Soprana Rooftop Cucina

Soprana Rooftop Cucina sits above the River Arts District, a pizza kitchen built for the view as much as for the dough. The format stays disciplined: wood-fired pies, a room open to the sky, a stretch of Asheville that has turned into one of the city's more interesting corners for eating out. There's no menu sprawl to hide behind and no gimmick propping up the pizza itself — the kitchen lets the pies carry the room.

The Michelin Guide's selection of Soprana in 2025 is the kind of confirmation that outweighs a local mention: a body that rarely singles out Asheville restaurants backing up what regulars already suspected, that this is one of the city's more serious pizza kitchens and not just its best-located one.

Local coverage has kept Soprana in the conversation about where Asheville eats well, and the rooftop pulls people up for the setting. The pizza is why they stay.