Baldinucci Brought Roman Pizza to the Domain and the Move Is to Order Both Styles

Rock Rose does not need another pizza place. That is the honest starting position. Then a family that has been making pizza since 1977 opened on August 17 with two doughs, twenty-odd trays, and six-dollar garlic knots — and the whole calculation changes.

You walk that strip on a Friday and it is bachelorette parties and patio speakers and Little Woodrow's doing Little Woodrow's things, and pizza on a street like that usually means something that exists to soak up a night out.

Then there is a green olive-branch B hanging off a pole at 11501 Rock Rose, a hand-painted mural that reads Premium Artisan Pizza — Roman & NY Style, By the Slice, and a row of marble bistro tables under a wood pergola. We went on a weeknight, at that hour when the sky over the Domain goes flat blue and the string lights start to matter. We ordered too much on purpose.

The Whole Point Is That There Are Two Pizzas Here

Most places pick a lane. Baldinucci runs both, side by side, and the reason to come is to put them on the same table.

The New York side is a 16-inch round, cut into eight, sold by the slice — foldable, structural, correct. The Roman side is pizza al taglio: a rectangular tray, cut into strips, made with imported Italian flour and a high-hydration dough given a long slow ferment, up to 72 hours. Thicker than a New York slice, lighter than a Sicilian, and the inside is all open bubbly crumb. The family describes it as closer to ciabatta than to a pizza crust, and that is the right comparison. It shatters a little at the edge and then goes soft.

Order one of each. That is the entire strategy. Anyone who tells you to pick a side is wasting your table space.

Order the Fig and Arugula, Then Argue About It

The Roman tray we would send anyone to first is the Fig and Arugula — roasted peppers, balsamic glaze, a pile of arugula dropped on after the bake so it stays raw and peppery against the sweet. It arrives on a long wooden board, cut into strips, and it looks like something you would order at a wine bar rather than a pizza counter. It is also one of their vegan builds, which nobody at the table will notice or care about.

The other two the kitchen is known for run in the same direction — a sweet-and-savory build and a stripped-down one that has nowhere to hide:

The Nonna is the tell. A pizzeria that can make a plain garlic-and-tomato square taste like something is a pizzeria that is actually good. There are around twenty Roman options across vegetarian, meat, and vegan builds, plus roughly a dozen New York pies and a build-your-own. Gluten-free personal crusts are on the menu too.

The White Slice Is the Sleeper

On the New York side, everybody's eye goes to the loaded one — pepperoni cupping up at the edges, sausage, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, all of it stacked on a slice that somehow still holds its shape. Get it. It is the correct thing to hand someone who says they miss New York.

But the sleeper is the white. No sauce, just cheese pushed to the very edge of the crust, glossy, salty, faintly herby. It is a plain-looking slice that eats richer than anything else on the table, and it is the one that disappeared first. Hit it with the chili oil on the table — that bottle is not decorative.

The Garlic Knots Are Six Dollars and You Should Get Two Orders

Six to an order, brushed in garlic and parsley, soft in the middle. Six dollars.

Here is the thing about ordering two: one order looks polite, and then the pizza arrives and you realize you needed something to eat between slices. They are also the best thing on the menu for a table that has not decided what it wants yet. Get them down first, figure out the rest after.

No, There Is Not a Happy Hour

We looked. Baldinucci is not advertising a happy hour or a discounted drink window at Domain Northside — no half-off slices, no announced industry night, nothing posted at the counter. If you see one listed on an aggregator site, it did not come from the restaurant.

The value is in how you order instead:

One caveat, stated plainly: those prices come from Baldinucci's published menu, and the Domain location is a week old. Assume a dollar of drift here or there.

Where This Came From

This is a family operation, and not a new one. Salvatore, Patricia, and Gabriel Baldinucci run it, and the family opened its first pizzeria on Long Island in 1977 — the kind of detail that explains why the New York slice is not an afterthought bolted onto a Roman concept.

Austin got them in October 2022 in West Lake Hills, at Westbank Market on Bee Caves Road. That location closed on August 10 for an expansion and is scheduled to reopen in November. Which means right now, if you want this pizza, the Domain is the only place to get it.

Go Early, Sit Outside, Park in the Garage

Hours are 11am to 10pm Sunday through Thursday, and 11am to 11pm Friday and Saturday.

The patio is the reason to come, and it is small — a handful of marble two-tops and four-tops along the pedestrian strip, facing the mural. Go before 6pm on a weeknight and you will have your pick. Thursday through Saturday after 7pm, expect the Domain to be the Domain.

Park in the garages off Rock Rose or Domain Drive. Free, and circling the surface spots on a Saturday night is a choice you make against yourself.

The best version of this visit costs about twenty-five dollars a person: a Roman strip, a New York slice, knots for the table, and a glass of white while the light goes down over Rock Rose.

Quick Answers

Where is it? 11501 Rock Rose Ave., Ste. 146, in Domain Northside, Austin, TX 78758, on the Rock Rose pedestrian strip. It opened August 17, 2026.

Is there a happy hour? No — nothing advertised at the Domain location. Order by the slice, get the six-dollar knots, and drink the imported beer.

What is the difference between the two styles? Roman al taglio is a rectangular tray cut into strips, high-hydration dough fermented up to 72 hours, lighter and airier than a Sicilian. New York is a 16-inch round cut into eight foldable slices.

Is the West Lake Hills location open? Not right now. Westbank Market closed August 10 for an expansion and is scheduled to reopen in November 2026.