our review
The Pizza East team have ventured west and opened a new pizzeria on Portobello Road. Situated in a former pub, it features reclaimed furniture, exposed brickwork, an upstairs bar and outdoor terrace. The menu is full of Pizza East favourites as well as some tasty new breakfast offerings.
May 2011
what the critics say
AA Gill - 4/5
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - The menu is very simple, which is a relief (every other menu I've eaten from recently looks as if it were written by Dan Brown) - antipasti and charcuterie; stuff from a wood-burning oven; pizzas, salads, puddings. We kicked off with bone-marrow bruschetta, some mortadella, which is a wonderful sausage horribly libelled by its family connection to baloney, and some coppa. Next course, there was crispy pork belly, deliciously unctuous, and which the Blonde said was better than the River Cafe's. A chopped-up chicken and very good, really excellent, beef lasagne. The pizzas, though, are the thing.
TimeOut - 4/5
Friday, June 17, 2011 - The former boozer it occupies has scrubbed up nicely, with an assortment of cafe-style weathered seating and mismatched tables contrasting with the white-tiled kitchen area and wood-fired ovens. It's all very rustic chic...There's a nod to substantial main dishes: lasagne, slow-cooked pork belly, or salt-baked salmon, but affordable pizzas remain the real draw, notable for their puffed crisp crust, thin doughy base and full-flavoured toppings. A spicy sausage seasoned with red chilli and toasted fennel seeds was a marvellous match to the wispy broccoli florets and creamy mozzarella.
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Pizza excellent, but the overall bill is that much more when compared with Franco Manco in Chiswick, so doubt it would become our local. But we'd definitely return. Service really good too.
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Overall rating 
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Monday, February 27, 2012
what the bloggers say
Gourmet Chick - 8/10
Monday, June 06, 2011 - Pizza East Portobello looks like a slightly smaller version of its Shoreditch sister restaurant. It features that distressed, New York warehouse look which makes a restaurant feel like it has been around for years but in reality is painstakingly created...I couldn't resist the veal meatball pizza which is a favourite of mine from the Shoreditch Pizza East. Chunks of dense meatball are topped with crisped shards of proscuitto and a cream base rather than the traditional tomato. The proscuitto and rocket pizza was topped with slivers of San Daniele prosciutto and handfuls of fresh rocket over a tomato base.
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@foodepedia Pretty bright and sticky over here but not as wet as we thought. Enjoy the heatwave!
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