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St Kilda does pizza by the beach, 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 Roman pinsa bars that earn their place on the food, and the order reflects the rooms St Kilda locals actually name. Here is how they sit this month.
Top of the list is Holy Trinity trois-cent, the room reviewers rate near the top of the suburb for the loaded pizzas, the Spartan 300 and a nine-ingredient pizza beside a Heaven pizza with blue cheese, a carbonara, a prawn pasta, galaktoboureko and a creme brulee tart. Republica St Kilda Beach follows, the beachfront room reviewers come to for a sourdough pizza and a plate, the sourdough pizza and fish and chips beside a mushroom risotto, a salmon tartare, pork skewers and a peanut butter espresso martini.
Flour Child St Kilda is a bar reviewers rate for the Roman pinsa, the Roman pinsa pizzas and a carbonara pizza beside a Bolognese pizza, polpette meatballs, burrata, vodka pasta and lasagna fritters, framed as the bar it is. Rococo St Kilda is the room reviewers come to for the wood-fired range, the Margherita D.O.P., Calabrese and Al Funghi pizzas beside a seafood spaghetti, a carbonara, a baked ricotta gnocchi and a pappardelle osso buco. Topolino's is the room reviewers rate for the pizza and a pasta, the pizza and a fettuccine carbonara beside a spaghetti marinara, a lasagna and a seafood pizza.
Handcrafted Pizza & Burger is the room reviewers come to for the crispy fresh-made base, the handcrafted pizzas and a King Capricciosa beside a three-cheese garlic bread, a chicken parma and a lamb souvlaki pizza. Fat Lulu's Pizza and Bar is a bar reviewers rate for the bottomless pizza, the bottomless pizza selection and a BBQ chicken pizza beside a prosciutto pizza, a garlic herb and cheese pizza, a pesto linguine and a carbonara, named as the bar it is. The Banff is the room reviewers come to for the Margherita and a mushroom linguine, the Margherita and bocconcini pizza and a paper bag mushroom linguine beside a Banff breakfast, a risotto, fritters and sliders.
The list closes across the suburb. Greenzilla is the room reviewers rate for the vegan pizza, the vegan butter chicken pizza and a margherita beside a tandoori pizza, loaded nachos and a vegan cheesecake. D.O.C St Kilda - Pizza & Pasta Bar is the room reviewers come to for the wood-fired pizza and a tube pasta, the wood-fired Margherita and a Pizza ai Porcini with truffle oil beside a tiger prawn tube pasta, a carbonara, a Nutella calzone and a tiramisu. i Carusi ii is the room reviewers rate for the wood-fired pizza and the fresh pasta, the wood-fired Margherita, Napolitana and Tartufata beside fresh pasta, a tiramisu and an Italian wine selection. And Louey's Bar & Kitchen rounds it out, the bar and kitchen reviewers come to for the Margherita and a lasagne, the Margherita pizza and a 30-layer lasagne beside arancini, gnocchi and a chicken parmigiana.
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 St Kilda 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 and bars that genuinely fire a pizza oven, so a venue with no real pizza evidence does not crowd out the rooms St Kilda 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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