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Reservoir 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 rooms with a pasta menu alongside, some are neighbourhood counters built for takeaway, and the order reflects the rooms Reservoir locals actually name. Here is how they sit this month.
Top of the list is Hi Italy Pizzeria, the room reviewers rate for the wood-fired pizza and the handmade pasta, the Carnevale and Hi Italy signature pizzas and handmade carbonara and linguine beside arancini and a tiramisu. Piazza 96 follows, the room reviewers come to for the wood-fired range, the Mortadella and ricotta, Pepperoni and Patata with truffle oil pizzas beside a lasagne and gnocchi.
Manara Pizza House is the pizza counter reviewers rate for the classics and a carbonara gnocchi, the Capricciosa, Calabrese and Seafood pizzas beside a gnocchi carbonara and a spaghetti bol. Bella Ninas Pizza & Pasta is the counter reviewers come to for the traditional pies, the Margherita, Aussie and Meat Lovers and a Capriciosa beside homemade pasta. Empire Pizza House is the counter reviewers rate for the loaded pizzas, the Meatlovers, Mexicana and Prawn and Chorizo pizzas beside a pesto pasta and a Veggie Patch pizza.
Loui and Frankos Pizza & Pasta on Broadway is the counter reviewers come to for the pizza and a parma, the pepperoni and peri-peri chicken pizzas and a chicken parma beside a seafood pasta, a lasagne, cheesy garlic bread and a Robert Special pizza. Pizza Arena is the counter reviewers rate for the pizza and an HSP, the various-style and Hawaiian and Meat Lovers pizzas beside an HSP of hot chips, salad and protein and mixed platters. Dolce Vita Pizzeria is the counter reviewers come to for the traditional pizza and a nonna's gnocchi, the traditional pizzas with shredded ham and gnocchi like nonna's beside hand-cut chips and pasta dishes.
The list closes across the suburb. Unique Gourmet Pizza Bar is the room reviewers rate for the gourmet pizza, the gourmet and pepperoni pizzas beside a parma and gluten-free pizza. Two Mates Place is the counter reviewers come to for the creamy mushroom pasta and a Calabrese, the creamy mushroom pasta and a Calabrese pizza beside a chicken parmigiana and gluten-free pizza. Good time Pizza is the counter reviewers rate for the topped pizzas, the chipotle chicken, botanical and meat lover mania pizzas and a Margherita beside Indian street food dishes. And Lakeside Pizza rounds it out, the counter reviewers come to for the pizza and the wings, the Hawaiian, garlic prawn and four seasons pizzas beside chicken wings and chips.
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 Reservoir 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 counters that genuinely fire a pizza oven, so a venue with no real pizza evidence does not crowd out the rooms Reservoir 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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