Pizza

• Trade Union Wapping combines coffee, cocktails, restaurant and barber

  

  The next Grand Union will actually be called Trade Union, and is coming to Wapping, is broadening what it does a little, specifically in the coffee and barbershop direction. It's a huge space (over 6000 square feet) which means they have plenty of room for everything. And they'll be pushing it all as a hub for daily working with plenty of charging spots throughout too. 

  First up is the coffee, for which

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• Harrods is having a five day gourmet pizza pop-up

  

  If you're into pizza, and we mean REALLY into pizza, then the pop-up hitting Harrods this month is going to have you drooling over your deep pan. Two Italian chefs pushing the boundaries of pizzas back in Italy are taking over The Pizzeria in store for five days. Pizza Gourmet will feature six pizzas by Veronese chef Simone Padoan and Neaopolitan chef Franco Pepe as part of a special promotion by Identità Golose.

  Pepe, whose restaurant Pepe in Grani is just outside

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• Pizza Pilgrims is bringing pizza - and soup - to Exmouth Market

  

  There's more change on the way to Exmouth Market as one of the top pizza purveyors of Soho are on the way there with their latest pizzeria.

  Expect lots of pizza. In case you're not aware of them already, they're known for their - very good indeed - Neapolitan pizza coming in Margherita, Marinara, Carbonara and spicy Nduja flavours (they were one of the earliest to use nduja in

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• Fornetto pizza al tranchio is now open on Charing Cross Road

  

  Looks like there's a pizza war hotting up on Charing Cross Road. At one end of the road you have newly-opened NY Fold from American pizza champion Bruno DiFabio, and now there's Fornetto setting out its stall for Italian pizza.

  This latest London pizzeria opened just a week ago and is a pizza al tranchio kinda place - which is to say it serves up pizza by the slice. It's a labour of love by Alessio Chong Zheng Dong who took an apprenticeship with Roman pizza

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• The Green and Fortune Cafe launches Project Pizza in King's Place

  

  There's a new pizza place coming to King's Cross, and this one's inside the big King's Place building, as part of the Green and Fortune Café (so it's very handy for Guardian workers). They're launching the new Project Pizza. 

  They'll be serving 12" pizzas from £6.50 - £7.50 (or by the slice from £3). Pizzas will include Spicy ground beef, caramelised red onion and rocket, and Roast piquillo pepper, spinach

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• Superfast Roman pizzas - we Test Drive Pizza Union in King's Cross

  Wood-fired, Roman-style pizzas cooked in minutes - we went to see if Pizza Union was as good as it sounded

• Giorgio Locatelli's Pizza Locadeli pop-up is coming to Islington

  

  The roving pizza popup set up by Giorgio Locatelli with his wife Plaxy, which was in Marylebone for a three week stint last September, is once more on the move.

  This time the Michelin-starred chef is going to be throwing pizzas in Islington (well at least his staff will). Pizza Locadeli will take over the old Post Office space on Upper Street for three months. The space around it is currently being redeveloped as Islington Square - part of a multimillion pound new

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• Homeslice to open second restaurant in Fitzrovia

  

  They're already big in Covent Garden and now Homeslice are on the way to Fitzrovia with their second restaurant. 

  This time they're going a bit bigger as the new place will seat 120 and they'll have a dedicated takeaway space - which will be handy if you're working in the area. Otherwise expect a cocktail bar, counter seating and a big wood fired oven in the middle of the restaurant. 

  As for food, there will be a seasonal list of 20” pizzas, available

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• 400 Rabbits pizzeria set to open in Crystal Palace

  

  The progression of central London trends out to the burbs continues with news that Crystal Palace is about to get a sourdough pizza and craft beer restaurant. Four Hundred Rabbits will serve up sourdough pizzas featuring Fior de Latte Mozzarella, San Marzano Tomatoes and topped with all manner of UK artisanal produce. Think British charcuterie or slow smoked rare breed brisket.

  The name comes from an Aztec legend that the resulting brood of a romp

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• Pizza Pilgrims and Cinnamon Kitchen join forces for a week-long alfresco pop-up

  

  Fresh from getting a Francesco Mazzei seal of approval, Pizza Pilgrims are about to head into the City for a week long pop-up with Vivek Singh's Cinnamon Kitchen.

  They'll be setting up shop (or more accurately, van) on Cinnamon Kitchen's terrace from noon

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• US pizza champion Bruno DiFabio to open NY Fold pizzeria on Charing Cross Road

  

  "I’m going to turn the pizza world on its ear in London." That's fighting talk, that is. And it comes from New Yorker Bruno DiFabio who is A Big Thing when it comes to pizza stateside. He's a six world pizza championship title holder and has 10 pizzerias across America. And now he's coming to London.

  DiFabio's first UK restaurant willl open on Charing Cross Road in London and, if successful, is intended to be the first of many - with at least

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