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IN HEAVEN Cancel your Domino’s delivery and head out to one of these top pizza joints in Edinburgh or Glasgow that are well-known for their beer selection too. Rowena McIntosh and Louise Stoddart pick their favourites
ORIGANO
LA FAVORITA SÖDERBERG PAVILION
One of the city’s more established pizza restaurants, Origano serves authentic Italian food from their stylish establishment on Leith Walk. Starters and sharing platters play supporting roles to a wide selection of pizzas. With local Paolozzi lager on tap, it’s worth the trip across town. 236 Leith Walk, origano-leith.co.uk
You'll know their little yellow delivery vans that drive about town, but La Favorita’s hub is their award-winning, third-generation Italian family restaurant on Leith Walk. The menu is largely pizza dominated, but there are interesting pasta and risotto dishes, too. There's Birra Moretti on tap and fridges filled with Corona, Peroni and Innis & Gunn bottles. 325–331 Leith Walk, vittoriagroup.co.uk Conveniently close to the university buildings, and with a great outdoor space, is Söderberg’s informal Pavilion café. Try their delicious smoked salmon pizza with a Barney’s Beer – brewed less than a mile away – and finish your meal with a delicious pastry fresh from the bakery upstairs. 1 Lister Square, soderberg.uk/ soderberg-pavilion
BLOC+
PIZZA PUNKS MOZZA
A Bath Street basement bar, Bloc+ has great Scottish beers on draught, from Innis & Gunn to Brewdog and Drygate, as well as Blue Moon and Samuel Adams from the US. Their ever-changing selection of craft beer cans always throws up a few surprises. If you get peckish later on, their meat, veggie and vegan pizzas are served until 3am. 117 Bath Street, bloc.ru Choose your own base, sauce and cheese then punk up your pizza with a whole range of weird and wonderful toppings, including cauliflower, falafel and Irn-Bru pulled pork. The drinks menu features IPAs, APAs, pilsners and porters from the likes of Magic Rock Brewing and Beavertown Brewery. 90 St Vincent Street, pizzapunks.co.uk
Relatively new to the Glasgow pizza scene, Mozza serves Neapolitan pizza, with ingredients sourced from Campania, Calabria and Naples. Even their beer is local to Italy; 32 is the first Italian microbrewery and their beer is served in impressive 75cl bottles with corks. Even their tiramisu has beer in it: it's called a birramisu. 39 Renfield Street, mozza.it
1 Sep–31 Oct 2017 THE LIST 101