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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...
Focaccia col formaggio: The most addictive food on the planet?
[rev_slider Focaccia] There are all sorts of good things to eat at the Mercato Metropolitano, the new, mostly Italian food market near London's Elephant and Castle (map), from Neapolitan pizza to fried calamari, gelato to stracciatella cheese. But the reason...
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...
