Many New Yorkers will gladly tell anyone who’ll listen — and even those who won’t — about how they have the best pizza. And now they’ve got some mouth-watering new back-up for their long-standing culinary claims. Last week, the Italy-based 50 Top Pizza Awards came out with its 2024 worldwide list, and a Lower East Side New York restaurant came out on top.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Una Pizza Napoletana, opened by pizza maestro Anthony Mangieri in March 2022, not only beat other US competitors but also global ones. That includes pizzerias in Naples, Italy — the holy land for pizza aficionados and foodies in general. “It’s inspiring to be recognised for this 30 years into my career, especially in Naples where pizza originated,” Mangieri said.
Adding to New Yorkers’ bragging rights, three other Big Apple pizzerias made the 2024 list, which included 101 restaurants in total (despite the “50” in the name of the awards). New York pizzerias Ribalta ranked No. 19, Don Antonio No.
30 and L’industrie Pizzeria No. 80. Italy still managed to dominate the overall list with 41 eateries, while a total of 15 United States places were recognised.
And Naples managed to best New York with five entries on the list, including a tie for the No. 2 spot with Diego Vigtaliano Pizzeria. Showing how truly global the awards are, nations not exactly known for their pizza scenes — South Korea, Bolivia and India, to name three — were represented on the .