Rostrevor Pizza Bar & Restaurant

OMG the best delish pizza I’ve had in years. Real fresh toppings, crispy not soggy crust & Gaetano the owner is a gem of a bloke. Not the cheapest pizza, but surely one of the tastiest, not a scrap was left.

I was impressed with the décor inside. Garlic bread was tasty and the calzone (Mexican pizza) with Napolitana sauce was really nice too. Others ordered the Australian (as a calzone), seafood pizza, the lot, and a potato and all said they were good too. A few comments here about mushroom being canned but I didn’t have an issue with that. Drinks were well priced and everyone was really friendly. I’d go back for sure…

This place has won a few awards over the years including best pizza — time to try.
Pizza for me is more than toppings and a base. Its about each individual ingredient that goes into the pizza, where it comes from, the quality and suitability — that’s the backbone and what drives the pizza from good to potentially great.
My pizza consisted of salami, bacon, olives and mushrooms. The base had a good crunch which came from the bottom of the base yet was balanced out by the the softer upper layer and had a beautiful after-​taste of caramelization and equally moorish was the crust, not to thick and well cooked. You couldn’t fault the base — you couldn’t really make it better.
The tomato sauce on the base did its job really well in that it supported the toppings rather than overpowering and being too dominate. Sometimes in pizzas you can taste they haven’t cooked the garlic properly in the sauce (or they add those horrid dried herbs) and this ruins the pizza because those flavours linger but this sauce was simple and good.
The salami and bacon had good caramelization, both tasting well. The Sicilian olives on my pizza didnt gel with the other ingredients, it didnt gel with the pizza. They had a distinctive smell to them remind me of imported olives and had a ‘ashy’ cured taste to them, seemingly not cured the salt brine method but perhaps using caustic (or ash).
The mushrooms looked tinned. I enquired and tinned it is. I travelled back to 1980’s for a brief moment but realized no, its 2013.
The toppings were spread well on the pizza, good distribution and amount.
I would of been more excited had the drinks menu showed support for boutique/​local/​smaller brewers for cider/​beer rather than supporting the bigger companies. But then again this might not suit this establishment but as a consumer, stock standard drinks bore me.
Using bulk imported ingredients wont cut it, that’s very old school. We have fantastic ingredients here in Australia. Use and abuse them.
Elements of the pizza were really good but some needed to be brought forward a little. 3.5÷5

I’m boring, I love ham and pineapple pizzas. I think this is the best ham and pineapple pizza I’ve ever had. And the staff were very friendly, too.

I’m kind of torn between ‘meh, had better’, and being ‘a fan’ of this place — they do do a really good pizza — my problem is they’re really spendy for a pizza, too. The incongruity is they have a dinner special advertised for $ 16, which is a bit of a bargain, but the family size pizza is $ 28, not such a great deal. The pizza is good — but I don’t know if it’s really a thirty buck pizza.
Rostrevor Pizza Bar is a very traditional italian family restaurant, it feels a lot like it’s the owners home and they’re sharing it with you. Staff are good, friendly and welcoming — and great with kids, too. There’s plenty of parking in the centre car park, off street.
They have a great reputation for their food — and I can’t fault the quality — I just know I can get food and service every bit as good for way less in Adelaide, so my feelings are just a little lost here.
P. S. If you’re going for the $ 16 dinner special, bookings are ‘essential’.