After my Napoli
holiday I felt as though I’d eaten enough pizza to last me a lifetime. Then
I saw @SolitaNQ tweeting praise for the
newly opened Rudy’s and the hankering for fluffy crusts, rich tomato sauce and melted
cheese returned!
Knowing that
Franco Sotgiu, the owner of Solita, knows his pizza from his pene, was enough
for me to head into town to check them out.
Fittingly located
in the Ancoats area of Manchester, formerly known as “Little Italy”, unlike
their Neapolitan cousins, Rudy’s do not have a ‘proper’ wood fired oven but a
gas fired version. This gave me doubts at first, but despite the lack of that
feint smoky flavour to the char, to me the pizzas were just as good, if not
better than many I’d had in Italy. Great dough with top quality ingredients used
throughout.
We ordered a
classic Marinara (tomato, garlic,
oregano, basil and extra virgin olive oil) and a Portobello (tomato, mozzarella, Portobello mushroom, oregano, parmesan
and garlic oil). Both were great.
For me, the pick of the bunch was one of the
tomato free "white pizzas", the Lardo (chilli
flakes, spinach, mozzarella, parmesan, free range egg yolk, lardo and extra
virgin olive oil). The chilli judged just right so as to give a gentle warming
sensation that worked so well alongside the rich egg yolk and luscious
lardo.
The Campana Salad (buffalo mozzarella, prosciutto
crudo, wild rocket, radicchio & warm flatbread) and Nocellara Olives (dressed with lemon and extra virgin olive oil) were
pretty special too
Everything
was very reasonably priced, I liked the vibe and service was friendly and
speedy… Rudy’s could be seeing a lot of us in the future!
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