There can’t be many pizza places you can visit, certainly not of Anello’s calibre, where swerving the disks of dough completely in favour of the alluring small plates menu is a seriously deliberated option.
With the likes of sausage stuffed olives; pancetta wrapped spring onions; and an asparagus, pea and mint salad, the temptation is high. Indeed, the mortadella and pistachio cream tart was an indulgent and delicious extra on this visit. You’d expect nothing less from a kitchen featuring ex-Moorcock alumni.
So have both, because you’d be daft not to get amongst the pizza, too. Especially if you’d just done half a dozen pints on the Ale Trail like I had.
Eating The North 
thank you for this review, i will definitely pay them a visit
Love a pizza place that teases you into skipping the pizza entirely—only to make you regret it if you do. Sausage-stuffed olives and mortadella tart? That’s an order I’d need counselling to recover from.
What’s the verdict though—are we teetering on the edge of ‘small plates over everything’ here, or is the dough still king? Asking for a carb-loving friend who hates making decisions.
Dough is always king in this corner, but next time I’ll take an appetite and flatten it all…
Friendly reminder not to eat anything for 2 days prior to visiting.