OK, so, now, for just one moment, I want you to forget everything you know about take away pizza. EVERYTHING. Crust will completely redefine your understanding of what a pizza should be.
To be fair, we're not talking a $7.95 budget pizza from one of the big chains - you do pay for what you get here - but I chuckled when I read the mention of a michelin star for pizza - god, this place deserves it.
We made absolute gutses of ourselves here, with a half peking duck half pork belly top shelf pizza, a seafood pizza, a kids cheese pizza with bacon added, and a garlic pizza - all of them were exceptional. We tried to order online, which failed repeatedly - apparently because we're in Athelstone. Maybe someone should tell whoever's writing that site that people WILL drive all the way across town to pick up the best freaking pizza on the planet.
In the end we ordered over the phone - we were told 20 minutes, which is pretty much exactly how long it takes to get there from here. When we turned up the order was just coming out of the oven - spot on 20 minutes - to be honest, I would always rather have an exact time an order will take, than be told 15 and wait another ten when you arrive.
There was a small problem with our order, garlic bread rather than a garlic pizza - which was rectified in less than five minutes by the very apologetic store manager. Given how busy they are on a friday night, I didn't even need the apologies given how quickly the order was fixed - spectacular food AND customer service - seriously, what more could you ask for.
Crust is way trendy - staff making the pizza's on full display, and every one I saw made looked just brilliant - there's a rack full waiting to go through the oven and the whole team is right on the ball refilling topping bins, packing pizza's, taking orders.
We'll be back - given there's leftovers for lunch it'll probably not be this weekend, but based on how flavour filled the peking duck & pork belly offerings were, I absolutely *HAVE* to try the tandoori chicken. If you look on the website you can see top down photo's of the pizza's - unlike so many places I know, the food looks like the pictures. Try it, seriously, incredible pizza. read more