Amore Pizzeria & Bakery

No pizza and sports here. Just great pizza. I had the Hawaiian which has real Canadian bacon and pineapple... really hot the spot. If you're coming through and want the best pizza, stop here. Highly recommended. Maybe next time I'll have room for the desserts, they look delicious.

We were visiting from Dallas area and were mining at Red Coleman Mining. We left to get something to eat and saw this place pretty close by. We had a large sausage, beef and mushroom pizza and a large chicken Alfredo pizza. Both pizzas tasted awesome and the crust was really yummy! I would recommend their pizza for sure! Great for the price! Small place but very good. We will be back if when we visit again!

Nick is heaven sent! We were at a job in mountain pine and starving, no other pizza place I called would come this far out and we were stuck. I called Amore pizzeria and bakery literally right before they closed and he went out of his way to deliver to us! Grateful and thankful, I can’t wait to see how good the pizza is

Our server Rita was fantastic! The food was epically good. My husband's aunt had an Italian restaurant and grew up around this kind of food. This is the first time in Arkansas that he's had marinara that was homemade and that good. Best calzones, crispy and delicious! Friendly folks, great family atmosphere, nicely remodeled. Go and check them out!

Rarely in life do you find a Pizza Restaurant worthy of living up to the name pizza. Amore Pizzeria in Hot Springs Village fits the bill. Quaint and home like feel. Attentive and friendly service and most importantly the food is amazing! Highly recommend stopping in for your next pizza pie!

First time eating here but it won't be the last. The service was great. Very pleasant and keept checking on us making sure we were not needing anything.

Yummy pizza! We went during off hours so it was quiet and quick to get our pizza. Crust was amazing! Crunchy and chewy!

Amore is one of the best restaurants in the Village area, and yet, it is still evolving. It is a classic small pizzeria with an owner who cares intensely about the quality of his food. You can read a good feature story about the owner and his passion for the restaurant in Hot Springs Village's POA magazine. Entering the restaurant, the diner notices the clean, nicely painted, quiet interior. The night that I went, there was no music playing, and that was a touch odd. For such an intimate place, I would love to have had a little music to encourage conversation so I didn't worry that everything I said would be overheard. And that, such as it is. is my only pathetic complaint. The pizza is wonderful. The owner experimented for two weeks with the dough until he got it to work just right in his brick ovens. I think some folks tried it in the first few days and didn't like it. All of those people need to come back now, because Amore has it sorted now. On the bottom of the crust is a bumpy and lightly crisp layer that feels almost like pastry. I interrogated the owner, who is one of the friendliest people I have ever met, and he revealed that the shattering crisp bumps are created by way of a screened cooking pan, which lets hot air through, paired with chunks of semolina that the pizza rests on in the oven. Not semolina flour, he points out, but larger, granular pieces of semolina wheat. The airflow created under the pizza makes for a little miracle. We tried the Hawaiian and veggie pizzas, and I have provided photos of both. The veggies were fresh and delicious, and the pizza wasn't soggy or heavy at all -- a malady that harms a lot of veggie slices. The owner hand cuts the veggies and dries them before putting them on the pizza. As for the Hawaiian, a lot of similar pizzas have one of two problems: either they are too soggy from pineapple that has not been drained correctly, or they are plagued with huge circles of canadian bacon that you can't bite through, so the entire slice comes off on your face, leaving the pizza bare. Not here. These are small, tender bacons, the size of a large pepperoni. The pineapple is carefully drained. The mozzarella cheese is of high quality -- quite stringy, reminiscent of the cheese from Vino's in Little Rock. Do not leave this restaurant without trying dessert because the owner makes several of them himself. The tiramisu is an authentic work of art -- just perfection. The cannoli are not the bland soggy mess you might be used to, created by the fact that the filling has been sitting in them all day. No, this owner bakes the shell and waits until they are served to pipe in the filling, which includes, I believe, mascarpone cheese in the mix, along with chocolate flecks and some lemon or orange zest, depending on the day. (Owner, please let me know if that is incorrect). Chocolate chips are sprinkled on top. As a bonus, the owner brought my son a homemade vanilla ice cream that he has made by an artisan in the Hot Springs area. It was the thickest, creamiest ice cream I think I have ever tasted, with some barely visible dots of vanilla bean in the mix. Two people seem to work in the kitchen, and one out front. The person out front takes orders at the counter, and you pay at the counter when you order. There is a tip jar there, too, in case you want to have the experience first and determine your tip later. Maybe the best thing about the restaurant is the owner himself. He is wonderfully engaging and thoughtful. He makes delightful conversation as he seeks input and explains how things are made. The people working for him seem to be having a good time. Amore is just a little wonder, and if adds a little atmospheric music, it will be perfect. Go check it out before too many people read this and it gets crowded. I am so glad I read the article and had a chance to taste the love that this owner puts into his food!