The Tuna Pizza
You Won't Find Elsewhere
A Mediterranean classic that most American pizzerias never learned: tuna, red onion, and black olives over tomato and mozzarella, flash-baked at 800 degrees. Forni serves one of the only wood-fired tuna pizzas in Northern Virginia.
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.
tuna 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.
A Mediterranean Standard
Tuna Pizza Is Not
A Novelty
Walk into a pizzeria in Rome, Istanbul, Casablanca, or Beirut and tuna pizza is simply on the menu — no explanation needed. Oil-packed tuna, sweet red onion, and briny black olives are a natural trio over tomato sauce: rich, sharp, and salty in equal measure. It never crossed into American chains, which is exactly why it is worth seeking out.
Forni bakes it the way it is served across the Mediterranean: high heat, short bake, so the tuna warms through without drying and the onions just begin to caramelize at the edges. If you grew up with this pizza, ours will taste like home. If you did not, one order usually converts the skeptics.
Our Story
Frequently Asked
It is a beloved standard across the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East. The combination — tuna's richness, red onion's sweetness, black olives' brine — balances the same way pepperoni's fat and salt does. The wood-fired bake keeps the tuna moist; that is where conventional ovens ruin it.
Tomato sauce, mozzarella, tuna, red onion, and black olives — $12.99. It is baked in our 800-degree stone oven for about 90 seconds like every pizza we make.
Yes. Fish is halal by default, and everything around it — the cheese (microbial rennet), the dough, the whole kitchen — is 100% halal certified. There are no non-halal ingredients anywhere at Forni.
Very few pizzerias in the DC area serve it. Forni Pizza & Sandwich at 5800 Seminary Rd, Unit B, Falls Church, VA 22041 serves wood-fired tuna pizza seven days a week — minutes from Arlington, Annandale, Alexandria, and Bailey's Crossroads.
Order it alongside a familiar favorite like the Pepperoni or Margherita. Most first-timers finish the tuna first. If you like Niçoise salad or pan bagnat, this pizza is squarely in your lane.
Tuna Pizza Near Me: The Mediterranean Original
Every food culture has a dish that outsiders doubt until they try it. For Mediterranean pizza culture, that dish is tuna pizza. It is everyday fare from Naples to Tunis — and nearly impossible to find done properly in Northern Virginia. Forni serves it because our roots are Mediterranean and the pizza earns its place.
Why It Works
Tuna brings savory depth and a soft, flaky texture. Red onion sharpens and sweetens as it roasts. Black olives supply the salt that pepperoni provides on a meat pizza. Underneath, tomato sauce and mozzarella keep everything anchored in familiar territory. No single element dominates — which is why the combination has survived generations.
The 90-Second Bake Is the Secret
Tuna's enemy is time in the oven: bake it for twelve minutes on a conveyor and it dries to sawdust. At 800 degrees, Forni's stone oven finishes the pizza in about 90 seconds — the tuna heats through, stays moist, and picks up just a whisper of char from the flame.
Halal, Like Everything We Make
Fish needs no certification, but the rest of the pizza does: our mozzarella uses microbial rennet and the kitchen runs fully halal, so the tuna pizza — like everything at Forni — can be ordered without a second thought.
Try It
Find us at 5800 Seminary Rd, Unit B, Falls Church, VA 22041, open seven days: Mon-Thu: 2 PM - 12 AM, Fri-Sat: 2 PM - 1 AM, Sunday: 2 PM - 11 PM. Order online for pickup or delivery — and bring one skeptic with you.
Visit Forni
One bite settles
the tuna pizza debate.
Wood-fired, 100% halal, and one of the only ones in Northern Virginia. Order online now.