Stuffed Argentine pizza with two dough layers, mozzarella inside and a thick lid of sliced onions and oregano on top. Cheese-stuffed pizza on top of focaccia, on top of pizza.
The fugazzeta evolved out of Genoese focaccia (fugazza) brought by Italian immigrants in the late 1800s. Juan Banchero opened his Boca pizzeria on 28 March 1932 and added cuartirolo cheese to the focaccia, creating the canonical fugazzeta; the cheese-stuffed double-layer form spread quickly to the Corrientes pizza strip through the 1930s. The fugazzeta rellena form (stuffed more, often with ham too) followed; today both are served at El Cuartito, Guerrin and Banchero's surviving outposts.
3 editor picks for Fugazzeta in Buenos Aires, ranked by editorial score. All Buenos Aires signature dishes · Fugazzeta across every city.
El Cuartito ★ 4.3
microcentro · Talcahuano 937, C1013 Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires' canonical pizza al molde pizzeria since 1934. Thick-crust mozzarella, fugazzeta and faina at stand-up counters; sit-down tables in the back.
Pizzeria Guerrin ★ 4.3
microcentro · Avenida Corrientes 1368, C1043 Buenos Aires
Corrientes pizzeria since 1932, cited with El Cuartito as a BA pizza al molde institution. Stand-up counter for cuarta-de-muzza, sit-down tables at the back.
El Imperio de la Pizza ★ 4.1
almagro · Avenida Corrientes 3893, C1194 Buenos Aires
Almagro pizzeria on Corrientes, the kind of stand-up pizza al molde joint locals come to between subway rides. Bargain prices, classic fugazzeta rellena.