Kauri Coast Pizzeria is a pizza takeaway on Victoria Street in Wellsford, north of Auckland, holding a 4.5 star rating on Google. A good takeaway pizzeria lives or dies on its dough: toppings are the easy part, while a base that has proved properly and gone into a hot oven gives you a crust with real chew instead of something pale and floppy. In small towns, Friday and Saturday evenings are the busy stretch, so regulars tend to ring their order through and collect it rather than wait in the shop. If the pizza has a drive home ahead of it, eat a thin base sooner rather than later, and a minute or two in a hot dry pan at home will revive leftover slices far better than a microwave ever will. On Victoria Street in Wellsford, Kauri Coast Pizzeria gives the town a handy local option for pizza night.