True New York-style, 18-inch pizzas are coming to Marrickville on November 3, when the team behind Bexley North pizzeria My Mother’s Cousin open MMC Slice Shoppe. The family-friendly pizza parlour, set to seat around 70 people, will combine the nostalgia of a dine-in Pizza Hut with the charm of an old school New York pizza shop like Lombardi’s, with upholstered booths and glass dividers, pizza by-the-slice and house-made lemonade. MMC Slice Shoppe will take over from Barzaari on Addison Road , the Middle Eastern restaurant which was sold to the MMC team and closed after almost 10 years of operation on September 6.
In a statement to social media on August 23, Barzaari chef-owner Darryl Martin said the sale marked the conclusion of “a lifelong dream ...
realised and achieved”. “I’m incredibly happy to know the guys taking the space I’ve called home for almost 10 years are a perfect fit, and incredibly deserving of all the success in the world,” he said. MMC co-founders Sal Senan, Huss Rachid and Amani Rachid have been planning Slice Shoppe since 2021: travelling to New York to take inspiration from some of the industry’s best, like L’Industrie Pizzeria in Brooklyn and Mama’s Too on the Upper West Side, and taking more than two years to develop a light, crispy, flavoursome base using long-ferment dough and high-quality Australian wheat.
“We really geeked out hard on this one,” Senan says. Senan says Slice Shoppe will offer something entirely different f.
