Madre Lievito Eixample
Neapolitan Pizza · Eixample, Barcelona · €€
Neapolitan pizzeria working a proprietary mother dough, organic flours, and a 500°C wood oven. Pizza Fest 2024 jury winner. The Eixample flagship sits on Mallorca.
The Delekta Review
Madre Lievito has been refining the same sourdough starter for over a decade, and the discipline shows: Roman-milled organic flour, two-phase fermentation, ninety seconds in a 500°C wood oven. The cornicione puffs up airy and faintly wheaty, the base stays tender without turning soggy under San Marzano. The Genovesa - smoked mozzarella and slow-cooked beef - took the jury prize at Pizzas Fest 2024, but the marinara remains the real litmus test: garlic, oregano, tomato, no cheese, nowhere to hide. Service is Neapolitan-fast, sometimes abrupt; pies land in minutes. The Mallorca branch is the Eixample workhorse, well-placed between Passeig de Gràcia and Sagrada Família.
What the critics say
- Madre Lievito - Time Out Barcelona
- Madre Lievito i Mama, les millors pizzeries del Barcelonès pel jurat i el públic del Pizza Fest
- Madre Lievito, probablemente la mejor pizza de Barcelona - LaGulateca
- La pizzería de Barcelona que arrasa con su masa artesanal: auténtica pizza napolitana
- Las mejores pizzerías de Barcelona en 2025: una ruta imprescindible para los amantes de la pizza
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de Mallorca, 270, Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 931 24 58 89
- Website
- madrelievito.es
- Reservations
- Book a table
Nearby restaurants in Eixample
- Batea — Seafood, €€€
- Besta — Seasonal Seafood Bistro, €€€
- Mordisco — Modern Mediterranean, €€€
- Embat — Bistronomic Mediterranean, €€
- Topik — Japanese-Catalan Fusion Tapas, €€€
More Pizza in Barcelona
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- NAP Neapolitan Authentic Pizza — Certified Neapolitan Pizza, Barceloneta, €€
- Can Pizza Sagrada Família — Wood-fired Pizza, Sagrada Família, €€