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Fuoco and Farina
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Trattoria · Soho · dal 1987

FuocoandFarina

  • 4.9 · 1,214 Google reviews
  • Coal-fired since 1987
  • Pasta made daily, never dried
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Ninety seconds in the coal oven

Open Tue–Sun from 12:00 · Mon closed

14 Bateman Street, Soho W1D 3AG

020 7946 0387

Il Fuoco

Coal, never gas.

The oven crossed from Naples in a shipping crate in 1987 and has burned coal ever since. Marco feeds it each morning the way his grandfather did. Ninety seconds a pizza: blistered, leopard-spotted, a crust you can hear.

coal-fired oven, never gas
450°
from peel to table
90 sec
the year the oven arrived from Naples
1987

La Farina

Rolled before sunrise.

At half past six the board is floured and Nonna Lucia’s recipes come out: 00 flour, eggs, nothing else. Eight shapes, rolled and cut by hand. What isn’t eaten tonight is gone; pasta here is never dried, never kept.

the board is floured every morning
6:30
shapes rolled by hand daily
8
dried pasta in the building
0

La Sala

A small room
with a big oven

Thirty-eight seats, worn wood, warm light, and the best seats in the house face the fire.

The warm dining room: worn wood tables, exposed brick, brass pendant lamps and the long family table

La Sala

38 seats, one long family table

Neapolitan pizzas cooking on the floor of the glowing coal-fired oven

Il Forno

The coal oven, lit since 1987

Fresh hand-cut tagliatelle resting in nests on a flour-dusted pasta board

La Sfoglia

The pasta board, 6:30 every morning

A Margherita D.O.P. on a ceramic plate: leopard-spotted crust, basil and fior di latte

Margherita D.O.P.

Ninety seconds, leopard-spotted

A Capricciosa pizza: cotto ham, artichoke, mushroom, black olives and a baked egg on a blistered coal-fired crust

Capricciosa

Ham, artichoke, olive, egg

Le Recensioni

Soho keeps coming back

4.9 · 1,214 Google reviews

“The crust is the whole argument: blistered, chewy, faintly smoky from the coal. I’ve eaten pizza in Naples that wasn’t this good. Ask for the Salsiccia e Friarielli.”

Sophie R.

Fitzrovia · dined in June

“The tagliatelle al ragù tastes like someone’s grandmother is in the kitchen, because she effectively is. Warm room, warm people, zero fuss. Our Friday place ever since.”

Daniel M.

Covent Garden · regular

“Booked for six on a Saturday and they sat us at the long family table by the oven. Watching the pizzas go in and out is better theatre than half of Soho.”

Chiara B.

Islington · group dinner

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La tavola è pronta.

The table is set

Tuesday to Sunday, lunch and dinner. Walk-ins welcome at the counter. For the family table, book ahead.

Reserve a table 020 7946 0387

Orari: Opening hours

MondayClosed, il forno riposa
Tuesday–Thursday12:00–15:00 · 17:30–22:30
Friday–Saturday12:00–23:00
Sunday12:00–21:00

14 Bateman Street, Soho

London W1D 3AG

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Two minutesfrom Soho Square

Nearest stations: Tottenham Court Road · Leicester Square

14 Bateman Street, Soho

London W1D 3AG

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