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Preston is pizza country, and this guide ranks the suburb's pizzerias by their Curateria Score and what reviewers keep saying on their most recent visits, with chains and far suburbs left out. Some are wood-fired Neapolitan rooms with a full pasta menu alongside, some are slice counters built for takeaway, and the order reflects the rooms Preston locals actually name. Here is how they sit this month.
Top of the list is Noi Pizzeria Preston, the pizzeria reviewers rate near the top of the suburb, the wood-fired Noi, Mortadella, Gamberi and Napoli pizzas beside a rigatoni alla vodka with burrata, a squid-ink linguine and a mushroom and truffle pappardelle. Takeaway Pizza follows, the room reviewers come to for the loaded pizza, the bone marrow and pastrami pizza and a mortadella and honey pizza beside a meatball pizza, a salami and honey pizza and a capricciosa.
TAVOLATA is the room reviewers rate for the truffle pizza and a pasta, the truffle pizza and a gnocchi ragu beside a pork sausage carbonara, a mushroom ravioli and a pistachio tartufo. Sylvesters Pizza and Pasta is the pizza and pasta counter reviewers come to for the specials, the Amritsari and Mexican Parma pizzas and Nick's Special beside a Calabrese pasta and a vegetarian pesto pizza. Gipi's Pizza House is the room reviewers rate for the peri peri chicken pizza, the Peri Peri chicken and The Lot pizzas beside arancini, a carbonara, a chicken and mushroom risotto and a sticky date pudding.
AriPizza e Pinsa is the room reviewers come to for the pinsa and the Neapolitan, the Pinsa Romana especially the porchetta and a traditional Neapolitan pizza beside Wednesday arrosticini lamb skewers, calamari and an antipasto. The Warehouse Pizzeria is the pizzeria reviewers rate for the wood-fired range and a pasta, the Tropicana, San Daniele and Funghi pizzas beside a lasagne, a pasta marinara, gnocchi and Nutella pizza donuts. Nord Bar & Restaurant is the bar and restaurant reviewers come to for the wood-fired pizza and a parma, the wood-fired pizza and a chicken parma beside calamari, pasta dishes and a tiramisu.
The list closes across the suburb. Gordys Place is the room reviewers rate for the wood-fired pizza and a Macedonian pastry, the pizza by the slice or whole beside a Macedonian-style burek, maznik, kifli and apple pita. Lievito Madre Pizzeria is the pizzeria reviewers come to for the Neapolitan and a gnocchi, the Patatino pizza and a Margherita beside a capriciosa, a homemade gnocchi, a tiramisu and a Nutella bombolone. Vinnie's Half Price Pizza is the half-price counter reviewers rate for a slice, the Mexicana and Hawaiian pizzas and a capricciosa beside a Margarita and pizzas by the slice, and Bullwinkles Pizza Preston rounds it out, the pizza counter reviewers come to for a reliable slice.
If one thread here pulls you in, follow it across the city. There is a guide to the best pizza in Melbourne for the citywide picture, and a cross-cuisine tour of the best restaurants in Preston for the rest of the suburb.
Every pizzeria here carries a Curateria Score built from its full review history, then weighted toward its most recent hundred reviews so the order reflects the room as it runs today, not as it ran two years ago. We hold the cohort to this one suburb and a tight inner-Melbourne radius, roughly 15km of the city, and we drop the multi-location chains and national franchises that trade on a logo more than a local following, so what is left reads as the genuine local order. Because a long-running room collects more reviews than a newcomer, we shrink the raw average toward the cohort mean for places with thin review counts, so a handful of glowing reviews cannot leapfrog a room a thousand diners have judged. For a pizza page the category gate keeps the cohort to pizzerias and the rooms that genuinely fire a pizza oven, so a venue with no real pizza evidence does not crowd out the rooms Preston goes to for the pizza itself. The corpus is Victorian and scored; no AI writer ever reads it. The ranking is arithmetic; the words are ours.
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