If you’re going to re-invent the wheel, you might as well recruit someone from Bedrock to wield the chisel. And if you’re gonna make pizza, you might as well get a pizza chef from Naples. So that’s just what Barry McDonald did when he set up the new Fratelli Fresh in Bridge Street, complete with Cafe Sopra (‘sopra’, the Italian word for ‘above’ now made officially ridic in this sub-street level space), souped-up with a pizzeria and a mozzarella bar.
He also got the king of bar/restaurant interiors, Michael Delaney to kit out the rabbit warren-like digs. And for the mozzarella bar, he sent his head chefs to chomp their way through LA, Pac-Man style, and then bring back the knowledge.
The pizza is good, the mozzarella bar I could eat from at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the blackboard menu is chock with old favourites. Undoubtedly, this is the most ambitious outlet to date, but they haven’t screwed with the formula too much. It’s Fratelli Fresh, re-freshed.
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