A Pop-Up Logo for Me & My Pop-Up Dinners

From the inaugural BurgerMonday pop-up  on 24 January 2011 with the Young Turks as guest chefs to the first FryFriday pop-up on 10 February 2012 with Anh Vu and Van Tran of Banhmi11 my dinners have been shared experiences only as good as – but, happily,  every bit as good as – the London food obsessives who filled the tables and grasped what it meant to be, feel and eat young&foodish(ly). [Read more...]

how franco manca folds a slice of pizza

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

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.

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...]