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Born on the South Shore

From the South Shore
to Sackville Drive

Old School Pizza is not a chain and never has been. It is a Nova Scotia shop built on simple ideas: real ingredients, big portions and a good laugh at the counter.

How it started

Good pizza,
good times

It began back in 2016 out by St. Margaret's Bay. A pizza oven, a recipe for dough nobody was willing to compromise on, and a simple idea about what good pizza should be. Word got around the South Shore fast. Turns out people will drive a long way for a donair that is actually loaded and a pizza that tastes like someone made it on purpose.

Nearly ten years later we packed it all up and headed up the highway to Middle Sackville. The shop on Sackville Drive is the new home base, but nothing about the food changed. Same dough, same real bacon, same house donair, and the same good-natured ribbing across the counter.

The feature wall inside Old School Pizza in Middle Sackville, with the Nova Scotia flag, a painted map of the South Shore from St. Margaret's Bay to Sackville, and a row of pizza jokes.
The road north

Nine years, one highway

There is a hand-painted map on our wall that traces the whole trip. Here is the short version.

  • 2016

    It starts on the bay

    The first Old School Pizza fires up near St. Margaret's Bay. Dough made in house, donairs spun fresh, and a name that says exactly what we are about.

  • The bay years

    Word travels the South Shore

    From Hubbards to Tantallon to Hammonds Plains, regulars turn into the kind of crowd that knows the menu by heart. The Old School Special and the Bad Boy donair earn their reputation.

  • 2025

    New home on Sackville Drive

    We bring the whole operation to 1899 Sackville Drive in Middle Sackville. Bigger kitchen, same recipes, and a fresh wall full of jokes to go with your pizza.

  • Today

    Feeding the neighbourhood

    Take-out and delivery seven days a week for Middle Sackville, Lower Sackville, Hammonds Plains, Bedford and everyone in between. Good pizza, good times, the old school way.

"Deep down, I know pizza loves me too."

Yes, this one is on the wall as well
What stays the same

The house rules

Made to order

Nothing sits under a heat lamp waiting for you. Your pizza gets built and baked when you call, not before.

Real ingredients

Real bacon, house donair meat, our own Brothers Pepperoni and dough we make from scratch. No shortcuts on the stuff that matters.

Nova Scotia proud

Garlic fingers, donairs, fish and chips and a flag on the wall. We are Maritime through and through and happy about it.

Built for the family

A kids menu, big combos and portions made for sharing. Pizza night should not be complicated.

Come say hi

Pull up to
Sackville Drive

1899 Sackville Drive, Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia