The 7 Best Pizza Places in Tel Aviv (2026)

Updated August 2026 · 7 picks

The best pizza in Tel Aviv is Neapolitan-style from the wood-fired restaurants around the centre and Florentin, with Roman-style slices for a fast lunch and late-night counters that run past 2am. Most Tel Aviv pizzerias are not kosher, so meat toppings and Saturday opening are both available. Seven, below.

1. The Neapolitan wood-fired restaurants — Central Tel Aviv

Naples-trained pizzaioli, 450°C ovens and a properly fermented dough.

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The best pizza in Tel Aviv comes from a handful of restaurants doing serious Neapolitan work: long-fermented dough, imported 00 flour, San Marzano-style tomatoes, and a wood oven hot enough to cook a pizza in ninety seconds.

The signature of the style is a puffed, blistered, slightly wet centre — if you were expecting a crisp base you will think it is underdone, and it is not.

These are proper restaurants with wine lists rather than takeaway counters, and they are worth booking on a Thursday or Friday night.

Good to know: Order a margherita first. If a Neapolitan place gets that right, everything else will follow.

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2. The Florentin pizzerias — Florentin

Cheaper, later, louder — and the pizza the neighbourhood actually eats.

₪₪ Mid-range

Florentin's pizzerias run to the small independent end: a few tables, a counter, an oven, pavement seating, and hours that stretch well past midnight because the neighbourhood's bars do too.

Quality varies but the good ones are genuinely good, and the prices are noticeably lower than in the centre. Several also do vegan pizza properly rather than as a token option.

It is the right neighbourhood for pizza as part of a night out rather than as the destination.

Good to know: Thursday and Friday nights these run very late — the 2am slice is a Florentin institution.

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3. The Roman-style slice counters — Central Tel Aviv

Pizza al taglio — rectangular trays, sold by weight, cut with scissors.

₪₪ Mid-range

Roman-style pizza al taglio has taken hold in Tel Aviv: rectangular trays with a thicker, airier, well-fermented base, cut to whatever size you point at and sold by weight.

It is the best fast lunch in the pizza category — you can take a small piece of three different toppings rather than committing to a whole pizza, and it is quick.

The toppings tend to be more interesting than at the round-pizza places, running to seasonal vegetables, potato, and combinations that would not survive a Neapolitan oven.

Good to know: Point at three different trays and ask for a small piece of each — that is how it is meant to work.

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4. The Jaffa pizzerias — Jaffa

Open every night, stone courtyards outside, and no kosher restrictions.

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Jaffa's restaurants around the flea market and the port include several doing good pizza, and the setting — old stone, courtyards, tables in the square — is the best place in greater Tel Aviv to eat outside.

Because the area is largely Arab-owned and non-kosher, everything runs seven nights a week including Friday and Saturday, and meat toppings are available.

The flea market square stays lively late, which makes it a natural stop after an evening walk from the promenade.

Good to know: Get an outside table in the flea market square before 8pm — they go early on warm nights.

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5. The vegan pizzerias — Citywide

Fully plant-based pizza that stands up without an asterisk.

₪₪ Mid-range

Tel Aviv has fully vegan pizzerias and vegan cheese as a standard option nearly everywhere else, which reflects a city with one of the highest rates of veganism in the world.

The quality is genuinely good rather than merely available — the cheeses have improved enormously and the vegetable toppings, using Israeli produce, do a lot of the work.

A useful structural quirk: a vegan pizza is parve, so kosher meat restaurants can serve it, which has pushed the product forward faster here than elsewhere.

Good to know: Ask which vegan cheese they use — the Israeli brands differ substantially from each other.

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6. The Levinsky and Carmel Market counters — Levinsky and Carmel Market

A slice in the middle of the market, with better tomatoes than most.

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Both markets have pizza counters serving slices to people shopping, and the advantage is proximity to the produce — the tomatoes, herbs and cheese are being sold three metres away.

It is a fast, cheap lunch rather than a destination meal, and it sits naturally alongside everything else you will be eating in the market anyway.

Levinsky in particular tends towards the more interesting toppings, given the spice shops surrounding it.

Good to know: Ask for it back in the oven for a minute — a reheated slice is much better than a warm one.

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7. The late-night counters — Allenby, Rothschild and Florentin

The 3am slice, which in Tel Aviv is a genuine food category.

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Tel Aviv's nightlife runs so late that a whole segment of the pizza market exists to feed people leaving bars and clubs — counters on and around Allenby, Rothschild and in Florentin that stay open until 4am or later on the big nights.

Nobody claims this is the best pizza in the city, and that is not the criterion being applied at that hour.

It is a reliable, cheap and open answer when almost nothing else in the country is, which on a Thursday night in Tel Aviv is exactly what is wanted.

Good to know: Thursday and Friday are the late nights. Midweek most of these close much earlier.

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Frequently asked questions

Is pizza in Tel Aviv kosher?

Often not, which is a meaningful difference from Jerusalem. Non-kosher pizzerias can serve meat toppings alongside cheese and can open on Shabbat. Kosher dairy pizzerias also exist and are entirely vegetarian by certification. Check the door if it matters to you.

What does pizza cost in Tel Aviv?

Roughly ₪55–₪90 for a whole Neapolitan pizza at a sit-down place, ₪18–₪28 for a slice, and more at the upmarket wood-fired restaurants. Tel Aviv is expensive and pizza is no exception, though the slice counters remain a genuinely cheap lunch.

Where is the late-night pizza?

Florentin and the streets around Allenby and Rothschild. Tel Aviv nights run long — bars fill after 11pm and clubs start at 1am — so a whole category of pizza counters exists to serve people leaving them, and several run until 4am or later on Thursday and Friday.

Is the pizza actually good?

At the top end, yes — several Tel Aviv pizzaioli have trained in Naples and work with proper dough fermentation, imported flour and a 450°C oven. Israeli tomatoes and cheese are good raw material. The middle of the market is ordinary, as it is everywhere.

Are there good vegan pizzas?

Yes, and Tel Aviv is one of the better cities in the world for them. Vegan cheese is standard rather than special-order at most places, and several pizzerias are fully plant-based. The city's vegan population is large enough that this is normal, not niche.

Can I get pizza on Shabbat?

In Tel Aviv, easily — most non-kosher places run through Friday night and Saturday, which are the busiest nights of the week. Kosher-certified pizzerias close from Friday afternoon until Saturday evening. Jaffa is reliably open throughout.

1. The Neapolitan wood-fired restaurants — Central Tel Aviv

2. The Florentin pizzerias — Florentin

3. The Roman-style slice counters — Central Tel Aviv

4. The Jaffa pizzerias — Jaffa

5. The vegan pizzerias — Citywide

6. The Levinsky and Carmel Market counters — Levinsky and Carmel Market

7. The late-night counters — Allenby, Rothschild and Florentin

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