With a six buck pizza and courtyard away from the traffic, this place is off to a great start. The trio behind the counter roll dough and talk shop in Italian, smiling to you as you enter. As it turned out, the courtyard can and on this occasion was booked out for functions. Inside heats up real quick with the ovens, so I opted for the thankfully quiet-ish street. The pizza itself takes a while to arrive, but it’s totally worth it. All of the oh so much cheese variety, the kind you can’t tell till you bite into it, and then you realise«wow, it is all cheese!» I may exaggerate, but all you who can eat cheese should have one of these. Vegetarian option is a good one, and it looks like all the goods are freshly prepared every day. Only member of sad town is there’s no beer to wash it down.
Adam C.
Place rating: 4 Melbourne, Australia
A classic local of Johnston St, run by a couple of old Italian gents who’ll whip you up a simple and mighty fresh Italian-style pizza. It’s also nowadays open late on Friday and Saturday nights(past 11pm usually) and has opened an outside courtyard area up out the back, so you can sit around drinking with friends until you need to order more pizza to soak it all up. It’s also very well priced. A large ‘gourmet’ pizza will set you back $ 15. And there’s good options for vegetarians(or at least more than one option, so it’s doing well in comparison to other places). I love the Fitz Veg with tomato, mushroom, eggplant, onion and herbs. That pizza is also indicative of the style here: the flavours aren’t intense, but the ingredients are good.
