Dan Richer of the pizzeria “Razza Artisan Pizza”, from Jersey City (New Jersey), was awarded as the best pizza maker in America. His consecration took place at the James Beard House, headquarters of the prestigious James Beard Foundation, in New York where Richer received the Pastificio di Martino award for the 100 best pizzerias in North America. He finished in second place “Pizzeria Bianco”, from Phoenix (Arizona), and climbed to the third step of the podium Roberta's of New York (NYC). Four clubs in the Big Apple ranked in the top ten. In 12th position the first of the twelve Canadian pizzerias in the ranking: “The Good Son”of Toronto (Ontario). Overall, a careful and scrupulous mapping of the entire North American continent, thanks primarily to the work carried out by the panel coordinated by Mitchell Davis, Chief Strategy Officer of the James Beard Foundation.
Richer award fits in Top 50 Pizza, the most important guide online sector now in its third edition. “With Top 50 North America – underline the three curators of the editorial project, Barbara Guerra, Luciano Pignataro and Albert Sapere - the 50 Top Pizza project is expanding more and more, covering and deepening a part of the globe where the pizza phenomenon takes on truly impressive dimensions from all points of view. In fact, New York is one of the great pizza cities in the world, the one that consumes the most and presenting this ranking, in an authoritative reality like the James Beard House, is a source of pride for us. We're talking about the rest of an international organization that celebrates, on a non-profit basis, the diversified US culinary heritage and promotes American food culture in a sustainable way. Values in line with ours, which we hope the world of pizza can make its own".
Also present the international applications, climbed this year from five to ten addresses, for the Valsugana Brewery award for the best pizzeria in South America. Also in this case, an entire continent is covered, from Mexico to Chile, via Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Brazil deserves a separate discussion, a country that has adopted pizza as a popular national food. Six establishments in São Paulo (the city with the largest number of pizzerias in the world) and four in Rio De Janeiro, all candidates for the D'Amico award for the best pizzeria in Brazil.
To discover the winning pizzerias of all the international awards (Asia, Oceania, Africa, Japan, South America, Brazil and the best Neapolitan pizza in the world) the appointment, the last one of the 50 Top Pizza year, is on Tuesday July 23, 2019 within the historic and atmospheric Mercadante Theater of Naples. The expected final act which will also see the announcement of the coveted special prizes and, of course, the announcement of the best 50 pizzerias in Italy.
