Four Cheese Pizza,
Wood-Fired
Mozzarella for the pull, ricotta for the cream, parmesan for the salt, gorgonzola for the bite — layered on white sauce and blistered at 800 degrees. Forni's Four Cheese is Falls Church's answer to quattro formaggi.
The Oven
800 degrees changes everything.
A regular oven tops out around 500. Ours hits 800. At that temperature, the crust blisters in minutes — leopard-spotted char on the outside, soft and airy inside. The cheese bubbles and caramelizes. The toppings roast instead of steam.
Each pizza goes into the stone oven by hand, gets rotated by hand, and comes out when it's right. That's what wood-fired means.
The Dough
48 hours of slow fermentation
Our dough ferments for two full days before it touches the oven. The long, cold rise develops a complex, slightly tangy flavor with an open crumb structure you can't get from a shortcut. Hand-stretched to order — never rolled, never frozen.
Fired at 800 degrees
Intense heat blisters the crust in minutes. Leopard-spotted char outside, soft and airy inside. No conveyor belt — each pie is rotated by hand.
four cheese pizza
Every single item at Forni is 100% Halal. Not a section. Not a special request. The entire kitchen — every protein, every sauce, every topping — meets strict Halal standards.
Order the All Meat pizza, the Gyro Panini, or any specialty pie with complete confidence. Families, mosques, and communities across Northern Virginia trust Forni because there is never a question about what's in the food.
The Quattro Formaggi
Four Cheeses,
One 800° Oven
Quattro formaggi is one of Italy's oldest pizza traditions, and it lives or dies on balance. Too much blue cheese and it overwhelms; too little and you taste only mozzarella. Forni's version calibrates all four — fresh mozzarella, whipped ricotta, aged parmesan, and gorgonzola — over a white sauce base instead of tomato, so nothing competes with the cheese.
The stone oven does the rest. At 800 degrees the mozzarella melts and pools, the parmesan crisps at the edges, and the ricotta stays cool-centered and creamy. Ninety seconds later it lands in the box with the cheeses distinct rather than fused into one flavor — the whole point of a four cheese pizza.
Our Story
Frequently Asked
Mozzarella, ricotta, parmesan, and gorgonzola over a white sauce base — the classic quattro formaggi arrangement, baked in our 800-degree stone oven. It is $12.99 and one of our most popular pizzas.
It contains no meat, and our cheeses are made with microbial (non-animal) rennet — which also keeps them halal-compliant. If you have specific dietary questions, ask when ordering and we will walk you through every ingredient.
At Forni, yes. Cheese can be non-halal when made with animal rennet; ours use microbial enzymes, and the entire kitchen is 100% halal. That makes our quattro formaggi safe for halal-observant cheese lovers.
White sauce. Tomato acidity fights gorgonzola, so we build the Four Cheese on a cream base that lets each cheese read clearly. If you prefer tomato, the Margherita or Make Your Own are the better canvas.
Forni Pizza & Sandwich, 5800 Seminary Rd, Unit B, Falls Church, VA 22041 — serving Falls Church, Arlington, Annandale, Alexandria, and the surrounding areas. Order online for pickup or delivery; we are open seven days a week until midnight or later.
Four Cheese Pizza, Done the Wood-Fired Way
Most four cheese pizzas in Northern Virginia come from conveyor ovens: the cheeses melt into a single undifferentiated layer, and the crust underneath goes dense from the long, low bake. The dish deserves better — it is, after all, the pizza that exists purely to showcase cheese.
Why the Oven Matters More for Cheese Pizzas
Cheese is mostly fat and moisture, and a slow bake gives both time to separate — that is the grease slick on a chain four-cheese. At 800 degrees, the bake finishes in about 90 seconds: the mozzarella stretches, the gorgonzola softens without breaking, and the ricotta barely warms. Each cheese arrives in a different state, which is what makes the first bite interesting.
The Dough Underneath
Forni's dough cold-ferments for 48 hours, developing flavor complex enough to stand up to four cheeses. It is stretched by hand to keep the air in the rim, then baked directly on stone. The result holds the topping weight without going soggy in the box.
Pairing and Ordering
The Four Cheese pairs naturally with something sharp — our Caesar or Caprese salad cuts the richness, and a fresh-squeezed Berry Smash does the same job cold. For groups, order it alongside a Pepperoni and a Mediterranean so the table covers cream, spice, and brine.
Visit or Order Online
We are at 5800 Seminary Rd, Unit B, Falls Church, VA 22041, open mon-thu: 2 pm - 12 am, fri-sat: 2 pm - 1 am, and sunday: 2 pm - 11 pm. Order online for pickup — the Four Cheese is best within the first twenty minutes, and our fast bake means it is ready almost as soon as you arrive.
Visit Forni
Four cheeses.
Ninety seconds. One oven.
Order Forni's wood-fired Four Cheese online for pickup or delivery — 100% halal, open late.