Dante's NZ

Dante's NZ 🏆House of World’s #2 Best Pizza Maker.
🥇Pizzeria in 🇳🇿 22, 23, 24, 25
#7 APAC 25
#46 World 2024
(312)

08/06/2026

12 June 2026 ☝️

Some people sell ingredients.Some people preserve legacy.With Antimo Caputo, I’ve always valued more than the flour. I v...
02/05/2026

Some people sell ingredients.
Some people preserve legacy.

With Antimo Caputo, I’ve always valued more than the flour. I value the friendship, the trust, and the connection to a craft that has fed generations.

From Naples to Auckland, respect travels farther than any shipment ever could.

Certain photos are not pictures.
They are chapters. 🇮🇹🤝🇳🇿🍕

Some meals feed hunger.Some moments feed memory.The oven did its part… then the sunset arrived and finished the masterpi...
01/05/2026

Some meals feed hunger.
Some moments feed memory.

The oven did its part… then the sunset arrived and finished the masterpiece.
Golden light on blistered crust, molten mozzarella, tomato kissed by fire.

For a few quiet minutes, the table held more than pizza.
It held warmth, pause, and the kind of beauty that asks nothing except that you notice it.

A reminder that greatness is often simple:
flour, fire, light… and the right people around it. 🍕🌅

At Dante’s, we show the truth.Empty plates.Because the food was too good to survive.The hands that cleared them are stil...
27/04/2026

At Dante’s, we show the truth.
Empty plates.
Because the food was too good to survive.

The hands that cleared them are still there.
Laughing. Reaching for another glass. Telling one more story before they leave.

Because we don’t serve pictures.
We serve moments that disappear bite by bite.

Anyone can style a full plate.
Not everyone can earn an empty one.

At Dante’s by Enis Baçova, the real beauty begins after the last slice is gone.

Behind every great pizza, there is a decision long before the oven.For me, that decision has always been Flour. 🇮🇹Not ...
24/04/2026

Behind every great pizza, there is a decision long before the oven.

For me, that decision has always been Flour. 🇮🇹

Not just flour, but heritage from Naples. A century of milling knowledge. Consistency you can trust. Strength where it matters. Elegance where it counts.

When you work at high level, ingredients are not random. They are partners. Caputo has been one of mine. Helping shape doughs that rise with character, bake with beauty, and land light on the stomach.

Many see the pizza.
Few understand what begins the pizza.

Respect to a mill that has helped generations of pizzauoli turn craft into something unforgettable.

From flour comes structure.
From structure comes freedom.
From freedom comes greatness.

20/04/2026

They called it the most expensive “tomato and cheese” pizza in New Zealand.

That’s fair, if you only see toppings.

But what sits in front of you is not priced by tomato and cheese alone. It is priced by years of refinement, world-recognised standards, premium imported ingredients, natural fermentation, and the discipline required to make something simple exceptionally well.

Anyone can add tomato and cheese to dough.

Very few can turn those same ingredients into something people remember.

Price is visible. Value is tasted.

Not every tomato deserves the fire.Nolano San Marzano DOP does. 🔥🍅 Nolano
12/04/2026

Not every tomato deserves the fire.
Nolano San Marzano DOP does. 🔥🍅 Nolano

War in Lebanon is not a headline.It is a heartbeat interrupted.It is the sound of a spoon left in a cup of coffee that w...
10/04/2026

War in Lebanon is not a headline.
It is a heartbeat interrupted.

It is the sound of a spoon left in a cup of coffee that will never be finished.
It is a phone that keeps ringing under rubble, long after the voice on the other end is gone.
It is a mother who knows — before anyone tells her — because silence has a shape she recognizes.

This is not strategy. This is not geopolitics.
This is a child learning to read the sky not for stars, but for danger.
This is a father standing in a doorway that no longer has a home attached to it.
This is a country trying to remember what peace feels like… and failing.

Lebanon has always been a place of life — loud, generous, unapologetically alive.
Tables full. Music spilling into the streets. Conversations that never end.
And now those same streets carry dust where voices used to rise.

What breaks is not just concrete.
It is routine. It is dignity. It is the invisible thread that makes tomorrow feel possible.

And still… still, something refuses to surrender.

Hands reach for each other in the dark.
Bread is split into smaller pieces so more can eat.
People who have lost everything still find a way to give something.

That is the part no war can understand.

Because war speaks the language of destruction.
But humanity answers in something older, something stronger —
the stubborn, irrational decision to care… even now.

So when you hear “Lebanon,” do not think of conflict.
Think of people.

People who want to wake up without fear.
People who want to sit at a table and argue about nothing.
People who want their children to grow up knowing laughter louder than sirens.

And somewhere, in the middle of it all, a quiet truth keeps rising like breath through dust:

We were not made for this.
We were made to live.

Everything starts here.Before the fire, before the topping, before the final bake — there is dough.And behind every grea...
19/03/2026

Everything starts here.
Before the fire, before the topping, before the final bake — there is dough.
And behind every great dough, there is great flour.
That’s why my choice is, and will always be, .

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Multiple Locations: Ponsonby, Takapuna & Mission Bay
Auckland

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 9pm
Tuesday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 9pm
Wednesday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 9pm
Thursday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 9pm
Friday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 9pm
Saturday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 9pm
Sunday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 9pm

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