Antica Drogheria

Came here for a bit of an early dinner, though throughout the night it didn’t get terribly busy. Perfect casual /​local place. Don’t expect fancy, just expect regular. The serving staff spoke little to no English, which was totally fine, they had English menus, so it all worked out.
Pizza was amazing. Bar none. Woodfired oven, fresh toppings, perfectly cooked. on and on. You can get away with 1 each, but it’s a bit of a stretch, you certainly don’t NEED your own — you’ll just want it, because it’s so good!
Value was worth it, great experience overall.

We went there for lunch. Good food and great service. Food was on the table in 10 – 15 minutes. Great pizzas, and a wide variety to choose from.

Trattoria feel and tasty pizza!
We were lucky to make it here just before the lunchtime rush as the place got packed 10 minutes after!
After inspecting the three pages listing pizza choices I decided to keep to the seafood trend and went for a «Corsara»: thin crust with octopus and shrimp in an excellent marinara sauce.
Place is good value for money (less than € 10 for a pizza and caffe) and has tasty food: what more do you need? You can even choose to pay € 1 less and go for a smaller pizza if you are feeling a bit health conscious.
Bonus: the little treat that came with the coffee — chocolate covered coffee flavoured goodness. I need to find where to bulk buy these!

We just had lunch here today after consulting Unilocal for suggestions. We were so pleased with our meal and the service. The rugala pizza was fresh from the wood burning oven. and left us knowing we had just eaten the best pizza we have tasted in Italy over the past two weeks. Our ravioli dish was equally impressive and it’s tough for us to go anywhere else in Lucca now that we’ve eaten so deliciously! Two thumbs way up for this restaurant!

Wir hatten die beste Pizza unseres Lebens! Die Auswahl war groß und dennoch schmeckten beide Pizzen bombastisch gut. Ebenfalls zu erwähnen ist der, für eine solche Qualität, unschlagbar günstige Preis von 8 Euro pro Pizza.
Die gute Stimmung der Pizzeria hat uns auf Anhieb gefallen. Wir warteten einen kurzen Moment und bekamen dann auch einen Tisch. Als Touristen bildeten wir die Minderheit, was eine schöné Abwechslung in der Toskana ist.

Super AMAZING pizza. There are maybe 100 different varieties and they are all really unique, it is so hard to choose. We kept walking by and the place is always full, which says a lot about a restaurant without an outdoor eating area. We ended up sharing the four cheese with ham for a snack and it was straight out of the wood fire oven. I highly recommend for those looking for great pizza.

Definitely the best Pizza in lucca. I tried 6 different pizza locations and this one is the clear winner. Expect to wait about 15 minutes for dinner time service. SO MANY OPTIONS it was hard to pick! Lots of beers and wines too. Do not miss this one!

My husband and I lived in Italy for a few months and went here often! it is so delicious!

We decided to go to Lucca in Italy after seeing it as the start for one of the Top Gear challenges.
It looked a brilliant medieval walled town and the missus had been banging on about going to Italy for ages. (she likes pasta, wine, and young men in tight black trousers)
The flight, hotel and car hire were booked online through Travel Republic and the drive from the airport was planned like a military operation meticulously in advance down to looking on Google to see photos of the route and road junctions so that it should only take about 30 minutes from Pisa to Lucca.
Unfortunately all of the photos were during daytime and when we set off in the hire car feeling very tired at 9 in the evening from Pisa Airport, everything looked completely different.
After about 2 and a half hours of driving backwards and forwards past the airport, and going 30 miles going South on the Autostrada instead of North I suddenly realised that Genovo on the signs was really Genoa which from my O’level geography 40 years ago was North of Pisa.
So we were now heading in the right direction but things had become very fractious and frosty inside the little Fiat .
Conversation had stopped because I felt that if I spoke one more time, I would be strangled with my own seatbelt.
I had the feeling I would be asking if there was a spare room at the hotel for myself
As we got close the Lucca we saw a fantastic fireworks display going on which as we learnt later was every year in celebration of something.
Anyway, long story short, by the time we had booked in, it was about 12.30 and we were starving because I had decided we would not have any food on the Ryanair flight. (I’m a mean husband apparently)
The hotel guy said we might still get a drink in the town so we walked in through the town walls.
As we were walking along the Via Elise, we noticed the Drogherie café/​bar still open so we went in.
We were welcomed and we asked about food expecting the answer to be no but they said no problem.
(contrast that with pubs in the UK where you get the answer Chefs gone home after 9 in the evening)
We ordered Pizzas and drank a couple of beers while waiting.
The Pizzas appeared quickly and they were much better than the ones you get in the UK.
We finished off with some Italian Ice cream.
The service was quick but they left us alone to get on with it.
Prices were very good as well.
During the next few days we went there a couple of times for meals (they have a restaurant section as well) and always for a drink and Expresso late at night.
They also do very nice cakes and savouries.
Although their English is not perfect, they are so friendly and helpful that I cannot recommend the place enough.
The food is excellent and freshly cooked and authentic.
Absolutely 5 stars A+++.
Can’t wait to go back sometime.
By the way, the missus is talking to me again now, which is good.

All I can say is AMAZING!!! Their list of pizza combinations was enormous! We each had wonderful pizzas and beer/​wine to go with it. If I lived here, I would go here often… If you are visiting, you must dine here for an awesome pizza! We went to a number of pizza locations throughout Tuscany and this was the best of all.