Fresh pizza with mozzarella, mushrooms and basil beside a warm oven

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Pizza Virtuoso

Kosher pizza in Rishon LeZion — Pizza Virtuoso

Find us at 16 Jabotinsky Street, opposite the Rishon LeZion Performing Arts Center, with 24-hour fermented dough, house-made sauce and exclusively Gad 22% fat mozzarella.

Explore the menu How we make it

Pizza as an art form • Baked here • Served hot

Our story

You can taste the difference from the first bite

Great pizza begins long before it reaches the oven.

It starts with the ingredients, the time we give the dough and attention to every small detail. Our dough ferments for 24 hours for balanced texture, airy edges and deeper flavor.

We make our tomato sauce in-house and top every pizza exclusively with Gad 22% fat mozzarella, generously — no blends with other cheeses and no shortcuts.

We take the same approach to toppings. Order mushrooms and you get fresh mushrooms, not something from a can. Every order is prepared carefully and baked on the spot.

We work cleanly, stay organized, handle ingredients with care and treat people with respect. Our goal is simple: every pizza leaving our kitchen should be one we'd be proud to serve our own family.

Hands gently opening fermented pizza dough on a flour-dusted counter — 24hours
of patience

No secrets. Just principles.

Four small decisions that make a big difference

24 hours of patience

We give the dough time to develop flavor, texture and a beautifully airy crust.

Sauce made here

Our pizza sauce is made in-house with a balanced flavor that complements the dough and cheese.

100% Gad mozzarella, 22% fat.

Every pizza is topped only with Gad 22% fat mozzarella — never blended with other cheeses, and as generously as we'd want it on our own pizza.

Fresh over shortcuts

Fresh mushrooms, good vegetables and carefully chosen toppings — never cheap canned substitutes.

Why mozzarella?

The cheese has to work with the oven

Mozzarella belongs to the pasta-filata family: its curd is heated and stretched to create an elastic, fibrous structure. That is why it can melt, stretch and come together with the sauce and dough without overpowering them. A standard yellow cheese may be excellent in a sandwich, but it behaves differently in a hot pizza oven — in flavor, oil release, browning and texture.

Mozzarellas are not all alike, either. Milk type, moisture, fat, salt, age and protein structure all influence melt, stretch and browning. We consistently use only Gad 22% fat mozzarella, so every pizza gets a balanced milky flavor, even coverage and the stretch a pizza should have.

A short story from Italy

A name born from a hand movement

The word mozzarella comes from the Italian verb mozzare — to cut or separate. For generations, cheesemakers stretched warm curd and pinched off individual portions by hand. The ancient stretch that gave the cheese its name is also one of the qualities that made it pizza's natural partner.

Read the origin story from the Italian consortium

From dough to oven

Simple, precise, in the right order

01
Make the dough
02
Let it develop for 24 hours
03
Open each base to order
04
Spread our house-made sauce
05
Add Gad 22% fat mozzarella and toppings generously
06
Bake and serve hot

A kitchen you can trust

We don't compromise on flavor. Or cleanliness.

We keep our work surfaces clean, our kitchen organized, our ingredients handled properly and every order carefully prepared.

Central Rishon LeZion

Kosher pizza opposite the Rishon LeZion Performing Arts Center

We are at 16 Jabotinsky Street, directly opposite the Rishon LeZion Performing Arts Center. Stop for pizza before or after a show, order on WhatsApp for pickup, or open directions straight to Pizza Virtuoso.

Order on WhatsApp Navigate to Pizza Virtuoso Call the restaurant: 03-9504888

Kosher and fresh