Earlier this month, Herbie Leonelli was not his usual easygoing self. The pizzaiolo co-patron of Datte Foco in London was getting his first visit from the maestro, Giuseppe Russo of Pizzeria Russo in Rome. “Call me Giuseppe,” the master would instruct his apprentice. “Yes, maestro,” the apprentice would invariably reply. With each pizza Leonelli pulled [...]

The next #PizzaTuesday is on the 23rd of March 7:30pm at Santore, Exmouth Market, London EC1. BOOK NOW.

The next gathering of the #PizzaTuesday papparazzi is on the 23rd of March 7:30pm at Santoré – 59 Exmouth Market, London. Camera phones welcome. Book now.

The connection between the London restaurant/pizzeria Santoré and the legendary Naples pizzeria Trianon da Ciro is unsubstantiated and at best tenuous. The quality of the pizza, however, does not lie.

The next #PizzaTuesday is on the 23rd of March 7:30pm at Santoré – 59 Exmouth Market, London. Book now.

The debut of the youngandfoodish PizzaTuesday series at Datte Foco was no event for sprinters. The entrants on Tuesday night were all analytically minded marathoners of good taste who know an endurance tasting when they see one. So extraordinary was the restraint exhibited by these distance runners in the event’s earliest stages that it threatened to trample [...]

These days it’s easy to pick out the Italian expats on Stoke Newington Church St. They’re the ones picking their jaws up from the pavement after having spotted the words DATTE FOCO – slang for “light yourself on fire” – spelled out in white letters on the shop window beside the Three Crowns pub. Datte [...]

Who knows why an April breeze never remains? Why stars in the trees hide when it rains? Love comes along, casting a spell Will it sing you a song? Will it say a farewell? Who can tell? Could the great lyricist Johnny Mercer have had pizza in mind when he matched these lines about love’s [...]