Ms White is a pizza and beer garden tucked into the White Hart courtyard, with its entrance from Queen Street in central New Plymouth. The setting is deliberately social: pizzas arrive for a casual table, taps rotate through craft beer, and wine offers an alternative for diners who are staying longer than a quick takeaway stop. The sheltered courtyard gives the restaurant a distinct sense of place within the city, while the simple focus on dough, toppings and drinks keeps the experience informal and easy to understand.
The kitchen works in a Neapolitan style, hand stretching each pizza and building its red bases around San Marzano tomato and fior di latte. A classic Margherita establishes the starting point, but the combinations move beyond it: eggplant and ricotta provide a vegetable-led choice, pork and fennel sausage joins smoked ham and spianata on a more robust pizza, and another pairs spianata with rosemary, chilli oil and honey. Ham, mushroom and artichoke offers a savoury balance that stays close to recognisable Italian flavours.
White pizzas replace tomato with a cheese-led base and create a different set of contrasts. Tomato, olive, red onion and feta gives one option a salty Mediterranean profile, while scamorza, mushrooms, truffle, thyme and pecorino leans richer and more aromatic. There are combinations with finocchiona, ham and rosemary potato, four cheeses, or prawns with garlic, chilli and crisp pangrattato. A folded calzone filled with ham, mushroom, ricotta and grana adds another format, and selected pizzas can be prepared vegan on request.
The drinks programme fits the food rather than competing with it. Rotating taps make craft beer a reason to look beyond a standard lager, while wine supports the Italian character of the menu and gives the courtyard a relaxed evening rhythm. Diners can settle into the beer garden for a shared meal or collect pizzas to take away, and current delivery service extends that flexibility beyond the venue. The result is a focused pizzeria whose appeal comes from carefully composed toppings, fermented dough and an unfussy place to gather.
Address: 47 Queen Street, New Plymouth Central, New Plymouth 4310, New Zealand
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