Vegan-friendly
Lacto
Pizza
Italian
Beer/Wine
Take-out
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Wood fired pizza cafe with quirky seating arrangement, est. 2013. Has veggie and vegan pizza options. Open Mon-Sun 11:00am-11:00pm.


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47 Reviews

First Review by Caitlinhappymeal

chi_c

Points +102

Vegetarian
24 Apr 2024

Miglior pizza in Chiang Mai

E sono napoletana ciao 😂
Hanno la ricotta, quella vera!

Furzipups

Points +94

Vegan
29 Jan 2024

Excellent round fluffy pies

Small pizza place with wood fired stone oven offering four vegan pizzas. You can create your own as well.

Perfect sour dough, baked to perfection. Probably the best (vegan) pizza we ever had. Their home fermented drinks are awesome, too. Service is good!

Pros: Pizza dough , Fermented drinks

Michellepaire

Points +627

Vegan
02 Dec 2023

Nice sourdough pizza's

Nice place, they have 4 vegan options but you can add or remove ingredients so you can basically make your own pizza. The pizza taste good.

Updated from previous review on 2023-12-02

FiaO'Brien

Points +181

Vegan
21 Jul 2023

Yummy

You could add what you wanted to the pizzas and they had a vegan pesto which I added to mine. The base was nice and they were generous with the toppings.

Tania_SlowerTravels

Points +525

Vegan
19 Jul 2023

Best Pizza in Chiang Mai

Some days you just crave something that isn’t rice or noodles. And the perfect option for those meals is pizza. But not just any pizza. A sourdough base, cooked carefully in a wood-fired brick oven. Say hello to By Hand Pizza. We went for the Green Veggie pizza. Although I wouldn’t usually choose a non-tomato sauce base, this sounded too good. Pesto, eggplant, olives and mozzarella topped with ricotta once it came out of the oven. Absolutely perfect. Also, since they seemed to have perfected the art of fermenting sourdough, they’ve also started making their own fermented drinks. A refreshing kombucha pairs perfectly with the sour bite of the pizza.

Pros: Sourdough base is incredible

Huraiquire

Points +9643

Vegan
10 Jun 2023

Price adjustable by adding or removing

Love that you can both add AND remove items on a pizza and the price adjusts! I’ve never seen that before. Example:
Mozzarella (dairy) /- 45bt.
So making a pizza vegan by removing that also means I don’t pay for the animal product.

Well, there’s no vegan cheese replacement, but the pizza was good anyways.

maddtur:)

Points +138

Vegan
17 Dec 2022

Delicious dough

Range of good pizzas with delicious toppings! I went for the vegan umami pizza and it was good

Pros: Range of vegan options, Fresh, Tasty

Cons: Lil pricey

Sevin

Points +1253

Vegan
23 Nov 2022

Real Wood-fired Oven

Much ado about nothing is my thinking after dining here. It's good, but did not blow my mind or knock my socks off. Not worth having to wait 10-15 minutes for a table, as many were.

We had the vegan veggie pie (no cheese). The homemade dough is fluffy & crunchy in all the right places and perfectly cooked in the wood-fired oven. However, it is a bit bland and needs more salt. Needs more tomato sauce too. The toppings were adequate, but we should have asked for tomatoes as an additional topping.

Reasonably priced. Serves beer and wine. The house red was very good and delightfully dry.

It gets extremely busy after 7pm, so be prepared to wait or leave. Also, even though the place was full, we were fortunate to be seated immediately. It still took 50 minutes after ordering to get our pizza. The servers are kept very busy, but they still did an excellent job.

Pros: 4-5 Vegan pizza options , Reasonably priced

Cons: Possible long wait for seating , No salads or appetizers

quirino

Points +1063

Herbivore
18 Nov 2022

Disappointing vegan options

The dough is great and I’m sure the non vegan pizzas are aswell; the vegan options though were very boring. I can go to any pizzeria and order a pizza without cheese, it would be the same. I thought they put something to make up for the absence of cheese like vegan cheese, cashew cream, mushroom paste, miso… but they didn’t. For that, roughly 200tbh is way too expensive.

Selina_nsw

Points +3669

Vegan
11 Nov 2022

Woodfire oven pizza

They prepare the pizza in front of your eyes in a woodfire oven. The restaurant has 4 vegan options. I ordered the umamj dream without eggplant. I love shiitake but not sure yet how I liked in on pizza. Anyway, the dough was super fluffy and the crust crunchy. Loved it.
The restaurant gets busy pretty quickly so make sure to come early. Otherwise you have to wait in a big line.

HanHug

Points +33

Vegetarian
30 Sep 2022

Great Pizza

Great pizza with both vegetarian and vegan options on the menu.

Myrthe!

Points +186

Vegan
16 Jul 2022

Delicious vegan pizza

Delicious vegan pizza's. 4 vegan options. Had one with aubergine, mushroom mix, tomatosauce and fresh basil pesto. The pesto tasted super fresh. Would defenitely recommend!

Pros: 4 vegan pizza options, Stoneoven baked with fresh toppings

mortem1

Points +1276

Vegan
09 Apr 2021

Shiitake mushrooms in pizza always good.

We was here once and tried 2 vegan options for pizza. Umami vegan pizza was good, but not amazing. Shiitake mushrooms in pizza was delicious and interesting. Its a pros that pizzas baked on view - you can see baking process.😄Also this place outdoor siting and little bit noisy (was here in end 2019).

Pros: Vegan pizza options, You can see on baking process

Cons: Noisy

shanaenigans

Points +118

Vegan
05 Mar 2020

4 vegan options

Had the vegan umami pizza. Flavor was good, but pizza kinda fell apart. Wetness from sauce, cooked mushrooms, and the pesto was too much for the dough to hold up.

Mimozella

Points +436

Vegan
03 Mar 2020

delicious pizza

the restaurant is super cute. its an open space and with the stone oven being outside, you see how they make your pizza. they have a whole vegetarian and vegan section. unfortunately they don't have vegan cheese, so the vegan oizza is the toppings without cheese. its still delicious though! the prices are quite high, so its rather a treat than a daily meal. the ambience at night is quite nice

gempon

Points +737

Vegetarian
19 Feb 2020

Bustling atmosphere, good veg options.

This place gets super busy as it's obviously very popular. Lots of options for veggies and vegans on the menu. They stick to what they do best as there is only pizza on the menu. Filling portion size. Made fresh in pizza stove .Would go again!

hail!

Points +377

Vegan
06 Feb 2020

Busy on a quiet road

Very busy pizza place on a quiet road. Good vegan and vegetarian options. Great if looking for a taste of home.

LisaLöwenherz

Points +572

Vegan
27 Jan 2020

One of the best vegan pizzas

I went to this place several times and really liked it.
They have 2-3 vegan options. Basically the pizza is without cheese but it's still awesome.
I really like this place.

PirateBird

Points +282

Herbivore
29 Jun 2019

Great place! Love this pizza!

We had the Vegan Umami Dream and it was delicious (especially with pink salt sprinkled on top!) Nice location, friendly staff and many fans to help beat the heat.

Pros: Four vegan options, Nine vegetarian options , Wood fired and healthy ingredients

KrpaMaya

Points +266

Vegan
21 Mar 2019

Vegan pizza

Friendly pizza place with several vegan pizza options. Pizza made in a brick oven outside. However, no gluten free options, or alternative cheeses and pizza was very oily.

Pros: Friendly staff, Nice atmosphere

Cons: Too much oil, No gluten free crust, No alternative cheeses

GronneFingre

Points +30

Herbivore
09 Mar 2019

Lovely Vegan Pizza

Is huge fan of their vegan pizza! Have eaten there several times and have never been disappointed.

Pros: Taste is great, Good size

suni.li

Points +126

Vegetarian
19 Feb 2019

So-so

I ordered one of the vegan options. The pizza base is ok, freshly grilled with wood fire. But the toppings are disappointing. Taste too much like ready made tomato paste that can be found in Tesco. It tastes so strong that the other ingredients just taste like nothing. I personally would not recommend it

spicemustflow

Points +269

Vegetarian
11 Feb 2019

Great pizza!

Came here twice while in Chiang Mai, pizza was great! They don't have anything else on the menu, besides drinks, so make sure pizza is what you want. Large veggie selection, and a decent sized vegan menu. Pizzas are cooked outside with you in their wood-fire oven, excellent crust, and decent size. Worth a visit!

Pros: Lots of veggie and vegan options

Cons: Nothing but pizza

MarianaE

Points +65

Vegan
09 Dec 2018

Awesome pizza

It was sooooo goood, i love pizza with vegan cheez but on this one you wont even miss the cheez, staff is really nice and friendly and there’s a cute cat there that sat with us the whole entire time. We ordered the Green Vegan, and Vegan Umami Dream. both amazing

Pros: 3 vegan options

Cons: kind pricey, not full vegan restaurant

JackWells

Points +36

Vegan
12 Oct 2018

Best Pizza in Chiang Mai

Wonderful atmosphere outside of one of the oldest shrines in Chiang Mai. The pizza was delicious, five vegan pizzas available! I got the truffle mushroom and couldn't have higher praise. Eat here!

Pros: Lots of vegan options, Beautiful view of shrine, Decent price

SLewis

Points +50

Vegan
20 Sep 2018

Great Pizza! Nice Spot!

Came here for a little bit of change from all the delicious Thai food. We were craving some pizza and have been disappointed before with western food in Thailand. I'm looking at you Vegan Heaven!
But this place is great, a little pricey compared to local Thai spots, but it was really good.
Crust was cooked and not too thin. Sauce and toppings were very tasty.
There is also other condiments so you can add chilli or herbs.
Good find would definitely go again.
Would be nice for more variety of pizzas out of the 4, 3 of them had barely that much variance
I tasted the Vegan Veggie and was very very happy and satisfied!

Pros: 4 choices of pizza, condiments, speedy service

Cons: not enough topping variance

kim12c

Points +72

Vegan
15 Aug 2018

Amazing vegan pizza!!!

We ordered the green veggie pizza and the umami pizza. SO good! The base is really nice and the pesto and all ingredients were so good. They don't have a vegan mozzarella or cheese but we Didn't even care coz it was good regardless! I think there was 4 vegan ones to choose from. But you can add or take away any ingredients from any of the pizzas! YUM!




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