You must have been living under a rock if you haven’t been bombarded by Breadstall opening its first restaurant all over social media. Famed for serving giant pizza slices for years in Clapham Junction, the new Berwick Street site has already been visited by TikTok’s famed food reviewer Eating With Tod so we headed there to find out if it lives up to the hype.
Most of the feedback I’ve seen on social media is the pizza is outstanding, but, as it works with a lot of places, you can’t determine the quality from a TikTok review so I travelled to Soho to check it out.
It’s true that you don’t see hole-in-the-wall pizza in London. You can get it in Camden, but the quality is never there, and Breadstall improves massively on that with a Neapolitan style and sourdough crust.
For somewhere as hyped as this, the queue around lunchtime wasn’t bad at all, it took about 10 minutes to get the pizza on our weekday visit. I got the quarter Margherita which cost £7, a half is priced at £14 and a whole is £28, undoubtedly expensive, but you can’t exactly ask for low prices in Soho, while other options such as pepperoni with candied jalapenos, and a chef special with nduja were available, I felt it best to get the standard as a judging point.
The quarter is bigger than you’d expect, you get 2 slices for the £7 you pay, it’s certainly enough for lunch, and the pizza is good, the base is crispy, the crust is large and pillowy, nothing I would write home about though, it wasn’t a showstopper. It could definitely do with more sauce and a bolder flavour.
Harry did enjoy how the base of the pizza is ‘crispy’ and the crust ‘pillowy’
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If you’re in Soho and looking for a quick lunch I would give it a go and try the other toppings to get more value for money, I wouldn’t advise sitting in and paying £28 for a whole pizza, you’re better off going to a number of spots that focus on the restaurant solely. Even though the speed of the operation at Breadstall is impressive.
Breadstall on Berwick Street is now open 10.30am to 10.30pm Monday to Thursday, 10.30am to 11.30pm Friday and Saturday and then 10.30am to 10pm on Sunday.
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