Mercandante

Tasty Italian cuisine on Lygon st, we ordered a couple of wood fired pizzas and gnocchi. We loved the Salsiccia pizza with pesto base, mozzarella, pork & fennel sausage, red onion, rosemary potato & rocket, perfect combo!! Gnocchi was delicious as well. Staff were friendly, looking forward to coming back.

Enjoyed everything we had from here. Loved having the pizza with chilli oil & with their pasta you are able to choose what type of pasta you would like, and we opted for fettuccini on our Seafood Pasta. It had such generous amount of seafood in it 😊🥰 My favourite ❤️ would have to go to the Chocolate 🍫 pizza! It was chefs kiss* 😗👌🏻 Never had anything like it!!

The prettiest pink restaurant you’ll find in Carlton. Absolutely loved everything we ordered. The pizza was perfectly light and crispy with delicious flavours. Pasta had a good kick of chilli which kept us coming back for more and the Nutella pizza was 100/10! Very good food, friendly team and a relaxed and vibey setting. Will be back for sure.

@mercadante_pizzeria, Carlton 📍This pizzeria is a real contender along the Lygon Street scene! It’s right next to Universal, and their new Pink Facelift makes them hard to miss! ✨✌🏻😍💞💖 All the pizzas we ordered were prepared with care and servings were incredibly generous!! The seafood pasta was ridiculously huge. Flavours also did not disappoint❣️ If you’re after a Pink Pizza Shop to take the girls - look no further for an authentic Italian feast!!!! 💕💖 Their cocktail list is also worth a try! 🍹

Cute pizzeria with pink dominant interior with woodfired oven which translates to great pizza! We had: 🍝Squid ink Marinara. Squid Ink pasta, prawns, squids, scallops & mussels. 🌟Olive oil based, perfect for the non-saucy pasta lovers or purists!! generous and juicy seafood. Yumm. 🍕Salsiccia Pesto base, mozzarella, pork & fennel sausage, red onion, rosemary potato & rocket 🌟Thin base pizza with yummy sausages🤩 Great place for pizza, pasta and drinks with family or friends. Humorous owner😆

Giving an Italian name to a restaurant is not enough to serve a good pizza. Clearly tacky restaurant in colors and atmosphere with rather strident background music, dirty and grubby menus, but having seen a 4.2 star rating on google, I thought that at least the pizza was good, and instead completely unaware that the worst was yet to come. Absolutely inedible pizza, this is the first time in my life that I have not been able to eat a pizza, dough similar to lead and absolutely unleavened, indescribable smells emanating from the pizza, poor service. I propose to google to insert the zero stars or non-classifiable option, as this restaurant deserves only zero stars in relation to pizza. I asked if the pizza chef was Italian, but perhaps in this Italian restaurant there was only the name. Pure improvisation, the owner had the decency not to make me pay for the pizza that I could not even eat, but this is not enough to avoid this review, as certain moments of conviviality are so important that they are priceless. What you call pizza, call it by another name please, maybe you call it "spuzza" or "spizzitura" I'm sure you will have success anyway.