Napizza

Napizza on Friars Street is an award-winning Neapolitan pizzeria with a TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice award and 315 reviews averaging 4.5 out of 5. One reviewer who has eaten pizza on six continents names it the finest in Scotland. The dough is made from organic, traceable Neapolitan ingredients imported exclusively from Naples; the mosaicked wood-burning oven at the open end of the small dining room is the centrepiece of the operation and an object of fascination for customers who watch the pizza-making from their seats. The menu is deliberately concise — classic red and white pizzas without the bloated multi-page format that characterises lesser operations. Only four or five tables inside means booking is essential, and walk-ins take their chance. Friars Street is one of Stirling's most pleasant pedestrian routes, running below the castle crag, and Napizza is among its most singular restaurants. A genuinely rare thing in central Scotland: a pizzeria that takes its Neapolitan credentials seriously.