The Best Pizza in Adelaide

Adelaide’s pizza scene has turned up the heat in the last few years. The teams behind Anchovy Bandit and Pizzateca have both started turned their respective operations into budding empires. Some of the city’s top chefs recently turned their attention to pizza dough. Now Adelaide serves every kind of slice under the sun, from chunky Detroit-style deep dish to floppy woodfired Neapolitan. These are favourites around town.

Words by Broadsheet Editors
Updated on 24 December 2025

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Pizzateca

“Oztalian” pizza and local wines to match. An imported Italian wood-fired oven sits in the middle of this rustic restaurant; fresh and white with pastel-pink and green accents. It’s turning out pizza that’s well worth the trip to McLaren Vale.

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Lucia’s Pizza & Spaghetti Bar

In the ’50s, pizza was something most Australians had only seen in foreign magazines. Lucia's changed that when it opened in 1957, introducing locals to the Italian staple. It serves the same pizza and pasta that’s been around for decades. We hope it never changes.

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Bandit Pizza & Wine

Experience beautiful design, excellent food and friendly service at this pizza and wine joint from the team behind Anchovy Bandit and Bottega Bandito. Expect classic and left-of-centre pizzas and veggies from the hearth, plus a 10-out-of-10 wine selection.

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Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet brings traditional (and not-so traditional) pizza and pastries to Henley Beach Road. The Pastry Lab, which serves a bounty of vegan-friendly treats, is well worth its own visit.

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Francesca’s

Classic Neapolitan or thick, crunchy Sicilian pie? This tiny takeaway shop is doing both, plus pizza a portafoglio, or “wallet pizza” in Italian.

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Crafty Robot Brewing

Park in one of west end’s biggest beer gardens with a tasting paddle and chunky, Detroit-style pizza slices by a Lost in the Forest co-founder.

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One Sneaky Cheetah

This fun-and-fast spot is the third venue by the Pizzateca crew. Expect all the staples of your neighbourhood pizzeria (ham and pineapple, supreme and a smoky barbeque chicken), plus a few you won't find elsewhere. Also, canned wines, spritzes and house lager by Big Shed.

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Crafers Pizza Bar

Suburban nostalgia and clever cooking collide at this new-wave pizzeria by the Herringbone team. Go for gussied-up classics and new-wave creations – as well as pastas, salads and a hangover-busting meatball sub. There's also a clutch of easy-going beers and SA wines to pair with your slice.

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Chicco Palms

A California-inspired pizza bar serving Italo-American classics. The pizzas here are undeniably great, but it's the atmosphere that will really keep you coming back.

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That’s Enrico

Come for four pizza done four ways including a thin Roman-style made with sourdough, a gluten-free option and one with a double-cooked ciabatta-like dough. Choose toppings like lasagne-style bolognaise and potato with truffle.

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Anchovy Bandit

A freewheeling Italian joint that's inspired by tradition – but never bound by it. Bandit’s woodfired pizzas and housemade pasta are among the city’s best, and the drinks list spans Italianate cocktails, amaro and solid non alc options. Salute!

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Sunny's Pizza

You'll ask yourself the following when you enter this neon-lit gem: is Sunny’s a pizza joint that also happens to feel like a house party? Or is it a bar with DJs and primo pizza? Happily, the answer is “yes” to both.

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Valentino’s

Fill your plate with a selection of antipasto, pizza al taglio, stuffed eggplant, slow-cooked meatballs, hearty roasts and more, then try to leave room for a strong line-up of Italian pastries, or kick on into evening with cocktails.

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Etica

The standard-setter for Neapolitan pizza in Adelaide. The rest of the selection – including antipasto, pasta and desserts – is tight and considered. The same goes for the wine list of Italian and South Australian drops.

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Pizza e Mozzarella Bar

Peer through the large front windows at this Pirie Street favourite and you’ll see two beautiful red-brick ovens. They’re the only source of cooking heat for the entire restaurant, and you can learn how to use them – this spot hosts pizza-making classes for the dough-curious.

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Est Pizzeria

Fitting a pizza oven and restaurant into a tiny space would worry most, but not Est Pizzeria. It uses the space it has – and uses it well. If you’re coming with a group, the banquet here makes things nice and easy.

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Grotto on Edward Pizza-Teca

The word “grotto” alludes to someplace secret – a secluded cavern of magical quality – and this little pizza-house isn’t far off that. Make your choice, add a tumbler of wine (or beer) and nab a stool at the communal table.

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Antica Pizzeria

Real-deal Neapolitan pizzas and metre-long pies. And they're more than just a gimmick, too – they're seriously good, and an ideal option if you're booking for a larger group (or an ambitious small group).

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RoccoPizza

The pizzas here are made using sourdough bases, and they’re informed by the principles of the Mediterranean diet.

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Ballaboosta

Where the Mediterranean meets the Middle East. Starters hew towards the Middle East, while the wood oven in the corner delivers pizzas and house-made pita bread.

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Coccobello

This relaxed Italian diner does just about everything really well. The pizza is great, and so is the pasta, but it's the space – stucco walls, large outdoor terrace, Mediterranean feel – that will really transport you to Italy.

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Tony Tomatoes

Pizza backed by research and certified by the Accademia Italiana della Pizza in Italy.

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Russell’s Pizza

After a winery-hop through McLaren Vale, kick back with a wood oven pizza.

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Pan & Vine

A neighbourhood pizza bar serving “old-school” pies, rocky-road calzone and Negronis all day, every day. There’s also a tight selection of gnocchi, fettuccine and small plates including eggplant fries and salumi.

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Joe’s at Sabella, McLaren Vale

Good things are happening inside this renovated 1860s church. Visit Joe’s Thursday through Sunday for a rotating pizza line-up, ranging from a standard Margherita to white clam numbers made with local razor clam, chowder béchamel, and speck.

Fall From Grace, Aldinga

Former Salopian Inn head chef Jimmy Toone and partner Jo Leal previously ran pizza pop-ups at other venues. Now, they’ve made their pizza permanent every Friday night at their Aldinga wine bar – featuring five pizzas and a limited-edition special you'd better book in for.

Pizza Meccanica, Bowden

Housed inside an old mechanics workshop, this is where to go for puffy Neapolitan pizza with a classic leopard crust. No half and half, no modifications – these pizzas are good to go. Meccanica also hosts regular workshops for budding pizzaiolos.

Il Camino, Walkerville

What started as a takeaway pizzeria during Adelaide's lockdowns, Il Camino is now the sleek restaurant it always meant to be. Meaning “fireplace” in Italian, the name of this place gives away the remit: proper woodfired pizza backed up by rustic pastas and classic Italian desserts.

Reggie’s Detroit Pizza, Goodwood

In a city full of floppy Neapolitan slices, Reggie’s stands out with chunky deep-dish squares like you’d find in the United States. The signature pepperoni pie is the one to get here. If you need a cold beer with your slice, order one in from Suburban Brew next door.

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