Bola Pizza Catering

just ate a Bola Pizza (from the frozen food section in Central Mkts, Whole Foods, Wheatsville, etc), and it was wonderful! Seriously, y’all, the crust was super crispy, all elements were melted and warmed well, and the meat was tasty: all was well balanced!
I have never eaten a frozen pizza this good with a crust this tasty and crispy! Go get you some!

This frozen pizza is the best pizza I’ve had. Yep, better than all of those groovy pizzerias… everywhere! I picked up a Godmother on a whim from in. gredients on Manor Rd. Had no expectations so was blown away with the quality. Perfect crust, perfect flavors. Unbelievable. Tried the Polka Dot tonight. Again. Amazing. Godmother is still my fave but seriously, these folks cannot make a bad pizza. Served without knowing, you would not be able to guess this was frozen.

I am very happy that we chose Bola pizza to cater our backyard wedding in September. The whole experience went off without a hitch and the food was delicious. Jamie runs a smooth operation and was a great point of contact for us, always gracious and helpful. The presentation, with the tent, lighting, and oven, couldn’t be more charming. I definitely would recommend to others!

We had Bola cater our wedding at The Plant and they were wonderful! They have a really cute little set up, and even bring the beautiful blue tiled oven. Everyone loved the pizzas. We had the Mushroom, Godfather, and Pep star and they were all incredible. I have Celiac’s, as does my mom and uncle, and Jamie and her team made us gluten free pizza, which was really yummy! People may think pizza at a wedding seems odd, but it was so wonderful and delicious. How many times have you had mediocre wedding food? Not with Bola! Their pizza is fresh and hot. :) We would recommend them for any event!

I cannot say enough nice things about Bola Pizza… they were absolutely amazing at our event. Jamie and Christian are incredible business owners who have hired an amazing staff.

Bola catered my Mercury Hall wedding and the pizza was a hit! Jamie was great to work with and they are very detail oriented. When our head count changed dramatically, they were very considerate and worked with us on the final price of their services.
They served the Truffle Daisy, Godfather, and Garlic Two Times. Truffle Daisy and Godfather were amazing, but I wish we had picked something other than Garlic Two Times… It was good, but just didn’t stand up compared to the others.
The wood-​fired pizza trailer is great for wedding photos, as is the pizza making process. Pizza is served buffet style on cast iron Dutch ovens that serve as a pizza stand. They bring their own tables, linens and table tops.
My only complaint is that the pizza was served a little later than planned. We ran out of appetizers (NOT provided by Bola) due to my own underestimation. After the caesar salad was served there was a bit of a lag before the pizza. The servers were friendly, helpful, and everyone at Bola worked together to make our day less stressful.
I would definitely recommend them to anyone looking for artisan pizza catering! Jamie and Christian are great business owners and even sent us a Christmas card. Whenever we move into a house, I’d love to hire them again for a housewarming party.

Bola Pizza is delicioso! And the staff are really friendly and efficient. I think the warmth of their personalities made the whole experience that much more enjoyable. Big shout out to Jamie, who was a real pleasure to work with. The mobile pizza oven was a real show stopper for my Big Birthday Bash in Houston. Folks really loved the uniqeness of the oven, not to mention the tasty reviews! Thanks Bola, for making my special night that much more memorable.
Margie D.

If you want to eat pizza nearly guilt free this is the pizza for you. They are a local company using organic tomato sauce, hormone and antibiotic free cheese and use local ingredients.
I first tried their frozen pizza delivered via Greenling. The pizza was their GodMother and made of their organic tomato sauce, smoked mozzarella and caramelized onions. The cheese was absolutely delicious and the smokey scent lingered in the house for hours. The issue with the frozen pizza was the crust. It was too chewy and broke in the middle causing cheese to spill onto the pizza pan and oven.
The second time I had Bola Pizza more than made up for the first go around. Bola Pizza had their wood fired oven on site at the East Austin Urban Farm Tour and was serving a roasted fennel pizza. The ingredients included Parmesan, smoked mozzarella with roasted fennel and baby red onion from Springdale Farm. The 3 day fermented dough came out of the oven perfectly baked and with the gooey cheese and flavorful fennel it was absolutely delicious. The employees were friendly and explained why the name Bola. Bola was the owners’ gorgeous Blue Lacy (Texas state dog) who was also the crust taster.

Bola Pizza catered our wedding, and we had a great experience.
My husband was initially skeptical when I raised the idea of having pizza at our wedding. It was a relatively casual wedding, and we were considering food trucks, but he wasn’t convinced that the pizza would be special or yummy enough to beat out his preferred fare (as a Texan, he was hoping for Tex Mex and/​or BBQ). Once we tasted Bola, though, he was sold.
They were very easy to work with throughout the planning process– the first time we sought them out at the farmer’s market, they were taking that week off, and after I emailed Christian he told us where to find him and put us on the list for the event so we could taste. In additional to all our informal «tastings» at the farmer’s market over the course of the year, Christian and Jamie also hosted us at their commercial kitchen for a «formal» tasting (and we took leftover pizza home).
Everyone at the wedding loved the pizza, thought the brick oven was so cool, and best of all, they left us with leftovers. I promise you, after your wedding, you will want to look in the fridge and find 5 pizzas. Seriously.
Only thing to consider was that there was a bit of a line because, well, they’re cooking the pizzas right there! If we’d thought about it, we would have coordinated when folks went up to get food so they didn’t have to wait in line. (But you can’t rush greatness.)
(As a sidenote, we also get their frozen pizzas at Whip In and Farmhouse Delivery, and they’re pretty darn good that way too.)

This past weekend I was at the farmers market when I decided it was time for some lunch. There’s a handful of mobile pizza vendors in Austin, ranging from decent to incredible. Bola Pizza redefines the scale.
At first glance, I wasn’t really thrilled with any of the menu options. I decided to go with the polka dot. It was probably the best pizza I’ve ever eaten. Really. It was amazing. And the staff was incredibly friendly. All around a great establishment. If they ha a regular location I would probably go daily.

BOLA! Bola, come get some dinner! I was chilling and relaxing a weekend at the farmer’s market when I started to get a little rumbly in my tumbly.
I have to admit, I was a little skeptical about paying $ 12 for a small pie (which is definitely a smidge smaller than the boxes they come in), but we got the breakfast pizza and it was definitely worth the hype. Gooey cheese, oven-​fired crisp but soft crust, bacon and onions with two gooey, runny eggs cooked JUST right on top.
I’d recommend going early since we got the last breakfast pizza around 10:30, and probably skip the extra egg for $ 2 (1 is enough). Totallyy can’t wait to try the other winners. What I’d love is if they were a little bit larger for $ 12 a pop, but a yummy little indulging luxury easily split among friends.
I do remember one of my friends casually scraping the excess egg off the box. A secret lol, but is that proof of how lip-​smackingly satisfying Bola is? Bring cash. Great with a refreshing peach ginger lemonade a few stands over.
We also had some ample discussion on considering them for catering our friends’ weddings. How cute and quaintly delicious would that be!

Holy cow. Margherita with Truffle Oil. I’m sorry, WHAT? Let’s break it down: perfect mix of chewy and crunchy crust with a wonderful red sauce — not too much, not too little — topped with the most gloriously gooey mozzarella and then just BATHED in truffle oil.
I’m pretty sure I licked a paper plate. I’m pretty sure I pushed someone to get another slice. And I’m pretty sure I’d do it all over again for more.
I’m pretty sure the mobile pizza oven people don’t condone pizza lover-​on-​pizza lover violence, but it’s good enough to incite even the biggest pizza loving pacifist to engage in a little shovery.
Can you set up shop in my backyard? Please?

The oven that powers these delicious pizzas takes 6 hours to warm up to cooking heat. It makes sense, it’s imported from the land of slow-​food, Italy, and it takes that time to make sure that the cooking situation inside the oven is perfect. How perfect? Pizzas take 3 minutes to cook. You can’t beat that with a stick, and in some cases, that’ll beat your microwave.
The pizzas are eclectic. I had a chance to try their basic margherita pizza, which they garnish with truffle, instead of olive, oil. Despite this nod to the latest culinary fad, the truffle oil enhances and doesn’t ruin the flavor.
Part of the flavor is informed by a dough that took two years to «perfect» in the minds of the owner-​chefs. A cross between crispy and soft-​crusts, you taste the slightest hint of sweetness in the dough which makes everything better.
My personal favorite, as a meatosaurus, is the Godfather. A not-​subtle hint at its ingredients, it is actually the caramelized onions which are the star of this pie.
Give it a moment to rest before you dig in. It’s very, very hot. :-)
PS I didn’t have a chance to try the breakfast pie — but they break a couple eggs on top of the pizza before putting it in the oven. It doesn’t just sound like a great idea. They had sold out of all of them before we even got to their booth at the Farmers’ Market.

The boy has a picture of Bola’s Truffle Daisy pizza pie on his phone. He gazes at it with worrying frequency. He even thought it prudent to joke that he has found someone new and would leave me for it, showing me the picture on his phone while saying as much. I karate chopped his smartphone to the ground. It is no longer so sage.
We tried this spot as part of the downtown Austin Food Tour and have been hooked since. The owners told us about their 2-​day dough-​making fermentation process — and you can easily taste that this is not your average dough, not even your awesome dough. It is divine, and so complex that the best way to describe it is to eat it, and then when you want to remember what it tastes like, just eat it again. And so on.
But it’s SO HARD to get a fix. We plan our Saturday around getting to the Republic Square Farmer’s Market. It’s the only place we’ve seen them, with us flocking to their oven like 60’s teens to a Beatles concert. We can find them nowhere else.
This weekend we tried the bolognese style pie. It was good but a bit oily — nothing beats the Truffle Daisy. The pie with sausage is a strong contender, but somehow that TD is the quintessential pie. The crust shines in all it’s chewy, flaky perfection, the mozzarella glistens in it’s gooey glory, and the…
Excuse me. I had to find a napkin to clean up my uh slobber. I would go get some now, except…
OH GOD WHY??? You are tearing me apart Bola!
(in the same tone used in the infamously terrible film, The Room:
)

I’m from NY, I am the kind of person who does not blink about driving an hour or more to find good pizza. All the top places in the NY area, I have probably been there. That being said Bola is the best pizza I have found in Austin and leaves anything else far, far behind.
If I am going have pizza in Austin and I am not going to make it in my own wood fired pizza oven then I will get/​buy it from BOLA otherwise its just not worth getting.

Portable GOOD Brick-​Oven Pizza = 4 stars.
I could stop there, but I won’t this stuff is amazing. Even though they only have about 3 – 4 different pizzas to order, they actually only have the crust ready to go when you place your order. They then add all the of ingredients by hand and then into the oven it goes. It comes out all gooey and crunchy with amazing flavor.
We love getting this at the farmer’s market, as they use ingredients from the other people at the market. Bottom line, this stuff is just good :)

Thank you, Bola. My search is finished.
We all love pizza. I’ve traveled through various «HAVE YOU HAD _​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​STYLE PIZZA?!» places and have tried what was considered ‘the best.” On my Downtown edition of Austin Eats Food Tours, I sampled the most perfect pizza I’ve ever had. And I have no regrets saying that. They have their own fire oven, covered in blue tile. The staff is constantly making pizza, serving pizza, and announcing pizza.
When I saw my piece of pizza stringing from the box I knew I was in a good place. I had their Truffle Daisy pizza (mozzarella, tomato sauce, shaved garlic, and all the love in the world). It’s obvious their crust was tested over a long period of time. They made sure it was right. I’ve learned that they cater private parties. With pizza this good, we all now have a reason to throw a private party.
Will someone at this company please date me? I’m normal, I promise. I just need to have this pizza in close proximity at all times.

This past weekend I was at my brother-in-law’s birthday party and he had hired Bola to cater after discovering them at a farmers market. The owners are a charming couple that shared the story of how they started the business with us while we waited for the pizza, and it was well worth the wait. The crust is PERFECT. I have never used that word to describe food as there is always room for improvement, until now. It’s crispy on the outside, chewy in the middle, light and bubbly, but sufficiently dense to satisfy. The toppings were unique and thoughful (I loved the cheese pizza with white truffle oil), and I was able to eat several pieces without feeling bloated. Awesome people making awesome Pizza in an awesome portable wood fired brick oven. Look these guys up for the next event you need catered.

Best. Freakin’. Pizza. In. Town.
Hands down.
First of all, the crust? Eet ees perfect. Just a little bit chewy, just a little bit crunchy, and just a teeny bit sour — in other words, delicious in every way. The owners of this business spent several years developing this crust recipe, and it shows.
I’ve had lots and lots and lots of Bola pies. I’m hard pressed to choose a favorite, but Garlic Two Times makes me want to. It should be renamed ‘Gasm Two Times. But then the Texas Board of Education would probably try to ban it, and vampires would take over the state. Olive oil poached garlic cloves are mixed with shaved garlic and arugula atop sweet ricotta and mozzarella. Garlicgasmic.
You can hire them for private catering (wood-​fired pizza oven on wheels! wheee!) or snag one (or two, or three) of their pies at the downtown SFC Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings. Their menu changes seasonally, and they source many of their ingredients locally. Eat well, feel good.
Full disclosure: I am friends with the fine folks who gave birth to Bola. But not such good friends that I would lie for them in a Unilocal review. I’ve got a Unilocalutation to worry about, here. Fortunately, I don’t have to…
Seriously, go try it and tell me it’s not the best pizza in town.
I double cheese dare you.

I first heard of Bola Pizza via Michelle C.‘s blog a while back and was so envious her friendship with the couple who throw these amazing sounding Pizza Parties and thought I would only get to live vicariously through her food porn pics:)
Until I discovered them at the downtown Republic Square Farmers Market a couple weeks ago. They were serving 3 different pizzas from their mobile Wood Fired oven and we decided on the Breakfast Pie since it was 10AM. The Breakfast Pie had the perfect ratio of chewy to wood fired crunchy crust topped with a tangy flavorful sauce, cheddar cheese (Full Quiver if I recall correctly) Speck (a salty smoky cured ham) from Antonelli’s, red onions with a perfectly poached egg. All pie ingredients are locally sourced and budget friendly at only 12.00 for a 12″ pie made with all local and organic ingredients!
Find them on Saturdays at the SE corner of the SFC FM or have them cater your own Pizza Party!