Pizza Elettrica — Restaurant in Melbourne

My wife and I noticed a place and meant to try their menu as locals for ages. Staff really pleasant, which is the saving grace of this review.

Photo attached of the burnt bits of a 15”Canadian Pizza $32 (about 1/8th inedible) which took me about 10 minutes to remove to get a run at the bulk of pizza. I ordered the Canadian, my bad, or perhaps they don’t particularly like the people north of their boarder. Pizza had a nice thin base, which I like, very burnt, I don’t like. Topping was very light on and thin, mainly a little melted cheese quite burnt, tasted like burnt charcoal, a few thin sliced pineapple in maple syrup which tasted like burnt crust, the rest I cannot recall. Cost was over $30 but I couldn’t eat it, my wife didn’t want to try. I reckon being kind at a 1/5

As an entree I snapped up a “garlic moon” $15 a version of garlic bread, way better than pizza score, about a 2/5. Best thing was a fizzy apple drink $5 recommended by a waitress 5/5.

To be fair I’ve only ordered one pizza, maybe I shouldn’t have been wearing my Council Badged vest, other pizza might be nice, I don’t know, perhaps a reviewer can go out and try other than a Canadian. Let me know, I cannot possibly spend another $50+ to have same experience with other pizza…

I was told that the style is American Style, so I am super grateful to know this as I have a Visa to fly to USA. I definitely won’t be ordering any pizza in USA! Hope was just me being really unlucky, other dinners try the Canadian, but don’t blame me!

Staff were great, food very expensive, left 1/2 plus 1 slice behind and...

Gotta listen to the locals when they say this is one of the best pizzas. They’ve only got a tight menu with 7 pizzas and NOT by the slice - they are confident in their rustic take on pizzas.

🍕 Peppi - pepperoni, tomato sauce, mozzarella + hot honey $34 4.25/5 🍕 Salsicha - saubise (creamy onion sauce), mozz, pork sausage, Tuscan kale, onion, pepper 4/5 🌙 garlic moon - cheesy herb garlic calzone, bechamel 4.5/5 🌶️ @sixeyedscorpion chill oil deserves its own 4.5/5 🌶️ jalapeño ranch 4.75/5

Their menu as its shopfront name describes name, is ELECTRIC and DIFFERENT. They whip up some unique inventive specials in their tiny kitchen that have never been seen on your traditional pizzas - miso, shiitake, hot honey, their imagination runs wild.

Their pizza base is almost perfection. Their blistered crusts with their thin base, loaded with an immense spread of flavour and toppings (but not too much). It’s supposed to replicate The World’s Greatest Pizza cities and if that’s how they are, I would not mind booking a flight to New York.

Am so coming back for these pizzas with a party of friends because the vibes here...

📍Pizza Elettrica, Thornbury - 4.6 ⭐️ out of 5.

Okay, some of the best pizza I’ve had Northside hands down. This small pizza shop has incredible 15 inch pizzas New York style (if you can’t visualise dimensions like myself, see the pic with my hand for size).

We had the: ➖Taters pizza with Gorgonzola, spicy red pepper sauce, confit potatoes and chives ($32) ➖Margy (aka a fancy Margherita) with mozzarella, fior di latte, fresh basil, stracciatella and pecorino romano ($33)

The sauce on the pizzas was so rich and delicious, the bases were nice and thin with a fluffy crust. The pizzas had a very slight woodfired crisp to them but were not burnt, they absolutely found the happy medium!!

All the ingredients were fresh and delicious, genuinely no notes!

The GF bases are 12 inches, so they deduct $3 per typical pizza price which is GREAT!

It is fairly small in here, which means you can’t book a table. At the moment they’re getting so popular that pizzas are selling out at 8pm some nights so get in quick!!

Overall 4.6...