Eat Out London!LARDO
Salumeria Pizzeria. Hackney's favourite local Italian.
LARDO | Salume, Pizza | 020 8985 2683
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Restaurant Review: Lardo has legs: when the novelty-seekers have moved on, it will still be here making nouveau middle-class Hackney’s denizens happy.
We chomp our way through a fat ball of burrata, its elasticky mozzarella skin tumescent with fresh creaminess; astonishingly vibrant broad beans and shoots in a dressing piquant with mint and pecorino; and arancini, fried rice balls sticky with mozzarella and flecked with pungent n’duja sausage.
Lardo cures its own meats, everything from rosy, fat-marbled, chilli coppa (a whole-meat sausage), through salamis, cured loin but none of the eponymous, pure fat lardo.
Eliza’s blog recounts the time and effort that’s gone into the charcuterie creation: the selection of the unusual, rare-breed Mangalitza pig, chosen for its creamy fat, fed on apples or biscuit crumbs; experimentation with curing methods – wet-brining, herbing and spicing, salting… I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
But Lardo has legs: when the novelty-seekers have moved on, it will still be here making nouveau middle-class Hackney’s denizens happy, of that I’ve no doubt.
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Lardo's is, in fact, a pizzeria despite being named after the cured back fat of a pig.
The pizzas are fired in front of your in the gorgeous open kitchen.
Lardo's is, in fact, a pizzeria despite being named after the cured back fat of a pig.
The pizzas are fired in front of your in the gorgeous open kitchen.
While you can only order lardo as a pizza topping, they also specialize in excellent Italian charcuterie.
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Lardo is the Italian love-child of former Bistrotheque manager Eliza Flanagan, and offers homecured meats for around £4, small sharing plates for around £6, and pizza for up to £9.
Bright, cleanly astringent olives and fine-sliced, buttery chilli coppa kept us going through our bitter lemon cocktails (gin, lime, mint, sugar, bitters, £4.50, new favourite thing).
Wonderfully fresh, melting flakes of smoked swordfish were nicely offset by salmoriglio, a dressing of lemon, olive oil, garlic and fresh herbs.
Broad beans with Pecorino came with zingy mint and lemon and, I think, dandelion leaves, which added a nice bitter undertone.
A meal for two with cocktails and wine, about £100