Best Pizza in Florence (and also Italy's ranking)

Piazza della Passera?

Yes, Piazza della Passera.

Passera= female sparrow (but also woman's genitals in Florentine vernacular).
The Piazza was named so apparently due to prostitution. In ancient time there were numerous "bordelli" there. The Via delle Belle Donne (Beautiful Women street) gets its origin from the same 'specialized businesses'.

I can vouch for Bianca ZeroZero! It's good stuff. Hardly any bordelli anymore but there is the best gelato on that same corner.

Thank you for sharing this list, Roberto! I plan to make good use of it in several weeks!

What about Gusta Pizza (Via Maggio 46)? It was my daughter's favorite pizza place while studying in Florence in Spring 2014. We went there with her and it was really good and very reasonably priced. (Maybe that's why the college kids found it, but lots of locals there too).

I've dined there three times in two trips, and I think the Margherita pizza at Ciro & Sons on via del Giglio for 7,50 Euro is the best pizza in Florence, The family is from the south, thus the pies have the Vera Pizza Napolitano classification. And the calamarata alla Amalfitana (pasta con aglio, olio, peperoncino, pomodorini e calamari) is the best pasta dish in Florence. So there!

Nice! Going to use this list for our next trip there.

Don’t shoot the messenger guys. This is what the locals chose. I rarely order pizza, so what do I know?

No worries, Roberto. It's just funny how subjective it is. I was turned onto Ciro by a buddy of mine who lived in a tiny walk-up across the street on via del Giglio for 4 months while teaching art at Medici. He said he at least stopped in almost every day, even if it was only to have a quick caffe, and developed a real rapport with the brothers. Our first time there, I introduced myself and mentioned my buddy named MJ, and he immediately remembered him, from 6 years before. We were family after that.

LOL! This is so funny! The only time I order pizza is at the Napoli Centrale Train Station Deli/ Cafeteria cause I can have it by the slice and they sell a luscious juicy tomato and mushroom pizza.

Thanks for posting the list.
Been to #10
I bastioni di San Niccolò (via de' Bastioni)

and it was very good. The large size of the pie and the toppings (both variety of options and amount of them) surprised me in a good way, they also offer take out and eat in ; all of which probably helps their rating with the locals.
Definitely not a tourist trap place but welcoming enough for any tourists like myself not to feel uncomfortable.

number 9, Bianca ZeroZero (piazza della passera)

Can Pizza Bianca be considered pizza?

can pizza bianca can be considered pizza

Ths is a minefield, but no. Not according to me, it's a neverending pointless debate.

Like pizza rossa ( aka pizza al taglio or pizza by the slice), pizza bianca is probably the descendant of the ligurian focaccia, a food made to last that the genovese sailors brought back from the Ottoman Empire and spread all over rural Italy. From sailors it was passed to shepherds and day labourers, who had similar needs. In Puglia it's still made with cherry tomatoes on top (and if you stuff it with thin sliced mortadella...).

There real pizza was born as a street food to be eaten asap.

So no, mr. Bonci isn't a pizzaiolo from a neapolitan point of view. He is just a creative roman baker.

I'm going to stay out of the debate but just note that ZeroZero doesn't just sell pizza bianca. Back to the discussion!

There real pizza was born as a street food to be eaten asap. So no,
mr. Bonci isn't a pizzaiolo from a neapolitan point of view. He is
just a creative roman baker.

Dario--

Bonci just opened his first shop outside Rome...in Chicago, in the West Loop around the corner from my daughter's apartment. It's going great guns, haven't been there because there are lines virtually all the time.

If I'm going for quasi-pizza in Rome, it's to Forno, the Roscioli-owned bakery near Campo de' Fiori. It's along the same lines as Bonci, and probably just as delicious. One day I had a slice of salsiccia & rapini with lupini beans on a grilled thin crust. It was unbelievable, I thought about it all day, and ran back the next afternoon. "Oh no, next Wednesday. Maybe."

Bonci just opened

I know it, I did not speak about him by accident. Great, ok, but not pizza. Like the "pizza al tegamino" (pizza in the frying pan?) I tasted in Turin: nice, but it isn't a pizza, too easy.

Pizza by the slice is to real pizza as the roman supplì is to the sicilian arancina/o.