There’s a specific kind of letdown that comes from opening a pizza box and finding out “vegetarian” just meant someone peeled the pepperoni off first. The cheese looks a little sadder for it. The crust still remembers what used to sit there.
It doesn’t have to go that way. A real vegetarian pizza starts as its own dish. Someone chooses the combination on purpose. Nobody subtracts it from another order. That’s the whole difference between the pizzas below and the plain-cheese default most places hand you instead.
Nobody Should Have to Ask What’s Left After the Meat
Here’s an easy test for a real vegetarian pizza: would it still make sense if meat had never been an option? Mushrooms, peppers, and olives pass that test easily. Plain cheese with the pepperoni removed doesn’t.
Amedeo’s gourmet lineup has three pizzas that pass without a single word of explanation to whoever’s taking the order.
Three That Were Never Going to Have Meat on Them
Start with the Titan Margherita. Fresh mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, and basil sit in the gourmet section of Amedeo’s menu the same way they’ve sat on Italian menus for over a century. Nobody had to dress this one up as a vegetarian option. It simply always was one.
The Caravaggio Veggie goes further. Mozzarella, mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, and olives stack together as if the kitchen assumed vegetables could carry a pizza on their own. They can.
Then there’s the Giotto, a sharper turn toward Mediterranean flavor. EVOO, mozzarella, feta cheese, garlic, kalamata olives, and cherry tomatoes make up the topping list. Most pizzerias skip feta and kalamata entirely, which makes this one worth ordering even if you’re not avoiding meat.
All three come in 12-inch and 16-inch sizes. Since they belong to the gourmet category, what you see on the menu is what you get. No swapping, no special instructions typed into a delivery app at 9pm.
Building One Yourself
Maybe none of the three above hit the mark. The regular topping list still has more range than most people give it credit for. Mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, black olives, tomato, jalapeno, and garlic can all go on a plain cheese base, at $2.50 a topping on a 12-inch and $3.50 on a 16-inch.
Jalapeno deserves a specific mention. It’s the rare topping that brings real heat to a vegetarian pizza without pulling in a meat-based option to get there.
The Real Problem Is Never the Vegetarian’s Order
Ordering for one vegetarian is simple. Ordering for a table with only one or two vegetarians gets complicated fast.
Splitting a single pizza in half rarely works. Toppings drift. Grease travels. By the second slice, nobody’s plate looks like what they ordered. Two 12-inch pizzas solve this cleanly instead: a Caravaggio Veggie on one side, whatever the rest of the table wants on the other. It costs a little more than one large pizza. Nobody spends dinner picking sausage off someone else’s slice, though.
What Sits Well Next to It
A vegetarian pizza doesn’t need to carry the whole table by itself. Garlic knots and bruschetta both qualify, and both sit in the antipasti section before the pizza list even starts. Either one makes an easy starter that won’t clash with a meatless main.
House Salad and Greek Salad follow the same rule. Skip the Arugula and Antipasto Salad if the goal is staying meat-free all night; both carry prosciutto or salami.
Vegetarian Isn’t Vegan, and That’s Worth Saying Plainly
Every pizza named above still leans on real mozzarella, feta, or parmesan. That puts them firmly in vegetarian territory, not vegan. The distinction matters: Healthline’s breakdown of vegan versus vegetarian diets lays it out clearly. A vegetarian diet generally still allows dairy. A vegan diet cuts it out completely.
The menu doesn’t currently offer a dedicated vegan cheese. Anyone who needs strictly plant-based should call ahead rather than assume a substitution will work.
Where That Leaves Things
A vegetarian pizza shouldn’t read like an apology for what isn’t on it. The Titan Margherita, the Caravaggio Veggie, and the Giotto never worked that way. Set one on the table and it looks like a finished dish, not a modification.
That’s really the whole difference. One version gets handed to you. Someone makes the other on purpose.’t on it. The Titan Margherita, the Caravaggio Veggie, and the Giotto were never built that way, and it shows the moment one lands on the table looking like a finished dish instead of a modification.
That’s really the whole difference. One version gets handed to you. The other gets made on purpose.
