A pizza blistering inside a traditional wood-fired brick oven with roaring orange flames licking the dome — the signature fiery hero shot for Forno Otto

Est. 2019 · Wood-fired · Napoli in Koramangala

Wood-fired Neapolitan,
ninety seconds at 480°C.

A single roaring oven. Dough left to ferment forty-eight hours. San Marzano tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, and a crust that comes out charred, airy and alive.

  • 0°COven floor heat
  • 0sBake time
  • 0hDough ferment
Pizza chef's hands kneading and stretching dough on a heavily floured table — the craft behind the 48-hour ferment Otto = eight, the eighth oven we built before this one caught right.

La nostra storia

We chase one thing: a crust that tastes of fire.

Forno Otto began with a stubborn idea — that Bengaluru deserved pizza baked the way Naples has done it for two centuries. No conveyor, no electric deck. Just a domed brick oven, seasoned Acacia and mango wood, and a floor hot enough to blister a pie in ninety seconds.

Our dough is only four things: flour, water, sea salt and a little wild yeast. We mix it by feel, then let it rest cold for two full days until it turns light and faintly sour. That slow ferment is why our crust puffs into a leopard-spotted cornicione and stays soft enough to fold.

Everything else we keep honest. Whole San Marzano tomatoes crushed by hand. Fior di latte torn, never sliced. Basil and olive oil added the second a pie leaves the flame.

How the oven works →

Il forno & la pasta

One oven. Two days of dough. Ninety seconds of fire.

The heart of the room is a four-tonne brick dome we fire every morning with seasoned hardwood. By service its floor holds around 480°C — hot enough that a pizza cooks through before its cheese can weep. That heat is the whole secret: fast, fierce, and impossible to fake on an electric deck.

0°C Brick-floor temperature at the pass
0s From peel to plate, edge already charred
0h Cold ferment before a ball is ever stretched
0 Ingredients in the dough — flour, water, salt, yeast
Close-up of bright open flames raging inside a rustic wood-fired oven, embodying the 480°C heat of authentic Neapolitan baking
Head pizzaiolo Nikhil Rao at the mouth of the wood-fired oven, sliding a pizza toward the flames

Il pizzaiolo

Nikhil Rao

Founder & Head Pizzaiolo

Nikhil spent three years in Naples before opening Forno Otto, earning his certificate from the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana and working the ovens at a family pizzeria in the Sanità quarter. He came home determined to bake the real thing — same 55–60% hydration dough, same San Marzano, same fire.

"A good pizza is a conversation between the dough and the flame. My job is just to not get in the way."

Cosa dicono

What the regulars say

★★★★★
The Diavola with chilli honey ruined me for every other pizza in the city. That crust is proper — chewy, charred, smoky. We now come every Friday.
Ananya MenonIndiranagar · regular since 2021
★★★★★
I lived in Rome for a decade and I was ready to be disappointed. I wasn't. The Marinara alone tells you these people respect the dough.
Marco FerrettiVisiting from Roma
★★★★★
You watch the oven from your table and the pie lands in under two minutes, blistered and singing. Book ahead on weekends — it fills up fast.
Kabir & Rehana ShahKoramangala

Trovaci

Come find the fire

We're a small room off 80 Feet Road with the oven in full view. Walk-ins are welcome, but the counter and window tables go early — a quick reservation is the safe bet.

Address

Forno Otto
No. 8, 4th Block, 80 Feet Road,
Koramangala, Bengaluru 560034
Karnataka, India

Hours

  • MonClosed (oven rests)
  • Tue – Sun12:00 – 15:00
  • Tue – Sun18:30 – 23:00

Reserve a table

Tell us when you'd like to eat and we'll confirm by phone or WhatsApp, usually within the hour.

No deposit, no spam — just a quick confirmation from a real person at the pass.