Pizza

📍 Origin: Naples – Campania  ·  🌱 Vegetarian  ·  ⚠️ Allergens: gluten, dairy

There is no need to introduce pizza, this round dish of leavened dough. It’s famous worldwide and thanks to its versatility, can be topped with any local or favourite ingredient.

This technique of leavened dough becomes a humble stage for Naples’s freshest and iconic ingredients: fresh stracciatella cheese, mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes, basil, and pureed tomato. Here, time and simplicity are your best friends.

Curious facts. Pizza has ancient roots, but it was a royal seal of approval in 1889 that set pizza on the path to global domination.

All that changed after Italian unification. While visiting Naples in 1889, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita grew tired of the complicated French dishes. Hastily summoned to prepare some local specialities for the queen, the pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito cooked three sorts of pizza: one with lard, caciocavallo and basil; another with cecenielli; and a third with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. The queen was delighted. Her favourite – the last of the three – was christened pizza margherita in her honour.

Allergens & Dietary Needs

Allergens. Pizza dough contains brewer’s yeast, mozzarella cheese, stracciatella cheese, and flour. Please notify us of any allergies or dietary requirements.

If you are looking for some other recipes to pair with your menu, have a look at Fried Panzerotti; Gnocchi with Sorrentina Sauce; Sicilian Cannoli.

Learn to Make Pizza Margherita in Genoa

Add Pizza Margherita to your menu: choose it as one of your three recipes and cook it step by step with chef Lucrezia in her home kitchen in Genoa, then sit down to enjoy it with a glass of Italian wine. You will receive the written recipe by email, so you can make it again at home.