A halal cheese pizza done the right way.
Halal Pizza (the Classical)
A cheese pizza is how you judge a pizzeria. Anyone can hide behind toppings — wing sauce, breaded chicken, BBQ glaze. A plain cheese pie is just dough, sauce, and cheese, and you can taste every choice the kitchen has made.
What goes on it
- • 24-hour cold-fermented dough (high-gluten flour, water, salt, sugar, yeast, olive oil)
- • House tomato sauce — San-Marzano-style crushed tomato, garlic, oregano, salt
- • Low-moisture whole-milk mozzarella from a Wisconsin producer
- • Finishing olive oil at the cut station (optional)
How it's made
Dough is balled in the morning, retarded in the walk-in for 18–24 hours. When you order, it's hand-stretched, sauced from the center out, cheesed (we don't over-cheese), and baked at 550°F in the brick oven for 6–8 minutes. Out, cut, boxed.
Pairings
A side of garlic-knots and a Greek Salad makes a complete light dinner. For a halal pizza-night spread: cheese pie + a Buffalo Chicken + a Garden Salad tray + a 2-liter soda feeds 4–5.
Ordering tips
If you've never had us before, get a small 12" cheese first. That's the benchmark order — if you like it, every specialty pie is a known quantity.
For Clifton
We're at 600 Getty Ave in Clifton — the closest halal cheese pizza for most of Passaic County. Order online for pickup or in-house delivery.
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FAQ
Common questions
- Your cheese pie doesn't look as loaded with cheese as other places. Is that on purpose?
- Yes. It's low-moisture whole-milk mozzarella and we cheese it deliberately light. The pie is in the brick oven six to eight minutes at 550 degrees, which is enough to brown a normal layer and not enough to cook through a thick one - too much cheese and the top goes gluey and pale, and it buries the sauce. On a plain pie the sauce is half of what you came for.
- Is the tomato sauce sweet or spicy?
- Neither. Four things go into it: San-Marzano-style crushed tomato, garlic, oregano, and salt. No added sugar, no pepper flakes, nothing to make it sweet or hot. The sugar you see on our dough ingredients is in the dough, where the yeast uses it during the 18 to 24 hour cold ferment. On a plain pie there are no toppings covering the sauce, so it tastes like cooked tomato.
- Is the finishing olive oil on every cheese pie, or do I have to ask?
- You have to ask. The olive oil goes on at the cut station, after the pie is out of the brick oven and before it's boxed, so it never hits the 550-degree heat. It isn't the standard build. It's also not the oil that's already in the dough, which goes in before the 18-to-24-hour cold ferment. Ask for it on the phone, or tell the counter if you're picking up.
- Is the halal pizza (the classical) halal?
- Yes — every meat on this pizza, like every meat on our menu, comes from a halal-certified supplier, and the kitchen, fryer and slicer are halal-only. Nothing non-halal is prepared or stored on the premises.
- Can I order it for pickup or delivery?
- Both. Pickup is free and usually ready in about 15 minutes. In-house delivery is our own drivers — no third-party app markup — across Clifton, Paterson, Passaic, Garfield, Nutley, Lyndhurst, Bloomfield and Belleville.