Surf & Turf

What is it?

Surf and turf on a pizza, pairing succulent prawns with tender steak and lightly seasoned beef on a tomato base. Seafood and red meat together is a restaurant convention rather than a pizza one, and the difficulty is timing. Prawns overcook quickly and steak wants heat, so both have to go onto a pizza already accounting for the difference, which is part of why so few chains attempt it at all. Diced tomato and onion are the only vegetables, keeping the focus on the three proteins. The menu marks it as containing imported seafood, which is worth knowing given how much Australian seafood labelling turns on origin.