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Meet the Pizzas: 2019 London Pizza Festival
As one of the 900 pizza-loving Londoners attending the 2019 London Pizza Festival, which returns to Borough Market June 2nd, you will not have to settle for just one or two of the showcase pizzas and forgo the rest. You'll be served quarter-pizza slices of all 6! The...
Highlights from 2018 London Pizza Festival
In winning the 2018 London Pizza Festival at Borough Market, Wandercrust did not establish itself as the best pizzeria in London. The result did prove that among six signature pizzas presented by six great pizza makers, the American Psycho was the preferred choice of...
Meet the Pizzas: 2018 London Pizza Festival
The 800 pizza-loving Londoners who attend the 2018 London Pizza Festival, which returns to Borough Market Sunday May 20th, will not have to settle for just one or two of the featured pizzas and forgo the rest. They'll be served quarter-pizza slices of all 6! The only...
Ice Cubes on a Pizza
What's the most outrageous pizza topping you've ever tried– or sworn off ever trying? Pineapple? Spaghetti? Hot dogs? Sauerkraut? Kimchee? Pastrami? Tortilla chips? The great Stefano Callegari of Sforno Pizza e Vino in Rome tops his Cacio e Pepe Pizza with a base...
London Pizza Festival: The Judges
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The Making of Radio Alice’s Potato & Lardo Bruschetta
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a spring pizza party at Radio Alice, the Hoxton Square pizzeria that will be competing at the May 28th London Pizza Festival. Radio Alice will open a second London pizzeria in Clapham next month. Testing out some new spring...
Music to Make Pizza By
The longest hour of my life consisted of 60 interminable minutes waiting for a couple of slices at Di Fara Pizza in Brooklyn. Years before he turned 80, pizza legend Dom DeMarco worked at a pace all his own. On a return visit earlier this month I didn't watch the...
Taste of New Haven’s Colin Caplan Tests his Pizza Faith
Author, historian and architect Colin M. Caplan is a great champion of New Haven-style pizza, which the locals know, according to the old dialect spoken in New Haven’s Little Italy, as apizza. He operates Taste of New Haven and the Elm City Party Bike, leading pizza...
Sitting in the Queue at Pizzeria Gino Sorbillo
When, on November 22nd, I took my Naples VIP Pizza Tour to Pizzeria Gino Sorbillo the last thing I expected was that we would be made to sit in the queue. My idea of a VIP welcome is being shepherded through the hordes waiting outside the restaurant to the most...
Ethereal Pizza: In the Spaces Between
In Beauty, the Design Triennial Exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt in New York, curators Andrea Lipps and Ellen Lupton define "ethereal" as it relates to design: Designers create forms that shape space, time, light, or air, sometimes defying permanence and weight in...
And the winner of the 2016 London Pizza Festival is…
To celebrate the publication of Where To Eat Pizza, the 2016 London Pizza Festival featured 5 great pizza makers from the Experts' Guide to the Best Pizza Places in the World: The Hearth, Homeslice, Pizza Pilgrims, Rosspomodoro and Yard Sale Pizza competed for the...
London Pizza Festival: Meet the Pizzas
[rev_slider meetthepizzas] These are the 5 pizzas to be featured at the London Pizza Festival this Sunday June 5th at Borough Market. Everyone who enters with a full admission ticket will be invited to try them all (or their vegetarian alternatives) and then...
Is Pizza by Heston at LHR Worth a Detour?
To try the wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza "perfected" by Team Heston Blumenthal you must not be carrying any liquids, gels, creams or pastes in containers over 100ml. That's because the pizza is served exclusively at The Perfectionists' Cafe, Heston's fast-food...
London is One Hot Pizza Town
Competing for pizza glory at the 13th September London Pizza Festival the team behind Made of Dough chose to showcase its Chorizo pizza topped with spicy chorizo and piquillo peppers. The pizza dudes from Brixton clearly understood a factor that I, a Margherita man,...
Slinging Slices of Pizza in London’s West End
Three new fast-casual restaurants bring pizza-by-the-slice to Charing Cross road in Central London. Here are my early takes based on single visits to NY FOLD, Fornetto and Vico. NY FOLD The New Yorkese way to attack a triangular slice cut from a large pizza is...
Meet the Pizzas – #LondonPizzaFestival
Vegetarian alternatives will be offered for the two pizzas containing meat. The £30 full ticket price includes admission, 6 quarter-pizzas and 1 Beavertown beer or soft drink. A limited number of £8 admission-only tickets are available for those...
The Curse of the Two-Euro Gelato
Le Strade della Mozzarella (#LSDM) stopped in London on Monday to spread the joy of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP and so did the master gelataio Simone Bonini. The craftsman behind the Carapina shops in Florence and Rome showcased stracciatella ("torn apart")...
Maestro Pizzaiolo Franco Pepe Thinks Back Looks Forward
On the Wednesday morning following PizzaTuesday Naples, my insider's tour of the pizza heartland, the group met with the great Franco Pepe on the sunny rooftop of Pepe in Grani, his pizzeria in the town of Caiazzo. Recalling the prior night's tasting of 10...
Why Pizza in Naples Has to be So Soft
Naples shared its love of pizza and dry pasta with the world many years ago but something got lost in translation. Rather than eat pasta al dente and pizza soft, in the Neapolitan way, foreigners learned to do the opposite. Non-Italians at last discovered the...
A Pox on the Pizza Polka Dots
Until this week I assumed the appearance of mozzarella polka dots on Neapolitan-style pizzas was an unintended consequence of using the wrong cheese or handling the right cheese improperly. But groundbreaking London pizza merchants like Franco Manca and Pizza...
Neapolitan Pizza Master Enzo Coccia Loves Stringy Fior di Latte
Neapolitans may sing the praises of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP but mostly they eat fior di latte – mozzarella made from cow's milk – on their pizza. Any ambivalence about fior di latte , as opposed to buffalo mozzarella, might have something to do with...
Da Michele’s Master Pizzaiolo Shows His Age
The very first pizza of PizzaTuesday Naples, the young&foodish group tour of the world's pizza capital, was shaped by the hands of Luigi Condurro at the legendary L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele. The master pizzaiolo lightly pinched the corners of the uncooked pizza...
For 3 Franco Pepe Pizzas, A Special Delivery
Forget the great operatic tenors of La Scala. No voice in all of Italy is so lyrical as that of a Pepe in Grani waiter serving you a Franco Pepe pizza. At this incomparable pizzeria in a hilltop village some 30 miles (50km) north of Naples, every pizza made by Pepe,...
Pizza Pilgrims Think Out of Box & Into Pan
"I have something for you," said Londoner James Elliot, one of the Pizza Pilgrims behind the pizza van and insanely popular pizzeria of that name. "I'd like to you take it home and test it." I assumed the white pizza box Elliot handed me contained a pizza, albeit a...
Pizza Fritta Ripieno: A Neapolitan Street Food Classic in the Making
The wall menu at the great Naples pizzeria-friggitoria Di Matteo saves the best for last: The 27th of 27 listed selections is pizza fritta ripieno, a Neapolitan street food classic. The puffy golden saucer of "stuffed fried pizza" is traditionally filled with...
8 Naples Pizzerias in 1 Day & 2 Minutes
On September 25th at 6:10am GMT I flew from London to Naples, Italy. On September 25th at 9pm CET I flew from Naples back to London. I spent the time between trying 16 Neapolitan pizza at eight of the world's greatest pizzerias in the space of 8 hours. To fully...
Is Egg on Lardo’s Lardo Pizza set in stone?
The salumi, pizza and wine bar Lardo is a go-to restaurant with a go-to pizza. It brings a stylish but easygoing vibe I'd expect to find tucked away in my old home borough, Manhattan, to my new home borough, Hackney. But I just can't work up more excitement than that...
A London Pizza Tragedy in One Act
London, 4 August 2013 Dear Paolo, Tonight I fell in love at 6:55 and fell into despair at 7:28. For this reversal of fortune I have only you to thank. I hate you, Paolo Barone. You may recall that just one week ago you suggested I check out L'Antica Pizzeria in...
