Pizzetta 211
Six pizzas, rewritten every other week, each one sized for a single person so a table of four can eat most of the menu.
Why go
Julia Chen scored the Richmond room 8.5 for the Infatuation in May 2024 and made the case on the base rather than the toppings: The lowkey Richmond spot earns the title based on evenly golden-brown crust alone.
1 What goes on top follows the season and turns over every other week, so a menu here is a snapshot: Chen names gooey eggs and asparagus or braised short rib with garlic confit
as the kind of thing that appears. Because a pie serves one, the way people eat here is to bring three friends and order across the whole list.
Order this / avoid
- Order: whatever pizza has an egg on it that week. Chen's rule:
When there's a weekly pizza involving an oozing farm egg on the menu, order it.
The version she ate ran bacon, winter greens, garlic confit and gruyere under cracked black pepper.1 - Order: the cheese salad first.
The rotating cheeses are tucked onto a plate next to slices of fresh baguette, olives, spiced walnuts, and a simple greens mix.
1 - Order: the Valrhona flourless chocolate cake, which stays on the menu when the pizzas do not, or anything made with the brown butter shortbread.1
- Avoid: treating this as one pizza per person and calling it dinner.
What locals & experts say
- The Infatuation SF (Julia Chen, 2 May 2024), 8.5: on the dessert,
Pizzetta 211 is always brilliant in the dessert department... The powdered sugar-dusted slice is reason enough to come here.
1 - The Infatuation SF, on the cheese salad:
If all salads were made up of 50% cheese, we'd be eating more salad.
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Good to know
- Menu: six pizzas, changing biweekly. Any pie named here is an example of the kind of thing they run, not a promise.
- Booking: walk in. It is a small room on a residential block.
- Getting there: 23rd Avenue at California, in the Outer Richmond.
Verdict
should-visit — Six pizzas, rewritten every other week around what is in season, on a crust Julia Chen says earns the room its standing on color alone. She scored it 8.5 for the Infatuation in May 2024. The pies serve one person, which sounds like a limitation and is actually the design: it lets four people at a small table eat most of the menu in a sitting. Gooey egg with asparagus, or braised short rib with garlic confit, are the kind of combinations that turn up, and the Valrhona flourless chocolate cake stays put while everything else moves.