Pizza Perfect

I’ve never been a big fan of pizza. That is, until a little pizza restaurant opened right beside us. We were curious to see how it would fare as four other restaurants had failed in the same spot over a period of two years. The Rosso Pomadoro was off to a great start because they knew how to market themselves. Apparently the owner’s partner was in Marketing and did all the right things to make this place appealing to the people in the area. They stripped out the dowdy interior and painted the walls red. They displayed some funky modern paintings from the neighbouring gallery and even got the artist to paint some massive tomatoes on the cement floor.

They serve wood fired pizzas on a lovely thin base. There are no Hawaiians or Four Seasons here. It’s pure quality Italian style pizza with cured meat, fresh cheese and tomato combinations. They were a bit snooty when we asked if there was any garlic bread - apparently that was a little below them. And don’t even dream of asking for a half-and-half pizza. Their snobby attitude to pizza soon grew on us (as did the expensive price) and we became regulars of both the take away and the eat-in pizza. The restaurant has free BYO but doesn’t have a licence to serve alcohol. This makes it a great spot to take visitors after picking up a bottle of our favourite wine at the bottle shop a few doors down. There’s nothing like supporting your local business, especially when they provide such good products.

We’ve recently moved away from the area but occasionally we get a pizza craving so now we’ve started making our own and I absolutely love it. I know I should make my own bases but, to be honest, the pita bread bases you can get at the supermarket are great. They are the size of a medium pizza and make a quick and easy meal during the working week. What I really love is being able to mix and match your toppings depending on the mood you’re in. Need more comfort cheese - lash it on, don’t want your meat crispy - don’t add it until the last minute. Pictured above is our MYO pizza with parma ham, olives, marinated red pepper, sundried tomato and basil.

A good bottle of wine, your own home made pizza and an episode of House – what more could you ask for? Ice-cream maybe? But that's a completely different post.

Rosso Pomadoro
90-91/24 Buchanan St,
Balmain,
9555 5924


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