A simple cheese pizza with extra cheese is my favourite type of pizza. That is why a collaboration pizza between Pizza Pilgrims and The Cheese Bar was a meal that I could not miss. Luckily, I work within a ten-minute walk of a Pizza Pilgrims, where the cheesey pizza could be purchased and enjoyed during my lunch break. I have previously visited Pizza Pilgrims and enjoyed their traditional sourdough Italian-style pizza (see post here: A Saturday Lunch at Pizza Pilgrims), but I remember wishing that it had a little more cheese.
Pizza Pilgrims have perfected the sourdough bread from studying Italian pizza baking and visiting the home of the pizza, Naples. They have been a favourite pizza restaurant of mine. The Cheese Bar started as a food truck selling grilled cheese sandwiches and have had a restaurant in Camden Town for a few years now too, which I visited a couple of years ago (see post here: Lunch at The Cheese Bar, Camden).
Available for a limited time, The Cheese Bar and Piza Pilgrims have created a fondu pizza, dubbed "The Fonduta" with five types of cheese. The cheese is a mixture of British and Italian cheeses and includes mozzarella, ricotta, parmesan, Cornish Gouda, and Kingham. It is then topped with a lashing of white wine and cooked to melt with prosciutto, cornichons (little pickles) and a balsamic pickled onion. (Note that I dislike pickles and pickled onion, so I opted to have these removed.)
I visited the Covent Garden branch of Pizza Pilgrims. "The Fonduta" pizza can be enjoyed at all branches of Pizza Pilgrims except Westfield and Swingers until the first of March.
The pizza is delicious, so if you enjoy cheese, you are going to love it. However, as it is cheese and bread, the pizza is very filling and should be enjoyed by two people. I could not finish it, and I entered the restaurant hungry after not having any breakfast. Half of the pizza would have been more than enough for me. You have been warned. As good as it is, take a friend or get a box to take home.
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