Zaza's Pizzzeria

Food is amazing, service is excellent and the smell from the wood stove is heavenly!

The best pizza in Brantford. You can taste everything on the pizza. Pepperoni is cut in strips and it is a very good type. Wood oven crust is great. The owners are always so nice. Never rude. Mamas meatballs and sauce are excellent.

I came across this place during a recent detour through Brantford, and when I saw the sign indicating wood-fired pizza, I knew I needed to check it out. My favorite style of pizza is thin crust from a wood fired brick oven (I.e. the kind "invented" in Naples, and perfected throughout Italy). I can confirm that Zaza's does make delicious pizza in an authentic wood fired pizza oven. There are no propane or electric "backup" burners (unlike many other "wood fired" pizza spots around Southern Ontario), and kudos for the good selection of authentic toppings (prosciutto, artichoke hearts, etc). So why only 4 stars you might ask? It was a judgement call, and it is based on 2 observations. #1 - when I eat thin crust pizza, my expectation is that it is 1 pizza per person. At Zaza, it is thin crust, but their pizzas are more North American style - 1 pizza for many people. There is nothing wrong with that, it is just not my preferred style. #2 - and I would this one is more impact full than the previous point - is their choice of cheese. A Margherita pizza is sauce, basil, and (ideally) Buffalo milk mozzarella, OR more commonly, boconcini cheese. Zaza used what I would consider typical shredded pizza cheese, which, in my opinion, detracted from what was otherwise a very good pizza. To be clear, their pizza is definitely top notch, and better than 90% of the competition. They know how to make their dough, and they know how to cook their pizza properly. That is the foundation for any pizza spot, and these guys nailed it. In my opinion, with a few tweaks, in terms of pizza sizing and cheese selection, these guys could really take the Brantford pizza landscape to the next level! I will definitely eat here again. Good food. Reasonable pricing. And extra points for selling rolling papers lol!

Great Pizza! We tried the Prosciutto-Arugula & the Portuguese pizzas. Great pizzas. I thought the prosciutto my turn out to be my favourite but so far the Portuguese and the chorizo pizza is fantastic. I’ll definitely be by again very soon. Thank you to everyone at Zaza’s!