August 14th, 2016
Dallas, TX
I was lucky enough to be invited to a bachelorette party down in Austin, TX, for a long weekend in August. Since there were a few pizza places in Texas on the 101, Eric decided to fly down on Sunday and meet me, after we were all partied-out. We rented a car and drove up to Dallas for lunch to the first place on the list, Cane Rosso.
Cane Rosso has a few locations around Texas. They actually have one in Austin, also, but the one on the list said Dallas, so that’s where we went. It started out as a mobile pizza truck and it claims to be the most authentic wood-fired Neapolitan pizza in Texas. The owner and founder decided to change the mobile catering oven into a full-time pizzeria in 2011.
Like all true Neapolitan pizzas, Cane Rosso uses the “OO” flour imported from Italy and makes its dough fresh daily. They use the San Marzano tomatoes and also make their own in-house mozzarella, adhering to all of the VPN guidelines.
We ordered the burrata appetizer to start, and then two pizzas: the Margherita and the Cane Rosso, which was topped with sausage, roasted onions & peppers, san marzanos, homemade mozzarella and parmigiano cheese. We figured that the signature named pizza had to be pretty good.
These were definitely true Neapolitan pizzas. We really liked the variety of pizzas that they served as well. Pizza Today named the restaurant the 2017 Independent Pizzeria of the year, and I found the article about the restaurant’s expansion and development really interesting. Particularly, the fact that they import the ovens to each location from Italy and no two ovens are exactly the same. Also, they say that their dough is notoriously difficult to work with because they don’t refrigerate it and so it stays very sticky and soft.
Also interesting is that the founder of Cane Rosso recently opened another pizzeria in Dallas that makes NY-style pizzas, Zoli’s. They serve round and square pies in different styles, for the people who don’t like Neapolitan pizzas. He seems determined to take over the Texas pizza scene!
Zoli’s wasn’t on any of our lists, but the pizza there looks good too and would probably be worth checking out if we are back in the area.
To visit:
Cane Rosso
2612 Commerce St
Dallas, TX 75226
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