The question we hear most often at the table is not on the menu but across it: “What do you recommend?” The answer is almost always the same: the Bolognese.
It carries tomato sauce, cheese, bolognese meat, stracciatella di bufala and basil. The exact make-up and the price are on the menu; here we write down why it is this one.
The soft heart of a burrata
The reason is the stracciatella. It is the soft heart of a burrata, strands of buffalo mozzarella folded into cream. Alongside the meat and the tomato it gives the pizza what plain cheese cannot: a cool, creamy note over the hot.
That difference in temperature is the whole trick. Mozzarella melts and becomes part of the pizza; stracciatella stays what it is, so on the plate it reads as white patches rather than melted cheese. Every bite has two layers, warm underneath and cool above.
It is also the closest thing here to a plate of meat that is not off the grill. Anyone arriving hungry after a day on their feet (from the Palace, from Bačvice, off a boat) does not have to choose between a pizza and a proper dinner.
The dough underneath
Underneath it all is dough that ferments slowly and is baked on stone, and it is the reason guests come back.
Slow dough shows in the rim (open inside, dry outside) and in the fact that you do not feel it afterwards. It is the difference a photograph cannot show, and the reason two pizzas with the same list of toppings are not the same thing.
Where it is eaten, and how to order it to take away
It is eaten in the garden in front of the palms, in the shade in summer, under the lights in the evening. The kitchen runs until midnight, so pizza here is not only lunch.
Hotel guests do not have to plan dinner: the pizzeria is on the ground floor of the same house. For everyone else, the address is Kuzmanićeva 3, three hundred metres from Diocletian's Palace, on a street quiet enough to hear the conversation at your own table.
The Bolognese can be ordered to take away as well. It is made to order and collected here, with no delivery; write on WhatsApp and tell us when you are coming.
If you would rather have something else, there are eleven pizzas on the menu, from a plain margherita to porcini and truffle. But when you ask us, you have asked for the Bolognese.