1961 Toto's Pizzeria opens in Carlton Toto's claimed to be the first pizzeria in Australia, and on this basis was inducted into the World Pizza Hall of Fame in 2007.
Lucia's Pizza Bar opened in 1957 and may well be Australia's first pizza restaurant, a title claimed for many years by Toto's in Melbourne. The cafe, at Adelaide's Central Market, served home-style Italian pizza and pasta and still has a reputation for serving the city's best pizza Margherita.
The "Aussie" was invented by the late Salvatore Della Bruna, the Picasso of Australia's pizza heritage who established this country's first pizza parlour, Toto's on Melbourne's Lygon Street.
Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba is a pizzeria in Naples, Italy, which is widely believed to be the world's first pizzeria.
Toto's Pizza House (Toto's) was the first pizzeria established in Melbourne, Australia, now a small chain of Pizza stores. Toto's opened for business on 7 July 1961 in Lygon Street, Carlton, Victoria, where the business remained until closing in 2020 due to Melbourne's COVID lockdowns.
Although far from being the first Italian restaurant in Australia, Fasoli's was the first to earn enduring fame. The premises in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, had been established since the 1850s as a lodging house and wine shop under the name of Pension Suisse.
Primarily regarded as the first pizza ever created, the tried-and-tested margherita pizza was created in 1899 and continues to dominate as Australia's most popular pizza takeaway choice.
Australia. Pizza Hut expanded to Australia in 1970, opening its first dine-in restaurant in Belfield in April 1970.
Ancient Origins
But modern pizza, the flatbreads with tomato sauce, cheese, and toppings, was born along the western coast of Italy, in the city of Naples. Naples too has a long history, dating back to 600 B.C. when the Greeks first settled it.
Shakey's Pizza is the oldest pizza chain in America
According to Shakey's Pizza, Sherwood "Shakey" Johnson opened his first pizza restaurant at 57 and J Street in Sacramento, California all the way back in 1954.
Pizza has become one of the Australia's favourite dishes. That's surprising considering that pizza was only really introduced in Australia in the late-1940s, when Italians and Greeks migrated to Australia following the Second World War. Since then, our country's pizza market has evolved rapidly.
A common unique type is the Aussie, Australian or Australiana, which has the usual tomato base or a seasoned base and mozzarella cheese with options of chicken, ham, bacon and egg (seen as quintessentially Australian breakfast fare). Pizzas with seafood such as prawns are also popular.
Born in 2001 from a dream to make gourmet pizzas, the first Crust Pizza store opened in Annandale, New South Wales.
Hawaiian pizza was first created in the city of London in Ontario, Canada. And while it's technically a Canadian invention, Hawaiian pizza is truly a product of cuisine internationalism. As Greek immigrants to Canada, Sam and his brothers brought with them the cultural influence of Mediterranean cuisine.
He settled in Parramatta in 1796 and built a wattle and daub hut at first, later rebuilding in brick in 1800 and employing a French chef (from One continuous picnic p 112). You can read early Australian newspaper articles mentioning the Freemason's Arms through Trove's digitised newspapers.
But the modern birthplace of pizza is southwestern Italy's Campania region, home to the city of Naples. Founded around 600 B.C. as a Greek settlement, Naples in the 1700s and early 1800s was a thriving waterfront city.
Each day, approximately 1 million pizzas are consumed in Italy. Pizza here is popular both among locals and tourists who want to try a taste of authentic Italian cuisine. There are around 63,000 pizzerias in Italy, employing about 100,000 pizza makers.
Based on etymology, the “Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiana” reveals that pizza comes from the dialectal pinza from the Latin pinsere, which means to pound or stamp. Other etymologists suggest it is related to the Lombardic word bizzo or pizzo, which means mouthful, and is related to the English word bite.
Pizza gets its roots from Italy. However, its history is much richer than that and America has a big part of it. Read on to learn more about the origin of pizza.
Approximately 270 stores are located in Australia. Learn more about careers at Pizza Hut or becoming a franchisee.
A franchisee of the U.S Domino's Pizza brand, the fast-food giant is the largest pizza chain in Australia, supplying pizza to Australians since its first store was opened in the country in 1983.
There are just 12 remaining dine-in Pizza Hut stores across the country including in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania. Once a ubiquitous site across Australia, the dine-in stores gradually closed over the years. Whilst in other countries such as the UK, they remain a permanent fixture.
The result was a pie longer than an American football field. After four hours, the rectangular pizza, seasoned with fresh basil, oregano and olive oil, stretched more than 100 meters along Kiln Road at South Village, in the Sydney suburb of Kirrawee. The pie was 40 centimeters (16 inches) wide.
Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd (Domino's) is the largest pizza chain in Australia in terms of both network store numbers and network sales. It is also the largest franchisee for the Domino's Pizza brand in the world.
Australia Officially Has The Best Pizza In The World — This Is What It Tastes Like.