North Wales pizza trailer outside pub with 'astounding' toppings that will leave you stuffed

Mark Williams opted for a Hawaiian Pizza from Carlito's Woodfired Pizza in Ruthin
-Credit: (Image: Mark Williams/North Wales Live)


Carlito's Woodfired Pizza is an Airstream-style trailer parked directly outside the Park Place pub in Ruthin. As the name suggests, they offer a huge selection of pizzas, sides and desserts. It’s important to find winning combinations when it comes down to pizza and everyone has their favourite topping of course.

It’s important to find the right combination when it comes to pizza and everyone has their favourite topping of course. The blackboard outside the trailer has the usual base choices such as margherita, pepperoni, BBQ chicken and meat feast but they also offer much more than that.

The number of specials and sides are astounding. I saw pizzas with toppings such as blue cheese special, a taste of Portugal, or the tasty Italian, which included herbs, buffalo mozzarella, nduja, pepperoni, stilton and fresh basil. They even listed a chocoholic’s dream of Nutella pizza with marshmallows and extra choccies.

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The number of sides were just as crazy with unusual things such as Hunters chicken-loaded fries, three amigos wedges. Parmesan and white truffles fries or the wonderful sounding chilli cheese battered bits. There are also plenty of vegan options for the non-meat eater such as a vegan deluxe pizza, vegan nuggets or vegan loaded fries.

Once you get over the amount of choice and make up your mind about what pizza to choose, then the prices start from £6 for a 9” or £8 for a 12’. There are a couple of picnic tables outside or you can eat your pizza in the pub itself if you fancy the glorious combination of a pint and a pizza. They offer delivery if you can’t be bothered to leave the house, starting from £2.

Carlito's Woodfired Pizza in Ruthin is outside the Park Place pub
-Credit:Mark Williams/North Wales Live

I felt sorry for the cook as you could feel the heat of the wood fired oven on your face from ten meters away. I am not sure how he coped on such a warm evening as even his makeshift fan wasn’t taking away the heat of the kitchen.

I opted to go for the Hawaiian pizza, with mozzarella, cheddar cheese, tomato sauce, ham and of course the controversial fruit of pineapple. The debate about whether or not you should put pineapple on pizza is one as old as time.

The Italians argue that it breaks tradition whilst others say it does not react with heat very well. I would argue that the sweetness of pineapple goes well with the salt of the other ingredients and at least you will be getting one of your five of the day with your fruit.

The base of the pizza had that delicious flame-licked tinge with a thin layer of bubbling cheddar cheese on top. The puffed-up crust was darkened in places with that delicious combo of heat, sweet and salt in all the right places.

The Jerk Chicken Pizza from Carlito's Woodfired Pizza in Ruthin
The Jerk Chicken Pizza from Carlito's Woodfired Pizza in Ruthin -Credit:Mark Williams/North Wales Live

We also went for jerk chicken pizza with a base of bubbling cheese and tomato with jerk chicken, mixed peppers and jerk sauce. The jerk sauce tasted a bit like reggae reggae sauce with a distinctive kick in the heat department and plenty of flavour with a nod to the Caribbean.

The pizza base was thin, crispy and fresh, and wonderfully blistered with delicious char. It had that gorgeous wood fired oven quality with a layer of tomato sauce and melting cheese.

In the Jamaica versus Hawaii pizza war, we both agreed that the jerk chicken just shaded it with a hard-won victory. I only wished that I had eaten the pizza in the pub so I could have washed it down with an ice-cold beer.

Because we had spent £20 on pizzas we were entitled to a free 9” cheesy garlic bread. The cheesy garlic pizza had a a light garlic flavour with the right combination of pillowy and crispy bits of cheese.

The pizza menu at Carlito's Woodfired Pizza in Ruthin
The pizza menu at Carlito's Woodfired Pizza in Ruthin -Credit:Mark Williams/North Wales Live

My stomach felt like a pizza crust: stuffed! So, no puddings for me but I saw that they offered hot waffles, hot cookies, hot brownies, black cherry or caramel apple dream or a host of ice cream options. Desserts were £4 each or 2 for £7.

No matter how you like your pizza, you will find a winning combo here. Fold up that pizza, let it hang into your mouth from above and grab a slice of the pizza action from the unlikely setting of a trailer outside a pub.