Jacopo Mercuro

Today

At 180 Grammi Pizzeria Romana in Rome, the work sits on two levels at once: the oven and the operation. Jacopo Mercuro leads the project, serves as pizzaiolo, and owns 180 Grammi in Rome, so the day-to-day making and the larger shape of the place stay in the same hand. The result is a practice built on Roman pizza as a living format—technical, service-driven, and meant to travel beyond its home city without losing its code. Earlier, Mani in Pasta on Via Ostiense in Rome gave Jacopo Mercuro a first public run at running a place and refining the standards that would follow. That period established the terms of his later work: not just making pizza, but defining how a pizzeria carries itself. From there, the project expanded from a local room into something with wider reach.

Signature

Bradanica is one of Jacopo Mercuro’s signature dishes. In Roman pizza, a named signature has to do real work: it has to show control, taste, and a point of view without leaning on ornament. Bradanica functions that way here, marking out a clear place in the broader language of his pizza-making.

In Their Words “"We have been traveling around the world for a few years now to bring 180 grammi, and more generally Roman pizza."” That sentence puts distribution at the center of the craft. The point is not just to open doors in new cities, but to carry a specific Roman format intact from one setting to another. “"We like to bring out our culture, because there is little Roman pizza around the world anyway."” Here the job is framed as cultural explanation as much as service. Roman pizza is treated as something that has to be made visible, not assumed.

Recognition

The recognition in Jacopo Mercuro’s work comes through the scope of the project itself: 180 Grammi Pizzeria Romana in Rome, with Mercuro as leader of the project, pizzaiolo, and owner of 180 Grammi in Rome. The frame is clear. This is Roman pizza presented as a category with its own identity, and the work is aimed at carrying that identity into more places without flattening it.