokey aroma from the pinewood the restaurant uses to keep oven fire burning through the evening. As for the toppings, the restaurant imports only the best ingredients from their trusted sources in Italy, Australia, and New Zealand before handing them over to the team of talented chefs.
With the pizza situation sorted, be sure to order some of their pasta, spaghetti, or steaks to complete the feast. The restaurant's cozy ambiance and classic décor will make you feel as if you're having a pleasant meal in the comfort of your home.
Bella Napoli
If you want to eat in a homey restaurant with an Italian atmosphere, Bella Napoli is the location for you. The place has served locals and expats for the last decade, and those that have enjoyed it then are still going back today.
The menu has remained fairly consistent, and so has the quality of their pizzas. Fresh, tasty, and with many options to choose from, those that still haven’t heard of Bella Napoli are certain to come back for more.
The pastas are also exceptional, with many of them (such as the classic Carbonara) being served in a bowl covered with a layer of bread dough. Delizioso.
Big Mama Pizzeria
Big Mama Pizzeria is an Italian restaurant located at the center of Bangkok's business district, Asoke, specifically around Sukhumvit 21 (Soi 1). Over the years, they've become a heavy favorite among office workers and foreigners in the area, widely known for serving first-rate classic Italian dishes for an affordable price.
While most items feature traditional Italian recipes, you'll also find specialties inspired by the owner's personal experience traveling to many countries around the world. The ingredients used are meticulously hand-picked to perfection, making sure that every dish coming out of the kitchen is made only from the highest quality ingredients by a team of master chefs.
Aside from the homemade pizza that comes in various toppings, you can also enjoy a selection of salads, spaghetti, lasagna, and sweets!
Brunello Thailand
This Italian kitchen located on Rama 9 road is well-known for its great-tasting traditional dishes and the impeccable service from the staff members and Italian owners. We can safely say that you'll find the true spirit of the Italian dining experience here in Brunello.
While the highlight is the pizza, Brunello, unlike other restaurants, also serves "Pizza Fritta" or fried pizza. The menu offers numerous exotic topping choices, including smoked Italian ham, spicy melted Calabria sausage, taleggio cheese, black truffle pastes, queen cherry tomatoes, and even Nutella with assorted fruits! Both local and imported ingredients have been meticulously selected by the kitchen staff, ensuring the highest quality and most exquisite Italian taste.
The restaurant bakes each pizza at 350oF for 4 minutes using a large oven, making the pizza light, crispy, and aromatically pleasing. The rest of the menu offers tasty selections of salad, steak, pasta, and many more. You can also choose to find seating outdoors to enjoy the weather or get comfortable and cozy inside amid the luxurious décor of the restaurant.
Ciao Pizza
From the same brilliant minds that gave us the top-rated Water Library restaurants comes Ciao Pizza, an Italian eatery helmed by Italian chef Gerardo Calabrese who possesses over 20 years of experience as a pizza chef. What sets the pizza here aside from all the other restaurants is the extra-thin crust made by letting the dough rest an extra 72 hours before baking. Their slow rise dough pizza is much easier to digest, making sure you don't feel overly full after the meal.
Another menu worth mentioning is the "DIY Pizza," where you can freely choose the ingredients that go into your customized pizza. You can even name your pizza in any way you want. If you're not one to mix and match, you can also pick your favorite from a vast selection of preset toppings. Top your meal off with another dish of spaghetti, steak, or dessert, and you've got yourself a complete pizza party.
The restaurant's casual setting features a modern rustic style that showcases the primary elements of wood and metal added with a brown-black color tone. The resulting luxurious scene makes for the perfect backdrop for a picture with your friends and family.
Gallery Pizza
Yes, another pizza delivery service. But this new place is one that will catch your eye for one particular reason. Gallery Pizza closes at 4AM. Yes, you can now have delicious Italian pizza made with imported Italian ingredients at home, after a night out.
At the time of writing, Gallery Pizza also offers you a promotion of ANY TWO PIZZAS for the price of just 499THB. With their cheapest coming at 265THB, there is so much value at offer that we feel guilty sharing this information. Thank us later.
Pala Pizza Romana
Pala Pizza Romana started as a small eatery underneath the Asok BTS section, but has now turned into a full-fledged restaurant packed with customers and an ever-improving menu. And it’s main attraction? Pizza.
Here, the pizzas are baked in meter-long slabs instead of the conventional circle, and is done so that it’s crusty at the bottom yet soft and full of texture on the top. They have most of the popular flavours including Diavola, Parma Ham, and Capricciosa, but their biggest selling point is the option to grab a piece and easily take home on the go.
Peppina
If you venture down soi 31 a little further, Peppina is another excellent Pizzeria that has increased the standard of pizzas in Bangkok.
The well-decorated eatery has brought in the sourdough pizza that was a talk of the town around a year ago, and even today it is extremely difficult to reserve a table. The authentic Neapolitan pizza style is their standard, but their menu also includes Sicilian pizzas, fried pizzas, and their very nice alternative of the Tronchetto pizza.
Not in the mood for pizza? Peppina has a wide selection of beef and meats as well.
Pizzaiola by Massilia
Pizzaiola by Massilia comes with a bright and lively concept, making it accessible to a broader group of people. The blue-white color tone adorned by neon lights makes for the perfect Instagram spot. As for the food, chef Luca Appino, the founding partner of many top-rated restaurants in Bangkok, including Pizza Massilia and La Bottega di Luca, runs the show.
The food served at Pizzaiola blends the traditional Italian recipes with modern cooking techniques. With kitchen duties handled at every step by two Italian chefs, all the ingredients, imported from both Italy and various countries around the world, have been meticulously chosen and picked out to bring out the best taste profile.
Some dishes feature local Thai ingredients that bring out a whole new palette of flavors for Italian dishes. With countless toppings to choose from, including traditional ones as well as Thai fusion and dessert toppings, you can have a pizza party with all your friends and family.
Furthermore, the pizza dough is made with organic flour from Italy, giving the crust a unique fluffy quality, crispiness, and aroma after being baked in the restaurant's brick oven to perfection.
Pizzazo
At Pizzazo, food is considered a form of art where the masterpiece is the pizza. Just like a showpiece of any renowned artists, crafting and polishing require the utmost attention and creativity. Run by the owner who has over 20 years of restaurant management both locally and outside of Thailand, you're guaranteed an unforgettable meal every time you visit.
The kitchen crew meticulously selects every ingredient that goes into the creation of each menu. Western or Thai, the cooking brings together the elements correctly, resulting in innovative pizzas that are too good not to try, including Thai Green Curry pizza as well as the fresh rocket or arugula pizza that weight-watchers can enjoy.
Aside from the pizzas, you should leave space in your stomach to enjoy the other best-sellers like the Cajun Shrimp and Braised Beef Cheek & Tail with Mushroom.
Pizza Mania
Yes we have come down to a Pizza Delivery service. Have we stooped this low? Well not really, because in Pizza Mania we have probably the best pizza delivery service in the city.
Now instead of venturing off to one the above mentioned restaurants or eateries, you can now consistently enjoy a wide selection fresh authentic pizza from the joy of your sofa/computer.
Don’t overspend on the heavily advertised Pizza Company, Pizza Hut, and Dominoes, Pizza Mania could now make you a tad bit more popular among your friends when having a sleepover.
Pizza Massilia
You might be thinking what a food truck is doing in a top list of pizzerias in Bangkok. Well it’s not a food truck anymore, because Pizza Massilia has just opened its restaurant in soi Ruamrudee near Ploenchit BTS Station.
Pizza Massilia is actually collaboration between a Frenchman (Frederic Meyer) and an Italian chef Luca Apino, and the decor of the restaurant shows it as so, with French-style windows adjacent to its massive Italian fire ovens.
But after coming away from the food truck scene, their menu (and price) has had a massive upgrade, with various pastas and meats available for your pleasure.
Trattoria Pizzeria Il Bolognese
Moving away from Sukhumvit, we have the loved Trattoria Pizzeria Il Bolognese in Sathorn, a very well-decorated eatery that brings you authentic Italian cuisine in a casual yet upscale atmosphere.
With the restaurant happily citing that they are ‘drawing the spirit from Bologna’, Trattoria Pizzeria Il Bolognese also contains a pizza oven that results in another great pizza experience. However, many will want to order their pizzas along with their wide array of other Italian delicacies, such as the Truffle Oil Ravioli and Seafood Risotto.
Soho Pizza
If you ask anyone in Bangkok to recommend a pizza place, there's a good chance for Soho Pizza to come up. Unlike the other traditional Italian restaurants on the list, Soho Pizza is a New York-style pizza parlor. Their homemade pizzas became a hit amongst the urban Bangkok crowd in no time.
The main features of the pizzas served here are the larger size and extra crispiness compared to the usual pizzas you find elsewhere. The recipe requires the pizza dough to be massaged by hand over 48 hours before baking, resulting in the fluffy and crispy pizza that everyone loves.
Furthermore, Soho Pizza never holds back on their toppings, especially the popular ones like the Classic Cheese and seafood. If you've got a real craving for pizza, we do recommend you go for the whole 18-inch pie.