Peperoni Pizzeria (Hillcrest)

I went to Peperoni (never mind the spelling mistake in that name, Italians may shudder though) with high expectations based on the reviews I had read and was not disappointed. We were a group of 7 celebrating my wife's birthday and decided to share some pizza's as starters and then have pastas as main dishes.
The place is located in a quiet neighbourhood just off Dunearn Road. Parking is indeed an issue as many people have commented but my view would be: what's wrong with a taxi, especially as you can then drink during dinner. Time for Singaporeans to lose that obsession with their cars. But I am digressing.
The pizza's are certainly amongst the best I have had in Singapore. The crust alone is worth visiting for. Crispy thin, slight hint of wood smoke and deliciously tasty. The Large Pizza is a good size if you order it as a main course and at $22 is reasonably priced for what you get. Generous toppings and did I mention that crust already? Unfortunately the Pancetta was sold out so we went for Marinara, Prosciutto/Rucola (always a favorite) and Salsiccia (basically a salami pizza). All delicious and no crumbs were left on the plates.The pastas were as amazing: the squid ink pasta has to be the best of the evening, though the carbonara was luscious and rich and my vongole was cooked to perfection as well. There was only one disappointment which was the gnocchi one of us ordered. It looked like baby food and even though the taste was not bad it did not really fit with the rest of the dishes on offer. 
Desserts topped off an almost perfect dining experience: pannacotta was light and smooth, with a beautiful fruit sauce drizzled over it, my wife gobbled up the tiramisu in minutes and a friend had an amazing sorbet which tasted like fruit just from the trees.
If you like Belgian beers you will be very happy as the menu has 2 pages full of the most obscure (and potent!) versions. Wine is also reasonably priced, we had a very good Sancerre for $55 per bottle.
This restaurant will certainly become one of my favorites from now on for simple informal evenings in a nice neighborhood, away from all the posers in overpriced haunts (read Da Paolo).

Was recommended this place by a mate staying near to hillcrest....pet peeve here is actually the fact that navigating Bukit Timah traffic especially during peak hours can be extremely daunting....nevertheless, whenever in the mood for simple Italian Pizza and Pasta, this is the place for me.
You can chose both in-door and outdoor (5 ft Way) or Alfresco Inside the restaurant underneath the Airwell.
Service is excellent and food is great...go for the Pizza and it is probably as authentic as you can get to the thin crusted Napoli type.....maybe the only different being not Wood oven in Naples where the burnt of the pizza is quite uneven?
Pasta is great...our usual is to share a 12inch Pizza and then couple type of different Pasta to share. Fav is Squid Ink Pasta and Marinara...
Usual damage is about S$30/pax which is decent considering the high quality of food and nice ambient....
Do come early for parking...otherwise be prepared for horrendous circling around the estate for elusive lots....Please bring back the valet!!!

You might find other 'posh' italian joints serving meats and fish and other fru-fru salads but here it's all about the pastas and pizzas. I've been here a couple of times now and haven't been disappointed with their fuss free pastas and pizzas. Great place for families and dates as it's casual and efficient. Waiters may look flusstered but given the size of the place and the number of people at any one time, i wouldn't blame them! Prices are excellent with all the plus plus factored into the menu price. At $18-20 for an excellent pasta you can't really complain. The missus loves the Spag Vongole here with good quality fresh clams, wine in the sauce you can actually taste and smell and pasta cooked al dente everytime. Lovely. Will be coming around again soon. Surely.

i heard of this place quite some time ago (my friend said: eh next time we ust go pepperoni together), ok so when my dad said lets go together i thought fine, lets go~
Had to wait quite long - so we left our names there then went to take a walk. Had a feeling we had to wait alot longer but the guy at the table got confused when we got back and said we left our names there earlier, so he led us to an empty table inside to sit awhile, then moved us to another table. (kinda made me wonder how come we had to wait when he had empty tables lol, but i figured maybe they were reserved?)

we ordered just a few things:XXL 21" 4 cheeses pizza (boy it was huge) it was thin (not the bready pizza hut type), ok more like the newer thin crust pizza hut, but the entire pizza is soft and chewy and cheesy and you get the idea LOLmarsala chicken with mushroom? crap, this is a post-eating reflection so i forgot about the name.calamari - very nice: but its just calamari after all lol.1 jug of coke (for me, yes uninventive)some alcohol for my dada margarita for my mum - peach or something? i only remember it was yellowish/orangey.
Anyway, super interesting place. But please do not attempt to go if you do not have a car. My boyfriend joined us after me and my parents were there and he walked pretty far distance. GPS is super helpful as well lol.

Finding a good pizza is hard in Singapore nowadays. With many places now opening new pizza chain, they just fail to impress a typical pizza lover. Here in peperoni pizzeria, they offer many authentic pizza which you could never find in any regular pizza restaurant. The restaurant decor was simple yet soothing and comforting. It adopts a look of a typical pizza cafe in Italy.

Normally i would never make a reservation to a restaurant so when we arrived at peperoni, we were told that the bar seat were the avaliable spot for our dinner. However, what shock me the next moment was that the service staff was so kind to find a more appropriate seating for our dinner even though we didn't make our reservation. For that i gave them a 10/10 for their service.

For the food part,

we ordered two full pint of hoegarden, a half-half 12 inch pizza - napoletta and pancetta - and a voglio ( clams in white wine sauce pasta).

The pasta and the pizza was excellent. No word to describe it. My only regret is not ordering the dessert. I will definitely come back for the dessert.

I live in the West side. Before discovering Peperoni, a good Italian dinner either involved booking Valentino's 2 weeks in advance, or travelling down to Cugini in Club Street.

Boy am I glad I discovered Peperoni then!

I love this place. The design of the restaurant is so quaint and rustic, like those cafes you find in the streets of the towns in Spain or Italy. The service is warm, friendly and unpretentious. And because it's a 'neighbourhood' type restaurant, they don't turn you away when you walk in wearing shorts and slippers (but of course, don't push your luck too much).

With a name like Peperoni Pizzeria, you'd be a fool not to order the namesakes. Apart from the truffles variety, all pizzas are $18 for a medium (which looks more like a small), $22 for a large (that's the size I always order) and $45 for an XXL (this should feed at least 4 to 6 people). Best part is as long as you order a large and above, you can do a half an half.

My fave pizza here is the Pancetta. It's pork bacon, cheese on a tomato-sauce based thin-crusted wood-fired pizza, topped with one big egg. Meaty, salty bacon, tangy cheese, crispy thin smoky crust and that egg on top! Break the yolk, spread it over your pizza and you're in heaven.

But don't just come here for the pizza. Because their pastas are great too. Like the squid ink with mussels and diced tomatoes. You choose the pasta (i.e. spaghetti, penne, linguine etc), and they cook it for you - perfectly fresh, perfectly al dente, perfectly tasty! The carbonara is pretty good too, albeit a little heavy.

Speaking of which, because this place is half-restaurant and half-pub, you can expect the pub grub to be pretty fantastic too. Like the deep fried chicken wings served with mayo. Crispy! Tender! Juicy! And perfect with one of their Belgian beers.

Boy am I lucky to have this place near my neighbourhood.

 

This is our first visit there. Nice cosy environment. Loved the sunny side up on the Pancetta Pizza. Crust was fragrant, taste of wood fired oven? Overall, a good family restaurant, will return soon!

I have been to Pepperoni Pizzeria several times and each time it always manages to satisfy my craving for a simple pizza or pasta.( Mostly its takeaways). It’s also nice to be able to turn up at a restaurant in my t shirt and shorts ( ie pjs )and still feel comfortable and very at home.

It was lunch time and we ordered a Large Take Away Pizza with Ham, Pepperoni, Parma Ham and Roasted Garlic.... ..droools*

The crust of the thin pan pizza was slightly crisp with a hint of "burnt wood". Trust me the bits of "burnt wood" taste adds an amazing amount of flavour and texture to the pizza. Combined with the 3 meats, the cheese the tangy tomato sauce and then followed by pieces of roasted garlic- it tickled my palate with a pleasureable sting shadowed by a subtle sweetness......

Salty yes, but totally gratifying...... that why it’s called pizza! =)

Have decided that the large pizza ( 1-2 pax) is much better than the XXL one( 4-6 pax), as the XXL one can tend to be rather soggy in the middle .

One of the better pizzas that I have had in a long time.

i celebrated my birthday with my family at Peperoni, and i think that it was one of my best birthday dinners ever. the place is youthful with crayons on the table for everyone to decorate your placemats, and more drawings from past customers on the walls. not a romantic tete-a-tete kinda dinner place but more a place where school chums will hang out after a game or something.

we ordered calamari rings, garlic bread, vongoli linguini, prosciutto and melon, prosciutto pizza and a huge 21" seafood pizza. the seafood pizza was DA BOMB. it was the width of the whole table and delicious! because of that, i cant really remember the rest of the dishes except that they were on the table at some point of the dinner. dreaming of the day i can go back for more...

Greenwood has always been one of our favourite spots for dinner because we like the vibrancy of the place and good choice of restaurants. But we always have difficulty with parking because of the small carpark that has never been upgraded before. We end up having late dinners after 8pm in order to improve our chances of getting a parking lot. Better make sure it's your lucky day if u want to go there during peak hours

Pepperoni is one restaurant there that we visited recently due to the good reviews that we found in this website, and we were so delighted to know that they opened till midnight. We really enjoyed the pizza and pastas very much but felt that the drinks price is on the high side. The pepsi light that my wife ordered costs $5 and the ice lemon tea that my son drank cost $6. Overall we spent about $25 just for drinks alone. They do serve water but are not refilled automatically and I found it hard to understand why they have so many waitresses and they are only seen busy walking around the restaurant. As we were seated in a small air-conditioned room at the courtyard, the only time u see them stepping in is when they need to bring the food to the table or clear the dishes after their customers had left. Other than that u will never see them looking inside and we have to wave like crazy to get their attention. I hope the management will look into their service matter seriously cause this defeats the purpose of having so many waitresses? They were only attentive when sending the customers off cos we could really hear their thank u and bye bye very loud and clear. They are only well trained on that basis I guess...so disappointing,,,,hope they will improve at our next visit..