Wood-fired pizza — Blida
Pizzeria Dar Zitoun
Wood-fired pizza in Blida, made to order. Call Dar Zitoun: we take the order in Algerian Arabic, in Arabic, in French or in English.
- Blida
- Olive-wood fire
- 400 °C
- Dough rested 24 h
Wood fire
Order the way you talk.
Speak to us in Algerian Arabic, Arabic, French or English. The order writes itself on screen while you talk.
Free delivery over 2,000 DA
Dar Zitoun is answering
- 1 × Giant Merguez1 750 DA
- 1 × Coca-Cola 33 cl120 DA
Total1 870 DA
A recorded example for the demonstration. Press for a real call.
A demonstration — no order is sent anywhere.
- Dough rested 24 hours
- Olive-wood oven
- Ninety-second bake
- Halal meat
- Nothing baked in advance
- Delivery in Blida
A pizza, layer by layer
What is in it
The list is short because it fits on one hand. Flour, water, salt, yeast for the dough. Peeled tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil, basil for the base.
The mozzarella arrives twice a week and the merguez comes from a butcher in Blida we know. The rest is the morning market, which means a topping is occasionally missing — we say so rather than substituting without telling you.
- Dough rested twenty-four hours, never made yesterday for today
- Whole peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand the same morning
- Mozzarella delivered twice a week
- Merguez from a butcher in Blida
- Kabylie olive oil, added as it leaves the oven
The stoneIt bakes the base at over 400 °C. It is what makes the crunch.
The 24-hour doughFlour, water, salt, yeast. Stretched by hand, never with a rolling pin.
The tomatoWhole peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand that morning.
The mozzarellaDelivered twice a week, torn by hand.
The toppingMerguez from a Blida butcher, peppers, onion.
Chréa oreganoAnd Kabylie olive oil, as it leaves the oven.
Tonight’s most ordered: the Merguez.The same layers, ninety seconds later.
The menu
The menu
Sixteen pizzas, a calzone, and what goes beside them. The dough is the same for all of it: it rises for twenty-four hours before it sees the oven.
Every price is given for the thirty-three-centimetre regular, which is one hungry person, and for the forty-centimetre giant: the same pizza, bigger, rather than a second menu.
What comes out of the oven most
Margherita
Tomato, mozzarella, basil
750 DA
Merguez
Merguez, peppers, onion
1 150 DA
Four cheeses
Mozzarella, gouda, goat, blue
1 350 DA
The Dar Zitoun
Cream, merguez, egg, Kabylie olives
1 500 DA
Three steps
The method
Three steps, always the same, and none of them can be shortened on a busy night.
- RestRest — the dough is mixed the day before and rises for twenty-four hours in the cold. That is what makes it digestible, and it is the one step that cannot be caught up.
- StretchStretch — by hand, never with a rolling pin. A pin pushes the air out of the rim and hands you a flat pizza.
- BakeBake — ninety seconds at four hundred degrees, on the stone. We turn it once. It comes out when it comes out.
Olive wood, 400 °C
The oven
It is brick, it burns olive wood, and it sits around four hundred degrees once it is going. A pizza is in it for ninety seconds. That is where the black blisters on the rim come from — it is not burnt, it is the point.
The oven sets the pace: we cannot bake twelve at once, and we bake nothing in advance. On a match night the wait goes to forty minutes, and we say so on the phone rather than letting you find out.
We do not make gluten-free dough and we do not deliver beyond Blida. Two things we would rather say before you order.
Delivery
Four communes, and not one more
- Free delivery
We deliver in Blida
Blida, Ouled Yaïch, Beni Mered, Soumaa. Free over 2,000 DA.
20 to 25 min
Forty on a Friday night. We say so before you order.
about one pizza
Evenings, every day
18h – 23h30 · lunch Thursday to Sunday
the oven never sleeps
The demonstration
Call, and watch the order write itself
On the phone, Dar Zitoun takes the order out loud and writes it on screen while you speak. We do not deliver outside Blida and we do not take a complaint about an order already placed over the phone: that needs a person. This is a demonstration — nothing goes in the oven.
A demonstration. No order placed here is real.
Real orders, not bought stars
What people tell us
Each review is shown with the order it came from
Ordered at 19:10, it was at my door at 19:32. The edge was still crackling, not gone soft in the box.
Yacine Belkacem ·
I asked for no onion because of my daughter. The driver repeated it at the door and the kitchen had written it on the lid. Third time running they got it right.
Nadia Hamdani ·
The Dar Zitoun, with the egg and the Kabyle olives, is the one everyone fights over at home. And the giant feeds four.
Karim Ould Ali ·
You can taste the twenty-four-hour dough — light, faintly sour, big bubbles at the edge. Friday is merguez, no discussion.
Sofiane Meziane ·
What we are asked
Questions
Do you deliver to me?
We deliver to Blida, Ouled Yaïch, Beni Mered and Soumaa. Beyond that, no — the pizza would arrive cold and it is no longer the same thing. Tell us your commune on the phone and we will say straight away whether it is in the zone.
How long does an order take?
Twenty to twenty-five minutes on a weekday, forty on a Friday or a match night. The figure you are given on the phone is the one for that moment rather than an average: the oven only bakes so many at a time.
Is it halal?
Yes, all the meat is halal. The merguez and the turkey ham come from a butcher in Blida; there is no pork in the building, on any pizza.
Do you have gluten-free dough?
No. We tried and the result was not worth serving. The oven and the bench are covered in wheat flour, so we cannot promise anything to somebody who is genuinely intolerant.
Can I pay by card?
At the counter, yes — CIB and Edahabia. On delivery it is cash to the driver; we have no mobile terminal.
Can I order for later?
Yes, say the time you want to collect it. We bake nothing in advance: the pizza goes in so that it is ready at that time, not before.
Do you do pizzas for a group?
Up to about ten, yes, with two hours’ notice. Beyond that we would rather say no: the oven keeps its own pace and we do not want to leave the rest of the room waiting.
Is the voice on the phone a real person?
No. The voice of Dar Zitoun is a voice agent built by Algeria Agency, and this pizzeria does not exist either — it is a demonstration. What is real is that it understands Algerian Arabic and takes the order.
Rue des Orangers, Bab Dzair — a fictional address
Finding us
We are in central Blida. Orders are collected at the counter; delivery covers Blida and the communes next to it.
The evening service is the real one: that is when the oven is hot all night. At midday we open Thursday to Sunday only.
- Evening — every day, 18h to 23h30
- Midday — Thursday to Sunday, 11h30 to 14h
- Delivery — Blida, Ouled Yaïch, Beni Mered, Soumaa
- Delivery free on orders over 2 000 DA