16/08/2026
Carbonara Pizza - crispy guanciale, egg yolk, pecorino romano, black pepper, mozzarella
In 2022 I was making a Carbonara for lunch at home and thought "all these ingredients would probably make a great pizza", so I kept some back and that evening took them into the pizzeria and tested it out. It was great.
So I put it on the specials board for the month, and people loved it. Great success. When the month ended I had some people still asking for it, but I'd moved onto a new special by that point.
A year later I was reminded of it and decided to bring it back for another turn in the spotlight. This time when I took it away, the complaints were less polite, the people wanted their Carbonara pizza, but I'd moved onto the next thing and that was that.
The next year in 2024 it came back again for it's third run on the specials board and that's when it started to turn nasty. Death threats, if you take this pizza away from me again I'll find where you live, if I can't have my Carbonara then what's the point of it all, etc etc... So I eventually had to give it pride of place on the full time menu.
If you've ever had to julienne 5kg of guanciale you'll understand why we were reluctant to go full time with it, but sometimes you just have to give the people what they want! Slippery stuff I'll tell you that for free...
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