We were delighted to have been featured in Condé Nast Traveller as one of “The best restaurants in Kent” These are the best places to eat in the Garden of England right now!
It is a little-known fact that the only English pizza restaurant certified by Naples' Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana is a little place in sweet, unassuming Herne Bay: a short trip, if a long way in other senses, from trendy Whitstable. Upstairs, past the giant hump of the wood-fired pizza oven and several photographs of that quintessential advertisement for Italian cooking, Sophia 'everything you see I owe to spaghetti' Loren, there's a bright, unfussy room where Gennaro Esposito's English wife will bring you crispy zucchini fries, pasta, if that's what you want, and most importantly, superb pizza, light of crust, generous of topping - all those you'd expect and a few, like smoked cheese or chips, you wouldn't. It's reasonably priced to boot and the wine is very decent, with maps on the list so you know where it comes from - a brilliant innovation for the world's most complicated wine country. That light dough means pudding is at least faintly possible, and if there's Italian certification for giant Ferrero Rochers these guys should have that, too.
