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Sazi e Sani

Catania's one entry in the national ranking's hundred, and it got there on Sicilian flour rather than by importing Naples wholesale. The house works local grains and still serves the cartwheel and the fried pizza, which is a harder thing to do than either orthodoxy alone.

Via Sant'Euplio 122, 95125 Catania · Catania · Neapolitan

Close view of a pizza with cooked ham, grilled aubergine, cherry tomatoes, grated cheese and a basil leaf, the rim tall and leopard-spotted with char.
From Sazi e Sani

Why it is here

Catania's one entry in the national ranking's hundred, and it got there on Sicilian flour rather than by importing Naples wholesale. The house works local grains and still serves the cartwheel and the fried pizza, which is a harder thing to do than either orthodoxy alone.

What to order

The ruota di carro, if the cartwheel is on — it is the house showing it can work at Neapolitan scale on Sicilian flour.

What we looked at

The flour is Sicilian — the house works local grains rather than importing a Neapolitan blendLeans Neapolitan without being bound by it: the pizza is also served ruota di carro, the cartwheel size that overhangs the plate, and friedThe highest-placed pizzeria in the city, and the only one from Catania in the national ranking's hundred