Francesco Pone

Born in 1989, 100% Neapolitan, he began his career as a pizzaiolo at the age of 25 in the cradle of world pizza culture. Via dei Tribunali, home of the historic pizzerias. Wooden shovel and wood-burning oven are the weapons he learns to handle with care until he is considered by gastronomic critics to be number 10 in the oven. Pizzaiolo Verace since 2018! Many openings in Campania that give him important recognitions. In the same year in which he became a VERACE pizzaiolo, he received 2 red prawns and the title of Emerging Pizzaiolo Campania first and Italy a few months later. 
In 2020 he decides to go to Zurich Switzerland in a pizzeria that in a short time has been recognised by the AVPN.
In 2023, he had the chance to open his own place in the place he had cultivated until it became so big. In October 2024 on the 7th he opened Da Pone ‘’I figli di Napoli‘’ . Today, 15 months after opening, it is an AVPN-certified pizzeria and The best pizza in Switzerland for 50top Pizza Europa.