Cheezy Pizza, 75 Gamon Street, Yarraville. Phone: 9078 9392
Consider The Sauce likes pizza.
But not that much, other eating-out options in the wonderful west usually pushing our buttons much more often.
And when we do opt for pizza, there’s two kind that take our fancy.
One of them being Lebanese pies – they’re cheap and wonderful, though in Australia they’re not what readily springs to mind when the word “pizza” is bandied about.
Our other pizza affection is the real-deal Italian style now able to be found freely.
In our experience, they’re pricier, but are worth because of the care put into them, with an accent on high-quality ingredients – but not too many of them.
Your Aussie pizzas?
Not so much.
Sure, they have their place – and we’ve eaten plenty.
But we just don’t reverberate with joy at the thought of messy, greasy piles of poor-quality makings.
Processed ham especially rankles.
But one thing we do love is absolutely love is reader feedback, suggestions and tips.
One such tip leads us to try Cheezy Pizza on Gamon Street in Yarraville.
Here Steve Evagora and his partner have set up shop in what has been a pizza joint like forever.
It’s a bare bones pizza place, though quite comfortable.
And it is ALL about pizza.
Aside from garlic bread, two dessert pies and choc mousse, it’s all pizza, pizza, pizza (see menu below).
No sign at of salads, pasta, steaks or schnitzels.
We like that.
And we like Steve’s gameplan.
“When we were setting this place up, we decided we want to take Aussie pizzas – and make them better,” he says. “There’s no processed ham here.”
This strikes us a wonderfully laudable aim.
And, after sampling the Cheezy Pizza wares on two dinner-time occasions, we reckon they’re nailing it good.
Of the four Cheezy Pizza pies we try, the champion is our large American ($15.90).
It’s a simple affair – mozzarella, tomato and salami.
But it’s the tomato sauce that is the winning key – this is plentiful and has depth of flavour and texture foreign to most Aussie pizza places.
“I’m in awe of how good this is,” Bennie enthusiastically opines.
He’s not kidding.
On the same visit, we also try a small capriciossa ($9.90).
Sporting tomato sauce, mozzarella, leg ham, mushrooms and olives, this is good – though doesn’t have quite the same tasty flavour hit as our American pie.
The following week, we phone in an order and pick it up ourselves.
The eternal popularity of home delivery for pizzas puzzles us, as they seem to suffer in the process just as much as hamburgers.
Our large New Yorker (tomato sauce, mozzarella, prosciutto, cherry tomatoes, feta and rocket, $19.90) is excellent.
With it we get a small pesto chicken (pesto, mozzarella, chicken breast, pine nuts, olive oil, fresh basil, $12.90).
This lies outside our usual purist pizza inclinations.
But it’s also a winner – and we love that the pine nuts are generously festooned across our pizza.
Little things like that make a big difference.
Well there you go.
Looks like we’ve found an Aussie-style pizza place that will become a regular haunt for us.
consider the sauce 
The Less fancy piza plzes in former Irving st,Barkley st do great piza footscray
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Love their chips there
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Goodfood recommended cheap breakfast & dinner in flemington of Somali cafes. Have you tried sahras kitchen considerthesauc,
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Yes, but I also note Good Food completely ignored the actual western suburbs. Though very happy to see some of the Flemington Somalian places gete a run!
And yes, we have been to Sahra’s Kitchen: https://considerthesauce.net/2018/03/08/another-flemo-somalian-jewel/
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Yes good food might through too colorful to dip into deep west after flem’s safari breakfast kkkkk they need to do more deep west tours although I doubt they interested
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Your run on sahras kitchen is great example can be great dinner place as well, great story
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Browsed some of your stories out deep west restaurant, excellent style, good food could be more open mind
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Almost every cheap eats good food flemington had a good run for Somalian cafes in yrs.but proper reviews may be 4 or 5 Times.ethnic cuisines do well vin cheap actions of good food world
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There are many Greeks Italian foods western suburbs why they ignored? Greek kebab pizza burger all everywhere today the west
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Rajim considerthesauce has been doing great stories on ethnic and so ethnic restaurant western suburbs some time.,, good food 2019 cheap eats wasn’t great in my opinion for their I’ve been to flem then I’ve seen all west is stupid midset.
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I note that Good Food has published a proper westie eats story with a dozen or so good or great places in it.
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Yes they do.I’ve insiders there there is still that mindset nothing wrong its market thing
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Ahmed they do good stories westside , but you are the right its market orientated good food. more interested white Australian foods ,they will do good story ethnic if the place is new but on the side of their recommendations its European background foods
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Sahras kitchen is not modern cafe but food is great
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They did good story on layre’s spirit after long periods avoid and response was as great the goodfood
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Sahras kitchen nay not get attention from good food but the laksa king kitchen hipster looks is received nicely in ethnic wows now.
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Laksa king kitchen is place to eat ethnic July this month in good food, congratulations laksa kitchen modern makeover interior
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How s food but Good food criteria .compare its next door twin
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