Imagine a slice of pizza that makes you forget about all of your surroundings. It has a perfectly crispy, chewy crust with just the right amount of char. It has toppings so fresh they practically sing, and cheese that melts in all the right ways. You may be picturing yourself eating a slice in New York or in Italy, but you’re nowhere even close. You’re in a tiny shop in downtown Miami, and its pizza pies have just been ranked among the best pizzas on earth.
Ranked no. 14 on Time Out’s Best Pizza in the World list, Eleventh Street Pizza is no longer a hidden gem in Miami — it’s a global contender that now stands alongside pizza greats from Naples, Rome, Tokyo, Madrid, Cape Town, and Oaxaca.
From Fooq’s to Best Pizza on Earth
Eleventh Street Pizza was born in 2021 when David Foulquier took his small restaurant, Fooq’s, in downtown Miami and transformed it into a New York-style pizza haven. The shift paid off, and the pizzeria’s popularity skyrocketed. Two years later, Foulquier opened a second location in Dadeland, nearly doubling the size of the original. It includes a more spacious, full-service experience, with over 40 indoor and outdoor seats for pizza lovers to enjoy.
“I grew up in Manhattan, so New York-style pizza is very much in my DNA,” Foulquier told New Times in 2023, who co-owns the spot with his brother Joshua and partner Danielle Hultman under the company, We All Gotta Eat Hospitality Group. “During the pandemic, I really started making my own sourdough bread and learning that much more about what makes pizza great. I was getting really finicky about sourcing great ingredients and more. So, Eleventh Street Pizza was born, and now it’s growing.”…