Notting Hill Diary

Mulberry Street. Go for the pizza - go away again

I think it’s the mixed reviews I’ve read that caused me to delay visiting this scaled-down-New-York-diner-at-Notting-Hill-Prices, but Wifey and I are both big fans of pizzas¹ and we hadn’t read anything bad about them so we decided to give it a go.

If you haven’t heard, they do whopping great 20″² pizzas suitable for a family of 4, or in Wifey’s and my case, two. Now we’re particularly choosey about our pizzas. In general the simpler the better and, most importantly the base has to be just so.

Mulberry Street’s pizza is is indeed just so. Light, slightly more crusty around the edges with just a hint of the burning that might have taken place had it been allowed to cook for another 20s, the dough absorbs just the right amount of flavour from the toppings. Most of all I like the bits where trapped air have caused it to bubble up slightly. Then again what do I know? The Times gave it this particularly invective laden review.

I will say that the rest of the menu is disappointing, at least in terms of depth. Eggs Benedict/Florentine, for example, is nowhere to be found. Go there for the pizza and the pizza alone is my advice.

The blurb on their menu and website claims that they filter the water to make it exactly like New York water (yikes!), but whatever, it was enough to make Wifey, who bused to live there exlaim “It tastes just like New York pizza!”, so who am I to argue?

¹According to my calculations, a 20″ pizza has a greater surface area than 2 14″ pizzas
²Yes I know about the 100s and 100s of calories in every slice, but now that I cycle everywhere I can afford to stuff myself silly from time to time. Alright?