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Eat Ozzo is a genuinely exciting new addition to our affordable eats scene. Sydney has more than its fair slice of pizza restaurants and sandwich shops – but what happens when you combine pizza plus sandwich? Wife-and-husband duo Chandni and Ankit have done it, and called their mouth-watering result “the ozzo”. Born out of a love for the traditional pizza bases of Napoli, Ankit spent more than 1,000 hours perfecting his own 72-hour slow-fermented pizza bread cooked in a woodfired oven before deciding it would make the ultimate wallet-style sandwich bread. The dough isn’t Eat Ozzo’s only masterstroke, though – Chandni and Ankit’s fillings are surprising and downright addictive (more on those later).
The vibe
The first Eat Ozzo opened in Pyrmont in 2025, quickly followed by this one in the Marrickville Traders building – a community of boutique creative spaces near Messina HQ and the Emergency Care Clinic. It’s on Chapel Street, in Marrickville’s old industrial area, wedged between Henson Park and Sydenham, which is now studded with popular dining and drinking spots, including 20 Chapel, The Henson, Two Chaps and loads of craft breweries and distilleries. With much of the Marrickville Traders space yet to be occupied, Eat Ozzo is currently the building’s central community hub (next to a pet groomer and massage parlour). The Ozzo team has created a playful, colourful space – there’s a record player, custom posters, a post-it note board, hopscotch on the ground, and shelves filled with gourmet pantry items. The kitchen is open so you can see them cooking the pizza bread in a big, woodfired oven. It has a relaxed, fun, community vibe, and I’ve seen a mother’s group, workers from nearby and hipsters enjoying themselves there.
The food
The pizza bread is dreamy – a thousand hours of study and experimentation has resulted in something that’s light and airy, soft, with char marks from the wood fire, and a subtle salty kind of sourness from the fermentation. But it’s their fillings I’m really obsessed with. My favourite combo is the beef ozzo ($21). The bread wallet comes jammed with thin strips of rare roast beef with the glossiest shimeji mushrooms, melted cheddar and provolone, grilled capsicum and rocket, served with a big gherkin. There’s something about this combo of fillings that your tastebuds hold onto – I can still taste the butteriness of the mushrooms with the gooey cheese and salty beef.
I came on another visit and had the prosciutto ozzo ($24), which is generous layers of prosciutto with crunchy greens (asparagus, peas and rocket) in an oozy truffle stracciatella sauce, all topped with Parmigiano Reggiano shavings. Love.
I think what they’ve mastered here at Ozzo is those ideal ratios of carbs, fat, salt, creaminess and freshness, topped off with a hit of colour to brighten your day.
Each pocket of bread is made to order, and the ozzo is served warm. They offer you plastic gloves to eat the big handful of comfort with, so you can really rip in and get your hands dirty without the clean up afterwards.
They also serve breakfast ozzos, and they have fillings in bowl form for those who want to forgo the bread, but I feel sad for those who do.
And they've expanded across the road, out the front of Marrickville Traders on Chapel Street, where they use the same fermented dough to serve up little fried pizzas.
The drinks
Eat Ozzo serves Five Senses Specialty Coffee. And guess what?! They have a coffee subscription (in Marrickville and Pyrmont) that gets you up to two coffees every day, seven days a week, for the bargain price of $20. This is barista-made coffee, and there's no lock-in so you can cancel at any time. Great deal for locals to either eatery.
They have a bit of fun with their drinks. They serve up what they refer to as some "coffee mocktails", including The Metro (double espresso with vanilla and sparkling water) and an Espresso Tonic (double espresso with tonic water and lime). They also serve Milo drinks, an "Ozzoempic" debloating green juice, and a masala shikanji (a classic Indian lemonade called shikanji but with Indian spices). Go try something new!
Time Out tip
Parking on Chapel St can be tight, but you could combine your visit to Ozzo with a grocery shop at the nearby Harris Farm (186 Victoria Rd, Marrickville) and park in Wicks Place Car Park, which is a few mins’ walk away. Sydenham Station is the closest big transport hub.
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