Pizzeria Apollo

Apollo - Stoke Newington | Timeout Best Pizzerias in London 2016 & 2017

Apollo

http://pizzeriaapollo.com

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Apollo, 160 Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington, London ...

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If Apollo were a dog, it would be the mongrel puppy that everyone wants to take home over the pure breed sitting next it.

A lot.A restaurant with mass appeal in Stoke Newington, Apollo is the DIY pizza place that packs its tables every night.

And – going back to those analogies – with the pure breed, new build, blockbuster presence of Franco Manca a few doors down, its success is even more impressive.

Serving up thin, crispy sourdough pizzas from its traditional Neapolitan oven, Apollo can cook a pizza a minute.

It’s touches like this that gives Apollo its oddly stylish DIY aesthetic but it’s the pizzas that make regulars of most – the pizzas and the excellent service.

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The margherita was made with fiordilatte, i.e. mozzarella made from cow’s rather than buffalo milk (this is one of the issues the AVPN have with Da Michele, apparently) – but then buffalo mozzarella doesn’t go stringy when you cook it.

The marinara was a pizza rossa, served without cheese, just tomato, garlic, handfuls of dried oregano (the name is either a reference to the poverty of a fisherman, or a nod to the idea that a fisherman would tend to eat fish alongside or after his pizza, and the Italians don’t like cheese getting anywhere near fish) and, a little controversially, no anchovy.

The tomato sauce in both cases was just excellent, sweet and tangy and evidently simmered at some length.

Was it better than Pizza Pilgrims or Yard Sale, or the original Franco Manca?

What concerned us was that this incarnation of Da Michele looked as if it had been kitted out with some serious venture capital – as if it was a chain in the making.

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Why: As the name suggests Yard Sale pizza started off in co-founder’s Johnnie’s back yard in Homerton.

Three friends honed their pizza making skills, creating pizzas for their friends and family before opening their first site in Clapton back in 2014.

Since then they have opened a second site in Finsbury Park and will be opening a third site in Walthamstow at the end of February.

Pizzas come in either 12″ or 18″ and to mark the opening of their third restaurant they are going to be giving someone a year’s supply of pizza!

Where: Clapton, Finsbury Park and soon Walthamstow

Apollo | Restaurants in Stoke Newington, London

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New restaurants are opening all the time in Stoke Newington, and here’s another: an authentically Neapolitan pizza place on the High Street.

When it comes to pizza, Londoners are an educated bunch these days – a stuffed-crust meat feast doesn’t quite cut it.

But you probably won’t notice the bare plasterboard walls or the functional cable ducting, because the pizzas are so good.

The chefs use their Neapolitan hardware to great effect, turning out thin, flash-cooked pizzas with still-runny tomato sauce and minimalist toppings (quality sausages, pecorino, porcini and chestnut).

There are a couple of salads and starters, too.

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