A Dublin restaurant has been crowned as the number one venue for serving the best pizza in Ireland.
Little Pyg in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre in Dublin city centre won the honour at the Top Pizza Europe Awards 2023 in Barcelona on Wednesday night. The popular restaurant bar came 27th in Europe.
Little Pyg already boasts Ireland’s only Michelin Guide pizzas. In fact, each of their chefs is sent to Italy for one year, to train under the top pizza chef in the world, the "Godfather of Pizza" Enzo Coccia.
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The restaurant's enormous pizza oven was brought over from Naples and took over 14 men to build. It is even made from the rock of Mount Vesuvius.
Owner Paul McGlade revealed that the dough of each Little Pyg pizza is left to ferment for 48 hours before cooking.
Little Pyg’s head pizza chef, Federico Rapali, said: “High-level pizzas are like an art, coming from working with Enzo we have developed a unique pizza here at Little Pyg. All of our Italian produce comes from the best artisanal producers in the country. We've also decided not to go the delivery route as our pizzas are best eaten fresh, straight from the oven."
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