It’s official: the third best pizza in the world is in London

When Neapolitans first began selling flatbread topped with tomato sauce way back in the eighteenth century, they would probably have never predicted the thousands upon thousands of variations that would emerge centuries later. Now, we’ve got New York-style, Detroit-style, Sicilian-style and ’zas stacked with pineapple, blue cheese, ’ndjua, avocado and vodka-infused sauce. The options are endless, but that doesn’t mean they’re all good. 

We called upon the expertise of Time Out editors across the world, from Rome to Cape Town to New York, to compile a list of the greatest pizzas on the planet right now. And consider yourselves blessed, Londoners – one of the globe’s top-rated pizzas is right here in the capital city.

The third best pizza in the world is the SRP Marinara from east London’s Short Road Pizza. The ‘exquisite’ zhuzhed up marinara is on a crispy thin crust and topped with pomodoro, garlic puree, spicy chimichurri, burrata and Cantabrian anchovies. 

Short Road serves its pizzas at both the William The Fourth in Leyton and Three Colts in Bethnal Green. It was founded in 2020 by couple Ugo and Kate (and inspired by Ugo’s nonna), beginning as a back garden project then expanding into street-side baking, pop-ups and kitchen takeovers before finally finding a home at the Three Colts in 2024 and the William The Fourth in 2025. 

If it’s inclusion on our list isn’t enough to convince you of its excellence, the SRP Marinara was also named the Pizza of the Year at the National Pizza Awards back in November (for which Time Out’s own food editor Leonie Cooper was a judge). It beat other outstanding London pies like Bing Bong Pizza’s chilli and fennel sausage creation and Yard Sale’s  ‘Bright Young Thing’ pizza featuring red onion chutney, lemon marmalade and white anchovies. 

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The only pizzas that ranked above Short Road in our list were the Pizza Capricciosa from Rome’s 180g Pizza Romana in second place and the Cacio e Pepe from Mama’s Too in New York. See Time Out’s full roundup of the best pizzas in the world here.  

Discover all of London’s best pizza restaurants here. 

Plus: The old-school trattoria by one of the city’s hottest chefs that is officially London’s best new restaurant. 

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