It’s open secret that Maestro Sourdough Pizza– Chiara Mezzasoma and Andrea Brunelli’s beloved neighbourhood restaurant in North Beach— is only one of Perth’s most relied on sources for stylish, fleet-footed Neapolitan- design pizza. Following the assertion of 50 Top Pizza’s 2025 Asia-Pacific rankings at Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Tokyo on Monday mid-day (WA time), Maestro’s standing as a pizza big has truly been validated. Again.
Launched in 2017, 50 Top Pizza is an consuming overview that asserts to make use of confidential examiners to go to and price pizza eating institutions worldwide. In enhancement to a grasp itemizing of fifty eating institutions, the overview moreover releases additional native checklists highlighting locations in Latin America, Europe, North America,Italy
Maestro’s look within the 2025 Asia-Pacific itemizing is the 4th time that Mezzasoma and Brunelli’s eating institution has truly appreciated 50 Top Pizza acknowledgment. (The eating institution moreover exhibiting up within the 2024, 2023 and 2021 positions). Placing at quantity 38 on this 12 months’s countdown, nonetheless, is its biggest place.
“We’re very proud to be on the list,” states Brunelli, that took a visit together with his accomplice to Tokyo to take part within the honors occasion.
“It’s an excellent achievement to be thought of one of many 50 greatest pizza cooks within the Asia-Pacific area.
“It’s a nice reward for all the work we’ve put we put into managing the restaurant, searching for the best products and doing all those dough tests and trials.”
While Maestro is WA’s solely restaurant to make the 50 Top Pizza lower, Australia is nicely stood for with 10 eating institutions– one of the vital of any sort of nation within the space– being recognized by the overview. Our top-ranked restaurant is Melbourne’s Shop 225 which positioned at quantity 5.
While Naples- design pizza is Maestro’s enterprise card and nicely price taking a visit up the freeway for, the intro of a brand-new five-pizza sampling meals choice (4 scrumptious pizzas plus a deal with pizza) in November is a risk for Umbria- birthed prepare dinner Brunelli to show his selection previous puffy, uncooked pies of unusual agility. Three of the pizzas– the “Quattro Stagioni” that features 4 varied garnishes on one base, diminished proper into quarters; a “doppia cottura” (“double cooked”) pizza that’s fried and afterwards baked within the restaurant’s Moretti Forni range until impossibly light and crisp; plus an Italian- design bombolone doughnut plumped up with pistachio paste– show the number of your house sourdough that the routine pizzas are created from. The persevering with to be 2 pizzas, nonetheless, are made with distinct dough formulation.
Synonymous with town of Turin in north Italy’s Piedmont space, the padellino is a deep-pan pizza together with a denser, fluffier base that Brunelli adorns with a ventilated mousse of nduja and ricotta, olives and tiny branches of sundried tomato.
Starring a plinth of slim, crispy dough lined with smoked scamorza cheese, baked potatoes and a particles of pork sausage cube, Rome’s strengthening pala romana is the Eternal City’s splendid understood cost to the pizza dialog. Be cautioned: this deep research flour energy is as loading as it’s superior– consisting of an invigorating container of bitter-sweet amaro liqueur in your BYO toolbox will surely not be an error– but additionally for these relating to trying out the near limitless risk of craftsmen flatbread, it’s a vital expertise.
“There isn’t just one style of pizza but many, many styles,” statesBrunelli
“When they are done in the proper way, every single style of pizza can make you go ‘wow’. I love the idea of helping people understand that pizza isn’t a simple dish.”
Maestro’s pizza sampling meals choice is $80 every and reservations are important. The meals choice is simply available for even-numbered reservations (guests share one pizza in between 2) with periods available at both 5.30 pm or 7.30 pm.
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Max Veenhuyzen is a reporter {and professional} photographer that has truly been discussing meals, beverage and touring for nationwide and world magazines for better than twenty years. He evaluates eating institutions for the Good Food Guide.