Six great pizzerias

We tell you where to find delicious pizzas

Some like them crispy and thin, others thick and juicy. No matter which version: we love the - admittedly not exactly low-calorie - export hit from Italy. Here are our Düsseldorf favorites.

Di Napoli

It's no coincidence that Di Napoli on Moltkestraße bears its name: clearly visible in the restaurant is an imposing stone oven that was specially brought from Naples. The authentic Neapolitan pizza is baked in it over charcoal, and you can have it topped with fine ingredients such as buffalo mozzarella, wild boar salami or salmon fillet in white wine sauce.

Menta

There's a lot in the dishes at Menta on Lorettostraße: a bit of Mediterranean, a lot of Piedmont, and a bit of the Orient. But above all, the chef's unbridled passion. And so, among the pizza classics, you'll also find unusual variations such as the potato pizza with spicy Taleggio cheese and thyme or the triad of goat cheese, pear and walnuts. Currently only pickup.

Lupo

Lupo am Bolker Stern is simply an institution. Generations of visitors to the old town have started their evening at the corner pizzeria or ended it on their way home with a margherita on a paper plate.

Romantica

Big as a wagon wheel, lavishly topped and available at an extremely fair price - the pizzas from Pempelfort's Pizzeria Romantica are a big hit. We have never experienced that there were no people waiting outside the door. No wonder, then, that Tripadvisor has already named it Germany's best pizzeria three times.

With Mama Lisi

In the 1950s and 60s, many Italian guest workers came to Gerresheim to work in the former glassworks. During this time, "Mama Lisi" opened her trattoria in Nachtigallstraße to provide her compatriots with Apulian home cooking. Today, her grandson runs the quaint eatery, whose bestsellers include the "green" pizza made from spinach dough.

Osteria Mossimo Milano

Normally, Mossimo serves its fancy-to-order pizzas on a wooden board. At Lockdown, however, they are only available as take-away, so the crispy thin dough patties with beet, ricotta, sesame and honey, with truffle cream, fresh tomatoes and mushrooms or with fennel salami, arugula and mango curry sauce end up in the typical cardboard box here, too.

And while you're waiting for your pizza, you can listen to the Düsseldorf band Antilopen Gang and their song of praise for pizza.

Cover photo: Amirali Mirhashemian, Unsplash