Cape Town  ·  Established 1992

Wood-fired
since ninety-two.

A three-decade story that unfolded as the ultimate rom-com meets foodie adventure — love at first bite, Italian flavours blended with South African charm, and the kind of pizza that brings the famiglia together.

34yrsOf pizza
29Stores
3Formats — Restaurant, GO & GO+
25%Back with Vitality

Two ways to enjoy it

However you eat — we've got a kitchen for it.

Eat in at a sit-down Restaurant, order in from a delivery-first GO kitchen — or get both at a GO+ store. Same wood-fired heritage, same secret-recipe dough.

Sit-down

Restaurant

The original wood-fired trattoria — pizzas, hand-rolled pasta and big-table salads, served where it all started: at the table. Book, walk in, and bring the famiglia.

14restaurants
Delivery-first

GO

Built for delivery and collection — the wood-fired menu, boxed to travel, on Uber Eats, Mr D Food and letsorder direct ordering.

8GO stores
Best of both

GO+

The hybrid — a sit-down table when you want it, the delivery-first GO kitchen when you don't. Eat in, take away, or order to your door.

7GO+ stores

Our story

Love at first bite,
and every bite since.

It started in Cape Town in 1992 — Kinga Baranowska and Michael Terespolsky, a passion for crafting something more than just a meal, and a tiny pizzeria with a wood-fired oven.

Three decades later we're still doing it the same way. Italian inspiration, South African heart. Hand-stretched dough, blistered crusts, fresh produce, and recipes you'll only find on our menu.

Buon appetito,
Kinga & Michael

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Why the dough's different

One recipe, made the same since '92.

The same flour, the same hydration, the same overnight cold ferment, the same hand-stretch at the bench — in every restaurant and every GO kitchen. That's the secret-recipe dough, and it has never changed.

Overnight cold ferment  ·  Hand-stretched at the bench  ·  Wood-fired to order

A taste of the menu

Some of the dough that built us.

Twenty-plus signature pizzas, hand-rolled pasta, big salads, antipasti and bambini favourites — all made fresh, in-store, every day.

Margherita

San Marzano tomato, fior di latte, fresh basil, extra virgin olive oil. The classic, done properly.

Norm's Pralina

Roasted butternut, chilli, feta, pumpkin-seed praline, rocket on a butternut & tomato base. A Col’Cacchio original since the early days.

Pasta

Crema di Brisket Pasta

Slow-cooked pulled beef brisket, creamy mustard sauce, tomato salsa.

Insalata

Caprese Salad

Fior di latte mozzarella, tomatoes, olives, basil, balsamic glaze. Big enough for a main.

Antipasti

Chicken Livers

Chicken livers in peri-peri pomodoro sauce, served with ciabatta toast. To start, to share.

Bambini

Bambini Mac 'n Cheese

Cheddar cheese, seasoned white sauce, macaroni, toasted breadcrumbs. Kid-sized, same kitchen.

What's on this week

Promos that come around like clockwork.

Always-on

Vitality 25% back.

Discovery Vitality members earn up to 25% back on HealthyDining meals at any Col’Cacchio. Vitality kids: up to 50%. Activate via the Discovery app.

How it works

Tuesdays

Tasty Tuesday Trio

Order three pastas, pizzas or salads — get the cheapest one on us. 3-for-2 on standard adult mains.

Daily · 4–7 pm

2-for-1 Happy Hour

Two-for-one cocktails, mocktails and draught beers, every day. The perfect ease into the evening.

Mon–Fri · until 6pm

Kids Eat Free

Free bambini meal whenever you order a standard pizza, pasta or salad. Great food for you, joy for the little ones.

All current promos

At participating stores — each franchise opts in per promo, so the line-up can vary by branch. Promo T&Cs apply.

Now in retail

Take Col’Cacchio home — frozen and ready.

Our signature wood-fired pizzas, blast-frozen at peak freshness — now in freezers at Checkers and Walmart. Same dough. Same recipes. Your oven, your timing.

Checkers Walmart Launched February 2026
See the frozen range

Discovery Vitality

Eat well. Get up to 25% back.

As a Vitality member, you earn up to 25% back on HealthyDining meals at any Col’Cacchio. Vitality kids? Up to 50% back on HealthyDining bambini meals.

How HealthyDining works
25%

Back for adults

50%

Back for kids