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Portobello Ristorante, Ladbroke Rd, Notting Hill, London
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Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria, Ladbroke Road, London ...
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Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria - or Portobello Pizza as it is known by the denizens of W11 - isn't actually on Portobello but it does serve delicious pizza.
And not any ordinary pizza - you know, the round ones - but instead, the place's own slice of Naples comes served by the yard on a wooden apparatus propped on your table.
The menu also has an array of antipasti (a shade expensive), pasta and meat dishes but people only really come for what AA Gill rather backhandedly describes as "probably the best pizza in Notting Hill" (Arancina around the corner might have something to say about that, but hey).
Service isn't as fast as Usain Bolt but it's as jolly as the pizzas are good.
Given Portobello Pizza's snowballing popularity we suggest you book to avoid disappointment.
Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria, 7 Ladbroke Road, London, W11 3PA ...
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There is seating outside in the unlikely event of a sunny day, while the long dining room inside has exposed brick on one side and cream walls on the other., with further seating downstairs.
As well as the a la carte there was a two course lunch for £12.50, and plenty of specials of the day.
The four page wine list had the bizarre combination of detailed tasting notes yet no vintages.
Wines included choices such as Ca’ Bolani Sauvignon Aquileia at £24 for a wine that retails at around £12, Fratelli Berlucchi Chardonnay at £29.50 for a wine you can pick up in a shop for around £20 (depending on the vintage) and La Selvaccia Brunello di Montalcino at £55 for a wine that costs perhaps £30 (again, this varies based on vintage).
I was impressed that they made the bread here from scratch, and very nice it was too, with good texture (15/20).
Portobello Ristorante Pizzeria, Notting Hill
“Whilst the food here was OK, my dining partner ordered a calzone which was a very poor excuse for a pizza with no explanation or apology as to why the pizza resembled a stuffed crust rather than a true calzone folded pizza.
The service was poor and we were left with plates on our table for a good fifteen minutes after we had finished eating.
We had to ask twice for the bill after we finally got the attention of one of the staff and were then hounded down after we chose not to pay the discretionary service charge.
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ES Food Newsletter What do you do when a very large man, seemingly rendered speechless with drink, sits down at your restaurant table and starts to help himself from a bowl of potatoes wood-roasted with rosemary and garlic that you ordered as part of a spread of small dishes to start?
Started by Andrea Ippolito and Franco Ferro, two chaps from Sorrento who met while working in London, Portobello offers as one of the highlights Pizzametro — pizza by the metre — which they claim was created 40 years ago in Vico Equense, a small town on the Sorrento coast, as a means for a whole family to share a pizza.
The pizza, which can be ordered by the half or whole metre, is covered widthways in stripes of different ingredients so that members of a family — or a group of customers — can select their favourite bits.
Wary of what I believe to be the lowering effect of melted cheese, I am not a great fan of pizza, but so crisp, thin, scorched and shardy, verging on volcanic was the base, so sweet and sunny the tomatoes used in the topping that I kept eating more of what, first time round, had been ordered as a kind of side dish.
Linguine Sophia Loren featured sea bass as the main ingredient in the sauce, which I somehow feel might take Sophia by surprise, but the recipient thought it excellent.