Dominic's is one of the handful of food trucks at the lot by the Needs on Prince Albert, splitting their time between there and a few other Dartmouth locations.
They specialize in thin-crust, Neopolitan-style pizza, that's cooked on the truck in a wood-fired oven. The menu has a handful each of pies with tomato-based sauces and olive oil-topped bianca pizzas, as well as some pies with more North American-style toppings.
Looking for an easy Friday night dinner, we were due for another sampling of Dominic's. We'd hit them up not long after moving into the neighbourhood, but with so many new-to-us restaurants to try, we hadn't been back in a bit over a year!
I called in our order, and was impressed that it was only going to be half an hour. Friday is prime pizza time, and although I might have been calling on the late side for families with young kids, it was certainly still in the midst of dinner time.
I got the Bella for myself, and the Funghi for my wife, with the red sauce swapped in for the latter.
The pizza fundamentals are absolutely on point at Dominic's, with excellent leopard spotting on the airy cornicione from the wood-fired oven, and the crust had a wonderfully pleasant chew to it.
My Bella was a great blend of flavours - salty crumbled goat cheese, lightly acidic cherry tomatoes, sweet and savoury caramelized onions, and a light touch of spice from Calabrese salami. The sauce was nicely balanced, lightly sweet and tart.
My wife's Funghi was a bit more pared back with sauteed mushrooms, fresh mozzarella, basil and Parmigiano. It all made for a savoury, cheesy pizza with pops of freshness - aka, a delicious one!
Dominic's roasted garlic mayo nearly stole the show. You'll be able to stop vampires dead in their tracks at 100 meters with this flavour bomb! Their pizza is too good to want to completely mask it in this allium awesomeness, but it's hard to resist!
It isn't easy being in the pizza game in Halifax, which is infamously over-saturated with pizza joints, but Dominic's Cucina isn't putting out your run-of-the-mill pizza, instead standing out from the crowd with a crafted, quality product that they sling all over Dartmouth. read more