L'Antica Pizzeria

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La Lingua: L'Antica Pizzeria, Hampstead | London Mini Reviews

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This was made even more unbearable by the extreme cosiness of the place, with golden light leaching out onto the street and the hubbub of happy voices drifting out every time the door opened.

If you nab a seat facing the back, you get a view of the pizza oven, which has "fatte 'na pizza" written into the tiles (which means "make yourself a pizza" and is We had to wait about half an hour for a table, stamping our feet and rubbing our hands together in the blistering cold.

This was made even more unbearable by the extreme cosiness of the place, with golden light leaching out onto the street and the hubbub of happy voices drifting out every time the door opened.

If you nab a seat facing the back, you get a view of the pizza oven, which has "fatte 'na pizza" written into the tiles (which means "make yourself a pizza" and is the name of a song , of course).

Even if you don't want real Italian pizza, go here and eat the damn pizza anyway.

review of London pizza restaurant Antica Pizzeria in Hampstead by ...

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The wood-fired oven hits 400C, which is quite some way below the 485C recommended by the rules of the the body that defines in great detail the criteria for an accredited Naples style pizza.

Different schools of pizza in Naples take slightly different approaches, and I am reliably informed that the one at Antica is typical of the Caserta region, just north of Naples.

The toppings on this pizza were reasonable if unexceptional, the salami apparently imported from Naples (13/20).

The other pizza we tried was a customised version of the Amerigo Vespucci on the menu (£14.95), with tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, olives, artichokes, shaved Parmesan, basil and mushrooms.

All in all, I quite enjoyed the pizzas at Antica Pizzeria and would return if in the area, though for me it was a notch below the very best in London, such as l’Oro di Napoli.

L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele: Not a revelation, but probably the best ...

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The famed L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele from Naples was opening up – marvellous, but, er, so what?

It is not a complicated menu: they serve two types of pizza, beer and wine.

You’ve a choice, or either margherita (tomato, mozzarella, a touch of basil) or marinara (tomato, oregano, olive oil, garlic).

There’s no gluten-free or wheat-free options, and the thin bases are plain old dough: no spelt or rye or Special K bases here.

Good pizza (cashmere socks).

Da Michele, restaurant review: a slice of heaven

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The margherita was made with fiordilatte, i.e. mozzarella made from cow’s rather than buffalo milk (this is one of the issues the AVPN have with Da Michele, apparently) – but then buffalo mozzarella doesn’t go stringy when you cook it.

The marinara was a pizza rossa, served without cheese, just tomato, garlic, handfuls of dried oregano (the name is either a reference to the poverty of a fisherman, or a nod to the idea that a fisherman would tend to eat fish alongside or after his pizza, and the Italians don’t like cheese getting anywhere near fish) and, a little controversially, no anchovy.

The tomato sauce in both cases was just excellent, sweet and tangy and evidently simmered at some length.

Was it better than Pizza Pilgrims or Yard Sale, or the original Franco Manca?

What concerned us was that this incarnation of Da Michele looked as if it had been kitted out with some serious venture capital – as if it was a chain in the making.

L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele | Restaurants in Stoke Newington ...

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A London branch of the Neapolitan pizza joint made famous in ‘Eat, Pray, Love’.

The shabby naples joint of L’antica Pizzeria da Michele, open since 1906, is much hyped as ‘the best pizza in the world’.

Fanning the flames of that rep was the 2010 film ‘Eat Pray Love’, where Julia Roberts sits all blissed out, declaring she’s ‘having a relationship’ with her pizza.

First things first: L’antica really is amazing, but if you’re looking for a relationship with this pizza it’s going to take some commitment.

Thin, crispy and served with beautiful burnt bubbles in the dough, what makes L’antica’s pizza really special is its softness.

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