The world of lists does not take prisoners, but it is true that they are a perfect option to gauge the health of gastronomy. In this case, Madrid is in luck, just like Spain, because our country positions 17 pizzerias among the 50 best on the continent.
However, they are only three Madrid pizzerias that are among the best, according to the 50 Top Pizza Europe classification. It is not that there is cheating or cardboard. Even less when the number one in Europe is a Barcelona pizzeria like Sartoria Panatieri.
Although the list may have absences, especially since in it no Italian pizzeria participateswhich are out of the classification, serves us to take this round pulse to one of the great classics of transalpine cuisine.
In this case, if we are talking about good pizzas, Madrid also get into the top ten to one of their representatives. These are the Fratelli Figurato pizzerias (Larra, 13 and Alonso Cano, 37), which last year reached silver with second place at the continental level and which in this edition drops to sixth place.
Further down we find Baldoria —calle de Ortega y Gasset, 100— (in thirteenth position), a newly minted Italian where the executive chef is Ciro Cristianowhom we knew in our country for being the visible culinary head of the Big Mamma group with openings such as Bel Mondo or Villa Capri.
To top it off, the last Madrid pizzeria that we found in the ranking is MO de Movimiento (Calle de Espronceda, 14), a regular in this type of contest, since it was finalist in the last National Pizza Contest of Spain in Madrid Fusion.
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Now, however, he is also entering a new category created in these awards that we could call ‘conscience pizzas’ and that wins one of the six ‘Green Oven’ awards, which reward establishments committed to environmental sustainability.
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