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  • Pasta Aglio Olio with mushrooms
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    Pasta Aglio Olio with Mushrooms in 15 minutes

    ByMay February 1, 2025February 1, 2025

    This umami-rich pasta Aglio Olio with Mushrooms is a really easy weeknight meal. Using store cupboard ingredients, your meal will be ready in 15 minutes. It’s vegan and vegearian friendly too.

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  • Burrata with roasted butternut squash
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    Review: Franco’s St James’

    ByMay September 8, 2021November 8, 2021

    Franco’s Italian Restaurant in St James’, launches a new vegan and vegetarian menu. This Jermyn Street institution with a recently updated their decor, now has an updated menu to cater to Londoner’s changing restaurant scene.

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  • True Italian Taste Chilled Mantua Melon Soup
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    Chilled Melon Soup

    ByMay August 6, 2021

    Chlled melon soup made with the sweetest summer melons and red prawns At a recent cooking lesson at Eataly London as a guest of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, we learnt to make 2 dishes with some truly fabulous ingredients. All the ingredients we used were either PDO or PGI status (Protected Destination Origin), which…

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  • Lamezia Holloway Nduja Pig
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    Lamezia – A taste of Calabria in London

    ByMay May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

    Head to Lamezia, a lovely cosy Italian family restaurant in Highbury Islington. Serving London’s first Hemp Pizza and other Calabrian specialities like Nduja. Friendly service, great food. A winner.

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  • Zizzis Pan Fried Seabass
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    Review: Zizzi Italian St Giles

    ByMay November 22, 2018February 26, 2019

    For the longest time, I thought Zizzis was another high street pizza chain but I was wrong. It has a rather extensive Italian menu at very decent prices. I was invited to review Zizzi’s new Ruby Chocolate dessert, the new pink hued chocolate that is going to pastry chefs’ new secret ingredient. But first the other…

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  • The Honest Italian Balham Prawn and Blue cheese pizza
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    The Honest Italian – Wood Fire Pizza in Balham

    BySara March 29, 2017March 31, 2017

    The Honest Italian is the first restaurant in Balham to have a wood fire oven, using only kiln fired hardwood from sustainable British woodland. Making the whole experience at this restaurant truly authentic with an updated modern context.

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  • Pink pizza and gluten free pizza
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    Zia Lucia Authentically Italian Pizzas

    ByMay November 23, 2016November 27, 2016

    Italian voices bounce off the bare brick walls. Allessio from Sardinia, is doing that waiter’s balancing act of several fully laden plates on both arms. Behind the counter, a hive of activity surrounds the wood fire pizza oven. This was a weekday afternoon at Zia Lucia. In the short few months that it has been…

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    Simplicity delivered at Pizza Union Spitalfields

    ByMay November 13, 2015November 16, 2015

    Sometimes, you just crave for something simple. Here at Pizza Union, the concept is simple. A short menu with a few salads and starters is extended by a choice of wood fired pizzas. You place  your food and drinks order at the counter and then find a seat. A few short minutes later, your buzzer…

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    Zingy Luxardo Cocktails at Obica Soho

    ByMay August 8, 2015August 31, 2015

    Luxardo hosted a really fun evening of cocktails paired with some superior Italian plates at the Obica Mozzarella Bar on Poland Street. Luxardo’s Brand ambassador “G” Franklin was mixing up some truly inventive cocktails. Luxardo started off making their renowned Maraschino Cherry Liquer in 19C which is still being produced to the original recipe from 1821….

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