Meet verato: from restaurant kitchens to your backyard

Every business has a moment where someone decides to back themselves. For verato, that moment came when Eugenio Russomanno stepped away from his role as Group Executive Chef at Kidd & Co, the team behind Kneading Ruby, Santino and Barlina.

After years running busy kitchens, he wanted something simpler and more personal: one oven, real fire, and pizza made right in front of the people eating it. So in November 2025, verato started trading with one wood-fired oven, a tent and a lot of dough.

Why mobile?

A restaurant asks people to come to you. Our tent and oven setup lets us go to them. Backyards, breweries, school events, weddings, work parties. If there’s space to pitch the tent and people to feed, we can make it happen.

What hasn’t changed

The restaurant standards came with us. Good ingredients, careful prep and pizza cooked hot and fast so it lands on your plate the way it should. The only difference is the view, which is usually a lot better than a kitchen wall.

Based in the Illawarra

We’re a Wollongong business, and we love cooking for our own community. You’ll find us popping up at local breweries, at private events across the Illawarra and Sutherland Shire, and wherever someone fancies a proper wood-fired feed.

Thanks for being here at the start. Come say hi next time you see the fire going.