Woodfired pizza · Palm Beach, Gold Coast

Blistered crust. Ninety seconds in the fire.

Tom and Giulia’s little woodfired pizza shop, a block back from the beach. 48-hour dough, a 450°C oven and proper San Marzano sauce. Eat in, pick up, or get it on Uber Eats and DoorDash.

4.8 from 312 Google reviews
Ironbark-fired oven
Pick-up ready in 15–20 min

A margherita pizza puffing up next to the flames of a woodfired oven

Ember & Oak 4.8 · Palm Beach

48 hrsSlow-proved dough, made daily
~450°COven heat. Pizzas bake in about 90 seconds
4.8 ★312 Google reviews
Since 2019On the Palm Beach strip

The menu

Pick your pizza, or find one fast.

Tap a filter to find what suits your table. Add dishes to the pick-up order pad and send it straight through.

Dish photos are illustrative. Every pizza is stretched by hand, so no two look exactly alike.

Allergies? Call us before ordering. Our kitchen handles wheat flour, dairy, nuts and seafood, and everything shares one oven. We’ll talk you through what we can do.

Free tool · Build-a-pizza

Your pizza, your way.

Pick a base, a cheese and up to six toppings. The price and heat level update as you go, and we’ll name it for you if you can’t.

Illustrative photo

The Margherita

$19

HeatMild

Free tool · Party pizza calculator

Feeding a crowd? Work out how many.

Birthdays, footy trips, office lunches. Tell us who’s coming and we’ll suggest how many pizzas, the veggie and spicy split, and a lineup from the menu.

9pizzas for 26 people

2Vegetarian

2Spicy

5Classics

Suggested lineup

How we work it out: adults eat about 2, 3 or 4 slices (light, normal, starving), kids about 2. If there’s other food we allow roughly 30% less. We round up, because nobody’s ever complained about leftover pizza. It’s a guide, so we’ll confirm numbers with you.

Free tool · Pick-up or delivery?

Is the oven lit right now?

Live opening status on Gold Coast time, plus a quick helper for planning dinner later in the week.

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Public holiday hours may change. We post them on Google and Instagram the week before.

A pizza baking inside a stone woodfired oven with the fire glowing behind it

The mouth of a tiled dome oven with the fire burning inside

Our story

Named for a nonno’s oak fire.

Giulia grew up watching her nonno feed oak into his oven outside Naples. Tom grew up surfing Palm Beach and eating whatever was cheapest. They met working a pizza van at the Currumbin markets, and in 2019 they put a proper oven in a tiny shop on the strip.

There’s not much oak on the Gold Coast, so the oven burns local ironbark. The name stuck anyway. The dough is flour, water, salt and time. Tom runs the fire, Giulia runs everything else, and the pizzas come out blistered, soft in the middle and a bit charred on the edges, the way they should.

“If the crust doesn’t have a few leopard spots, it goes back in.”Tom, on the oven, most nights

How ordering works

From the fire to your table.

Choose how
Eat in, call for pick-up, or order delivery on Uber Eats or DoorDash.
Order
Use the order pad or build-a-pizza above, or just ring. Parties of 10+ pizzas, give us a day’s notice.
Into the fire
Stretched to order and baked for about 90 seconds at around 450°C.
Grab it hot
Pick-up is usually ready in 15–20 minutes. Longer on busy Friday and Saturday nights.

From the oven

A few nights on the strip.

Bufala margherita on a timber board in front of the oven — Bufala margherita, straight off the peel

A pizza turning in the oven next to the flames — Turning each pizza by the flame

A capricciosa with mushrooms and olives in front of the fire — Capricciosa

Illustrative photos.

What locals say

The crust gets talked about.

4.8

312 Google reviews

Sample reviews

“Best crust on the southern Gold Coast, no contest. Soft, chewy, charred in all the right places. We walk down every Friday now.”

Renee M. · Palm Beach local

“Ordered 14 pizzas for my son’s 10th. Giulia helped with the numbers, it was all ready on the dot and still hot at home.”

Dave K. · Elanora

“The prawn pizza with chilli and lemon is ridiculous. Get the garlic bread as well.”

Priya S. · Currumbin

“Proper vegan options, not an afterthought. The marinara is simple and perfect.”

Josh T. · Burleigh Heads

“Tiny place and it gets packed after 6 on Saturdays, so call ahead. Worth the wait though.”

Mel & Craig · Tugun

Questions

Asked at the counter a lot.

Do you take bookings?

For groups of 8 or more, yes. Send us a message with the contact form or call. Smaller groups are walk-in, and a table usually frees up quickly.

Can I order ahead for pick-up?

Yes. Call, or use the order pad on this page to send your order with a pick-up time. Pick-up is usually ready in 15–20 minutes, a bit longer on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Do you deliver?

We deliver through Uber Eats and DoorDash, who handle the drivers, the delivery area and the fees. If you’re close by, pick-up is the way to go. Woodfired crust is at its best in the first 10 minutes.

Do you have gluten-free or vegan options?

We have a gluten-free base and vegan cheese, and the marinara is vegan as it comes. Our kitchen uses wheat flour and one shared oven, so if you have coeliac disease or an allergy, please call before ordering and we’ll talk it through.

How much notice do you need for a party order?

For 10 or more pizzas, a day’s notice lets us make extra dough and stagger the bakes so everything comes out hot. For big functions, a few days is better. The party calculator above sends your numbers straight to us.

Can I bring my own wine?

Yes, BYO wine is fine with a small corkage per bottle. We also have local beers and Italian sodas in the fridge.

Is there parking?

There’s street parking out the front and on the side streets. It fills up in summer, so it’s often quicker to walk down from the beach.

Can you do half-and-half pizzas?

On the 15-inch share size, yes. Ask when you order. The 12-inch is one pizza, one flavour, the Neapolitan way.

Find us

A block back from Palm Beach.

Shop 4, 12 Ember Lane, Palm Beach QLD 4221
Get directions
0400 XXX 000 ·
Tue–Thu 5–9pm · Fri–Sat 12–9:30pm · Sun 12–8:30pm · Mon closed

Delivering through the apps to

Palm Beach
Currumbin
Currumbin Waters
Elanora
Burleigh Heads
Burleigh Waters
Tugun
Tallebudgera
Miami
Varsity Lakes

Delivery areas are set by Uber Eats and DoorDash and can change on busy nights.

Blistered crust. Ninety seconds in the fire.

Pick your pizza, or find one fast.

Your pizza, your way.

The Margherita

Feeding a crowd? Work out how many.

Is the oven lit right now?

Plan your pizza night

Pick-up

Named for a nonno’s oak fire.

From the fire to your table.

Choose how

Order

Into the fire

Grab it hot