When you walk the streets of London looking for somewhere to eat, the smell for a wood burning pizza oven is a pretty difficult smell to ignore. My friend and I walked past Quartieri once before doubling back to get the most from this experience. It has a nice warm contemporary feel to it with brick walls and wooden tables and we just had to sit there and soak up the feeling that we were sitting in a small corner of modern Naples. It's just the way it made us feel.
With two hungry mouths, we looked up and down the menu in anticipation. It had to be good. We were right. For starters we chose A sharing portion of fried Neapolitan delights, crocché, arancini & zeppola and the Orange & Walnut salad. Both complemented each other well and set us up for the rest of the meal. Back to that pizza oven!
There were so many delights to choose from, and we went for the Margherita pizza - Agerola Fior di latte, Casa Marazzo organic tomatoes, organic extra virgin olive oil and the Meatball pizza using prime cut, free range Hertfordshire mince beef, cooked in a rich San Marzano DOP tomato sauce with grated parmesan to finish with at least half an eye on sampling each other's pizza!
The waiting staff were attentive and helpful at all times and were always on hand to offer black pepper and top up our drinks. After the pizzas we were ready for a hit of sweetness, so decided that the Straccetti Quartierella - Indulgent sugar coated doughnut pizza strips covered in a rich velvety chocolate hazelnut spread and topped with roasted hazelnut was going to be just right. And it was! Highly recommended if you are ever nearby. read more