Dave’s Wood-Fired Pizza Co

Always pass this van at the markets in Marley Park and I still havent tried the wood fired pizzas but they smell amazing! You can see the smoke coming from the truck and the menu is small and simple but it all sounds delicious. One thing made me write this review. Sweet potatoe fries with salt & rosemary!!! To die for!!! There thin and crispy and the rocksalt and rosemary compliment them so well I even tried to make my own at home! :) They still werent as delicious as daves so i know il have to get some again soon! The staff are nice and friendly too!

Dave’s is an excellent part of the Sunday market in Dun Laoghaire. I really enjoy the pizza with chile on it– perfect hangover cure. The crust is so crispy and the ingredients so simple that the end result is delicious. Also, there sweet potato chips are heavenly with the rosemary salt they provide. Normally I hate sweet potato. It has been one of my most hated foods for years, but these chips I can handle because they are thin enough that the sweetness doesn’t take over. They’re usually pretty busy but the queue moves quickly.

So Dick has jumped ship and it’s just Dave left. Have been meaning to try these pizzas at the Dun Laoghaire market for awhile now and very glad I made the trek.
If you can get over your pizza being served in a cardboard box (it was hard for me, everything looks better on a plate) you won’t be disappointed. Thin and crispy to the point of breaking in your hands, there is a reason this pizza always makes it into the Top 10 pizza lists in Dublin. Only gripe… it wasn’t big enough, I could have eaten 2 of them.

Is the wood-​fired pizza really that good here? Drunk me thought it was fantastic! Sharing a space with the Speak Easy bar, you can fulfill both your hunger and get your drink on. I absolutely loved the sourdough base. The crust itself was cracker thin and the basic tomato and mozzarella was simple, but good. Everything was fresh and made in flash. On top of that, it only cost € 5 so what’s not to love?

I walked by the cart for the hundredth time today at the Point Village Market, and I saw that Dick has been removed from the marquee! Maybe a fallout at Electric Picnic broke them up?
Well and so, Dave offered a daily special of pineapple, mozzarella, chilli and fresh coriander. I’m a sucker for pineapple pizza, and the sweet-​hot flavour combination was a siren call.
The thing about me is that in every meal, I’m fixated on getting the Perfect Bite. That means some of everything in the same bite. Like most pizzas this side of the Atlantic, topping distribution was aesthetically pleasing… in other words, nothing overlapped! (Fold the slice; problem solved.)
Like Bridget said, it was ready in a flash. I loved the bubbly, crispy-​chewy and flour-​covered crust. The chillis gave me a kick in the tongue. The pineapples were lovely hot-​grilly sweet. The mozzarella was a bit quiet (or maybe I just didn’t taste it in my rush to finish before the rainstorm came).
Another cool thing about the cart is the little pot of growing herbs they have on the counter: proof that everything they do is fresh.
It’s definitely a pizza worth coming back for– next time when I don’t have to bolt it down for fear of being rained on!

Can I just take a minute here to talk about my Pizza Issue?
I’m a woman of two worlds — on one hand raised on a diet of thick crust East Coast American pizza. Thick sauce, a little romano in the cheese mix. Don’t mess with a great formula.
On the other hand, my time in Ireland has brought about a new appreciation for pizza with a crust so thin Tyra Banks would want to cast in Season 1 of Ireland’s Next Top Model.
While my ongoing search for EU examples of the former have gone in vain… today I found an excellent specimen of the latter — baked in a wood fired oven on wheels no less!
Encountered at the Point Village Market, Dick and Dave’s pizza cart keep it real with a sourdough crust that’s super thin to allow flash baking to work its magic. Toppings like chorizo and chilli, baked ham, mushrooms or anchovies, capers and olives are simple and simply good.
The guys are fast, too. My ham and mushroom order when in and in less than ten minutes I was face to face with a seriously tasty lunch. Sure, they’d run out of ham by the time they got to my pie — but a quick confab with yours truly resolved the matter with a last– minute chorizo replacement.
Takeaway box open, chilled diet cola at the ready, I began my feast. An ethereally light base (with a shade of pizza-​appropriate char) supported scatterings of mild sauce, mozzarella, herbs and toppings. The crust tore between my teeth in bite after light, moist bite. So tasty, so light was the pizza that the whole thing was gone before I could comprehend how was it was being eaten.
Prices on their lightweight menu ranges from € 5 – 7, with water rocking up at € 1.50 and cans of soda cropping up at € 1 a pop (pun absolutely intended).
Normally I’d take issue with a cart charging the better part of a tenner for four small slices, but I can appreciate the ingredients and work that goes into every pie that brilliant over on wheels turns out.
Fair play fellas, see you at the next food market.