Pizzeria Will Take Its ‘Experimental Doughs’ from Islington to West London Next Year

Zia Lucia, the experimental neighbourhood pizza restaurant has announced it will open in Brook Green in late January next year.

Following the launch of a first site on Holloway Road, near Islington, last year, the two founders Claudio Vescovo and Gianluca D’Angelo will now take their “authentic Italian neighbourhood pizzeria” to a second site in residential west London, an area in which the owners used to live.

Zia Lucia’s will bring what it calls “unusual 48-hour slow-fermented doughs,” to its new west London location. For the launch month (February, presumably), the restaurant will add a limited edition, unspecified green vegetable dough to the menu, which will be named after their new neighbourhood, the ‘Brook Green Dough.’ It is said, again without specifics, to be a “healthy winter addition” to a “constantly evolving pizza selection, with playful and experimental doughs” which will be regularly added to the menu by Zia Lucia’s pizzaioli.

The wood-fired pizzas at Zia Lucia Brook Green will be priced from £7 — £11 and will feature some classic — as well as some not-classic — Italian toppings, available on four fixed doughs, plus the aforementioned green vegetable special:

• Traditional white flour
• Earthy wholemeal
• Crisp gluten-free
• Dramatic vegetable charcoal black base

Toppings will include the spreadable spicy Italian sausage, nduja; hot spianata salami, truffle honey, burrata, gorgonzola and a vegan butternut squash cream. Brook Green, be ready.

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