A gorgeous sunny day in the middle of the week, I naturally decide to stroll down to the newly opened pizza place with my colleague Martin.
Built in a cargo container and plonked in a location that can only be described as a trader’s wet dream, the Bristol Broadmead outlet is the latest addition to the small group of Pizza 1889 shops- following the initial Orpington store, followed by Surrey Quays, Cambridge and the other one in Bristol Avonmeads. Considering there’s a page on their website ‘Landlords’ actively seeking new retail spaces, one imagines the plan is to add many, many more stores to the chain. I suspect we’ll see this get snapped up by hungry venture capitalists at some point, but for now at least it’s owner managed, which is something.
Pizza 1889 professes to bring ‘Authentic Fire Baked Pizzas.’ Well, we’ll see about that.
Outwardly, the place looks cool. A shiny blue container with outside seating on a gorgeous day, with a woodfire pizza oven.
As always, I went for the Margherita. Martin went for some spicy sausage looking thing, but I have to stay true to form. I went for a pizzetta, given it was lunchtime, and the four fifty didn’t seem so steep. As it was lunch, I also elected not to go for a beer- not that that I could have one, but luckily the licence application was pending, so the two best friends won’t be kept apart for much longer.
And the pizzetta came out in a few minutes, all cute on its little paddle.
The pizza itself is in the Neapolitan style, with a proper yeast dough base- which is a thumbs up from me. The thing was nice and floppy, but it didn’t taste of much. The purists of you may notice the sprinkled cheese rather than the usual slices on Neapolitan, but the central slices still had a good amount of tomatoey cheesiness to make up for it.
So, overall, the place was ok, I guess. I wasn’t blown away- this was more or less ordinary pizza in an extraordinary setting. Given it’s only just opened, this may be teething issues, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and no doubt go again to make sure I’ve judged it correctly in the future.
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Cheers, Con
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