Visiting from UK and when asked for a local pizzeria our hotel recommended Fannie Bay Super Pizza - it was excellent - yes they were very busy front and back and there are not many staff, but they worked hard, fast and efficiently. It felt like a really great family place - unpretentious and welcoming to all - we hadn't booked but were found a table, which given how busy it was was lucky. Ultimately this is not gourmet pizza (no sign of courgette flowers!), but good solid well cooked pizza, with generous portions of toppings - so big that we took four slices away wrapped in foil. It is BYO and there is a local store in the same rank which has a good selection of reasonably priced wines. From our point of view it was a genuine local place, the buzz of conversation from every table created a warm atmosphere. A great visit and we would recommend it to anyone.

This place is great place to eat and we often eat here with friends and family. It is owned by an Italian family and the pizzas are made out in the front so you can see them being made. If you don't feel like pizza there are other options like pasta dishes etc. The prices are quite reasonable as well. You can bring your favorite wine to drink or if you have forgotten it, there is a grocery store a few shops away. You can buy soft drinks if you wish.It is located across from the Old Prison at Fannie Bay in the Fannie Bay Shopping complex.

I have been living in Darwin since 1995 and have frequented the Fannie Bay Super Pizza quite a lot of times over the years. At the moment, 3 of us (all private pilots) meet there fortnightly to talk, eat, share red wine, tell flying stories and have a great time.

Let me set the record straight for this establishment. It is very well known in Darwin as is the boutique butcher right next door. Fannie Bay is one of the premier suburbs of Darwin. The house prices are huge and the atmosphere is quiet and village-like and the beautiful Bay adds pricelessly to the ambience and natural beauty of this vicinity. The Fannie Bay Super Pizza is definitely a well established part of the whole personna of Fannie Bay. It is very close to the Fannie Bay Racecourse and is often packed to the gunwales with crowds of bon vivants, both locals and visitors, with their racing stories. Also, the Cool Spot is just around the corner.

Once inside the Super Pizza restaurant, you are overwhelmed by the cooking aromas and the level of chatter from tables of families, the legal fraternity, schoolies, mates, politicians, medical folk, engineers, regulars, travellers, etc, etc, and the curious first-timers as well. There are a lot of regulars at the Fannie Bay Super Pizza restaurant. That speaks for itself.

The contributors of reviews of this restaurant who complained about the service probably didn't realise the place is so popular for pizza that half of Darwin is probably in the queue ahead of you! The restaurant has a strong take away client base too.
Take this tip: go there before 7pm during the week, take your BYO with you (there's a supermarket 50 metres along in the row of shops with a good enough range of beverages) and order this pizza >>> A medium JR with extra tomato sauce on the base. OK? Once more: A medium JR with extra tomato sauce on the base. If you go on a Saturday night, book ahead to ensure your table. There are about 40 tables I think. Tables for two, four, 12, 6, all sizes.

The medium size pizza costs (now in Oct 2010) $18.00 plus they charge $1.50 per person for corkage I think (they supply the wine glasses and water, etc for you). So, for $19.50 you get a pizza that is really quite large, weighs in on a kilogram basis, and tastes superb. That's not expensive. A word of warning: the kalamata olives that get baked into the whole presentation still have the stone/pip/seed in them so be careful when encountering one. Those baked-in kalamatas are really delicious.

The menu is comprehensive - as good as you could expect, however, some of the schnitzel type dishes aren't to my preference but the pasta certainly is. On a busy night, the non-pizza dishes are produced more quickly than a pizza.

So, head into the Fannie Bay Super Pizza one evening, take some nice wine with you, get there ahead of the full capacity crowd and enjoy! Normally, a medium JR with extra tomato sauce on the base takes anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. That's totally fine. You should be busily getting into the atmosphere, conversation, wines during that period and the approx 15 minutes goes in a heartbeat. If two pizzas are ordered, one might arrive 2 minutes ahead of the other. That's part of the experience.

Don't expect to be waited on hand and foot by a uni student with a perfect smile. That won't happen. You will be served by experienced people and some of them are very animated and friendly.

It's a 5 on the TripAdvisor scale for food and atmosphere and is not to be missed. Go ahead of the crowd to ensure your personal expectations of wait times are met. That would be the sensible approach if that's a priority for you. Sometimes it's as quiet as the rest of Darwin but mostly it's hugely busy and vibrantly alive with people who already know it is the best pizza restaurant in Darwin. It's a one-off in Darwin and is one of the things people say about Darwin from their once or twice visit to our beautiful tropical destination.

Poor service, average overpriced pizza, rude staff, try Il piatto or Il Lido instead.