Published on May 27, 2026
Alex Lau
The pizza king’s crown remains firmly planted on his head.
For the fifth straight year Anthony Mangieri’s Una Pizza Napoletana in New York City was named the best pizzeria in America by the 50 Top Pizza organization in a ceremony in Manhattan Wednesday night. Los Angeles‘s Pizzeria Sei by William Joo remained ranked at No. 2, but this year shares the position with Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco. At No. 3, Dan Richer’s legendary Jersey City, N.J. restaurant Razza shot up from 12th place last year; Jay’s in Kenmore earned fourth position; and New York City’s Ribalta rounded out the top five for 2026.
Since reopening Una Pizza in 2018, Mangieri has continued his monk-like devotion to making every pizza produced at the restaurant. Using naturally leavened dough and cooking his pies in a custom wood-fired oven imported from Naples, Mangieri has become a standard bearer for the craft of pizza in America. Sei’s approach on the other coast is a bit more experimental than Mangieri, playing with doughs, preparations, and toppings—a nod to his previous time working in fine dining. And Joo is moving Sei to a new destination in West L.A. within the month, allowing his menu to be even more ambitious than what he’s making of of his small restaurant in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood. The pizza joint tied with Sei, Tony’s in San Francisco, has long been ambitious as one of the American pioneers of the rising art of the pizza tasting menu.
