I have had lots of pizza experience and I think I may have recently had the best one ever…and it wasn’t in Italy. Tinderbox Kitchen is the new restaurant by P J McMillan in James St, Fortitude Valley in Brisbane.
P J’s other restaurant, Harveys, is a favourite of mine and now I will be torn between that and Tinderbox. The new restaurant is built around an enormous wood fired pizza oven and it is from here the wonderful pizza emerged.
It is called the Tinderbox and has a topping of prawns, tomato, zucchini,mozzarella and basil…too delicious for words, but the best part of the pizza is the base. It is thin, crunchy and chewy with excellent flavour.
I shared one with a friend and we had side orders of farro salad and kipfler potatoes, also delicious.
I would suggest a trip to Tinderbox very soon to try the pizza…and I would love to hear about your favourite pizza.
Hi Deb, You have me convinced! I will try them out tonight. L x
By: Anonymous on March 5, 2014
at 8:27 pm
I’m sure you will enjoy the pizza.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:45 am
We don’t have a tinderbox restaurant, so I don’t know how their pizza tastes. we have others they maybe different from the ones you get.
By: ranu802 on March 5, 2014
at 8:28 pm
There is bound to be a great place near you.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:46 am
Very yummy food there. I might move in.
By: Liz Golding on March 5, 2014
at 8:29 pm
I’ll come too.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:48 am
Looks great!
By: mealsandreels on March 5, 2014
at 8:31 pm
The food is excellent. If you live in Brisbane you should try it.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:49 am
Goodness, that looks good! Believe it or not, we have pretty good pizza here in Cuenca–though I’m sure not as good as you have shared here or what’s available in Italy, but pretty darn good.
Hugs from Ecuador,
Kathy
By: Kathryn McCullough on March 5, 2014
at 8:42 pm
I’m sure you can get great pizzas there, they seem to be everywhere now.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:50 am
It looks delicious! If you ever go to Buenos Aires, you will be surprised by the pizza and pasta served there. Top quality and really yummy! But then, many Argentinians are of Italian ancestry.
By: mulino dominillo on March 5, 2014
at 8:57 pm
I was there more than 40 years ago…perhaps I need to go back.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:50 am
Yum! Have to try that!
By: Pauline on March 5, 2014
at 9:18 pm
PJ is doing a great job at his new restaurant.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:51 am
Tinderbox- been twice and both times very impressed -delicious roast shoulder of lamb, great Pizza and the best grilled peaches . PJ and his team do it very well at both Harveys and Tinderbox.
By: Dianne Cant on March 5, 2014
at 9:51 pm
I’ll have to try the lamb next time.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:51 am
My gosh…this pizza couldn’t look any more scrumptious!!
By: timelessitaly on March 6, 2014
at 1:49 am
The crust is the best I have ever tried.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:52 am
OK, Deb, I’m convinced. Do they deliver to San Diego? 🙂
By: Niles Johanson (San Diego, CA) on March 6, 2014
at 2:43 am
I’ll check for you next time I go.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:52 am
Looks delicious!! I think it would be agin-the-rules in Italy, but who cares? My pizzaiolo down the road has been doing a pizza with creamed pumpkin and smoked cheese plus porchetta! Wonderful and not to be found on the menu!
By: Catherine on March 6, 2014
at 7:05 am
It wouldn’t be too far away from being acceptable in Italy. Perhaps the prawns would be a bit out of place, but there wasn’t too much topping.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:53 am
ciao a tutti ………..questa pizza sembra buona …ma secondo me ci sono troppi ingredienti diversi sopra …che possono confondere i vari gusti …buona giornata
By: carla cecilia on March 6, 2014
at 7:09 am
The flavours weren’t confusing, everything went well together.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 6, 2014
at 9:54 am
Ok, I’ll undertake to do further research:). The faro salad sounds interesting, I haven’t tried faro or freekeh, but I think we will definitely need to go for the slow roasted lamb – wood fired ovens give such good flavour – and pizza crusts.
By: Jan on March 6, 2014
at 10:00 am
I’m sure you will like the food at Tinderbox. Have a pizza for me.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 14, 2014
at 8:55 pm
OK. It is Brisbane, but who was the chef, Italian?
By: Victor Tribunsky on March 9, 2014
at 5:27 am
He must have some Italian blood.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 14, 2014
at 8:55 pm
That pizza looks very Italian. Debra, you gotta find something better than that pizza in Italy. It just can’t be. 😀
By: rommel on March 9, 2014
at 4:00 pm
I will do some serious research and get back to you.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 14, 2014
at 8:55 pm
Pizza…
Pizza usually have a tomato base…
You can call this Focaccia or schiacciata like we call in Tuscany…
Do you know egiptian invent Pizza base…
Do you know a Sailor from Genova Bring the recepie in Italy and an old woman from naples stole the recepie…
Do you know why we call our tomato and mozzarella Pizza Margherita??
In onor of Naples queen Margherita…
Hello I m Rossano Tantulli
1 star Michelin Executive chef of Chef academy in Florence
Executive chef for GG group Australia
By: rossano tantulli on March 19, 2014
at 11:32 pm
Thank you for the extra information. I didn’t know about the base coming from Egypt. I have had wonderful pizzas in Napoli and here in Bagni di Lucca.
By: Debra Kolkka on March 20, 2014
at 5:49 am