Fi·lan·te — adj., Italian

It has to pull, or it doesn't leave the oven.

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60-day mozzarella · live oak · 900°F

The cheese knows before you taste it.

Ninety seconds over the fire, then it comes apart in one long thread.

This is filante

One pull. The whole pizza, in a single motion.

If it snaps before the fork does, it goes back in the oven — not to your table.

Welcome to Filante

A small room, a loud oven, and one obsession.

Filante opened with a single rule taped above the pass: if the cheese doesn't pull, the pie doesn't leave the kitchen. Everything on this menu — the dough, the sauce, the fire itself — is built to protect that one moment at your table.

900°F Oven, live oak
90 sec Bake, turned twice
60 day Aged mozzarella
Margherita pizza with fresh basil, fresh from the wood-fired oven
Close-up of a cheese pull on a wood-fired pizza
01 Fired to order, every table, every time

The pull

We didn't set out to make pizza that photographs well.

We set out to make cheese that won't let go. Everything else — the dough, the fire, the timing — exists to get that one moment right. If the cheese breaks before the fork does, we start over.

The ticket

Dough
68% hydration, 12-hr cold ferment
Cheese
Low-moisture mozzarella, aged 60 days
Fire
Live oak, 900°F
Bake
90 seconds, turned twice by hand
The test
Must pull clean to 12", or it's remade

The main event

Straight from the fire to your table.

Wood-fired pizza fresh from the oven with a clean, unbroken cheese pull

900°F · Live Oak

Straight from the fire

Frame 88 of 120

This is the pull we build every pie around.

Reserve your table

We built a small room around one long pull of cheese. Come test it.

Word on the line

What pulls people back.

★★★★★

The cheese pulled a full arm's length before it let go. Never seen anything like it at a pizza counter.

MR
Maya R. Regular since opening week
★★★★★

They remade my order because the pull broke early. That's the whole restaurant in one sentence.

DK
Devon K. First visit
★★★★★

Small room, loud oven, quiet confidence. The Classic Pull is worth the wait on a Friday.

PS
Priya S. Neighborhood regular

Visit

Come pull your own.

Address

142 Ember Lane, Unit 3
Placeholder, ON

Hours

Tue – Sun, 5 – 11pm
Closed Monday

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