Mexico City's pizza scene goes way beyond the chain delivery joints you'll find on every corner app. The real action is in the sit-down spots where dough, sauce, char, and toppings get the same care that CDMX puts into everything it eats. I've been working through the list for months, and here's where I landed. Spoiler: my number one is Coma Pizza in Polanco.
#1: Coma Pizza Polanco
When a place puts pizza in its name and nothing else, it better deliver. Coma Pizza does. With a 4.6 rating across more than 700 reviews, this Polanco spot has built a following on consistency and focus. Expect to spend MX$100 to MX$200 per person, which is fair for the neighborhood. Polanco can charge double at flashier restaurants with less to show for it. Coma Pizza earns the top spot because it doesn't try to be everything. It's a pizza restaurant, full stop. While 50 Friends (my #2) draws bigger crowds with a wider menu, Coma Pizza wins because it sticks to what it does best.
#2: 50 Friends
Walk over to Av. Emilio Castelar 95 in Polanco and you'll find 50 Friends, an Italian restaurant with a 4.7 rating and more than 1,800 reviews. Open daily from 1 pm (closing at midnight on weekdays, 1 am Thursday through Saturday), this place draws a crowd any night of the week. The menu goes deep into Italian territory, but the item that keeps coming up is their chocolate pizza. Chocolate pizza. It sounds gimmicky until you try it. The higher review count and slightly better rating than Coma Pizza make this a close call for the top spot, but 50 Friends lands at #2 because its menu goes wide. Coma keeps things tight.
#3: Torito Sports Bar Insurgentes
Hear me out. The best pizza in any city doesn't always come from a place with "pizza" written outside. Torito Sports Bar on Av. Insurgentes Centro 1020 has a 4.8 rating with over 800 reviews. MX$100 to MX$200 per person. Open Monday through Saturday (closed Sundays), with Friday and Saturday hours running until 1:30 am. This is a sports bar where the food has to compete with cold micheladas and whatever game is on. And the food wins that competition. Reviewers keep coming back to the taste alongside the atmosphere and the drinks. If you want to eat well past midnight, Torito is your answer. It beats #4 because the food quality punches above the sports-bar category.
#4: Chubbies Polanco
Over in Granada at Lago Andromaco 17, Chubbies has the highest raw rating on this list: 4.8 with nearly 1,200 reviews. Casual comfort food in the MX$100 to MX$200 range, open seven days a week until 11:30 pm on weekends. Reviewers rave about how fast the food comes out and how good it tastes. The Granada location means you're close to Polanco without Polanco prices on everything around you. Chubbies sits at #4 rather than higher because the menu leans toward comfort food more than pizza, but when a place scores this well with this many people eating there, it earns its spot.
#5: Michelanga Narvarte
If you want to escape Polanco entirely, head to Av. Cuauhtémoc 808 in Narvarte. Michelanga brings beer-garden energy to one of CDMX's most underrated neighborhoods. 4.7 stars from nearly 900 reviews, with prices under MX$100. That's the budget king of this whole list. Open daily from 1:30 pm, the place is famous for its micheladas and its shrimp dishes, with tamarind running through the drink menu in ways that pair well with whatever the kitchen sends out. You're not coming here for a Neapolitan masterpiece. You're coming because the food is solid, the drinks are cold, the price can't be beat, and Narvarte on a Sunday afternoon might be the most relaxed feeling in all of CDMX. Michelanga rounds out this list because eating well in this city should not always mean spending MX$200.
If you only try one place from this list, make it Coma Pizza. Walk in and eat. No overthinking required.
