Pare's Power Pizza is a handmade pizza kitchen on Broadway in Matamata, baking every evening from Tuesday to Sunday. Pizzas are constructed using quality products and come two ways: cooked and piping hot, ready to eat, or made freshly for you to take and bake away — or freeze — with full cooking instructions included. The range is genuinely big: 30 pizza options, 30 toppings, 10 sauces, 3 bases and 2 sizes, spanning value, premium, chicken, garlic and vegetarian/paneer lines, plus a build-your-own option.
And it's much more than just pizzas. The snacks menu — cooked in canola oil — covers snack boxes, chicken tenders and chips, snapper and fries, burgers, frankfurters, wedges, three fries options, beef nachos, desserts and sauces, with seafood chowder and macaroni cheese among the standouts, both available chilled to finish at home. Vegetarian and gluten-free options run throughout.
Ordering is built around convenience: pick up in store, get delivery across Matamata town and rural, pay by PayWave, cash or internet banking, and earn loyalty bonus dollars along the way — one for every $43 spent, up to a maximum of 25.
On Broadway in the heart of Matamata, Pare's Power Pizza fires up at 3pm each afternoon, Tuesday through Sunday. It's a locally run pizza kitchen where everything starts with pizza, but it certainly doesn't end there. The menu stretches across burgers, fish, chowder, chicken and comfort-food classics, and everything can be picked up, delivered in town or rural Matamata, or taken home uncooked to bake yourself. It's the kind of local shop that knows its orders are heading to family tables, sports nights and freezer stashes around the district.
The pizzas are constructed by hand using quality products, and the range is bigger than most: 30 pizza options, 30 topping options, 10 sauce options, 3 pizza bases and 2 pizza sizes. That runs from a Value Range through two Premium ranges, with dedicated Chicken, Vegetarian and Paneer, and Garlic pizza lines — and if none of the set combinations quite fits, Build Your Own hands you the whole kit: base, toppings and sauce, your call. Sauce choice is part of the fun, too — 10 sauce options mean even a familiar topping combination can taste different every visit.
What many regulars come back for is the take-and-bake option. Every pizza can be made freshly and taken home uncooked, complete with full cooking instructions — ready to bake that night or freeze for later. For busy households it's a quiet superpower: a freezer stocked with genuine handmade pizzas, minutes from the table whenever they're needed.
The snacks side of the menu earns its billing. Sides are cooked in canola oil and the list is long: snack boxes, chicken tender packs with chips, snapper and fries, three fries options, wedges, burgers, frankfurters ("dogs in a bunn"), beef nachos, desserts and a range of sauces. Two items have a way of stealing the show — the seafood chowder and the macaroni cheese — both hearty enough to be dinner in their own right, and both available chilled so you can finish them at home.
Dietary needs are covered too, with vegetarian and gluten-free options running across the menu, so a mixed group can order together without anyone missing out. And together the snacks turn a pizza order into a full feed: a snack box for the table, wedges for the kids, and a chilled macaroni cheese for tomorrow's lunch.
Ordering is deliberately flexible. Online, the checkout prompts walk you through and your estimated pickup or delivery time appears as you proceed. Prefer to plan ahead? Email your order any time before the shop opens and it will be parked, pending your instructions. PayWave and cash work on both pickup and delivery, with an internet banking option as well.
Regulars should log in before they order: every $43 spent accrues one bonus dollar (delivery cost excluded), which can be spent on a future order or left to accrue up to a maximum of 25. Points can only be used from your account, so being signed in genuinely pays.
You'll find Pare's Power Pizza at 109 Broadway, Matamata, open 3pm to 9pm Tuesday to Sunday and closed every Monday — a true dinner-hours operation, so plan around the day off. Call 07 888 6900 with questions or to place an order the old-fashioned way.
Whether it's a hot pizza on a cold evening, a chowder on a whim, or a stack of unbaked pizzas for the freezer, this small Broadway shop covers a lot of ground: handmade, generously ranged, and built around however you like to eat.