Saltburn-by-the-Sea · since 2021

Pizzeria Ondina

Wood-fired pizza in an old seaside ice-cream parlour, two streets up from the pier.

A Margherita from our oven, seen from above: tomato, fior di latte, basil, olive oil

before you come down

No. 01 · Today

Open Wed–Sun

The kitchen stops taking food orders half an hour before we close.

No. 02 · Walk in or book

Half the tables are kept for walk-ins

Midweek you'll nearly always get one; on summer Saturdays, book. Seven or more of you? Call us.

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No. 03 · Getting here

Four minutes from the station

The Old Parlour, 3 Jasper Row, Saltburn-by-the-Sea. Two streets up from the pier and the cliff lift.

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five from the oven

What most people come back for. Every picture here is drawn from the toppings on the menu, so what you see is what's on it.

Margherita, seen from above: tomato, fior di latte, basil, olive oil

No. 01

Margherita

tomato, fior di latte, basil, olive oil

Our measure of a good night: if the Margherita is right, everything is.

£10.50VGF base

Jewel Street, seen from above: tomato, fior di latte, red and yellow datterini, a whole burrata after the oven, basil

No. 02

Jewel Street

tomato, fior di latte, red and yellow datterini, a whole burrata after the oven, basil

Named after Saltburn's seafront Jewel Streets. Red and yellow tomatoes, a burrata torn open at the table.

£14VGF base

Diavola, seen from above: tomato, fior di latte, spicy salami, fresh chilli, hot honey

No. 03

Diavola

tomato, fior di latte, spicy salami, fresh chilli, hot honey

Spicy salami cups and crisps at the edges. The hot honey goes on as it leaves the oven.

£13GF base

Salsiccia e friarielli, seen from above: smoked mozzarella, fennel sausage, friarielli (bitter Neapolitan greens), chilli

No. 04

Salsiccia e friarielli

smoked mozzarella, fennel sausage, friarielli (bitter Neapolitan greens), chilli

A Naples classic with no tomato: fennel sausage and bitter friarielli greens on smoked mozzarella.

£14GF base

Zucca, seen from above: October's pizza: roast pumpkin cream, fior di latte, crisp sage, walnuts

No. 05 · This month

Zucca

October's pizza: roast pumpkin cream, fior di latte, crisp sage, walnuts

October only. Pumpkin cream instead of tomato, sage crisped in the oven.

£13VGF base

And 8 more pizzas

The whole menu

Small plates, salads, gelato from the parlour freezer, and every allergen listed.

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ninety seconds

0:00

In it goes

A ball of dough that has rested for two days, stretched by hand with no rolling pin. Tomato, torn fior di latte, basil, then onto the wooden peel and in beside the fire.

0:15

The rim rises

The oven is at around 480°C. Steam inside the dough puffs the edge up into the rim, the cornicione.

0:30

A turn

The side nearest the fire cooks fastest, so Rosa turns the pizza with the small round peel. Then once more, a little before the minute.

1:00

Freckles

Dark spots bloom on the rim where it rose highest. The cheese melts into the tomato.

1:30

Out

Ninety seconds, give or take. It leaves the oven soft in the middle, and it's at its best in the first five minutes.

an old ice-cream parlour

From 1953 until 2019 this was an ice-cream parlour. We kept the mint tiles, the terrazzo counter and the freezer, and put a wood oven where the jukebox stood.

Meet Rosa and Kit
48hours
the dough rests before it's stretched: flour, water, salt and a little yeast — nothing else.
90seconds
in the oven, at around 480°C.
5minutes
is how long it's at its best. Neapolitan pizza is meant to be eaten straight away.

this autumn What's on

Mon 26 Oct · 10am–12.30pm

Dough school

Six people round the counter with Rosa: mix, ball and stretch your own dough, then bake it in the big oven. You go home with two dough balls for the weekend.

£45, lunch includedAsk for a place

All of October

October's pizza: Zucca

Roast pumpkin cream instead of tomato, fior di latte, sage crisped in the oven, walnuts. It goes when the pumpkins do.

£13See it on the menu

Thu 5 Nov · 5–11pm

Bonfire night, oven till late

We keep the oven lit until eleven and sell slices to take away from the front window, folded in paper the Naples way.

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Everything on

a table tonight?

Book online for up to six, or call us for bigger groups. Walk-ins are always welcome.

Open Wed–Sun