2024 Winners
Best Newcomer 2024
Baked
This year has been promising for pizza newcomers! Despite the ongoing economic challenges in Hong Kong, there are always courageous entrepreneurs willing to take the leap and start new pizza ventures. Interestingly, this year’s standout—Baked—is not entirely new to the city. Having been established six years […]
Best Taste 2024
Levain Bakery
Levain Bakery already surprised me back in 2022 when they first started making pizzas. Back then, they only offered the Margherita, so when I learned they’d expanded their selection, I knew it had potential in many ways—and indeed, this review in July became one of my pizza highlights of 2024! It’s amazing how dedicated […]
Best Looks 2024
Hygge
Another first-timer to win a Prof. Dr. Pizza award—and not necessarily an expected one! The “Best Looks” category has typically been dominated by larger, more established restaurant businesses with access to a wide array of tools, techniques, and experts to craft truly visually stunning pizzas. However, […]
Best Value 2024
Levain Bakery
Discussing the “value for money” in a pizza becomes increasingly relevant each year, as we’ve all noticed how expensive this dish has become—especially in recent years. When I first created this award category, the benchmark was well-made pizzas priced under 100 HKD, but that’s no longer a realistic standard in 2024. The […]
Best Toppings 2024
Sophia Loren
To win this category, a pizzeria must provide top-notch quality toppings as a bare minimum—but it certainly helps if the toppings are also outstanding from a creative perspective. Sophia Loren perfectly embodies both criteria and deserves the win this year, even as a newcomer to the pizza scene! Their “Butcher” pizza […]
Best Dough 2024
Fiata
How impressive is this! For the fourth year in a row, Fiata Pizza has clinched the “Best Dough” award—and, quite frankly, it was a relatively clear decision yet again. The top-5 nominees in this category change frequently, as some past contenders struggle with consistency, but @salvatore_fiata somehow manages to […]
"So Special" Award 2024
Chaska
I’m not going to lie—picking up this Naanza from the restaurant in June 2024 was probably one of my top three “pizza” highlights of the year, mainly because it surprised me in such an unexpected way. Indian restaurants generally haven’t impressed me with their pizza creations in recent years, but on this day, I was completely […]
"People's Choice" Award 2024
Dough Bros
It’s always interesting to see how Hong Kong’s residents perceive their city’s pizza scene and what they consider to be good or not-so-good pizza. I’m always curious about my community’s go-to places and where they’re satisfying their pizza cravings. Luckily, we’ve moved well beyond the days when inferior chain […]
Best Pizza 2024
Fiata
What an interesting pizza year it has been! My main observation is that the economic environment for the food business remains tough, and it’s clearly reflected in the output of pizzerias. Some of the established businesses that have consistently made it into the top-5 nominees for key award categories have struggled to […]