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Handmade, authentic Italian pizza baked in a wood-fired oven from the back of a three-wheeled Piaggi

All our pizzas are handmade and cooked to order in our specially-built wood fire oven, custom fitted into the back of an original Italian Piaggio Ape. Our dough is made using the finest Italian pizza flour, slowly fermented for at least 48 hours, to help develop its distinctive crunchy-yet-chewy, flavourful crust. Only the most carefully chosen Italian plum tomatoes are used for our sauce, the rec

ipe for which is a closely-guarded secret… If we really have to let anything slip, let it be that our recipe is ridiculously simple and the ingredients do the talking! The North and South of Italy differ over whose mozzarella is best - cow’s milk fior di latte of the North, or mozzarella di Bufala of the South, buffalo mozzarella to you and I. As our roots lie proudly in the South (Salerno to be exact, just south of Napoli) and we have South Africa’s only water buffalo farmer just outside of Cape Town producing fresh buffalo mozzarella, the argument could only ever end one way for us…

Animal welfare and provenance is not only very important to us, it’s also a passion. For that reason, our cured meats are made from local organic orchard-reared pigs and by the hands of one of South Africa’s most recognisable cured meat artisans: Richard Bosman. Piaggio are the original manufacturers of the iconic Vespa scooters, and the Ape (pronounced Ah-pey, meaning ‘bee’ in Italian - you’ll know why when we start his engine!) was their answer to the post-WWII shortage of cheap and reliable goods vehicles for the Italian masses. Since the late-40’s, these iconic little worker bees have been transporting Italy’s finest produce, goods and people across the length and breadth of its beautiful land. Our Ape is named Terence after one of our childhood heroes, the actor Terence Hill, famous for his roles in the slapstick spaghetti westerns “My Name is Trinity” and “Trinity is Still My Name” (Trinity - three-wheeled Italian tuk-tuk - Terence; again, only one way this could go…). And who was Terence’s ever present and equally famous co-star? A rotund, hot-tempered Italian hulk of a man... May we please introduce our wood fire oven, Bud. 400kg and upwards of 600 degrees Celcius when cooking, it surely lives up to its namesake.

01/03/2025

40th birthday in the 'burbs. Happy birthday Julia!

23/02/2025

Kids and parents camp out at Thelema. Lovely way to spend a beautiful late summer evening.

16/02/2025

If you say 'Gozney' three times whilst looking into a mirror, your pizza dreams will come true...

14/09/2024

Perfect evening for our first of the season.

08/06/2024

07/10/2022

Moonrise over the Paarl mountains, sun setting on the lush Val de Vie Estate.

05/10/2022

Wednesday Nights = Good Vibes

10/09/2022

We love birthdays and driveways and pizzas and wood fires and tuk-tuks, to name a few...

03/09/2022

A weather warning has been issued for tomorrow. Outdoor markets have decided to shut for the day, a rare occurrence. Until then though, it's us who'll be cooking up a storm tonight. ⚡⛈️🌪️🍕

02/09/2022

Yes, it is a cold day for a party, but there is always such a welcoming warmth emanating from , that it really isn't all that bad.

09/04/2022

Dress up your own Pizza Night at our new friends .pottery 🍕❤️

04/03/2022

This weekend only!

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