Pizza
- FKABAM (Black Axe Mangal) teams up with Tabasco for a pizza pop-up
Here's a pop-up for the diary. Lee Tiernan's FKABAM (Formerly Known As Black Axe Mangal) is teaming up with Tabasco for a special pop-up pizzeria.
Taking place at the Islington restaurant, it'll turn into a pizzeria for the night with everything cooked in the huge wood-burning oven. The pizzas for the night include new creations as well as spin-offs of FKABAM favourites. So
... - Yard Sale teams up with Chicken Shop Date's Amelia Dimoldenberg for a Women's Euros pizza
Inspired by her hugely popular YouTube series Chicken Shop Date, celebrity interviewer Amelia Dimoldenberg is teaming up with Yard Sale Pizza for a very special limited edition pizza.
Obviously, the collab had to have chicken in there somewhere and the Amelia Dimz Extremely Edible Chicken Nugget Pizza kind of gives the game away. The special features
... - Brighton's Fatto a Mano come to King's Cross with Fatto Pizza & Beer
They're big in Brighton (and are also at Boxpark Shoreditch and Croydon). Now Fatto a Mano are coming to London with a permanent restaurant - Fatto Pizza & Beer in King's Cross.
First up are the Neapolitan pizzas. They include classics like
... - A Stranger Things pizza pop-up has appeared in London
The wait is finally over as the latest series of Stranger Things has finally arrived (well, the first half of it anyway).
A big launch from Netflix usually sees them putting on an event or two in London, and this is no exception. This time, they've gone down the pizza route and have opened a branch of Surfer Boy Pizza (as seen in the show) called a Slice of the Upside Down.
... - 50 Top Pizza 2022 unveil the best pizzerias in Europe (London makes it to no. 3)
This week in the world of restaurant awards, it's time for pizza. At a ceremony in Milan, the new 50 Top Pizza awards were unveiled, with Peppe Pizzeria in Paris once again topping the list. But it wasn't a bad day for London, with 50 Kalò London making it as high as number three on the list (and 50 Kalo's Ciro Salvo also getting an
... - Napoli Gang are opening their first pizza shop, in Ladbroke Grove
4/5/22 - Updated with the opening date
While we wait for more details of what the Big Mamma Group (the people behind Ave Mario and Circolo Popolare) have planned for their next big restaurant in Kensington, they're already moving ahead with bricks and mortar plans for their Napoli Gang brand which is now opening a pizza shop in Ladbroke Grove.
If you haven't encountered Napoli Gang on Deliveroo
... - Vin-Yard is a mash-up wine and pizza bar by Top Cuvee and Yard Sale Pizza this May
You could never accuse the folk at either Top Cuvee or Yard Sale on letting the grass grow under their feet. And now, the two hardest grafters in town are teaming up for what promises to be an epic collaboration.
Vin-Yard will take over the basement space at Yard Sale Pizza's Hackney Road location. It will be, they say "the perfect marriage of wine bar and pizza parlour. Top Cuvée have come up
... - Zia Lucia Pizzeria's next stop is Stoke Newington
Zia Lucia have been tearing around London, opening pizzerias and their latest is in the adjoining neighbourhood of the original on Holloway Road - they're opening in Stoke Newington.
They're taking over the site that was once Il Bacio, so it's not a complete departure for the area. If you're unfamiliar with Zia Lucia, the pizzeria's main feature is their 48-hour fermented dough, available
... - Happy Face pizza expands to Victoria and Brent Cross
8/4/22 - updated with Brent Cross opening details
They've proven to be a hit in King's Cross (of which Grace Dent was a fan) and now Happy Face pizza is expanding with two new restaurants - one that has already quietly
... - Flat Earth Pizza are opening a permanent meat-free restaurant in Bethnal Green
You may have caught them in pop-ups and residencies over the past couple of years. but now Flat Earth pizza are getting ready to unveil their first restaurant (which just happens to be where they held their first-ever pop-up).
Set up by Sarah Brading and Rich Baker, Flat Earth are all about meat-free pizzas with an added focus on sustainability. Together they
... - Someday margarita, taco and pizza bar hits Finsbury Park
Finsbury Park residents who've been watching the opening of all the new food and drink businesses at the station over the past few months may have been a little disappointed by how slightly 'chain-y' it is. But something new and independent has flung open its doors and that place is Someday.
Run by the same team who own Moth Bar in Hackney, the self-styled margarita and spritz bar genuinely sounds like
... - Zia Lucia's next pizzeria is in Balham
Updated 6/12/21 with new opening date
Zia Lucia are continuing their march south with a new pizzeria, this time in Balham.
If you're not familiar with them, they first started on Holloway Road (where they've now merged with pasta restaurant Berto) and the restaurant is all centred around their 48-hour slow-fermented doughs. With each pizza, you get a choice of traditional white
... - Pizza Pilgrims and Yard Sale add more pizzerias - in Queensway and Crofton Park
22/11/21 - updated with Yard Sale opening date
There's even more pizza on the way as two of London's favourites expand with a couple of new openings.
First off, we have Pizza Pilgrims, who are heading west to Queensway. Their new place there is an 85-seater restaurant and you can have Neapolitan pizzas that
... - Yard Sale's September pizza is a Dom's Sub collab, The Dom-ino’s
We always have an eye out for Yard Sale's collaborations, as they're usually pretty darned good. And their September option sounds pretty much unmissable.
This month they've teamed up with sandwich slingers Dom's Subs for a must-try meatball sub pizza. The Dom-ino’s features Yard Sale's classic base tomato sauce, along with fior di latte mozzarella, a topping of crushed pork & beef meatballs, friarielli, chilli
... - Test Driving Slice by Pizza Pilgrims - Finsbury Park gets a new pizza by the slice joint
The Pizza Pilgrims team now have a diffusion line - mixing American influences with Neapolitan flavours. We went to Finsbury Park to grab a slice and a cocktail.