Montreal · 6 ranked picks
Ugo Pizzeria MTL Centre Ville leads this shortlist.
Roman pizza in Montreal doesn't have a long lineage, which makes what Ugo Di Nunzio brought to the Centre Ville worth paying attention to.
Pizzeria La Focaccia sits on Mont-Royal Est in the Plateau, the kind of address that sounds like every other neighbourhood pizzeria until you look a little closer at what's actually going on.
Pizza Il Focolaio isn't positioning itself as a red-sauce nostalgia act or angling for a white-tablecloth reputation.
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Brama arrived in 2020 in the Chabanel district — Montreal's old garment quarter, a neighbourhood that still carries the bones of industry and the particular energy of a street figuring out what it wants to be next.
Restaurant Corneli has been operating on St-Laurent, which in Montréal restaurant years is basically geological time.
Le Serpent occupies a converted loft in Old Montreal — concrete columns, exposed steel, warm industrial light — and the room reportedly wears that tension between raw and refined better than most of the neighbourhood's stone-walled grand…
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The best pizza in Montreal are Ugo Pizzeria MTL Centre Ville, Pizzeria la focaccia, Pizza Il Focolaio, and more.
Ugo Pizzeria MTL Centre Ville, Pizzeria la focaccia, and Pizza Il Focolaio are starting points for this Montreal shortlist. Compare the food, menu format and service notes for each place before deciding where to go. The right choice depends on the meal you have in mind, whether you are planning an order, a daytime stop or a dinner reservation.
The linked restaurant pages and menus support the food focus and published service details in this shortlist. Each pick includes its sources and the date they were checked. Read our full methodology →
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