london1952 | Entries tagged with pizza

What's that bright thing outside ? ...my goodness it's the sun !! I've been very brave and watered the garden and all the pots as everything was so dry, but with so much frost recently it didn't seem a good idea before now........ quite a few of the bulbs in the pots seem a bit slow or stunted, I'm sure it's a mix of cold and dry, so there, I've done it !

It's the mildest day since we returned from Italy last Tuesday...... I'm VERY behind (as usual) posting anything about the wonderful week we had.

Our week in Le Marche started off with rain (heavy), fog (thick) and snow (picturesque!). In fact without the sat-nav I doubt we would have found the hotel we were staying at near Urbino. The view from our room window when we arrived was.....

....luckily the next morning we could see what was really there.....

We ate dinner in the restaurant attached to the hotel that evening and saw snow falling outside. We also spotted something "unusual" on the menu....

We settled instead for a beer (an rare shot of

london1967 with alcohol!) and a pizza........

sadly, no room in the suitcase for either of these lovelies !

which were about 5' tall !

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So, pizza, it originates from Naples and was "street-food" until the 1830s when pizza restaurants began to open, and we expected to try a couple whilst there. We did attempt to eat at a trattoria one night (for a non-pizza meal) but had such a strange experience trying to get a table we gave up and left in the end........

Three pizzerias on one block all belong to one family, they have been there for years and apparently there are 21 siblings/relatives working in them... I'm guessing with some rivalry ! The one with the biggest "queue" outside was Sorbillo, Gino's one, but we found a few doors down another one of the Sorbillo's clan and got a table straight away.

Fast service, a very sweet waitress, and a great pizza (one of the best I've had)... lovely and fresh ingredients...

as with other pizzerias in Naples, coffee is not an option at the end of a meal, so I had to "make do" with a glass of limoncello whilst Franco enjoyed a lemon dessert.

The next evening, after the aborted attempt at the trattoria we tried another pizzeria further up the street, a very tight fit at a draughty table...but again, once the order was taken the food arrived in next to no time....... so, it's just the base that's baked, with green salad, rocket, tomatoes, mozzarella and parmesan added - it was divine ! well, at least I thought so..... so fresh !

The next evening we dined at what appeared to be a "chain" restaurant, however the guy seemingly in charge ran it as if it were his own (ie: well).... no food photos except to show the novel way the bread came to the table, and the "themed" crockery, the design of which I thought was great...

On the last evening we decided to eat "early" and managed the get a table in "the" Sorbillo....all I can say is surly staff, very draughty table, BUT great pizza brought to the table unbelievably quickly !!

Apparently a fire virtually gutted this particular restaurant last year, and they were left with a stain on the wall that looked like a vision (??) so left the area undecorated......... maybe "Picasso woz 'ere!"

Surprisingly for such a large city there was not a lot of choice of places to eat...... but all three pizzas I had were exceptional, and a fraction of what they cost in the UK.......

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