Pizzeria GG Kamakura — Restaurant in Kamakura

We are a group of Italians that decided to spend a day in the beautiful city of Kamakura. Around 6PM we left the beach and decided to head back to the train station to return to Tokyo, when we spotted the restaurant “Pizzeria GG”. Our attention was caught by the sign “Vera Pizza Napoletana”, a recognition that is awarded exclusively to restaurant owners that learned the art of pizza baking in the city of Napoli - Italy. We were 8 people (4 adults and 4 kids) and despite the fact that the restaurant was fully booked, the team offered to accommodate us outside. We have ordered “angioletti” (fried dough with cherry tomatoes, rucola salad and olive oil) and fried pizza as starters. As main course we all had pizza (4 margherita, 1 parmigiana, 1 capricciosa, 1 marinara and 1 americana). We were so full but we decided to order a portion of sweet “angioletti” (fried dough with Nutella and vanilla ice cream). Everything was so delicious and authentic!! We were so happy and surprised to find out that a restaurant was able to offer such incredible authentic Neapolitan style pizza so far away from Napoli. We had the chance to meet the Japanese owner who could speak Italian because he lived in Napoli, where he learned all the secrets of pizza baking. He and is entire team are doing a great job and I warmly recommend all of you to drop by and try his pizza. We also learned that the owner opened a pizzeria in the Tokyo area (same name, Pizzeria GG), in case Kamakura should be too...

We visited Pizzeria GG in Kamakura after seeing its high Google rating, but the experience fell short of expectations. The pizza was okay — not terrible, but definitely not worth the high prices. The shop itself is very average in terms of atmosphere.

What frustrated me the most was the review section: full of people (some claiming to be Italian) saying this is just like pizza “back home” or calling it a great budget option — which simply isn’t true. These kinds of exaggerated reviews are misleading and create false hype.

I’m giving four stars because one star would feel unfair based on the food quality alone — but if I rated purely based on value and the honesty of the overall hype, it...

Oh my goodness! This pizza was phenomenal! By far the best pizzeria you can find in Japan! It was exceptional! The dough was perfect, the tomatoes were fresh and sweet, the garlic and basil was divine and the marriage of all the ingredients and quantity was just ridiculously perfect. This pizza was pure perfection.

Managed to get this shot in before we demolished it. We had the salad and a variety of other starters which were all delicious. Excellent quality food. The chilli oil was spot on 👌🏻. I will most certainly go back to Kamakura, just for Pizzeria GG. I couldn’t stop talking about the pizza several hours...