Good news for those of you who are gluten intolerant - be sure to bookmark BigLove Pizza, 30 Rue Debelleyme 75003 Paris – just off rue Bretagne (and, as it happens, just a block from the apartment I'm renting!). Most excellent pizzas, and they are entirely gluten free.
The great Patricia Wells (with whom I studied in 2001) even recommends them on her “Food Lover’s Guide to Paris” app. I will shamelessly borrow (steal) from her: “…the pizza is why you should go to Big Love, and those who follow a gluten-free diet can rejoice, as all the pizzas here are completely gluten free. Paris is home to some very respectable pizzaiole (pizza chefs) but few who specialize in the unique style of Neopolitan pizza, that boasts a slightly thicker crust, and is more lightly baked than the well-done thin crusted versions from other parts of Italy. The result is a sort of pillowy experience, where the elements of the pizza seamlessly blend into one. The dough here is made from a mixture of buckwheat, corn and rice flours and fermented for at least 36-hours before cooking to give it a good rise and a faint acidity to the crust. For those not interested in a gluten-free diet, do not be put off for these bases are a cunning likeness to the wheat flour version and perhaps only in the thick outer crust can you tell that it’s made from alternative flours. As a point of pride for the Mamma restaurants, ingredients are of an exceptionally high standard – mostly sourced directly from favored artisanal producers in Italy – including the essential San Marzano tomatoes grown at the foot of Mt Vesuvius. The pizzas are cooked in a wood-fired brick Acunta oven, hand-made in Naples, that can get to temperatures so high a pizza can be cooked in 60 seconds (just shy of 930°F/500°C). The resulting Mammargherita pizza – for me the simple concoction of tomatoes, fior di latte mozzarella and fresh basil is the best litmus test for pizza – was remarkably close to a true Napolitano pizza, that is to say, very, very good.”Yup. What Patsy says.
It's very popular - here's a pano view from my table in the "front room/" There was another room even larger up a couple steps to the rear (right side of this photo).
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