Pizzico
Two bankers who quit in Rome, one of whom ran a pizza food truck in France before landing in Lisbon, put a wood-fired oven from Naples into the ground floor of the other's hostel. That is an unlikely route to a serious Neapolitan pizzeria, and the result is treated as one of the city's best by people who ate it rather than announced it. Lisbon has no shortage of Italians cooking Italian food; what distinguishes this one is the narrowness of the ambition — a short Neapolitan menu, ingredients carried from Italy, and a room rebuilt around the oven rather than the other way round.
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Why it is here
Two bankers who quit in Rome, one of whom ran a pizza food truck in France before landing in Lisbon, put a wood-fired oven from Naples into the ground floor of the other's hostel. That is an unlikely route to a serious Neapolitan pizzeria, and the result is treated as one of the city's best by people who ate it rather than announced it. Lisbon has no shortage of Italians cooking Italian food; what distinguishes this one is the narrowness of the ambition — a short Neapolitan menu, ingredients carried from Italy, and a room rebuilt around the oven rather than the other way round.
What to order
The Leopoldina — San Marzano, fior di latte, stracciatella, cherry tomato and pesto — or the Maciste, named after one of the founders' dogs.