All the way from Italy!

Pounders Restaurant hosts the same ‘daring’ as the waves found at the beach it’s named after. Named after a popular nearby beach, Pounders features a kiawe-wood-burning, Napoli-style brick oven used to cook their delicious pizzas. Not your fast food delivery style pizzas, mind you. These pizzas are a work of art!

The recipe, as well as the beautiful copper tiled oven, comes through a family business from Naples, Italy who specializes in constructing these types of ovens for the past 150 years. They even brought over a consultant to train the staff on making a true Neopolitan pizza, a tradition dating to the ancient Greeks.

The center of the oven is 720 degrees, but the top of the oven is over 1,000 degrees, so timing and placement are imperative.

One could actually say that it takes longer to prepare our Pounder’s signature pizzas then it takes to cook one. When cooked just right, it takes just under three minutes to bake. The oven fits as many as six pizzas. All of the fiery heat in the oven is at the 9 o’clock position. The pizza sits in there for about 40-50 seconds, then it is rotated one third — this is called spinning — for another 40-50 seconds, and so forth. It must be carefully watched throughout the process.

All we know is that they are delicious! Come on in and see this amazing oven for yourself!