Eat Out London!La PORCHETTA
Laporchetta is a group of Italian restaurants in north London serving pizza and pasta dishes using authentic Italian ingredients at affordable prices
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La Porchetta Italian Restaurant, Boswell St, Bloomsbury, London
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La Porchetta, 33 Boswell Street, Holborn, London, WC1N 3BP ...
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If you've never been to Italy and want to try a traditional Italian pizza, then La Porchetta is the place to go.
The pizza is so good that my girl friend, who is Italian, declared it to be better than any pizza she has ever eaten in Italy.
The atmosphere is very typically Italian, although, sometimes, the Happy Birthday sing-along can ruin your night if you got in for a quiet meal.
There are four other branches of La Porchetta spread across North London, and I have been to all of them.
If you are a pizza lover, La Porchetta is your pizza paradise.
La Porchetta, City of London
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Welcome to La Porchetta Holborn perhaps the most intimate of the La Porchetta restaurants.
You can expect excellent pizza and pasta, together with our famously good service and atmosphere.
Situated on 33 Boswell Street Holborn, the restaurant is a delicious taste of Italy in North London.
La Porchetta is equidistant from Holborn and Russell Square tubes, with Chancery Lane within walking distance as well.
Like all La Porchettas, Holborn’s pizza is available to take away.
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La Porchetta Pollo Bar, London, restaurant review
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When Ms Hart suggested that this review must concern a determinedly old-fashioned Italian restaurant, she was acting, at least in part, on what I call the Pepper-Pot Principle.
classification system, this subgenre of Italian (loads of schmoozing, powdered Parmesan, walls festooned by snaps of the beaming owner with visiting celebrities) is known as a Lionel.
Like Ms Hart, my strong preference is for the Lionel’s cosseting warmth over the self-conscious cool of the more contemporary Italian known as the Tony – clinical, minimalist establishments, like the defunct Granita, where the sombre staff wear charcoal grey suits, the Parmesan is shaved, the pepper-pots are studiedly unphallic, and the menu is much more likely to feature pan-fried dodo gizzard with polenta in a unicorn sauce than spaghetti bolognese.
But the nicotine-yellow paintwork behind the pizza area, manned by a young guy wearing a baseball cap back to front, and possibly dreaming of wolf-whistling Sicilian girls from the seat of his Vespa (no crude national stereotyping here) while he theatrically stretched the dough, looks untouched since the mid-Sixties heyday of the cheap ’n’ cheerful Italian caff.
But we lingered merrily over decent coffee from the bar in the centre of this long, thin, well-lit and shabbily engaging room, chatting about the Soho of old before it became so largely depornified, when honest, artless, unpretentious joints like this one abounded, and when you could stuff your face for 10 bob and have change over for a taxi home.