Exclusive – Heavenly taste: The 3 most unique pizza places in Budapest – PHOTOS

Imagine you’re a tourist in the city of your dreams – or maybe just the capital city of a small country you’ve decided to visit. One of the best parts of travelling is undoubtedly getting to try the foods of the place. Personally, apart from indulging in the staple foods of the city I’m visiting, I’m always up for a good pizza wherever life takes me.

Pizzas are an essential dish in any major city: the selection is oftentimes immense, and usually, we do not have the time and energy to scroll through all the available reviews and feedback the pizzerias of the city receive. Fear not! We have done that for you should you happen to come to Budapest. Without further ado, let’s get into the 3 most exciting and unique pizza places in the Hungarian capital!

Local Korner

Local Korner steals your heart as soon as you set a virtual foot on their official webpage. You are greeted with an ingenious logo, a funky font, photos of mouthwatering flatbreads and a warm welcome.

Local Korner awaits guests with premium pizza – and, if you’re feeling adventurous, or maybe you just didn’t find the perfect pizza on the menu, they have a “simple and practical” flatbread option, as the owner of the place, Ákos Horváth puts it: you get to assemble the pizza you want to eat, which is then freshly baked by the chefs.

Don’t worry, you will not be bored while waiting for your tasty flatbread.

First, there’s a giant world map on the wall of the shop where you can write your name. By now, this map has become something of a pilgrimage site in Budapest with people from all around the world visiting and leaving their signatures here. Second, there’s a community table where you can chat with other guests. Lastly, you can even read the history of Local Korner in comic book form. These are already three reasons why you should visit this place and you haven’t even tasted their pizza yet!

We can’t overlook the kindness and friendliness of the waiters, who try their best to have a few words with each guest, whether it’s about their trip or just their day. Have I managed to convince you to visit Locak Korner yet?

Basilico Pizzeria

Fancy a place that is small, not much of a tourism hub, but still serves some of the best flatbread in the city? Basilico Pizzeria is your place. They make hand-tossed traditional Italian pizza baked in a stone oven. Their offer even includes New York-style flatbread which is a 45-50 cm diameter large pizza served by the slice.

“I remember a guest who was accidentally from New York, saying he had been looking for this kind of pizza for a long while and how happy he was that finally, he found a place,”

the owner of Basilico Pizzeria, László Kiss-Benke told Daily News Hungary.

Photo: Basilico Pizzeria

The pizzeria also serves whole flatbreads à la carte. Both dine-in or takeaway are available, as well as home delivery by Foodora. As for the capacity of the restaurant, approximately 25 guests can sit inside. Good news: from April, their terrace is available!

As the owner, Kiss-Benke learnt from the best of the best in New York during his stay in the United States, coming back to Budapest, he wished to open a place that sells good quality flatbread. According to him, what is being sold as pizza slices by all the bakeries and gyros places, Pizza King, and the like in the Hungarian capital, is a mockery of the real deal. Thus, you can rest assured that you will get the best-quality pizza in Basilico Pizzeria.

Photo: Basilico Pizzeria

Belli di Mamma

Looking for a VERY Italian pizza place in the Hungarian capital? You’ve found it. Belli di Mamma was opened in February 2019 with a concept inspired by “la dolce vita” of Italy of the 60s and 70s. Holiday, sun, sea, mountains, good music, good food and wine, sports cars, fashion, design and love – you name it, Belli Di Mamma delivers.

As the Managing Director, Riccardo Bianchi told Daily News Hungary, the pizza they serve is the Neapolitan Contemporary kind.

“A Contemporary pizza is characterised by its light, long-rising and fluffy dough with crunchy crust,”

he explained. Their flatbreads are made with the Biga process, which is a pre-fermented dough that makes the pizza light and easy to digest and low in gluten.

You will never get bored of their pizza selections, as their offer changes seasonally. “Our concept is “pizza and wine”, so we constantly search for nice wines to pair with our pizzas,” Riccardo said. In Belli di Mamma, you can decide whether you want your flatbreads with regular dough or a wholegrain base. As a bonus, their desserts are freshly prepared in their kitchen!

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