Johannesburg

Café Picobella
Try the: Spicy chicken with herbs, mushrooms and avocado.
Price: R69

Ciao Baby Cucina
Try the: Smoked mozzarella, mascarpone cheese, chicken, rocket and pine nut pizza.
Price: R65

Doppio Zero (Greenside)
Try the: Leo-Leone, topped with bacon, chorizo, mushrooms, green pepper, onion and chilli.
Price: R75

Il Giardino Degli Ulivi
Try the: Il Giardino, topped with ham, bacon, mushrooms, mixed peppers and chilli.
Price: R80

Lapa Fo
Try the: Mozzarella, gorgonzola, pear and prosciutto pizza or the bacon, dark chocolate and feta pizza.
Price: R96

Luca’s Pizzeria Pastificio
Try the: Pizza topped with roast lamb, roasted red and yellow peppers and fresh rocket, or the Salmonata, which is topped with smoked salmon, mascarpone cheese, capers and caviar.
Price: R87

Next Door Pizza
Try the: Mint jam, walnuts and camembert pizza or the blue cheese, roasted beetroot and onion marmalade pizza.
Price: R66

Piza e Vino
Try the: Cool Runnings, topped with jalapenos, chicken, roasted peppadews, basil pesto and aioli. 
Price: R51-74

Polpetta Pizza and Pasta
Try the: Ivano pizza, named after the owner and topped with fillet steak, grilled onion rings, cherry tomatoes, avocado and rocket.  
Price: R70-75

Satori
Try the: Satori special, topped with artichokes, ham, salami and haloumi cheese.  
Price: R64-R70

Pretoria

Bravo Pizzeria
Try the: Sidewalk Vendetta, topped with bacon, feta and avocado.
Price: R45

Ciao  
Try the: Fettuccini Alfredo, topped with creamy ham, mushroom and chicken.
Price: R68

La Cantina
Try the: Capricciosa, topped with mozzarella cheese, ham, olives and oregano.
Price: R59

Toni’s Fully Furnished Pizza Company
Try the: Pizza Pesto, topped with basil pesto, peppadew pesto, goat’s milk cheese, roasted walnuts, avo and prosciutto.
Price: R89

Durban

Mad Italian
Try the: Pizza 2010, topped with bacon, camembert cheese, garlic, rocket and green fig preserve.
Price: R69,95

Pizzetta Pizzeria
Try the: Pizza topped with smoked salmon, capers, leeks, cream cheese and wild rocket. Or, go for the pizza topped with gorgonzola, onion marmalade and wild rocket. 
Price: R69

Cape Town

Balducci
Try the: Balducci’s pizza, topped with bacon, feta, creamed spinach and avo.
Price: R78

Carlyle’s on Derry
Try the: The brie, blue cheese and fig preserve pizza.
Price: R70

Col’Cacchio Cape Town
Try the: Morituri, topped with bacon, chicken, avo, feta and red pepper.
Price: R82

Da Vinci’s
Try the: Da Vinci, topped with bacon, avo, mushrooms and garlic.
Price: R73-88
 

Fireman’s Arms
Try the: Fireman Special, topped with your choice of ham, bacon or salami, as well as chilli, peppers, onion and garlic.
Price: R93,50

Green’s on Park
Try the: Stagioni, topped with mushrooms, olives, artichokes and salami
Price: R75

Massimo’s Pizza Club
Try the: Pancetta, topped with crisp pancetta and pan-fried mushrooms.
Price: R84

Meloncino
Try the: Meloncino Freddo Napoletana, topped with buffalo mozzarella, cherry tomato, basil, olive oil, a pinch of salt and oregano.
Price: R89

Posticino
Try the: Posticino, topped with mushrooms, olives, asparagus, green pepper and artichokes.
Price: R64

Winelands

Bread and Wine
Try the: Cape Malay lamb pizza, with a base of baba ganoush, topped with lamb confit, peppadews, St. Catherine’s cheese. 
Price: R55

Marc’s Mediterranean Kitchen
Try the: Mediterranean Chicken, topped with char-grilled chicken, tomatoes, black and green olives, a little bit of feta and mozzarella, olive oil and sweet basil. 
Price: R82

By Annette Klinger

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