Try These New Pizzas in Beijing Today
When the moon hits your eye like some brand new pizza pie, that's amore!
Ok so bad attempts at making that Dean Martin song match up with the theme of this article aside, if you’ve been reading the Beijinger long enough, you know we really have a thing for burgers, spicy food, and pizza. While we’ve covered the former two a lot lately, we’ve been silent on the former, but that changes today!
The Annual Summer Duo at Pizza Saporita
Saporita usually does two new pizzas when summertime comes around, and this year is no exception. They’ve gone with a bit of local flavor for their first offering, the Elbow Meat Pizza (RMB 26/slice, RMB 118/whole, above), which comes topped with pickled cabbage and tender pork elbow, a traditional Beijing delicacy.
The other new pizza is the Kale Sausage (RMB 24/slice, RMB 108/whole, above) which has, you guessed it, kale and pork sausage sprinkled atop a bed of mozzarella and dough before heading into the oven to be cooked crisp. Give these a try today, or try their N'Duja Pizza (RMB 27/slice, RMB 118/round), which is still our favorite by far.
Pizza Saporita 意块披萨
112-115 Bojinghaoting, 8 Shizipo Jie, Dongcheng District
东城区十字坡街8号铂晶豪庭底商112/115室
Hours: Daily, 10am-10pm
Contact: 010 6413 0991
Porchetta on a Pie & Fried Calzone at La Pizza
La Pizza has slowly been making a comeback in the capital, with many of our Italian readers and friends singing its praises as one of the best pizza spots in the city. They’ve also been bringing a variety of Italian comfort foods to the menu, like regional pastas and porchetta – a pork roast consisting of stuffed pork shoulder wrapped in pork belly.
Earlier this year, they took the next step and combined two favorites together, marrying thinly porchetta with their Neapolitan style pizza for the Porchetta Pizza (RMB 108, above). Atop this pizza are layers of smoked cheese, mushrooms, potatoes, and the star of the show, thinly sliced, freshly roasted porchetta, for a real match made in Italian food lovers’ heaven.
More recently, La Pizza has also added Fried Calzone (RMB 99, above) to the menu as well. Inside this folded pizza there’s the classic two cheese combo of ricotta and mozzarella, with tomato for a bit of an acidic bite. It’s all wrapped up, fried, and topped with tomato sauce and cheese.
La Pizza (SOHO Shangdu branch)
1112 SOHO Shangdu, 8 Dongdaqiao Lu, Chaoyang District
朝阳区东大桥路8号SOHO尚都SH1112号
Hours: Daily, 11am-10.30pm
Contact: 010 5900 3112
*The above items are only available at La Pizza’s Shangdu SOHO branch
New Summer Pizzas at Bottega
Bottega has headed into summer with a new menu of five pizzas and a brand new calzone. While all look to be molto bene, we’ve got our eye on three: the Delizia, the Datterina, and the Calzone alla Mortadella.
The first two are classic Neapolitan pies with nice twists. The Delizia (RMB 129, above) is a no sauce cheese pizza topped with sausage, fried eggplant, fior di latte mozzarella, parmigiano reggiano, and fresh basil with grilled octopus, garlic, parsley, oregano, fresh basil, and lemon. The Datterina (RMB 99), is another cheese no sauce special, consisting of that mozz and parm combo, basil, and both yellow and red cherry tomatoes.
Then there’s the Calzone alla Mortadella (RMB 119, above), which combines your traditional calzone with the Mortazza pizza – pistachio, cheese, and mortadella. Essentially, it’s a calzone topped with mortadella, but this editor loves mortadella, so it makes it on the list.
Bottega 意库 (CBD branch)
E116B-E118, 101, 1/F, Block E, Zhongjun World City, Jinhui Lu, Chaoyang District
朝阳区金汇路中骏世界城E座1层101内E116B, E118单元
Hours: Daily, 11am-11pm
Contact: 010 6591 5348, 186 1048 9047
Bottega 意库 (JinShang branch)
1F, 01, JinShang Yuan, 20 Xinyuan Xili, Chaoyang District
朝阳区新源里西20号1层01
Hours: Daily, 11am-midnight
Contact: 010 6410 9800
Pechino Brings Neapolitan to Haidian
Haidian – way northwest Haidian, to be exact – now has Italian eats and wood-fired pizza in the form of Pechino. They’ve got a few 10 inch Neapolitan pies on the menu, all at pretty reasonable prices, ranging from the classic Margharita (RMB 69, above) to the Pechino (RMB 89), made with tomatoes, mozzarella, salami and assorted mushrooms.
Besides pizza, they’ve also got pasta, risotto, and even a few steak options to choose from – starting with an Australian Phoenix Wagyu Belly at RMB 188 for 230g.
Pechino 帕奇诺
B1, mixC Wanxianghui Mall, 16 Dezheng Lu, Malianwa Jie, Haidian District
海淀区马连洼街道德政路16号院西北旺万象汇B1层
Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11am-3pm, 5pm-9pm; Fri-Sun, 11am-3pm, 5pm-10pm
Contact: 130 5161 7273
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Images: Unsplash, Meituan, Dianping, courtesy of La Pizza and Bottega
