After a Tour de France inspired cycling disaster at the Manchester Skyride I had never been so relieved to arrive home. A short-lived feeling, as it wasn’t long before I realised I had a lunch date to attend with hubby and mother-in-law at a new pizza restaurant in Monton. I say new, but in fact 6/cut is a total re-brand of Felicinis which judging by the trip advisor reviews, used to be pretty popular. The re-brand was brought about to offer something different and specialist but from some of the comments I had read online, the change didn’t seem to be well received, particularly amongst the old Felicini-loyalists.
Inside it’s big, bright, colourful and inviting with lots of modern touches.
To start we shared a ‘Summer Med Board’ consisting of: prosciutto, falafel, hummus, olives, mozzarella, tomato pesto and garlic flatbread.
Though it’s not exactly cheap at £13 there is a LOT of food, more than enough for two, probably enough for three or four. Including a whole ball of mozzarella!
Most of it was very enjoyable.
There are 12 pizzas on the menu covering all the bases (pun intended) from classic to ridiculous – maybe it’s just me but pulled pork and roast sweet potato do not belong on a pizza.
My ‘Calabrese Sausage & Jalapeño’ pizza was great though.
The base wasn’t the very best sourdough I’ve had, not quite as airy and risen as it could be. But it was nice and light and cooked properly.
The tomato sauce was lovely and in perfect quantity, while the simple topping of spicy Calabrese sausage and hot jalapeños made for an exciting and flavoursome pizza.
I was recently invited to try the latest Mud Crab Industries project, a sourdough pizza restaurant in Monton. Now as much as I love pizza and always love the chance to try out a newly opened eatery, I thought I had better decline the offer given that I genuinely had no idea where Monton was! Luckily I mentioned the offer to my Salfordian colleagues who promptly reassured me that not only was Monton merely a stone’s throw away but I should catch up, as this area is now being touted as the new Didsbury.
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