Bangin' Pizza is a pizza restaurant tucked behind the main building in the carpark at 97 Stanmore Rd, Linwood, Christchurch, holding a perfect 5.0 Google rating and a website at banginpizza.co.nz. A score like that usually means the locals are doing the talking.
The best neighbourhood pizzerias live or die by their dough — slow-fermented bases, a fiercely hot oven, a crust that blisters and chars rather than dries out — so judge any new one by its plainest pizza. Suburban pizza spots often run mostly on pickups, and Friday and Saturday nights are when they're flat out, so ordering ahead can spare you a long wait. The odd address is no accident, either: plenty of the most-loved pizza kitchens operate out of carparks and side doors, known mostly by word of mouth.
For Linwood locals, a five-star pizzeria at the back of a Stanmore Rd carpark is exactly the kind of find worth keeping quiet about.