Dimitri's Pizzeria — Restaurant in Sydney

Finally… truly creative pizza. Odd combinations that zing and zang in the mouth! Pizzas you can’t find elsewhere. Excellent wine list. Wonderful beers. What’s not to love?

Once upon a time, I was living in San Francisco, and there was a pizza place that served all sorts of exquisite, interesting pizzas with really good toppings. Chutney and lamb and tallegio and walnuts… I’m often searching for that. Really good toppings. Really interesting combinations. And… it always fall short. The menu may look great, but it disappoints. Not so here! The menu looked great and did not disappoint!

We had been living in Sydney for a few weeks, and we were leaving for New Zealand and needed a beautiful last Sydney meal. Dimitri’s really delivered!

I had two glasses of the montepulciano (an excellent wine to pair with the pizza and the meats). Great choice to be on the menu.

My partner had the cream of corn pizza. I’m not a huge fan of creamed corn, having been subjected to it a lot (from my grandmother, who did not know how to cook) growing up in the American south, but I tried to slice of his and it was delicious!

I had the zigzag wanderer, and I can’t recall if kale was on it and hot honey was on it or if I added kale and hot honey, but I am a huge hot honey fan and a huge kale fan so, regardless, those were on the pizza as well, either by request, or part of the original. Since I’m also from the American South…kale is mandatory on everything. and that is something we really do love. We even have T-shirts that say “kale yeah.”

Back to the review. We had the Wagyu salami, and it was outstanding. A little disappointed that they were out of the squid ink salami, but the wagyu was a great substitute!

At the end of the night, I was craving a specialty drink. And so I put my faith in the hands of our server, whom I saw behind the bar as well. I gave a little bit of direction; I like mezcal. In the capable server/bartender hands, the drink that was delivered was wonderful. My only regret here is that we asked for the server’s name and I was going to include it in this review, and, I can’t find where I wrote it down. Kudos to the server, and please pass along our compliments to the chef, server, bartender, and owner who picked out the wines to accompany the meals. Again, this was our last meal in Sydney, having lived here for quite a few weeks, and it was the perfect end to our...

It can take the human body around six hours to digest the average meal. But it's taken me almost two years to fully digest the experience of Dimitri's Pizzeria, on Oxford Street, Sydney - on the other side of the world.

I write this in London, as autumn draws in with imposing clouds and reds, browns and greens on our trees. Nature's mosaic.

Since my visit to Dimitri's, in January 2020 I've long craved the ambience, revelry and festival of this fine pizzeria, which remains to this day the greatest pizza I've ever encountered.

On the night, we dined like Tudor Kings - with plate after plate of pizza and innovative sides reaching our table. An explosion of colours and textures - like a great tapestry of old.

Meanwhile, the head chef, who struck me as a man of the arts worked tirelessly; funnelling dough, cheese and tomato deep into the firepit oven with all the industrial vigour of the very men who powered and ignited Empire and gave birth to modern endeavour.

His fresh craftmanship - I'm talking Bee Sting, Funguy and the Dimitris Special - decorated our table with splendour and bold innovation.

Unforgettable tastes and an unforgettable evening. Long have I searched for anywhere that nearly compares in London - but my search goes on.

We left as a group, jubilant in spirit and silently understanding that we had just sampled something truly extraordinary.

I looked to the sky, content and in quiet introspection and watched the flight of the bats - that sacred evening trail that tells you that the world still spins and that soon the moon will be king again.

I thank the team for that exceptional night and pledge to return once time and travel allows.

I think of that chef regularly and send him my best wishes.

I think...

Worst restaurant experience ever So much to say and so little time but the worst experience of all time. extremely rude waitresses. Poor service, slow clearing tables and of course around when they wanted to up sell drinks. Expensive wine and if you bought it from a bottle shop you’d tip it out and assume it had gone bad. Min $70 a bottle which is crazy given the wines are all no names. Waitress recommended a Chardonnay. When we asked for a good one, $90 per bottle and absolutely revolting. Tasted like a cheap rsl sav Blanc, where you’d also get better table service You have to do a set menu with groups of 4 or more. Pathetic and really just a tactic to make more money Food arrives on the table with no explanation of what the dishes are, or how many plates are to share between how many people. Would be nice if the food’s arrival was as snappy as the waitresses attitude Pizzas arrived more than an hour after we finished starters. Some pizza bases were burnt. Had to go downstairs to find a waitress to come and clear our table and they were busy chatting to tables. A group of people came in and sat next to us and seemed to be friends of the waitresses so received their food a lot earlier than us even though they arrived later. I can’t remember when id walked out of a venue so annoyed saying “this is the worst...