London Pizza Festival 2018
London Pizza Festival in Borough Market – a fun, entertaining event with plenty of pizza tasting!
A meal at pizzeria O’ver, Southwark
Blink and you’ll miss it! Indeed, I had to ask a friend to explain where O’ver was, as even driving past each afternoon, I had not even noticed this new, bright and a little anonymous pizzeria that opened less than two months ago on Southwark Street. Combining the very best regional ingredients with traditional recipes, ‘O ver is the first restaurant in the UK to use the unique ingredient of Pure Sea Water. Living near Waterloo, pizza and ice cream is…
Pizza Gourmet: Identità Golose at Harrods
The love of Brits for that beautiful Neapolitan tradition that is pizza does not seem to abate. The latest exciting event in the world of dough and flour and tomato is Pizza Gourmet, a joint venture between Harrods Pizzeria and Identità Golose. From Tuesday 27th until Saturday 31st October, six limited edition pizzas by two very different but equally talented pizzaioli will be offered to the London public: Franco Pepe of famous Pepe in Grani pizzeria from Caiazzo (near Caserta)…
Le Strade della Mozzarella reach London
Every year in Paestum, in the beautiful area south of Naples called Cilento, a group of local mozzarella producers host an event called Le Strade della Mozzarella (Mozzarella Roads). I have never managed to attend and every year I read about it and see photos of amazing dishes and turn green with envy. This year, the group behind the event has actually brought the whole event to London (stopping in Paris and Geneva on the way). Obviously, I was not…
A pizza at Vigata, King’s Cross
The idea of making my way across London to Pentonville Road on an early wintry Sunday evening really did not appeal to me, but we had arranged to meet up a couple of weeks earlier so I did not feel like pulling out. And I am glad I didn’t! Myself and a few fellow bloggers had been invited to try Sicilian owned Vigata pizzeria, a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross station. I admit I had my doubts: Sicily isn’t…