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- Base Face Pizza are coming to Richmond
They already have pizzerias in Putney and Barnes and now Base Face Pizza are getting ready to open their next location a little further west in Richmond. It's planned to be their flagship space, taking over from their original pizzeria in Hammersmith (which closed last week).
The pizzeria has a slightly unusual origin, being set up by former professional jazz musician Tim Thornton, who started
... - Rudy's takes over the old Dairy spot on Clapham Common
They nabbed second place at this year's UK's Best Pizza Awards and now Rudy's Pizza Napoletana are gearing up to open their first neighbourhood restaurant in London. The Neapolitan pizzeria is taking over the old The Diary space right beside Clapham Common, making this their first foray outside central London (they already have restaurants in Soho, Shoreditch, Tottenham Court Road, Spitalfields, Queensway and
... - Crosta Mollica is bringing its pizza bases to Shoreditch for pop-up pizzeria, Il Leopardo
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Crosta Mollica already have quite the reputation for their excellent ready-made pizza bases. If you haven't already cottoned on to them as a great home pizza option, now you can have a chance to try the pizzas out first, with the help of some expert pizza makers.
The authentic Italian pizza brand is
... - Bad Boy Pizza are opening a permanent pizzeria in Bethnal Green with NYC-style slices and more
Bad Boy Pizza Society have so far been such a big success at their residency in Tulse Hill, Seven Dials Market and Vinegar Yard that they've been named National Pizza of the Year at the National Pizza Awards in both 2022 and 2024. Now they've decided that it's time to go permanent with a new pizzeria in Bethnal Green.
The plan is for the pizzeria to be
... - Pizza Pilgrims next pizzeria is on Brick Lane
A second Pizza Pilgrims is on the way to Shoreditch, this time opening on Brick Lane opening as part of the Truman Brewery.
If you've been to a Pizza Pilgrims before, you'll know what to expect: 72-hour, double-fermented dough, used in all their Neapolitan pizzas. And as for the pizzas themselves, alongside the classics, you'll find:
- Nduja - Spicy & meaty Calabrian sausage on
- The best pizzas and pizzerias in London
London remains the place to be in the UK for this country's and indeed Europe's (outside of Italy, of course) best pizzas. From traditional Neapolitan to crispy new Haven-style pizzas as well as the recent trend for deep dishes, here's where to find London's best.
- Brillo sees Forno transforming into an evening listening bar with pizza and natural wine
In Hackney, Forno (from Mitshel Ibrahim, the man behind Ombra) has already been doing some impressive things with pastry. Now it's trying something different in the evenings, launching Brillo.
Brillo will be taking over the Forno space every Friday, transforming it into "a listening bar of sorts". Each Friday, they'll be cooking pizzas in the ovens,
... - Spring Street Pizza sees chef pivot from Michelin restaurants to a Borough arch
Being the chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant isn't an easy task, so you can totally understand why they might want to swap the pressures of that job for one that's a bit more fun. That's the new career path of chef Tom Kemble, who won a Michelin star while running the restaurant at Bonhams and has also worked in top-level kitchens like Hedone and Faviken, but is now opening a pizzeria.
Spring Street is the end
... - Ace Pizza are opening their first pizzeria, in Victoria Park, serving up London-style slices
If you've been to The Pembury Tavern, you might have come across Ace Pizza by Rachel Jones, where its been a hugely popular residency. Well, now she's getting her own place, just off Victoria Park.
Jones has developed her own style of pizza now dubbed "The London-style Pizza". It's designed to have "the chew and char of Neapolitan dough with the structure and
... - Naples meets London as 081 Pizzeria take their popular pizzas to Shoreditch
They're currently No 43 on the Best Pizzas in Europe list (excluding Italy), and now Peckham's 081 are expanding. They're about to open their second pizzeria, this time in Shoreditch. Taking over the old Iron Bloom spot on Eastern Street will give them a bigger, more central restaurant.
If you haven't been down to Peckham to try them yet, then here's some intel about them. The man behind 081 is Andrea Ascuiti. He was born in Naples (so he
... - Pizza by Jagua brings a West African spin to a Marylebone pizzeria
Many things open under the radar in London, and this newish pizzeria that opened in Marylebone is one of them that we're only catching up on now. Pizza by Jagua is in Marylebone (near the currently closed Chiltern Firehouse) and is billed as a vermuteria and pizzeria. However, it tries something quite different in that the pizzas are West African-inspired. Not many details have been
... - Santa Maria's latest pizzeria is in Paddington's The Frontline Club
Just a couple of months after opening their last pizzeria, Santa Maria are at it again. This time they're coming to Paddington.
It comes just as the group approach their 15th anniversary, having opened their first place in Ealing way back in 2010. This latest pizzeria is
... - Test Driving Breadstall - pizza-by-the-slice arrives in Soho
After several successful years in Battersea, Breadstall opens its first permanent (and indoor) location in Soho, serving up huge pizzas and slices. We went down to try it for ourselves.
- Dough Hands pizzas set up residency inside Nunhead's The Old Nun's Head
You might have caught them as they've been popping up all over London before settling down for a residency in Hackney's Spurstowe Arms. Now Dough Hands is heading south for a second residency, this time in Nunhead.
Setting up shop in The Nun's Head pub, Dough Hands comes from pizza chef Hannah Drye who has been working on creating her own personal style of pizza. The focus for her
... - Marta pizzeria in Chelsea is all about thin Roman-style pizzas
In the run-up to the end of last year, we were so focused on the recent openings of Alley Cats and Zia Lucia in Chelsea that we missed another very promising new Chelsea pizza opening, called Marta.
It opened on Fulham Road (taking over the space from L'Artigiano) and it shifts away from the predominant Neapolitan focus of many London pizzerias and instead is all about Roman pizzas. Those are large,
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