The Best Pizza in San Francisco

Tony Gemignani knows about pizza. He makes pizza and he teaches others how to create pizza.
I call Tony, the Amabassador of Pizza. He travels the world giving pizza demos. Let's face it, pizza just oozes out of this guy.

He recently opened a new pizzeria / pizza school in San Francisco.And he makes the best pizza in San Francisco. From all of the reports I've seen, it is surpassing all expectations.

According to their website:

A small pizzeria in Naples, Italy is the inspiration behind Tony Gemignani's story for Tony's Pizza Napoletana. A fullfillment in his ever growing passion for pizza drew him to self content when he first tried an authentic Neapolitan pizza.

Since then he was determined to learn this art of pizza making and one day open a restaurant like no other. Growing up, Tony worked by his mother's side, learning valuable skills he would later implement in operating a successful restaurant. Tony learned the creativity involved in preparing hand crafted dishes, only to include the finest ingredients straight from the heart of Italy.

My friend Rick recently visited Tony. Here are some pics:

Rick and Tony

Tony making a Margherita Pizza

This pie's for you Albert!

I can't wait to get to San Francisco to discover this amazing pizza, myself.

You can find Tony at:

Tony's Pizza Napoletana

1570 Stockton St

San Francisco, CA 94133

(415) 835-9888

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The Pizza Promoter

You can discover Tony's secrets in his book with Diane Morgan:


                                













Tony and the Pizza Champions (Kamalei loves this book...)

Passion for Pizza Corners Chris Bianco

I appreciate anyone who has a love of pizza. And two of the greatest lovers of pizza are Cary and Lillian of Passion for Pizza.

These two pizza afficiandos have really made their mark in the pizza world by sharing their pizza ideas, pizza adventures, and pizza dreams.

They recently made a trip to Phoenix to discover and devour the pizza made by Chris Bianco.

They were able to spend some quality time with Chris and grill him about all things pizza.

I found their interview to be enlightening as well s entertaining. Chris Bianco is humble about his pizza.

Here is what Chris revealed to Cary and Lillian:

I always say that, for me, it's more of a human study than a restaurant. It's afforded me to watch and listen to a lot of things and meet a lot of really interesting people, to exchange ideas and be inspired and hopefully, in some cases by accident, inspire people to do their own thing, to do something that they enjoy, and take what they want from it.

If you love pizza, you will love this amazing conversation with Chris Biaco. Simply outstanding!

You can read the rest of the interview, here at Passion for Pizza.

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Pizza Therapy

More Difara's: Pizza On a Rainy Day Video

Let's face it: you can't argue with incredible pizza. Without a doubt Difara's makes some of the best pizza on the planet.

I came accross this video and just had to share it.

(Thanks for the heads up, Casey)

Here's what Maalock told me about Difara's:

"Painstaking care and expertise by a master pizza maker. Fresh hand grated cheese, great sauce, thin crust for the regular slice and ....the Sicilian is also unbelievable!"

The following video whispers the message loud and clear. Difara's Pizza is like no other. Ian Jensen created a video masterpiece



DiFaras Pizza - Pizza on a rainy day from Ian Jensen on Vimeo.

I can't imagine handling a pizza with your bare hands. Dom Demarco does this many times a day.

Here's what Goaline said:

"Pizza at Di Fara is so fresh and tasty. The dough is made with imported Italian flour, he uses not one but three cheeses (buffalo mozzarella, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Grana Padana, and freshly-made sauce created from plum tomatoes and he grows himself. The parmagion cheese is straight from the cheese grater and the basil is straight from the vine.

It's great pizza, luscious cheeses, dripping with olive oil, and if you are lucky dotted with artichokes. The pie is fantastic: all ingredients are fresh, crust is thin and juicy! The biggest problem is finding parking space."

Now that's a pie!

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albert grande
The Pizza Promoter

American Pie is an incredible book about Peter Reinhart's amazing pizza journey,