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Richmond 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 pinsa and wood-fired rooms, some are slice counters, and the order reflects the rooms Richmond locals actually name. Here is how they sit this month.
Top of the list is Flour Child - Richmond, the room reviewers rate for the pinsa and the wood-fired pizza, the vodka and carbonara pinsas and a wood-fired pizza beside meatballs, chicken bites with maple dip, mac and cheese balls and a cheesecake. St Domenico Italian Restaurant Pizzeria follows, the restaurant and pizzeria reviewers come to for the truffle pizza, the tartufo pizza and a pappardelle tartufo e funghi beside a Nutella calzone, a gnocchi pesto and a fettuccine carbonara.
Homeslice Pizza is the pizza room reviewers rate for the wood-fired range, the classic Margarita and house specials with premium toppings beside wood-fired meat lovers and fresh seasonal vegetable pizzas. Mr Hollywood Pizza is the room reviewers come to for the specials, the Super Deluxe and Saint Sofia pizzas beside a pasta alla panna, a carbonara, a capricciosa with anchovies and garlic bread. Fratellino - Richmond is the room reviewers rate for the loaded pizza, the Volcano and meatball pizzas beside a chicken and mushroom pasta, a three-cheese gnocchi and doughnuts with Nutella.
Fruscolino Pizzeria is the counter reviewers come to for the topped pizzas, the peri peri chicken, Hawaiian, cheeseburger and BBQ chicken pizzas beside a Nutella pizza. Baby Pizza is the room reviewers rate for the Neapolitan pizza, the arancini balls and a charred-crust Neapolitan pizza beside focaccia, polenta chips and a tiramisu. Cafe & Pizzaro is the cafe and pizza counter reviewers come to for the range and a calzone, the Aussie, pumpkin and feta and halal BBQ chicken pizzas beside a vegetarian pizza, a calzone, pasta and cheesy garlic bread.
The list closes across the suburb. Silvio's Pizza House is the pizza house reviewers rate for the classics, the capricciosa and Margherita beside a supreme pizza and a pork belly pasta. Sal's Authentic New York Pizza - Richmond is the New York counter reviewers come to for a slice, the Brooklyn pizza and a pepperoni slice beside a buffalo chicken slice, garlic knots and a Staten Island vegan pizza. Pizzeria Da Bruno is the room reviewers rate for the wood-fired pizza and a pasta, the Margherita and a prosciutto truffle pizza beside a pan-fried gnocchi, a gamberi pizza and a prawn linguine, and Stone On Fire cafe & bar rounds it out, the cafe and bar reviewers come to for the pizza and the linguine, the Stone on Fire Special pizza and a seafood linguine beside a chicken pesto linguini, a peri peri pizza and chilli scrambled eggs.
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, the best Italian in Melbourne for the wider Italian side of Richmond, and a cross-cuisine tour of the best restaurants in Richmond 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 Richmond 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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