2025 Guide to the BEST Pizza Places in Turin
In this post you’ll learn what are the best Pizza places in Turin and how the differ between each other: the real Neapolitan Pizza, the best thin & crunchy Pizza, Pizza al padellino (the specialty of Turin) and the creative Pizza al mattone. I will share pictures & videos so you’ll have a better understanding of what to expect.
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The Top 9 Pizza Places in TURIN
- Pizzeria: Rural
- Pizzeria: Pizzium
- Pizzeria: Crocca
- Pizzeria: Al Padellino
- Pizzeria: Vecchio Forno Garibaldi
- Ristorante Pizzeria: Bottega Baretti
- Ristorante Pizzeria: La Lampara
- Pizzeria: Sorbillo
- Pub: Dirty Dick
- Is Turin a foodie city?
- Is Turin known for Pizza?
- What city in Italy is famous for Pizza?
- What is the style of Pizza in Turin?
- What is the best Pizza according to Italians?
Here is the list of my favorite Pizza places in Turin, with pictures and videos I personally took when I went to eat there so you have a better idea on what to expect.
1. Pizzeria: Rural
- Address: Via Mantova, 27, 10153 Torino TO, Italia
- Turin neighborhood: 20 mins walking distance from Piazza Castello
- Pizza type: Neapolitan Pizza – high and soft edges
I’ve been to Rural Pizzeria place several times already. Pizza here tastes great and the menu is quite interesting as it offers also very different ingredients combination than the usual pizzeria.
In addition to that, I love the area in which it is located. It is an area that has developed a lot over last 10 years. It is just 20 minutes walking distance from Piazza castello but it has a totally different vibe. It has a little bit of an industrial mood, there are plenty of little local artisan shops and also plenty of bars & restaurants to eat and drink.
One more plus is that in this are parking spots are still free of charge 😊.
2. Pizzeria: Pizzium
- Address: Corso Giacomo Matteotti, 3A, 10121 Torino TO, Italia
- Turin neighborhood: city centre
- Pizza type: Neapolitan Pizza – high and soft edges
Pizzium is an authentic Pizza brand that was created in Milan back in 2017. They have been so successful that they opened a total of 35 Pizzerias in all of Italy.
They focus on the real Neapolitan Pizza with their high soft edges and premium quality ingredients
3. Pizzeria: Crocca
- Address: Via Po, 14, 10123 Torino TO, Italia
- Turin neighborhood: city centre
- Pizza type: Innovative – think and crunchy pizza
Pizzeria Crocca is a successful and recent Pizza place that was created in Milan in 2020. They are proposing something really innovative here with a really thin and crunchy pizza.
Their trademark is really the crunchiness, as a matter of fact “crocca” in italian means crunchy. You can get a better feeling of the texture from looking at the short video below.
I love the idea and I found this something really interesting to try. I don’t really like soggy pizzas so I found this concept really captivating.
Their pizzas are really light and easy to digest. The only downside is you might still be hungry after eating one pizza, as a matter of fact my wife and I ended up eating three pizzas in total 😊.
4. Ristorante Pizzeria: : Al Padellino
- Address: Corso Vinzaglio, 21, 10121 Torino TO, Italia
- Turin neighborhood: city centre
- Pizza type: pizza al padellino/ tegamino
If you want to try the peculiar “padellino-type” of Pizza from Turin and you are located in the city-centre, then the best place to taste it is at Pizzeria Al Padellino.
Pizza is really good here and crunchy. What I love the most is that it offers also some authentic Pizza recipes that you don’t easily find in north of Italy such as pizza with “scarola”.
The restaurant is quite big so unlike other places it relatively easy to get a table and it is open till later in the night than usual pizzerias, which is a big plus.
Fully recommended!
5. Pizzeria: Vecchio Forno Garibaldi
- Address: C.so Orbassano, 112, 10136 Torino TO, Italia
- Turin neighborhood: Turin outskirts
- Pizza type: pizza al padellino/ tegamino
If you are looking for the best possible expression of al-padellino type of Pizza , then you should go to Vecchio Forno Garibaldi.
This is a really authentic pizzeria, and as such, it is not in the city centre. It will take you rougly 15 mins car drive or 35 minutes with public transportation from Piazza San Carlo.
Vecchio Forno Garibaldi is to me what “Freddy BBQ” is to Frank Underwood in the famous House of Cards TV series. An extremely underrated humble restaurant but with spectacular food where only local people hang out.
If you go here I suggest to try their “farinata” as a starter which is simply fantastic. For the ones who are not familiar with it farinata is a thin, soft but crunchy savoury pancake made of chickpea flavour. This is a local delicacy typical from the nearby Liguria region.
Here is where I go when I want a good old authentic pizza.
It is crunchy, tasty, and prices are ridiculously low a pizza will cost you between 5 to 8 euros max. As you can see from the receipt, my wife and I spent 20 euro in total for 1x farinata, 2x pizzas, 1x Coca Cola and 1x bottle of water.
6. Ristorante Pizzeria: Bottega Baretti
- Address: Via Sant’Anselmo, 28, 10125 Torino TO, Italia
- Turin neighborhood: city centre – San Salvario are
- Pizza type: Neapolitan Pizza – high and soft edges
Bottega Baretti is not exclusively a Pizzeria but rather a Restaurant which specializes in Turin local food and Pizzas.
It is located in the vibrant neighborhood of San Salvario, just next to Porta Nuova train station. This is very loud and multiethnic neighbourhood famous for its restaurants but also for the night-life due to numerous cocktail bars.
I like the pizza there. The one I took was very simple but exceptional, it was pizza with Burrata.
If you have not tasted Burrata than you definitely need to try it, it is a savoury fresh Italian cheese made of mozzarella and cream. The addition of the cream is what makes the inside soft. When you cut it open, the soft cream comes out making it explosion of flavour.
What I like about Bottega Baretti is that you have a choice among four different pizza doughs which are called “impasto”: the regular “impasto della casa”, wholemeal, seven-cereals and kamut dough. This adds different flavours, different level of crunchiness and it also makes pizza way more nutritious.
7. Ristorante Pizzeria: La Lampara
- Address: Via Andrea Doria, 23, 10123 Torino TO, Italia
- Turin neighborhood: city centre
- Pizza type: Neapolitan Pizza / “mattonella” Pizza / Pizza al metro
La Lampara is a famous restaurant that does also Pizza.
I like it because being it a restaurant, it has a wide variety of ingredients which are also available on their pizzas that you don’t typically find in many pizzerias such as: salsiccia di bra, cipolla rossa di tropea, ‘Nduja, Scamorza and San Daniele ham.
I love that you also have the choice of regular pizza or pizza “alla mattonella” which is cooked in a rectangular shaped container which enhances the baking temperature making it more crunchy.
Here they also offer the possibility of ordering “pizza al metro”, this is a perfect opportunity if you are a group of people (minimum 3-4 people I’d say) as it allows you to pick and choose a variety of different toppings that you can easily share among yourselves
TOP TIP:
This place is very popular among Juventus players due to its central location, great food, and privacy. If you want to meet players you need to go during the week and go for dinner very early for Italian standards (at around 19:00).
8. Pizzeria: Sorbillo
- Address: Via XX Settembre, 22, 10121 Torino TO
- ItaliaTurin neighborhood: city centre
- Pizza type: the realNeapolitan Pizza
Sorbillo is the best example of authentic Neapolitan Pizza.
It opened in Naples (Napoli) back in 1936, the city in which Pizza was invented and the capital of Italian pizza still today.
The Sorbillo franchise became very popular and it now has a total of 16 Pizzerias across Italy.
In Turin (Torino), Sorbillo opened very recently (in March 2022) and there was a lot of thrill and media coverage in the city for this.
Sorbillo’s Pizza is the typical Neapolitan style pizza with high large soft edges on the sides and a bit watery. It is the best place to taste the true authentic pizza.
WATCH OUT:
The only downside is that they DO NOT ACCEPT RESERVATIONS . So if you want to taste it the only option is to queue up outside. To avoid waiting a long time for being seated I suggest to go there ahead of the peak time for Italian standards, which means 12:00 for lunch and 19:00 for dinner.
9. Pub: Dirty Dick
- Address: Strada di S. Mauro, 223, 10156 Torino TO, Italia
- ItaliaTurin neighborhood: Turin outskirts
- Pizza type: thin & crunchy
Dirty Dick is a local pub located in the outskirts of Turin. It will take you 20 mins car drive or 30-45 minutes by public transportation to get there.
I like this place mainly for Pizzas, which are super thin, very crunchy and insanely big. I took some of my local friends to eat here a few years back and it quickly became regulars of this place.
This is definitely a Pizza that is worth a try if you are looking for something different.
10. Is Turin a foodie city?
Yes, Turin is definitely a foodie city.
It is the birthplace of SlowFood and it is considered one of the best food cities in the whole of Italy. For the ones who don’t know about it, SlowFood is a food movement that focuses on locally-sourced, high -quality ingredients which was created as a contrast to the development of Fast Food.
In addition to that, Turin is considered the Italian capital of chocolate. This is thanks to its renowned historical high-quality chocolate producers such as Caffarel (1826) and Venchi (1878), which lead to the creation of the “bicerin” chocolate drink (in 1763), the “gianduia” flavor (in 1865) and Nutella (1964) which are considered still today as icons of chocolate delicacies worldwide.
When it comes to drinks, Turin & its surroundings are second to none. It is home to some of the greatest wines of Italy such as the Barolo and Barbaresco.
Furthermore, Vermouth was invented in Turin which lead to the creation of some of the most iconic cocktails such as Negroni and Americano.
11. Is Turin known for Pizza?
No, Turin is not famous for Pizza. Yet, it has a unique and unusual “Pizza tradition” known as the Pizza al padellino (or pizza al tegamino).
This type of Pizza cannot be found in any other city in Italy. Hence, if you are in Turin and you feel like trying something new you should leverage this opportunity to try Pizza al padellino.
You will learn more about pizza al padellino in the sections above of this post.
12. What city in Italy is famous for Pizza?
Naples (Napoli) is where Pizza was invented and as such it is considered still today as the capital of Pizza.
Back in 1889 Raffaele Esposito created the Pizza Margherita as a tribute to Queen Margherita of Savoy. Not many people realise that Margherita was indeed the name of the Queen.
13. What is the style of Pizza in Turin?
Turin has its own peculiar tradition when it comes to Pizza: the iconic Pizza “al padellino” also known as pizza “al tegamino”.
This consists of a “smaller looking” but “thicker” version of the typical pizza. While the grams of dough used are exactly the same of the usual pizza, this is cooked in a round aluminum dish which gives it the shape of a perfect circle.
The pizza al padellino will be much thicker, as the diameter of this circle is smaller than the typical pizza while the dough quantity is the same.
The name “padellino” comes from the fact that the round aluminum container in which this type of pizza is cooked is called padellino (or tegamino).
This type of Pizza cannot be found anywhere else in Italy. Hence, if you like trying new things you should should not miss out the opportunity of eating a nice Pizza al padellino while visiting Turin.
As mentioned above, my two favorite spots for Pizza al padellino in Turin: Al Padellino and Antico Forno Garibaldi.
14. The best Pizza according to Italians?
A smart person once said: LESS IS MORE. Italians like to keep it simple.
If you have great raw materials to start with, you don’t need a lot of ingredients to make a Pizza taste great.
If you speak to Pizza experts in Naples, they will tell you that the best pizza is in fact the Pizza Margherita.
If you want something a bit more tasty you should pick the Bufalina, which is basically a Margherita with Mozzarella di Bufala which has a much stronger taste. Another key difference is that Mozzarella di Bufala contains and thus releases less water than the normal mozzarella fiordilatte making the pizza less watery and more crunchy.
Other authentic historical Italian pizzas are Prosciutto e Funghi (“pink” Ham and champignon mushrooms), Capricciosa (“pink” ham, champignon mushrooms, artichokes and black olives), Quattro Formaggi (Mozzarella, Gorgonzola, Fontina and Parimigiano Reggiano) and Diavola (with spicy salami).
One thing to know is that the original Capricciosa and Quattro Stagioni pizza have the same exact ingredients. The key difference lays in the fact that in the Capricciosa the ingredients are mixed while in the Quattro Stagioni they are placed on the pizza in four different areas.
Watch-out:
What americans call “pepperoni” actually means bell peppers in Italian. So if you are looking for American style “pepperoni” you need to ask for salami and potentially order a Diavola Pizza.
