Best pizzas in Genève

Always the topic for an heated debate: Where to find the best pizzas in town?  First I would like to share a general critique that most pizzas in Genève have a too thick and too bread-like crust, in contrast to the original Neapolitan pizza. In my opinion this makes the pizzas simply too heavy to be eaten and digested by one person. (but maybe it's just how the Swiss like their pizzas?). This said, I will tell you what are my favorite pizzerias. A long time favorite is Il carosello. Very central in Genève, not too expensive, they almost always have place and they also have good pastas and risottos. My favorite pizza here is the one topped with San Danièle Parma ham and fresh rucola.

Another good one is pizzeria da Gabriele in Eaux vives. Nice service, also good pastas (for example the pappardelle with safran) and this in a mega kitsch decor with a sort of kitsch reconstruction of a Roman temple. The best here is the one with Bresaola and rucola.

Yesterday we discovered a new favorite: Don Corleone in the Grottes quartier. Nice restaurant with a big calm terrace on the front. Decorated in it's own special way with attributes of one of the main characters of the Godfather. You can even eat here on a table where besides you is sitting a life size puppet of Don Corleone (some people apparently like this). The restaurant proposes traditional and special pizzas. Take a special, because they are topped with mozzarella bufflone and San Marzano tomatoes. I took a pizza Sophia Loren topped with rucola, bresoala and black truffles. Very good taste. They also have a special pizza topped with 50 grammes of beluga caviar that costs CHF 580,-. I forgot to ask if this is a little joke and if  it's not a joke, how often they sell this pizza. Also this year you can eat here with the Asiette Genevoise card, which means that you get 50 % discount on the food (for 2 persons). Also they have very nice starters, like the salade caprese, the carpaccio di manzo and the cold buffet.

For all three above named pizzerias I have to note that at everyone of these the crust is too thick. Actually the only place in Genève (at least that I know) where they bake the pizzas with thin crusts is at the Manora restaurant on top of the Manor. They actually have really good pizzas here and ...with the thin crust I like so much.


Il carosello.25,Boulevard Georges-Favon  ,1204 Genève, tel: 022 328 56 40
Da Gabriele. 4, Rue Cherbuliez 1207 Genève, Tel: 022 736 30 40
Don Corleone. 13, Rue des Grottes, 1201Genève, Tel: 022 734 13 44 
Manora, Rue Cornavin 6 , 1201 Genève