What sets Allegro apart from other places for me is that they do a good 'standard' pizza but also a great pizza that's different - the Beef Thai Curry is a spicy change to the norm while the Bolognese is a really tasty pizza built off some pretty bland sounding ingredients. The seafood pizzas are all great as well.

Allegro can be easy to miss when driving down the highway - it's attached to a restaurant which can also make it harder to see if you haven't been there before. Also, getting the 'good' pizzas (imo of good) often means you have to look towards the more expensive end of the menu. That said, I'm looking forward to going back in the near future.

Another pizza place I'd driven past for a while that I decided to try. Mario's promises high quality ingredients (the takeaway menu states they use "real ham not polony") and that they have "bigger pizza with more topping than the pizza chain stores or it's free".

I'm going to have to agree with the "more topping" statement - the amount of seafood I got on the Marinara was great! Both pizzas tasted great, with the Mexican being fairly spicy in just the 'mild' version.

Mario's also has a large number of pizzas to choose from, with a Gourmet section for those who need more than traditional toppings. My only complaint is the price, which is a little high, but you do get quality for what you spend. I'm looking forward to going back to Mario's to try some of their other offerings.

Let's start with the positives: Pompeii Pizza's have a nice base. It's light, supports the toppings well and is pretty tasty.

But I won't be going back to Pompeii ever again, for the simple reasons of 1) they got our order wrong, 2) their Works pizza is terrible, and 3) my wife spent part of the night throwing up after eating it.

I ordered an extra topping on one of the pizzas and didn't get it, despite being told I had. That's not a deal-breaker - people make mistakes, and I could live with one mistake if everything else worked out fine.

But it didn't. The Works pizza smelled odd in the car on the way home and tasted odd too. Its biggest problem was that it was less of a Works pizza than a Ham and Pineapple. No sir, they didn't skimp on the ham. I've had good pizzas that use shredded ham as a basis for the topping, but this Works just overdid it. It wasn't helped by the limited number of other toppings on it - sure, there were some prawns, a few mushrooms and a reasonable amount of pineapple, but that's not a Works pizza in my book.

The Margherita was better, but it was still a bit bland. Still, this ordinary Margherita was light-years ahead of the bad Works in terms of edibility.

Finally, my wife spent part of the night throwing up after eating from Pompeii, and personally felt it was the Works that caused her to be sick.

We won't be going back. If you are looking for pizza in this neck of the woods, go to Mario's (on Walter Drive as well) instead. It's a bit more expensive, but about 1000x better in terms of quality.

I love it when an unknown pizza place drops its menu into my letterbox. It gives me the opportunity to try a place I didn't know existed. Unfortunately, these experiments aren't always successful.

On the plus side for East End Pizza Bar, their pizzas look great and use fresh ingredients. For the Supreme and the Garlic Flatbread (which is a pizza base with garlic and oil on it), the first few pieces tasted good.

However, after a couple of pieces, the dominating taste became the base. There wasn't enough sauce or topping on the pizzas to take away from the feeling that all you were eating was pizza base. Also, the Margherita was pretty bland and needed at least some herbs to give it some flavour.

It's a pity that the pizzas didn't work out from East End - the place looks nice and the pizzas certainly looked appertising.

However, I thought Pizza On Cambridge was slightly better on the nights I went. The pizzas seemed less oily and the tastes a bit cleaner. Could have just been the nights I went, but Cambridge was preferable to Broadway.

On the down side, the store is a bit hard to see until almost too late when you drive past, so if you are looking for it keep your eyes open.

Anyway, I had an opportunity to try it and I'm glad I did. The pizzas are the traditional take-away style, lots of fresh ingredients (well, they tasted fresh) and all in all very enjoyable. I had half of each pizza for dinner and the remainder for lunch, so I know it tastes good when cold as well as hot.

To nitpick, the pizzas are a little oily (lots of cheese) and the seafood pizza is really just mussels and prawns as far as seafood goes. Still, I'd go back as it was good pizza!

The pizza range isn't huge, and the only one that appealed on the night was the Gourmet. Now, I'm writing this review a little while after the event, and the only things I can remember about the pizza was:

1. The base was excellent - thin and crispy yet with enough dough in it to still be slightly chewy; and
2. the only thing interesting about the topping was that it had anchovies that would give the other ingredients a kick... otherwise, the topping was pretty standard.

At some point I'll go back, but based off this one sample, the pizzas at Avenue Nine seem nice enough but nothing special.

My wife's steak, on the other hand, was delicious.

Ali has obviously set himself a challenge here, having opened his pizzeria in the same strip as the well-known and well-established Marco's. However, this place appears to have a good chance of success given for the following two reasons:

Firstly, the majority of its pizzas cost only $10 for a large (which is the only size they do). This makes them very good value.

Secondly, the pizzas themselves are very tasty, being woodfired and on a thin base. You don't get a huge quantity of topping on a pizza, with only a small section of toppings available on the menu, but they do make for a well-flavoured pizza in a more traditional Italian style.

It will be interesting to see if Ali's Pizzeria will be able to stick it out in its current position. It will be a pity if it can't since the pizzas it makes are well worth eating.

The BBQ Chicken was very worthwhile, with a lot of BBQ sauce and marinated chicken. Mexican Volcano was okay, with a sufficient amount of flavour to be passable (but I'd argue over the name 'Volcano' given the chilli was pretty mild). As for the Egyptian... well, it was edible, but wasn't something I'd ever order again. It was just so bland, so ordinary. The Egyptian was just a pizza I didn't want to eat.

When you get such a range of quality in pizzas (ie one you liked, one you thought was okay and one you would never have again) you question the overall ability of the place you bought it from. Was the Egyptian the exception, with most of the other pizzas being okay or better? Or is the BBQ Chicken the abberation, with the other pizzas being more the standard of the Egyptian? One day I'll go back and check by ordering three different pizzas, but I'm certainly not rushing to Efes to do it.

When we go to the Galleria to catch a movie, the wife and I try to get a bite to eat here. Although a little expensive if you pay full price, getting a pizza from Spaghi on a cheap night is well worth it.

All pizzas I've seen come with a good amount of topping and are very tasty to eat - the Caprino especially has a distinct taste thanks to the goat cheese on it. The pizza base is thin and doesn't dominate the flavour of the toppings.

I enjoy going to Spaghi as, although they don't have the greatest range of pizzas, the ones they do are enjoyable to eat and are generally something different to what would be given the same name at other pizza shops. Plus, Spaghi also do a fantastic tiramasu, which never hurts to have!

Update: Spaghi have closed at this location to apparently re-open in Floreat. Haven't tried them since they shifted, but plan to at some point.

They taste pretty good too, but are missing that extra "something" that would make them really stand out. Bases are of the thin dough type and can be quite crunchy. The menu is also a bit limited and contains some non-convential offerings that may turn off conservative pizza eaters. The option exists to choose your own toppings, but I can never be bothered to do this.

Still, it was definitely worth finding. Last time I went back it was closed for the holidays, so I hope it will be open on next visit.

As a sign of how good these pizzas are, my wife suggested buying them three times in the one week, which is unprecedented. (Admitted she was sick and didn't want to cook, but usually that means we get Thai or Chinese food.) It was her love of the Meat Lovers that drove her to give the order and I have to admit that it is probably the best Meat Lovers pizza I've had. The other pizzas have all been very good too, and the one time we tried the pasta we certainly weren't disappointed.

Two quibbles with Aurora: firstly, finding the place - it's on Scarborough Beach Road on a curve, so it's very easy to drive straight past it (look for the BWS liquor store - it's next to that); and the fact that it has no EFTPOS / card facilities, meaning you need to bring cash. Both of these are irritating the first time you go. However, all I can say is that the pizza is worth these small inconveniences.

Update: It's about two years since the original review and while I only occasionally go to Martino's, I have noticed that the service has gone straight downhill. This might not be a problem for you if you are sitting in the restaurant with friends, but I have waited up to 45 minutes for a take-away pizza in recent times. This isn't good enough. Sure, the place is very busy, but if you have to keep customers waiting this long, don't offer take-away.

Only had the Frutti Di Mare, but the menu has a pretty good selection to choose from. The seafood pizza was quite good with a reasonable distribution of topping, but... I was burping up the taste of it for two days after. Don't know if this was because I was sick or because of the pizza, but it soured the experience a bit.

I will be going back to trying something else and to see if the burping thing reoccurs, since I did enjoy the meal.

WGP are served on a very thin base and cooked in a wood-fired oven. They offer a good range of seafood, vegetarian and meat pizzas, but if you are the kind of person who only ever orders Hawaiian or shudders at the thought of leek on pizzas, this probably isn't the place for you.

My big gripe is the price - you can easily blow $50+ if ordering more than two pizzas. It *is* worth it though.

I honestly though this place was called Broadway Pizza, but that doesn't exist when I look it up. I'll fill in the above details correctly once I've been back to swipe a menu.

- Okay, got a menu; it is called Broadway Pizza, but for some reason comes up as Pizza on Wheels on the Yellow Pages site.

Broadway Pizza have always done great Friday night pizza. Using a medium thick base they manage to offer a good number of different toppings which generally aren't skimped on. On the night in question I wasn't that impressed by the Garlic Chicken, but enjoyed the Seafood and Works. I *really* liked the slice of Meatlovers I had (bbq sauce makes a huge difference) but it was oily / fatty enough to turn the box translucent, so one piece was enough.

On my next trip through I had the Broadway and Queen Margherita (one of the gourmet pizzas they serve). The Broadway was great and the Q. Margherita pretty good, but, in the words of my gf, "tried a little too hard" and mixed up too many flavours to be great. Worth eating once though to see if you like it.

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I did enjoy it on a recent trip there and its always nice to go to a pizzeria where you can buy decent desserts or even a salad to go with your meal.

All in all, the biggest thing is the value of the pizza - at $17 (about) each, you don't get the best value for money at Chelsea - a lot of the basic pizzas can be bought cheaper elsewhere.

However, this shouldn't stop you from going. They have a good range and I haven't tried their new gourmet selection. This selection is more expensive, but more exotic than the main board. I'll post an update once I've sampled some of them.

Update: Had the Blue (blue cheese, capsicum, artichokes and mushrooms) and the Lamb (onion, sweet potato, pumpkin and lamb) and enjoyed them a lot. I think the more expensive pizzas are worth buying over the 'normal ones' and it's only a difference of a couple of dollars, so why not?

After our initial attempt at ordering pizza from one place failed since they were closed for the public holiday, we ended up ordering from Beachcombers. The pizzas we got were alright, but nothing great.

In each case the pizza that was ordered was exactly what you'd expect, with no surprises or anything to differentiate it from any other pizza place out there. The Marinara and Chicken & BBQ Sauce could be seen as perhaps a little light-on in terms of topping, but they were still tasty. This is another pizza place that does it bases thin, which tended to leave the pizza pieces a bit floppy in the middle and crispy on the outside.

Beachcombers' pizza was fine, and I don't have anything to complain about in terms of their pizzas. However, I really don't have anything to recommend them for either. You could do worse than Beachcombers, but you could also do so much better.

I really enjoyed the Portefino and Contadina, but the Margherita left me a bit cold. It's nice and cheesy but a bit plain. The base of these pizzas is also very thin and does a great job of keeping the focus of the toppings' flavour.

Still, it is very worth going here. If you are going to eat in the Cafe itself, Monday through Thursday has a $10.95 pizza and pasta offer available.

On the next trips had the Fiorentina, Calzone and Piccante, which weren't bad, but thus far my favorite has been the Portefino.

The Turkish pizza was the only pizza consumed on this night and was thoroughly enjoyed. It is topped with marinated minced meat and vegetables (although I had trouble seeing the vege's!) and has a wonderful tang to it. The base is thin turkish bread dough, which makes for a fantastically light crust.

And on top of making a tasty pizza, Istanbul Kitchen also give you a lot of it! The pizza is a rectangle in shape, cut into smaller rectangles to fit into the box. After eating quite a bit of it one night, I still have a reasonable amount left over for lunch the next day.

I'll be coming back here in later weeks to try out their other pizzas.

Update: Ordered a number of pizzas to feed a cult movie night, so a number of different pizzas were chosen. All of them were very much enjoyed, with people commenting on the distinct taste of the marinated meats used on the pizzas. Also, the price was very good, given that I paid slightly more than $10 a pizza. Next time I have to cater for a number of people, pizza from the Istanbul Cafe will certainly be considered.

I've only had one pizza from Young Joe, so its a bit unfair to call it based on that one. The pizza I had was quite passable, but nothing special. Again, mussels and prawns only do not a seafood pizza make. Having eaten it in the same weekend as the Magic Pizza seafood offering, I'd be going to Magic Pizza if I wanted crustaeans on my pizza.

I will be going back to order a works and something else - once I do that I'll update this entry.

Update: Looks like this place has closed for good.

The pizza base is quite thin and closer to pastry than bread in texture. Although the toppings are usually pretty simplistic (ie a small number of ingredients) they are well chosen and complement the ingredients' individual flavours very well. All in all I've enjoyed every slice of pizza they served me thus far and look forward to going back whenever possible.

Update: Looks to have changed it's name (and possibly owners). I'll have to retry this venue at a later date.

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Looking for a late night (well, 9.30pm) meal, I managed to get to La Tosca before it closed. I'm glad that they were still open, because the Portofino they provided was a great Italian style pizza. It had a great taste due to the herbs and fresh ingredients that were used to make it while the base was thin and crispy.

The one complaint I had was that the large pizza really isn't that big. I know that this sometimes happens with hand-made and rolled doughs, but it was really only big enough for one person to eat. You wouldn't really get much of a meal out of splitting a large pizza from La Tosca!

Still, I'll be going back to try some of the other offerings - La Tosca offered me a quality Portofino and I want to see if they can improve on it in future purchases.

All of which means that you better know what topping you like before buying a slice, or else you'll be stuck with something pretty bland. From the types I tasted, the Mushroom Trio and Chicken, Olives and Mushrooms were very good, the Mix Vegies was okay and the others were pretty ordinary. Especially the Salami - a few pieces of salami on a slice of pizza doesn't really offer anything exciting.

With that said, these are potentially quality pizzas and really do have an excellent base. I'll be going back at some stage to try out some of the other types and see how they turn out.

Update: I don't buy Domino pizzas anymore due to funding that the Domino's CEO allegedly provides to pro-life, anti-gay, right wing groups. It's a personal choice and has no links at all to the quality of the food they provide.

Update: A friend had a number of Pizza Haven vouchers, so I got to try Pizza Haven's wares again. Okay, they weren't terrible, but they were very, very bland. When even the chillis are bland, you know there are problems!

Update:I don't think Pizza Hut has any more restaurants - they are now called "Nero's". They still have those small take-away shops littered around Perth though.

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