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Oobatz

Oobatz in Paris, 4 Avenue Jean Aicard: six pizzas from a 36-hour levain dough, baked 90 seconds at 400°C by Dan Pearson. Named Best pizza by Le Fooding in 2025.

The story

Oobatz, Paris: Le Fooding's Best Pizza 2025 on Avenue Jean Aicard

Oobatz is a pizza restaurant at 4 Avenue Jean Aicard in Paris, named Best pizza by Le Fooding in 2025. The name is Italian-American slang for "crazy".

Dan Pearson and the dough

Dan Pearson first made his name by turning Rigmarole into Pizzamarole for a spell, with no wood-fired oven of his own. He later joined Jessica Yang and Robert Compagnon to open Oobatz. His dough combines six types of flour with pure levain and rests for 36 hours. Each pizza is blasted for 90 seconds at 400°C.

Six pizzas and a pizzokie

The pizza menu is à la carte and short, with six pizzas. The n°5 pairs salsiccia, caciocavallo and tomato sauce. The n°3 combines green asparagus, wild asparagus and lemon. To finish, the pizzokie crosses pizza with a cookie, studded with chocolate and topped with Ugandan vanilla ice cream from Folderol.

Recognition

Awards & accolades

2026
Le Fooding
Listed

Details

At a glance

Le Fooding 2026 — Listed
Cuisines Pizza
Services Good vibe

History

On the record

2026
Le Fooding — Listed

With neither a roof nor a wood-fired oven to his name, Dan Pearson truly built up a reputation for himself by temporarily transforming Jessica Yang and Robert Compagnon’s royal Rigmarole into Pizzamarole. The spellbinding trio then decided to team up for good by opening Oobatz (“crazy” in Italian-American slang), with toast-colored tiling in the kitchen, where the wizard of fermentations masters fire and levain for the most fabulous pizzas ever tasted. Served à la carte, there are six biblical versions that get blasted for 90 seconds at 400°C, including a n°5 that launches you directly into the sun: a combo of salsiccia, caciocavallo (a type of stretched-curd cheese) and tomato sauce by the talented chef, gracing the crispy yet easy-to-digest disk made from six types of flour and pure levain, which is rested for 36 hours. The same miracle of flavor occurs with the n°4 featuring some incredible veal and pork polpette, tomatoes, red onions and caciocavallo, and for the n°3 combining green asparagus, wild asparagus and lemon. Still hungry? Opt for the beautiful pizzokie, a cross between pizza and a cookie with meteorites of chocolate under an insanely good scoop of Ugandan vanilla ice cream from Folderol, or the seriously delicious apple and strawberry crumble with fior di latte ice cream. // Philo Sale-Ami

2025
Le Fooding — Best pizza

With neither a roof nor a wood-fired oven to his name, Dan Pearson truly built up a reputation for himself by temporarily transforming Jessica Yang and Robert Compagnon’s royal Rigmarole into Pizzamarole. The spellbinding trio then decided to team up for good by opening Oobatz (“crazy” in Italian-American slang), with toast-colored tiling in the kitchen, where the wizard of fermentations masters fire and levain for the most fabulous pizzas ever tasted. Served à la carte, there are six biblical versions that get blasted for 90 seconds at 400°C, including a n°5 that launches you directly into the sun: a combo of salsiccia, caciocavallo (a type of stretched-curd cheese) and tomato sauce by the talented chef, gracing the crispy yet easy-to-digest disk made from six types of flour and pure levain, which is rested for 36 hours. The same miracle of flavor occurs with the n°4 featuring some incredible veal and pork polpette, tomatoes, red onions and caciocavallo, and for the n°3 combining green asparagus, wild asparagus and lemon. Still hungry? Opt for the beautiful pizzokie, a cross between pizza and a cookie with meteorites of chocolate under an insanely good scoop of Ugandan vanilla ice cream from Folderol, or the seriously delicious apple and strawberry crumble with fior di latte ice cream. // Philo Sale-Ami

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4 Avenue Jean Aicard, Paris, France
Paris, France
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