With no shortage of starry dining room filling the landscape of London dining, Pizza East defies its rudimentary names with a divine eating experience in East London's stylish Shoreditch neighborhood. A super-cool dining room of wide-plank reclaimed floors accents concrete pillars and overall industrial vibe of the space. Long communal wooden tables and more spacious tabletops surrounded in mid-century chairs attract a cool crowd of area media types and hipster foodies that consider the cuisine of Pizza East to be some of the very best comfort food in the city. The owners also operate a small connected deli with to-go treasures as well as Concrete, a basement level bar and DJ space in the Tea Building offering club of similar industrial aesthetic for weekend lounge events.
The Food
It’s the very reason you came to Pizza East in the first place, a lengthy menu of cold appetizers like fig and burrata bruschetta followed by veal bone marrow, octopus on bed of peas and calamari with caper aioli. Popular salads include chicken with green beans, arugula and fennel or heritage tomatoes with basil. Individual pizzas like the spicy sausage with pardon pepper, speck with Gorgonzola and almonds and mushroom with egg and ricotta are cooked in on-site wood ovens. Main courses includes wood-fired specialties like crispy pork belly or roast chicken for two as well as occasional pasta dishes like beef lasagna and mac cheese.
Last Word
Gourmet pizzeria with wood-fire over specialties offer hip and stylish dining scene with deli market and basement DJ lounge in Shoreditch with second location on Portobello Road.
