National Pizza of the Year
Chef: Riccardo Demuru
From: Short Road Pizza
Pizza: The Short Road Marinara
Having only been trading for a year, Short Road Pizza won the 2025 National Pizza Awards with The Short Road Marinara, made with Short Road Tomato Sauce, confit garlic purée, spicy chimichurri, fresh stracciatella, Cantabrian anchovies and oregano.
2nd Place
Chef: Rich Goodwin
From: Bing Bong Pizza
Pizza: With A Little H(ELP) From My Friends
Baked in a pan and topped with mozzarella, tomato sauce, chilli and fennel sausage meat, sliced pink fir potatoes, pickled Romano peppers, and salt and pepper kale.
3rd Place
Chef: Paolo Burini
From: Yard Sale Pizza
Pizza: Ragu Pazzo
Caramelised red onion chutney, chilli flakes, aged mozzarella, yellow cherry tomatoes, sauteed with garlic, burrata,
lemon marmalade swirl, white anchovies, dried black olive powder and fresh parsley.
Pizza Chef of the Year
Chef: Antonio Raspone
From: Mamma Dough
Pizza: The Big Apple Blue
A Technical pizza made up of EUROSTAR’s RISE Re:Gen Flour, Salvo’s Red Tomato Passata, Cooks&Co Sliced Black Olives, TABASCO Habanero, Chipotle and Green, Long Clawson’s Supreme Champion Artisan Blue Stilton Crumb, Properoni’s Classic Sliced Pepperoni, apple, honey, parmesan and pine nuts.
The
Alternative
Slice Award
Chef: Riccardo Demuru
From: Short Road Pizza
Pizza: Caramelle Piccanti
Cooks&Co Sweety Drop Peppers, Cooks&Co Dried Porcini Mushrooms, I AM NUT OK’s Oh, Grate! vegan parmesan, slow cooked tomato sauce, vegan stracciatella, Calabrian chilli hot honey, vegan basil pesto and nuts.
Bloggers’ Choice Award
Chef: Howard Quayle
From: ACE Pizza
Pizza: The Capish
A 20-inch pizza, topped with house vodka sauce, fresh fior di latte, ‘secret recipe’ meatballs, provolone, fresh basil and grana padano.
The 2025 National Pizza Awards finalists
ACE Pizza, London
Base Face Pizza, London
Bing Bong Pizza, London
Fatto a Mano, Brighton
Forbici, Stockport
Franco Manca, National
Little Earthquakes, London
Mamma Dough, London
Pizza Pilgrims, National
Pizza Punks, Glasgow
Rudy’s Pizza Napoletana, National
Short Road Pizza Co, London
Super Club Roma, London
Yard Sale Pizza, London
Zia Lucia, London
Zizzi, National