Currizza at 43 Rugby Street, Mount Cook — handy to the Basin Reserve — is Wellington's dedicated answer to a very specific question: what if curry night and pizza night were the same night? The shop's own tagline sets the tone — 'Love Curry? Love Pizza? You're gonna love Currizza' — and the menu follows through, pairing pizza foundations with the flavours of Indian cooking: tandoori chicken, paneer, spiced pizza sauces, fresh garlic, coriander and basil pesto, all finished with mozzarella.
The featured special is the Love Guru, a spiced-sauce pizza layered with tandoori chicken, paneer, capsicum, corn and basil pesto, made in 9-inch and 12-inch sizes. Around it, the kitchen turns out creations whose names set the mood before the first slice — Slum Dog Pizza, Hot Delhi-Belly Pizza for serious heat, and the Popeye Lover Pizza for the greens-inclined. Sides are simple and satisfying: garlic bread and spicy chips, cooled down with a mango lassi.
The Rugby Street store keeps evening hours seven days a week, from 3:30pm until midnight, making it one of the later-cooking options in this part of Wellington. Orders can be placed online for pickup, or by phone on 04 384 3000. A second Currizza operates at 798 High Street in Lower Hutt, open 4pm to 10pm daily, so the curry-pizza combination is covered on both sides of the harbour.
Currizza bakes its whole identity into one line: 'Love Curry? Love Pizza? You're gonna love Currizza.' From its kitchen at 43 Rugby Street in Mount Cook — a short stroll from the Basin Reserve — this Wellington spot does exactly what the name promises, folding the flavours of Indian cooking into proper pizzas. Tandoori chicken, paneer, spiced pizza sauces and fresh coriander all end up under a blanket of mozzarella, and the result is a menu that reads like a curry night and eats like pizza night.
The clearest expression of the idea is the Love Guru, the store's featured special. It starts with a spiced pizza sauce and fresh garlic, then layers on tandoori chicken, paneer, coriander, basil pesto, capsicum, corn and mozzarella. It comes in both a 9-inch and a 12-inch size, which makes it an easy call for a mixed crowd — the half of the table that wanted curry and the half that wanted pizza both leave happy.
Around the Love Guru sits a rotating cast with names that lean into the fun. The Slum Dog Pizza carries the house's cheekiest signature style; the Hot Delhi-Belly Pizza is the one to order when mild isn't in your vocabulary; and the Popeye Lover Pizza caters to anyone who likes their greens where the toppings should be. The supporting cast matters too — garlic bread for the table, spicy chips with a proper kick, and a chilled mango lassi to pour cold water on any regrets about the chilli level.
The 'What's Cooking' board on the Currizza site gives a sense of how the menu moves, with the Slum Dog, Popeye Lover and Hot Delhi-Belly pizzas jostling alongside garlic bread, spicy chips and mango lassi as the current stars. It's a menu made for browsing — every pizza name promises a story, and the spice-forward sauces and fresh finishing touches like coriander and basil pesto back it up.
Currizza's Rugby Street kitchen keeps evening hours seven days a week, opening at 3:30pm and serving right through to midnight. That makes it a genuinely late option for this part of Wellington: useful for a post-work feed, for a crowd spilling out of the Basin Reserve, or for anyone whose dinner plans start after most kitchens have wound down. The ovens cover a wide spread — an early order suits families with younger kids, while a 10pm order suits shift workers and night owls.
Ordering is set up for exactly that kind of night. The full menu is available online, so you can build your order and time your pickup without waiting on hold — though the team answers on 04 384 3000 if you'd rather talk your toppings through.
The Rugby Street store is one of two Currizza locations. A sister kitchen operates at 798 High Street in Lower Hutt, running its own evening service from 4pm to 10pm daily, so the curry-pizza treatment is available on both sides of the harbour. Each store is listed on the Currizza site with a map and a direct online-ordering link, and each keeps the same playful approach to the menu.
What holds it all together is the sense that Currizza doesn't take itself too seriously. The names are cheeky, the combinations are bold, and the whole operation is built around one simple, happily specific idea. If you've ever stood in a group torn between ordering curries and ordering pizzas, this is the place that decided you shouldn't have to choose.