Sunday, May 3, 2009

5 Finest Pizza Restaurants in the UK

By Karen Rasin

Pizza is a global food. Everyone all over the world loves eating pizza, and it comes in so many varieties that you can no longer say that Italian pizza is the original pizza. From the Middle East to America, there are many kinds of pizzas and different regions offer their special kinds of pizza for the pizza lovers. To top it off, restaurants have also started making special pizza's that reflect their cuisine.

The United Kingdom is really a multi-ethnic country, because it is filled with all types of people from different races. The most multi-ethnic city in the United Kingdom, nevertheless, is London; this city of United Kingdom has individuals from many parts of the world, and in addition, draws the attention of the biggest tourist crowds towards itself every year. Here are the top five pizza restaurants in London, United Kingdom:

1. Eco:

Located in South London, this gourmet pizza restaurant has been around for quite a long time. Although it looks a little old now but it still draws the attention of a large number of students towards itself. The student crowd although is a change from its initial kind of crowd of gourmet foodie's. They serve very thin crusty bread pizza that is heavenly in taste with its generous toppings. You can choose from goat's cheese, fresh tomato, porcini, fontina, and truffle oil to bresaola and rocket. This restaurant is located on Clapham high Street.

2. Franco Manca:

Located on 4 Market Row, Electric Lane, this cheap organic pizza place has everyone buzzing about it. Run by Neapolitan-expat Giuseppe Macoli, the pizza is strictly Neapolitan with many rules regarding its preparation. The mozzarella they use is from Alham Wood Farm in Somerset where it is prepared from milk of water buffalos. They have six different toppings, like chorizo, wild mushroom and garlic, and the oven has been imported specially from Italy.

3. Il Baretto:

Il Baretto had a bad beginning. At the start identified as Giusto, the restaurant's ground floor was not utilised much, which denoted that several persons never knew that there was a restaurant in the basement. Nonetheless, now, the restaurant has changed the way it looks with large and well-ventilated rooms, Italian limestone flooring, walls constructed from brick, and panelling upstairs, and has shifted the restaurant business downstairs. It is sited on Blandford Street, and with its wood-fired ovens, there is excellent food here from swordfish carpaccio to lobster.

4. Mulberry Street:

Situated in Westbourne Grove, this Manhattan-style pizzeria is titled after the major attraction in NYC's Little Italy. The large "pies" may be twenty inches, or you can even obtain individual slices. The toppings comprise chicken, pepperoni, artichoke, and tuna besides others.

5. The Soho Pizzeria:

Located on Beak Street, this is the place to go to for pizza in Soho. They even have jazz performances on every night except Sundays. They have everything from margherita to Siciliana pizza.

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Restaurant Webdesign said...

Thanks for your recommendations, I will have to try Eco in the next couple of weeks before I move out of Clapham!