Many excellent pizza and beer-soaked nights have begun at Pizza Massilia’s iconic-looking pizza truck, which evokes old Europe in taste as much as looks.
Thankfully, after remaining shuttered last season, the beloved truck, which is more like an outdoor beer garden and pizza place than simple food truck, has officially reopened in its old Silom location on Sala Daeng Road.
Yes, we know that Pizza Massilia also has brick-and-mortar restaurants in Phloen Chit and Upper Sukhumvit, but somehow it’s not the same as feeling the breeze in your hair while you sip a cold Peroni, chomp pizza off blue-and-white checked cotton tablecloths, and golden light from the vintage marquee sign bathes your friends’ faces in a dreamy glow.
It doesn’t even come close.
Chef and partner Luca Apino agrees. “At the proper restaurant, we have to provide proper service. This place has the feeling of a true pizza truck made for the piazzas, where you eat with friends by the roadside. It feels like Europe, there is freedom and no pretension — but we’ve got good beer and wine,” he said, smiling as he looked around at the gathering crowd on a recent evening.
The menu features many of the same entries the truck has always had, though far fewer than the permanent restaurant. They have the eight most popular pies, a good mix of vegetarian options, and all ingredients are ultra-premium.
Our favorite veggie option has to be the to-die-for Tropea’s red onion pie, which features organic Italian tomato sauce, DOP buffalo mozzarella from Salerno, finely sliced and plentiful red onions from the Tropea region of Italy, and basil for THB420.
Their top-selling signature pie has always been the burrata and cullatello pizza for THB490. The pie is topped with organic Italian tomato sauce, small-batch burrata, and culatello from the Zibello region of Italy.
Apino said, “We were the first to serve a burrata like this in Bangkok. Others try to copy but they can’t compete. The secret is the quality of the cheese.”
He’s right, it is incredible, dropped onto a steaming hot pie mere seconds before it reaches the table to provide the ultimate in melting, oozy, cheesy goodness. Massilia’s burrata comes from a small-production farm in the town of Andria in Puglia, Italy, and not just anyone can buy it. “They are very difficult to reach,” the chef explained with a laugh.
And Apino knows what he’s talking about. He’s also a partner in many of the city’s most popular European eateries and bars: La Bottega, Il Fumo, Vesper, and, the latest, the Mediterranean restaurant Via Maris on Soi Convent.
The pizza truck also plans to reintroduce their monthly Sunday night parties, where free food is served and patrons need only buy beer and wine. Keep up with what they’re doing on their Facebook page.
FIND IT:
Sala Daeng Road (in the back of the MK GOLD parking)
Open daily (closed Monday) 5pm – 10:30pm
