Pizza is one of the hardest foods to make gluten-free. When I was first diagnosed with Celiac disease, I tried all the gluten-free pizzas available at the grocery store, and they all tasted like cheese-covered cardboard. So if you’re looking for the best gluten-free pizza that tastes like actual pizza (and not chickpeas or cauliflower), read on!
The Best Gluten-Free Pizzas to Order Online
If you eat gluten-free, you know that it’s hard. So don’t expect to just grab a frozen pizza from your local grocery store and have it taste good. The only edible ones I’ve found are ones I’ve ordered online – I promise they’re worth the time and money.
Keste Pizza
Keste Pizza in New York City is far and way the best gluten-free pizza I’ve tried. It doesn’t taste gluten-free, it tastes like an authentic Italian pizza. I love it so much that I’ve eaten an entire pizza at the restaurant and then gotten a pizza to-go to take with me on the train back to Boston and eat the next day (probably risking food poisoning.) The safer way: Order a stash of Keste’s gluten-free pizzas on Goldbelly, which will ship the frozen pizzas to your door.
Dtown Pizzeria
If you like your pizzas hefty, you’ll like Dtown Pizzeria’s gluten-free Detroit-style pizza. This is a very specific style of pizza, so it might not appeal to everyone, but you’d never know it was gluten-free. The Detroit-style pizza is made atop a focaccia-like sourdough crust and topped with tomato sauce, melted Wisconsin brick cheese, muenster, and mozzarella.
Joe & Pats Pizzeria
Keste has my heart (and stomach) for a margherita-style pizza, but if you want a good ol’ NYC-style slice, my favorite is Joe & Pats’ Pizzeria. We’ll overlook the fact that they’re based in Staten Island, because their gluten-free pizza tastes exactly like a slice you’d get at any pizza joint in Manhattan.
Red Wagon Pizza
It’s hard to find gluten-free pizza in varieties other than plain, but check out Red Wagon Pizza’s gluten-free Pizza Sampler. You can mix-and-match from flavors like Red Wagon, Carl the Cuban, Cheese, Pepperoni, Sausage, Margherita, Olive Oyl, and Double Pepperoni to create the tastiest shipment ever.
Talia di Napoli
Made in Naples, Italy, I loved Talia di Napoli’s “sleeping pizzas” so much that I wrote a whole review of their gluten-free pizzas. If Keste is sold out of their gluten-free pizzas online (which happens often), Talia di Napoli is my next favorite for a margherita-style – and it’s much cheaper.
The Best Gluten-Free Pizza Dough
Sometimes, the best gluten-free pizza is the one you make yourself (especially if you have an Ooni Pizza Oven). Make sure you don’t ruin the dough by topping it with a terrible pizza sauce! The best pizza sauce is Rao’s Pizza sauce.
Trader Joe’s Gluten-Free Pizza Dough
Keep on walking past Trader Joe’s frozen gluten-free pizzas (they’re all terrible). You want to head to the refrigerated section, where you’ll find a stash of discreetly labeled gluten-free pizza dough balls. (Be careful, as they are usually next to the regular pizza dough and the packages are pretty similar.) This pizza dough is tough to roll out (let it sit out longer than the instructions say, for at least 2-3 hours), but it’s worth the effort.
Caputo Fioreglut
Have I talked about Keste enough yet? (I promise they’re not paying me.) They use the pizza recipe found on the back of Caputo Fioreglut gluten-free flour, and it’s pretty easy to recreate at home. Look for the flour online, or at the grocery store – I’ve seen it at Wegmans before.
