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.
#PizzaTuesday celebrates a taste of Trianon at Santoré
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. [Read more...]
12 March 2010 By 1 Comment
snaps from #PizzaTuesday at Pizza Metro
The next #PizzaTuesday is on the 23rd of March 7:30pm at Santoré – 59 Exmouth Market, London. Book now.
10 March 2010 By 2 Comments
1st PizzaTuesday: for the love of tomato
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 the self-confidence of pizzaiolo Herbie Leonelli. He is unaccustomed to people limiting themselves to just 2 or 3 small slices of his authentic pizza bianca romana. It must have killed him to see a sizeable pile of unclaimed pieces left behind on the tray. [Read more...]
3 February 2010 By 1 Comment
Roman pizzeria to London: “Datte Foco”
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 Foco could be interpreted here in the baking or eating sense. But many Italians recognise it as a Roman way of telling a friend, good-naturedly, to go burn in hell. [Read more...]
20 January 2010 By 18 Comments
At London’s Pizza East, love is in the air pockets
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 uncertainties to a Hoagy Carmichael melody? The fatalism in the song How Little We Know reflects my own doubts ever since I fell madly in love, almost nine hours ago, with the pizza at Pizza East, a two-day-old restaurant in the Tea Building (56 Shoreditch High Street, London – see map. Tel 020 7729 1888). [Read more...]
17 October 2009 By 7 Comments
no mozza wellies at London fashion week
How disappointing: no designer at London fashion week featured the white Wellington boots worn by the mozzarella makers of Campania, Italy in their collections. Stylish, hygienic and functional in a variety of social and industrial settings, the white mozza wellies, with their burly baby-blue treads, would have suited the wet-look creations, smooth finishes and pastel-accentuated light neutrals envisioned for spring 2010. [Read more...]
25 September 2009 By Leave a Comment
Pizza bianca romana conquers Londinium
The City of London was founded around 50 AD, when Emperor Claudius and his Roman army built a fortified settlement on the River Thames. Nearly 2000 years later, the scent of a quieter Roman invasion is wafting through the Londinium air, rousing knowing noses from their morning misery and lunchtime lethargy and pointing the way to the nearest of 5 bakeries emitting the heady fumes of pizza bianca romana. [Read more...]
6 June 2009 By Leave a Comment
