Totti’s spin-off sells takeaway pizza by the slice in Sydney CBD – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

There is no menu or price list at Oti’. You can’t book and there is limited seating on one bench, tauntingly placed beside stacks of pizza boxes almost covering the front windows.

But few people have time for ingredients, or cost, or the opportunity to park themselves at this pizza and sandwich takeaway shop from executive head chef of Oti’ and Totti’s Mike Eggert.

They’re just hoping to nab a slice of Eggert’s margherita, potato, pork or top-selling, deliberately charred ham and pineapple pizza. Or his seasonal sandwiches, each made with bronzed, hand-stretched Italian-style flatbread schiacciata, Italian for crushed, or flattened by hand.

Customers stand in quiet wonder, pointing at these beauties. A queue winds out the door and along Palings Lane inside the Ivy precinct. We are unruffled by the calm triumph of diners a metre away enjoying the boon of getting a table at Eggert’s Bar Totti.

It’s 5pm and things are serious in this queue. Word is, Oti’, a spin-off from Totti’s, closes when the food runs out. On its first day, in May five-and-half weeks ago, that happened three hours after opening. No one gives up…