Salumeria Gardens To Represent Malta In Milan’s Best Pizza Awards
Local pizza legends Salumeria Gardens will once again be attending the world’s leading pizza awards night.
The St Julian’s pizzeria took to social media this morning to announce they are on the guest list of the coveted Top100 Pizza awards night.
The annual awards ceremony, this year hosted in Milan, sees the greatest pizza chefs in the world ranked and celebrated. It also spotlights a global community of pizza chefs with new awards, pioneering voices, and a fresh look at pizza’s evolving legacy.
No Maltese pizzeria has ever made the Top 100 list, and Salumeria Gardens are the only local restaurant to even be invited to attend the event.
Salumeria Gardens is the brainchild of brothers and beloved pizza punks, Pablo and Max Kuilboer.
The Maltese-Dutch duo said it is a huge privilege to be invited to attend the awards night for the second year in a row.
“It’s a huge privilege and honestly an honour for us to be invited to attend the most prestigious and respected awards night in world pizza. We’re so excited to meet some of our heroes – giants of the pizza world, and to represent Malta at this major global event,” Pablo told Lovin Malta.
The Best Pizza Awards brings together over 500 international guests, including more than 300 of the world’s top pizza chefs, journalists, and gastronomic innovators, for an immersive celebration of pizza’s past, present, and future.
The awards’ independent global voting panel, comprising 512 experts from 60 countries, ensures transparency and excellence, eliminating commercial influence and giving chefs the final say.
“The Best Pizza Awards is about more than rankings. It’s about uniting a global community that shares a deep respect for tradition and an appetite for innovation,” says Cristian Gadau, co-founder of The Best Chef and The Best Pizza Awards.
“That’s why we’re proud to introduce Pizza Talks, a platform for thought-provoking conversations with culinary trailblazers like Gabriele Bonci and Francesco Martucci, as well as special guest Eduard Xatruch of the avant-garde restaurant Disfrutar. They’ll be joined by a lineup of visionary speakers who will ignite dynamic discussions across the past, present, and future of pizza.”