The Black Oven — Restaurant in Waikato

First of all, staff was great. Just the one guy working. Only one other family in at the time.

The best bits:

Pizza's looked great! Base tastes good Chips where nice and crispy The mozzarella sticks where awesome Proper mixed fuel oven, can get the wood fire taste!

The not so good bits:

Got two pizza's - plain old cheese and the bbq.

Too much cheese on the cheese pizza, was overwhelming and ruined the taste. The tomato sauce needs a little refining too.

The brisket on the Bbq was amazing! Unfortunately it is so flooded with sauce that it becomes inedible and you can taste the flavours.

Conclusion:

This could be awesome, needs a little couple of weeks but not bad. Would I go back, probably not but would always say try it if...

The pizza is incredible. Authentic wood fired, and delicious toppings. The mozzarella sticks are divine with their gorgeous seasoning...my only suggestion is 1 serving of those makes a good starter for four people! We couldn't finish them (just 2 of us). There was no music and the lighting was weird multi-coloured LEDS making it seem like a dark place (and we were there at midday on a sunny day). Only 1 staff member working meant we had to wait longer than expected for water, plates, food. All the other tables were dirty/hadn't been cleared as the staff member didn't have...

This seemed like a nice enough place when we walked in and the person serving seemed friendly enough. But when the food arrived, the base of the pizza was really thin. It was nice and hot and that’s about all the good things about it.

We ordered the Hawaii Five O and The Big Cheese. The pizza was soggy and the toppings fell straight off. On the Big Cheese, the garlic was literal chunks of garlic. On the Hawaii Five O there seemed to be an excessive amount of garlic and it was soggy as well. I wouldn’t recommend this as a...