“Unless you’re pizza, the answer is yes, I can live without you,” the iconic British actor Bill Murray once said, celebrating his addiction to Italy’s most famous culinary invention.

But what is it that makes pizza so irresistible?

The answer lies in the characteristics of its ingredients – salty, fatty, sweet – which, although very simple, when combined, create a rich and delicious feast. Especially when a pizza is carefully crafted – with quality, perfectly combined ingredients in the right proportions, secret recipes and airy doughs baked to perfection. From Kifissia and Halandri to the city centre, from Ilioupoli to Vari, here are 10 spots in Athens offering the capital’s most sophisticated and delicious pizzas, whatever your preferred style – Neapolitan, restaurant-style, classic comfort or Canotto. We didn’t include the temples of Pinsa, as restaurants featuring “the ancestor of pizza” are in themselves a whole different story.

Monzù Cucina – Spritzeria
Housed in a beautiful mansion in Kifissia, Monzù serves scrumptious creative Italian cuisine. The restaurant’s sophisticated menu includes five pizza options – margherita, funghi, verde, kermes and diavola. Complexity, harmony, intensity and finesse are masterfully combined by the hands of chef Yiannis Liokas, who brings to the city a high end restaurant-style. All the ingredients are selected with care, the dough is made daily and cured for 48 hours, and all toppings are sourced from small farms in Greece and Italy. Whichever pizza you choose, you will surely be surprised by how well the ingredients blend together, artfully highlighting the main characteristics of the pizza (salty, sweet, fatty).

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