Birria Pizza (Mexican Birria-Topped Pizza)

History & Origin

Birria pizza is one of the most recent and successful gastronomic phenomena in contemporary Mexican cuisine, born in the era of social media. It emerged around 2019-2020 in Tijuana and Los Angeles, as part of the birria tacos explosion that conquered social media with melted cheese and bright red meat. Street entrepreneurs combined birria with pizza, creating a viral hybrid. The base is pizza dough covered with Oaxaca cheese, shredded birria meat, chopped onion, coriander and sometimes jalapeño. What truly sets it apart is that it is served with a bowl of hot birria consommé for dipping each slice. Birria pizza represents the new generation of Mexican cuisine: irreverent, fusionist, globalised and connected. It has conquered food trucks across the United States, appeared on Netflix programmes and spread to cities across Europe, including Madrid and London.