Where is best pizza in Cork

MagicShadow

Hello : )

I'm here about 3 years and couldn't find very good pizza here. : (
The best for now I find was calzone in Luigi malones by opera house.
I think it's because they can't put dough for pizza making into freezer, that's not how you make pizza ><
Something in Cork city would be great, also something close to Cork city by walk would be great too.

Keep in mind that I'm from Croatia and have high standards for pizza.
I will put few examples as well.

- http://dalje.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Pizzeria-Chello-najve%C4%87i-deep-dish-7.jpg

- http://test.pizzeria-chello.hr/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/malimeni44.jpg

- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmYS9fZnDkKJNtwTkTTGWlKUue7gPlbnbJ6p5ts_Nh0eB3DACv

- http://www.viprestoran.com/assets/img/2.jpg

This are just examples and there is no need for pizza to look just like this one, but something close enough would be great. Also if you have photos or link to restaurants would be great.
And no dough's taken from freezer please xD, it makes such a big difference in taste.

Missyelliot2

Hi there,
It might depend on people's preferences - some love thin/stone baked/thick crust.
It's good to support your local pizzeria - maybe tell them what you like? Also
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/bread-recipes/basic-pizza/
is fool-proof.

Shenshen

I've moved this to the regional forum - you're more likely to get good advise here.

In my opinion, Novecento in McCurtain St and Douglas St make a decent pizza. Approved by friends from Sicily, too.

Lia_lia

The pizza in the Fran Well.

MrDerp

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

Hi there,
It might depend on people's preferences - some love thin/stone baked/thick crust.
It's good to support your local pizzeria - maybe tell them what you like? Also
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/bread-recipes/basic-pizza/
is fool-proof.

I second the Jamie Oliver dough and sauce recipes. Regularly make my own, and often serve it to guests who love it. it's the easiest thing to make, you can make the sauce the night before and the dough before you get ready for your guests - then it's just assembly and cooking (though I do have two full ovens to work with which helps).

As for pizzeria, Novacento on Douglas St is very good, and use premium ingredients. La Tana on Barrack St gets an honourable mention too.

Neither has much in the way of seats, but Fionbarra on Douglas St will let you bring in Novacento after they stop serving food, and they have lovely pints so you're sorted.

None of the sit down venues excite me much, though Uncle Pete's on Paul St was good when I was last there 3-4 years ago.

NotorietyH

Palmento's in Douglas is fantastic, lovely pizza.

whatever76

its outside the city now but if you fancy a spin - pizzas here are supposed to top notch !
https://www.toonsbridgedairy.com/pages/dairy-shop-pizza

TheChizler

La Tana on Barrack St. is excellent. Palmento in Douglas too. Don't know anywhere that does them more deep-dish like in your pictures though.

CHealy

La Tana on Barrack Street, authentic Italian place, no where has come close in my experience.

the beer revolu

TheChizler wrote: »

Don't know anywhere that does them more deep-dish like in your pictures though.

This.
All the recommendations here are for Italian style thin based pizza. (The best kind imo).
I haven't seen deep dish pizza in Cork since the early 90s.

OP, each to their own but I think the pictures you posted look like terrible, over loaded, heavy pizzas. I don't think you will find that style in Ireland anymore.

Pompeii pizza in the Fran well, la tana are very good. I've had great pizza from uncle Petes as well.

grindle

Novecento's my fave but they overcook pizza in comparison to the average Italian or Croatian pizza. I prefer that, buy Croatian and Italians seem to like that just-barely-cooked pizza.
Didn't see a single deep pan pizza when I was in Croatia for a fortnight.
The most "authentic" I've seen or tasted in the city is PizzAmore, stunned they haven't been mentioned yet.
Tom Barry's is also very good.
La Tana's quite nice but they put too many toppings on, makes the base go soggy and/or limp depending on how juicy or fatty the toppings are.

whisky_galore

Tom Barry's.

Find the Fran Well incinerate the edges of theirs.

BeansBeans

Novecento would definitely be my favourite.
I dont know where you would get a pizza like in the OP pictures though.

Definitely Fran well, great value too as the pizzas are very big. Novecento are good too though I find their pizzas a bit oily at time. Pizzas are quite nice in Tom Barry’s also but a little small for the price.

Sephiroth_dude

Tom Barry's

MagicShadow

grindle wrote: »

Novecento's my fave but they overcook pizza in comparison to the average Italian or Croatian pizza. I prefer that, buy Croatian and Italians seem to like that just-barely-cooked pizza.
Didn't see a single deep pan pizza when I was in Croatia for a fortnight.
The most "authentic" I've seen or tasted in the city is PizzAmore, stunned they haven't been mentioned yet.
Tom Barry's is also very good.
La Tana's quite nice but they put too many toppings on, makes the base go soggy and/or limp depending on how juicy or fatty the toppings are.

La Tana's sound good

MagicShadow

Luke Old-fashioned Mosque wrote: »

Definitely Fran well, great value too as the pizzas are very big. Novecento are good too though I find their pizzas a bit oily at time. Pizzas are quite nice in Tom Barry’s also but a little small for the price.

Fran well definitely no...
I was there with friends because everyone was saying on reviews that there is the best pizza in Cork, and omg....

First, menu was so small, service terrible...

We ordered the special pizza of the day as recommended and it was horrible, mby just our luck.
It was thin like paper, it broke when we poked it with a fork, almost nothing on it.

So it wasn't really good first impression, and don't know if we wanna go again there.

pwurple

Well, pizza is supposed to be thin. And menus are better small.

Big menu = cruddy kitchen stocked with frozen low quality goods.


I don’t know what to tell ya.. go back to the 80’s. You’ll find what you want there.

Your photos resemble dominos. Try that?

MagicShadow

pwurple wrote: »

Well, pizza is supposed to be thin. And menus are better small.

Big menu = cruddy kitchen stocked with frozen low quality goods.


I don’t know what to tell ya.. go back to the 80’s. You’ll find what you want there.

Your photos resemble dominos. Try that?

Yeah it's supposed to be thin, but not like paper...
Big menu more variety, for the quality it all depends on organization, how good chef is and so on...
I know pizzerias with pretty big menu and all are top quality.

And it's not about 80's because there are really nice pizzerias in 2018.

Ofc people have different tastes and so on but my most struggle with pizza in Cork is that everywhere I tried it was poor quality.

They just take dough for pizza from freezer and put ingredients on it.
Which isn't good at all, I'll be very happy to found a pizzeria that makes a fresh pizza dough.
As for ingredients you can always ask staff members to put more of everything.

nerwen

There's nothing wrong with liking Italian style pizza, just like there's nothing wrong with American/Turkish style, which seems to be what OP is looking for. I don't think there is a lot of places that do the thicker style pizza in Cork though, but I'd give Papa John's a go, or maybe Scoozi?

j8wk2feszrnpao

Nothing wring with liking any type of pizza. But if it's all poor quality, then just make it yourself than going through such suffering.

pwurple

None of the ones recommended are poor quality. Fran well, palmento etc, all are fresh dough and good ingredients.
I was going to recommend toonsbridge as well, but the OP won't like that either. I'm getting the hump with him/her saying they are poor quality.

MagicShadow

pwurple wrote: »

None of the ones recommended are poor quality. Fran well, palmento etc, all are fresh dough and good ingredients.
I was going to recommend toonsbridge as well, but the OP won't like that either. I'm getting the hump with him/her saying they are poor quality.

Btw what OP means xD

And yeah lots of people said to me that Fran well is great even Croatian people so mby was just my luck xD

Markcheese

Brunos in kinsale... Franciscan well, volcano at farmers markets...

LLewellen Farquarson

MagicShadow wrote: »

Btw what OP means

OP means "Original Poster" i.e. the person who started the thread. In this case, you.

GavRedKing

I have to agree with the negative comments above on Fran Well, their pizzas have been terrible any time we've got them.

Been there 3 times with work events over the last year or so and they've always burned to a crisp on the outside edge and broke apart far too easily.

We've ordered I'd say 20 pizzas at a time on the nights out, staggered too, not burdening them with 20 orders at once and maybe 5 of them have been good, the consistency is the issue so I wouldn't go there again, not for pizza anyway.

MagicShadow

GavRedKing wrote: »

I have to agree with the negative comments above on Fran Well, their pizzas have been terrible any time we've got them.

Been there 3 times with work events over the last year or so and they've always burned to a crisp on the outside edge and broke apart far too easily.

We've ordered I'd say 20 pizzas at a time on the nights out, staggered too, not burdening them with 20 orders at once and maybe 5 of them have been good, the consistency is the issue so I wouldn't go there again, not for pizza anyway.

Thank you for the info

JackieChang

CHealy wrote: »

La Tana on Barrack Street, authentic Italian place, no where has come close in my experience.

La Tana is the worst pizza I've had in my life. I've attached a pic of what they gave me.

Great pizzas in Cork are Novecento, Franciscan Well, Toons Bridge (bit far out) and perhaps PizzAmore.

GavRedKing

That does look a bit tragic alright.

TheChizler

JackieChang wrote: »

La Tana is the worst pizza I've had in my life. I've attached a pic of what they gave me.

Great pizzas in Cork are Novecento, Franciscan Well, Toons Bridge (bit far out) and perhaps PizzAmore.

Mine and 6 others' certainly looked nothing like that recently, quality control might need to step in.

whisky_galore

JackieChang wrote: »

La Tana is the worst pizza I've had in my life. I've attached a pic of what they gave me.

Great pizzas in Cork are Novecento, Franciscan Well, Toons Bridge (bit far out) and perhaps PizzAmore.

Awful. No meat at all.

kingtut

Another vote for the Fran Well. Love the thin crust and how generous they are with their toppings. Also as it's wood fired it never takes too long to arrive at the table. Great excuse to have a beer with lol

kingtut

JackieChang wrote: »

La Tana is the worst pizza I've had in my life. I've attached a pic of what they gave me.

Jaysus! Looks like they cooked the dough and then put RAW ingredients on top!
Haven't been to La Tana in ages but always remember enjoying what I got. Certainly never looked as bad as that :eek:

Gil89

It’s hard to beat the Fran Well!

JackieChang

kingtut wrote: »

Jaysus! Looks like they cooked the dough and then put RAW ingredients on top!
Haven't been to La Tana in ages but always remember enjoying what I got. Certainly never looked as bad as that :eek:

Veggies were totally raw, pizza was just thrown together and base was thick and in a weird octagon shape.

Worst thing is on the box they claim to be the "only authentic Italian Pizza". Reading such a shameless and blatant lie while that mess was falling out of the box made my experience ten times worse!

However it was a year ago though... but I'm just afraid to try them again.

Blitzkrieger

Not what the OP wants, but I tend to prefer the deeper base style pizza. I find Donatello's the best for my artery clogging needs.

the beer revolu

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

Not what the OP wants, but I tend to prefer the deeper base style pizza. I find Donatello's the best for my artery clogging needs.

That's exactly what the OP wants.

MagicShadow

the beer revolu wrote: »

That's exactly what the OP wants.

It's doesn't need to be deeper base style pizza. Just fresh made base not from freezer and more richer on stuffs that goes on pizza.

smurgen

NotorietyH wrote: »

Palmento's in Douglas is fantastic, lovely pizza.

Got Palmentos this evening and it was terrible.got it for takeaway and collected it.stone cold,barely any toppings and very expensive.the fries were soggy and cold.to top it all off there was a mixup of the order and tried telling me i hadn't paid for two cans.will never order there again.

Mumha

TheChizler wrote: »

La Tana on Barrack St. is excellent. Palmento in Douglas too. Don't know anywhere that does them more deep-dish like in your pictures though.

I love La Tana and Palmento (they're brothers), Luigi Malones and Gallo & Galetti in Wilton for thin crust.

For thick base, Donatellos are surprisingly very tasty (although they do have too many mushroom options) and Luciano's pizza in Glanmire Village. I first went to Lucianos 30 years ago when it was in MacCurtain Street, and I love the Montaga pizza which is chicken and ham with extra cheese.....mmmm

refusetolose

+1 for donatellos

tasty stuff

.red.

Mumha wrote: »

Luciano's pizza in Glanmire Village. I first went to Lucianos 30 years ago when it was in MacCurtain Street, and I love the Montaga pizza which is chicken and ham with extra cheese.....mmmm

I forgot about Luciano's, one of the few places in Cork that always tasted as good when sober as it did after a lash of pints.
Heaven in a box!

blindsider

La Tana are consistently good - never had a problem!

Pizzamore are a little behind... but not much. Will try Novocento during the week - just for research purposes...:-)

MixedMessages

Shenshen wrote: »

I've moved this to the regional forum - you're more likely to get good advise here.

In my opinion, Novecento in McCurtain St and Douglas St make a decent pizza. Approved by friends from Sicily, too.

Would agree on Novacento’s pizzas being the best that I have had

whatever76

See this place is opening in city over next couple of weeks -https://www.oakfirepizza.ie ; already based in Clon and Bandon … any reports ?

MagicShadow

whatever76 wrote: »

See this place is opening in city over next couple of weeks -https://www.oakfirepizza.ie ; already based in Clon and Bandon … any reports ?

It looks nice from video and pictures, hope the taste would be good too

Mardyke

Had Oak Fire in Clon and it was very good. Nice pizza and a casual friendly setting.

Producer Ben

Mardyke wrote: »

Had Oak Fire in Clon and it was very good. Nice pizza and a casual friendly setting.

Beautiful stuff. They're in Bandon and opening on Princes St soon too

phater phagan

I like Milano.