The best pizza in Newport Beach.
Where to find good pizza in Newport Beach, mapped by area and what kind of night you're having.
The local list
The best pizza in Newport Beach depends on the night. On the Balboa Peninsula, the slice spots near the piers feed the post-beach and post-dinner crowds late, and a slice on the boardwalk is a tradition of its own. Balboa Island keeps the family-parlor energy near Marine Avenue, and Corona del Mar village handles the proper sit-down pizza night along East Coast Highway. Fashion Island is the easy family option with painless parking, and the Westcliff and Eastbluff side is where the everyday takeout-and-delivery pies come from. Pick by the night, not the name.
Pizza in a beach town does a specific set of jobs: the post-beach slice when everyone's sandy and starving, the family parlor night, the Friday takeout run. I grew up one town north in Huntington Beach, and Newport is where we ended up half the time anyway, so I've eaten Newport pizza in every one of those modes, including the boardwalk slice at an hour I won't print.
As with the rest of these lists, I'm mapping areas instead of naming shops, because pizza places change hands and the pockets don't. Every stretch below has held its role for years: the Peninsula does slices and late hours, the island does parlor nights, CdM does sit-down, and the inland side does the everyday pie. I work with buyers all over this stretch of coast, and the Ratowsky Group at Compass keeps the rest of our local guides linked at the bottom.
Updated 2026-07-05
The slice counters near Newport Pier and down toward Balboa Village stay open when everything else has quit, feeding the post-beach, post-dinner, and post-everything crowds. This is fold-it-and-walk pizza, eaten on the boardwalk with the ocean making noise in the dark. Not the fanciest pie in town, and not trying to be.
- Best for
- Post-beach hunger and the late slice after a Peninsula night.
- Parking
- Peninsula parking is brutal in summer, but the late hours help. After dinner the lots loosen up considerably.
- Local tip
- The boardwalk slice at sunset is the underrated version. Same counter, same pizza, and you trade the late-night chaos for the best light of the day.
The island does the classic parlor night: checked-tablecloth energy, kids in sports jerseys, a pie for the table after a day on the bay. Fold it into the full island evening, ferry over, pizza near Marine Avenue, then a frozen banana for dessert and the bayfront loop while the harbor lights come on. That sequence is Newport at its most timeless.
- Best for
- Family pizza night wrapped inside a full Balboa Island evening.
- Parking
- Island street parking takes patience. Ferry over from the Peninsula as foot passengers and the parking problem disappears.
- Local tip
- Pizza first, frozen banana second, bayfront loop third. Do not reorder the sequence, the loop is what settles everyone down.
When pizza night deserves a table, real plates, and something from the wine list, CdM village is the stretch. The spots along East Coast Highway lean toward proper ovens and composed pies, a step up in polish from the slice counters, in keeping with the village's whole demeanor. Date-night pizza lives here.
- Best for
- A sit-down pizza dinner that still counts as casual.
- Parking
- CdM street parking is tight in the evening. Give yourself an extra ten minutes and check a block or two inland.
- Local tip
- Go on the early side and take a post-dinner walk toward the bluff overlooks. Sunset over Little Corona is the free dessert course.
Fashion Island is the logistics answer: open-air, stroller-friendly, and painless parking, with pizza options that keep every age at the table happy. It's the pick when the group is big, the kids are tired, or you just want dinner to be easy. Predictable in the best sense.
- Best for
- Big groups, mixed ages, and nights when easy wins.
- Parking
- The Fashion Island structures are easy and free, the least stressful parking in this whole list.
- Local tip
- Time dinner around the koi pond and the fountain courtyards. A lap around the center after pizza is the cheapest kid entertainment in Newport.
The everyday pie. The neighborhood centers around Westcliff and Eastbluff carry the takeout-and-delivery spots that feed regular weeknights, the after-practice orders, and the Friday-night defaults. No views, no scene, just the pizza that actually gets eaten most often in this town.
- Best for
- Weeknight takeout and the Friday-night default order.
- Parking
- Strip-center lots, easy every time. Takeout was invented for this side of town.
- Local tip
- Find your neighborhood spot and become a regular. The order that's ready when you walk in is one of the quiet luxuries of settling into a town.
Match the place to the night. Slice counters near the sand for sandy, hungry, and now; parlors on the island for the family production; CdM for the table-and-wine-list version; the inland centers for the weeknight order. A counter that's busy at 9 pm on the Peninsula, or a phone ringing off the hook inland on a Friday, tells you more than any rating will.
- Best for
- Getting the right pizza for the night you're actually having.
- Parking
- The standing coastal rule applies: the further from the water, the easier the park.
- Local tip
- Judge a slice spot by the fold test and a parlor by its plain cheese. If the basics hold, the specialty pies will too.
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