Pizzicotto

Pizzicotto Restaurant Kensington is a wood fired bistro and pizzeria for present day London UK; serving modern Italian cuisine, craft beers & aperitifs.

Pizzicotto Restaurant - Kensington London UK Italian Wood Fired Bistro and Pizzeria

Inspired by the tradition of Italian neighbourhood haunts, Pizzicotto is the lively sister restaurant to the 50 year old Kensington gem ‘Il Portico’.

A local Pizzeria and Osteria where the humble pizza & neighbourhood cuisine is reimagined & the tradition of cooking over wood is celebrated.

Like Il Portico there is heavy emphasis on the ‘Terra Madre’ of Emilia Romagna with a tight network of small scale & artisanal food producers from the region supplying the restaurant exclusively and directly.

On any given day you can find organic charcuterie produced by the same family for over 235 years, rare breed & wild produce, unfiltered & artisanal beers, Chianina beef, & daily handmade pasta.

Our Pizze are made exclusively with stone ground, organic flour from a mill from the Apennine mountains, & proofed for a full 72 hours ensuring a complex, light, and delectable base.

http://www.pizzicotto.co.uk

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Pizzicotto – Review

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It was like that at Pizzicotto, an unpretentious family-run Italian restaurant a hop and a skip from Kensington High Street tube.

The restaurant is a member of Slow Food UK which implies a seriousness of intent and I’ve been invited to review their gastronomic USP, an innovative ‘dusky black activated charcoal pizza dough’, rated in the top 20 at the World Pizza Championships.

If you like those bitter Italian flavours but find the Negroni too hard to handle then it’s a great summer’s option.

The charcoal infused base gave the pizza a noticeably lighter feel and made it particularly digestible.

The dough flavour did have a distinctive charcoal flavour which blended in effectively with the robust Southern Italian flavours of the toppings.

REVIEW: Pizzicotto, Kensington High Street, Kensington, London ...

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Finding a good, classic Italian restaurant in London is harder than it sounds.

A wood fired bistro and pizzeria serving classic, modern Italian food in the heart of Kensington.

The burrata with chargrilled zucchini and confit tomato was a fantastic showcase of Italian produce with juicy fresh burrata, zucchini so thin and smokey its flavour lingered in your mouth for minutes after and the sweet tomatoes rounded it all off.

With a wood fired oven at this restaurants core it comes with no surprise that the pizzas here are absolutely stunning.

while others are creating variations of Italian cuisine with new and exotic ingredients, Pizzicotto are quietly cooking traditional modern Italian food on Kensington High Street with currently only its locals in the know – though I’ve no doubt that’s all about to change.

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Review analysis
food  

Inspired by the tradition of Italian neighbourhood haunts, Pizzicotto is the lively sister restaurant to the 50 year old Kensington gem ‘Il Portico’.

Like Il Portico there is heavy emphasis on the ‘Terra Madre’ of Emilia Romagna with a tight network of small scale & artisanal food producers from the region supplying the restaurant exclusively and directly.

On any given day you can find organic charcuterie produced by the same family for over 235 years, rare breed & wild produce, unfiltered & artisanal beers, Chianina beef, & daily handmade pasta.

Their Pizze are made exclusively with stone ground, organic flour from a mill from the Apennine mountains so diners can experience a the true taste of Italy.

review of London Italian restaurant Pizzicotto by Andy Hayler in May ...

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This little restaurant is the sister of Il Portico a few doors down, which has been in the same family ownership for 49 years and counting.

Tonight I tried a little sample of pasta dishes, all made fresh in the kitchen downstairs: tagliatelle with pork belly ragu, tortellini with mortadella and pork, strozzagareti Romagnoli (twisted pasta strips with crema of Prosciutto, ruccola pesto and squacquerone cream cheese).

I liked the ragu, and particularly an off-menu pasta with aubergine (13/20 average).

Nduja pizza with radicchio was unusual and worked well, the bitterness of the radicchio balancing the gentle spiciness of the pork sausage spread.

The pizza base here is very good, the wood-fired oven adding a pleasing smoky flavour note (easily 13/20).

Pizzicotto review - pizza in High Street Kensington

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I went to Naples a few years ago in search of the perfect pizza-sadly I was struck down by a mysterious lurgy before I could get into my stride but that quest for the perfect fusion of charred light crust, melted cheese and sweet tomato continues.

Not only are they members of Slow Food UK  but their ‘ black activated charcoal pizza dough’ came in the top 20 at the World Pizza Championships so I am very excited to see how the ‘black’ pizza shapes up.

A Negroni Spagliato (£8) is a wonderfully bittersweet mix of sweet Vermouth,  Campari and Prosecco that starts the process of getting the gastric juices flowing without making you too drunk… Chargrilled sea scallops (£11) from the wood burning oven came with a Parmesan crumble topping.

I love fennel and grapefruit adds a sweet acidity to the aniseed crunch of the veg.

You can choose the charcoal infused base with any of the pizzas at Pizzicotto for a small supplement and it really gives it a lighter feel which aids digestion.

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