Silo pizza summer salad8/11/2023 ![]() Probably the best pizza I’ve had in Melbourne and definitely the highest ratio of Italian to non-Italian wait staff i’ve comem across. is nothing new but it is a bit of an institution. for lunch with M&S while S was on her lunchbreak. Actually, it sort of reminds me of home…Ī couple sundays ago now (the one on the first weekend when it wasn’t about 3 degrees and raining in Melbourne, you know the one) we headed to D.O.C. Just like Nonna makes them.ĭ.O.C is hectically Italian, with queues normally out the door, and clusters of second generation Italian families yelling at each other over arguably one of Melbourne’s best pizzerias. The pizzas are whisper thin, with a delicate balance of sauce and just the right amount of topping. It’s the little things, the imported Italian craft beer which the waiter spent an entire minute explaining, or the liberal application of buffalo mozarella across the pizza menu. The menu makes you wish you hadn’t sold your soul to the corporate devil, and instead spent 6 months backpacking around Italy. Luckily D.O.C lives up to its bold claims of authenticity. Regardless of how inefficient the Italian burucracry is, naming your restaurant after a government program is a rather bold statement about the quality of your food. It’s a label applied to food in Italy which has been certified by licensed inspectors to be authentically Italian. ![]() , back in the motherland, stands for Denominazione di Origine Controllata, which translates into “controlled designation of origin”.
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