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St Francis Bay · 2009 to 2010

La
Bicicletta

A pizza takeaway built around two wood-burning ovens.

Designer · Consultant

La Bicicletta under construction, with the wood-burning ovens and service counter taking shape

Before service, there was concrete, brick, timber and fire.

01 · The beginning

Built around fire.

The surviving photographs begin with the build: the ovens, the deck and the structure around them. They are the earliest part of the La Bicicletta archive.

La Bicicletta under construction, with the wood-burning ovens and service counter taking shape

The ovens

The heart of the room taking shape.

The timber deck at La Bicicletta being constructed outside the shopfront

The deck

Building the frontage by hand.

La Bicicletta exterior under construction, with the oven flue and surrounding structure visible

The build

A working site before it became a place for pizza.

The La Bicicletta pizza oven and service area nearing completion
Almost ready for the first pizzas.
Wood-fired seafood pizza from La Bicicletta

02 · From the oven

The food
tells the rest.

Pizza was the centre of La Bicicletta. This seafood pizza is one of the surviving food photographs from the archive.

A small St Francis Bay pizza takeaway, built around two wood-burning ovens.

This is the beginning of the La Bicicletta chapter. More photographs, menus and memories can be added as the archive is found.