Now the blog doesn’t as a rule do food reviews but when the restaurant is just down the road from your house, occupies an important historic building and gave us a fine meal, Zitano just had to get a story.
I don’t remember the building as a Wesleyan chapel but there will be plenty who do.
It was built in the early 19th century in two stages and the water to mix the mortar came from the pond which was almost opposite and ran from Acres Road up to Chequers Road and was known as Blomely's Pond.
I knew the place as the furniture warehouse belonging to W.E.Coupe’s and later much later as a Curry House.
We went in just after the warehouse had become a restaurant and while the food was good, the space it occupied was barn like and pretty soulless.
But not so Zitano. The big room has been broken up with a staircase in the middle which leads to a muezzin floor and makes for a more intimate set of areas.
The food was excellent, cooked by a pizza chef who trained in Naples and with the wood burning stove in the corner you could watch the pizza being cooked.
They do other dishes and a take away service so that is pretty much it.
The staff were superb, and they let me take pictures..... alas after the excellent wine the photographs lack a bit of clarity. Still Zitano may send me a couple of pictures.
Location, Zitano, 133 Beech Road M21 9EQ, www.zitano.co.uk
Pictures; inside Zitano, 2017 from the collection of Andrew Simpson, the Wesleyan Chapel from Wesleyan Church Souvenir Bazaar Handbook for 1908, courtesy of Philip Lloyd
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It was built in the early 19th century in two stages and the water to mix the mortar came from the pond which was almost opposite and ran from Acres Road up to Chequers Road and was known as Blomely's Pond.
I knew the place as the furniture warehouse belonging to W.E.Coupe’s and later much later as a Curry House.
We went in just after the warehouse had become a restaurant and while the food was good, the space it occupied was barn like and pretty soulless.
But not so Zitano. The big room has been broken up with a staircase in the middle which leads to a muezzin floor and makes for a more intimate set of areas.
The food was excellent, cooked by a pizza chef who trained in Naples and with the wood burning stove in the corner you could watch the pizza being cooked.
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| 2017 |
They do other dishes and a take away service so that is pretty much it.
The staff were superb, and they let me take pictures..... alas after the excellent wine the photographs lack a bit of clarity. Still Zitano may send me a couple of pictures.
Location, Zitano, 133 Beech Road M21 9EQ, www.zitano.co.uk
Pictures; inside Zitano, 2017 from the collection of Andrew Simpson, the Wesleyan Chapel from Wesleyan Church Souvenir Bazaar Handbook for 1908, courtesy of Philip Lloyd
yum yum, food is fab, id have to fly back from Ireland though,be worth it.
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