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Axios
3 hours ago
- Business
- Axios
New Roman pizza joint opens at Temple Pastries in Central District
Temple Pastries debuted its new evening pizza service last weekend, serving rectangular Roman-style pies along with drinks and dessert. Catch up quick: It's a big change for the Central District bakery, which previously focused on the morning and lunch crowd and shut down at 3pm. By night, the bakery now operates as the Sacro Bosco pizzeria (although you can still get your favorite croissant in the morning). What to expect: One thing you should know about Sacro Bosco's pies is they are substantial. Each pizza measures 32 inches by 8 inches, yielding eight slices. The crust is thick, crispy and filling — I could only eat two slices, even though I can regularly down an entire Neapolitan-style pie. Flavor combinations include spicy salami with calabrian chili and fennel pollen; mortadella pesto; and vodka basil (think the creamy red sauce in penne alla vodka). If you go: They're only doing dine-in service right now, but the restaurant said on Instagram that it plans to start taking to-go orders later this summer (once it gets the right-sized boxes to accommodate its hefty pies).
Edinburgh Live
12 hours ago
- Business
- Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh's award-winning Matto Pizza to open new 'social' restaurant in West End
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Get the latest Edinburgh Live breaking news on WhatsApp A popular Edinburgh pizza business is expanding, with a new location set to open soon in the West End. Award-winning Matto Pizza, with locations in Morningside, Newington and Meadowbank, recently announced a new concept for customers to enjoy their wood-fired pizzas within a social setting. Social by Matto is set to open on Shandwick Place offering "good vibes, great plates and a space to stay a while." Matto first opened in Meadowbank in 2020 and after gaining popularity among foodies and fans of authentic Neapolitan-style pizzas, the team opened a larger restaurant in Morningside in 2021. Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. The 44-seater restaurant also boasts a large outdoor terrace. In 2023 a third eatery opened in Newington and the team have now set their sights on the West End with their fourth spot opening in the summer. Posters advertising the new restaurant have already appeared in the window of the former La Piazza unit and internal work is officially underway after it closed down last year. Taking to Instagram the team at Matto posted: "Something new is cooking…Say hello to Social by Matto - our boldest bite yet. "Good vibes, great plates, and a space to stay a while. Landing Summer 2025. Ready to get Social?" Matto is currently nominated for Best Pizza in Scotland at the 2025 Deliveroo Restaurant Awards, having taken top spot in 2024.
Eater
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Eater
The Biggest New Las Vegas Restaurant Openings, June 2025
Las Vegas's dining scene moves quickly — powerhouse casinos usher in new behemoths with Champagne and sparklers and off-Strip restaurants continue to open doors in homey neighborhood strip malls. Here is a list of new and notable spots that opened in Las Vegas recently. For the best restaurants in town, check out Eater Las Vegas's Essential 38 or Eater's guide to eating and drinking in Las Vegas. Pisces The Strip Vibey seafood restaurant Pisces opened in one of the most stunning spaces on the Las Vegas Strip on May 10. Housed in the former Lakeside location at Wynn Las Vegas, chef Martin Heierling's menu features specialty oils from Greece, pastas from Tuscany, Mediterranean seafood like grilled dry-aged branzino and rare blue lobsters, and whimsical desserts shaped like fish. Pisces retains the former tenant's sweeping views of the Lake of Dreams from the window-lined dining room, while revamping the interior with deep navy tones, glittering Italian stone mosaics, and a striking dual-level bar. Zaytinya The Strip José Andrés's acclaimed Mediterranean restaurant Zaytinya opened in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace on May 13, adding to the chef's lineup of restaurants in Las Vegas, including Bazaar Meat and é by José Andrés. The menu channels Greek, Turkish, and Lebanese flavors with dishes like spicy soujouk sausage-topped flatbread, charred octopus, and a mezze spread including labneh, tzatziki, baba ghanoush, and more. Larger mains include Tangier-spiced grilled lamb chops and a mixed grill of lamb, kofte, chicken, and adana skewers. Nudo Southern Highlands Nearly 20 years after debuting the sleek, nightclub-adjacent Nove Italiano high atop the Palms, which closed in 2018, Jenna and Michael Morton of Morton Group have returned to Italian cuisine — this time in a more relaxed, suburban setting. Their newest restaurant, Nudo Italiano, is now open in Southern Highlands, trading Strip-side sheen for casual dining and Neapolitan-style pizza. Helming the kitchen is William DeMarco, who served a menu of handmade pasta, house-baked breads, and Neapolitan-style pizzas fired in a traditional wood-burning oven. The restaurant embraces Italian comfort cooking, with dishes like crispy calamari with lemon aioli, a heaping bowl of pappardelle in veal ragu with sheep's milk ricotta, and pan-roasted branzino over eggplant puree. Holsteins Arts District Over-the-top burger and milkshake restaurant Holsteins is back — but this time, off-Strip. Holsteins Shakes and Buns closed its doors at the Cosmopolitan in May 2024, ending a 15-year run, before reopening in the Arts District on May 29, 2025. Fans of the restaurant will be pleased to see a return of the original menu, including the forager burger, made with a beef-and-mushroom blended patty, creamy steak sauce, a fried egg, Swiss cheese, and marmalade onions, as well as the blackened chicken sandwich layered with bacon, chipotle ranch, and pepperjack cheese. Diners can also find Holsteins' decadent 'Bam-Boozled' milkshakes: boozy concoctions like a cookies-and-cream shake spiked with whipped cream-flavored vodka, and a Nutella and coffee shake with chocolate ice cream. Each one comes piled high with doughnuts, cookies, and marshmallows. Bobae Noodle House Chinatown Bobae Noodle House earned a following in Korea for its signature dishes and now brings its take on Korean-Chinese comfort food to Las Vegas's Chinatown. The vibe is retro and cozy, with brick walls and neon signs glowing above diner-style red booths. The menu riffs on classics with standouts like the Bobae jjajangmyeon — chewy noodles slicked with rich black bean sauce, topped with quail egg and crunchy radish sprouts — and the jjamppong, a fiery seafood noodle soup that balances heat, brine, and depth. The tangsuyuk, a crispy pork dish glazed in sweet-and-sour sauce, also deserves a spot in the rotation. For late-night noodles, Bobae stays open until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The Naughty Angel Strip-adjacent Just behind the Strip, chef Angel Lopez — an alum of Hell's Kitchen, Sadelle's at Bellagio, and Elio at Wynn — has opened his first solo project: the Naughty Angel. The sleek, French bistro-style restaurant blends fine dining polish with neighborhood energy, offering a menu anchored by Lopez's flair for rich sauces and balanced plating. Highlights include the 32-ounce picanha steak, a seared duck breast with potatoes au gratin and pepper aioli, and a slow-braised lamb shank in red wine. Baked escargot and crab cakes in lemon beurre blanc set the tone up front, while desserts lean classic-with-a-twist — like a whole poached apple in mulled wine with pie-spiced ice cream. Tucked into a low-slung plaza just west of Resorts World, the Naughty Angel feels removed from the chaos of the Strip, but still within striking distance for a night out. Blue Orchid Thai Kitchen Southwest Blue Orchid Thai Kitchen is the latest venture from the family behind Las Vegas's Pin Kaow Thai Restaurant. Executive chef Steve Piamchuntar leads the kitchen with a menu that blends flavors from both north and south Thailand. Blue Orchid marries bold flavors with bold presentations — an aromatic and herbaceous tom yum soup is prepared at the table using a siphon that dramatically drains a broth filled with herbs and spices. The menu features dishes like braised short rib khao soi, a northern-style curry served with wide egg noodles, pickled mustard greens, and red onion. Other notable offerings are the panang curry-style lamb chop with eggplant, bamboo shoots, and baby corn in coconut red curry, and the Bangkok brined chicken sliders topped with fermented red curry pickles and Kewpie mayo. The setting is nearly transportive, with hanging foliage, intricate murals of Thai landscapes nestled into booth alcoves, and a display of traditional Khon masks. Sign up for our newsletter.
Edinburgh Live
5 days ago
- Business
- Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh set for 'ultimate bowling experience' at new Waverley Market games centre
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Edinburgh's Waverley Market is set for a new bowling and games bar with food and drink. Earlier this year a pre-application notice was submitted to the council for new leisure facilities at the city centre spot. Plans have now been submitted for signage on behalf of King Pins, a chain with several locations across the UK. The bowling alley would open at unit 23, on Waverley Bridge, and include ten lanes, a mini golf course with nine holes, multiple pool tables, two curling lanes and dart boards on the lower level. Visuals of the external signage have also been drawn up on behalf of the applicant as King Pins continues its expansion in Scotland, with its first centre in the country set to open in Glasgow at the end of June. King Pins also offer customers a wide range of food and drinks while enjoying the many games on offer including Neapolitan-style pizza and crispy fried chicken at Marvin's Pizza & Chicken. They also have a Royal Treats stall where customers can choose from soft serve ice cream, doughnuts, brownies and pick n mix. Duck Pin Bowling is another game on offer which is perfect for younger children with shorter alleys and lighter balls. Montagu Evans, who previously submitted the plans to the council, said: "The proposal will provide an assembly & leisure use with an associated restaurant/licensed bar in a highly accessible location adjacent to the Edinburgh Waverley Train Station, and bus stops along Princes Street and within walking distance of inner-city homes. "Therefore, the proposal supports the 20-minute neighbourhood principle."
Eater
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Eater
Make Gjelina's Famous Pizza, Now in 2 Hours Instead of 27
I once skipped several sessions of an expensive culinary conference in Los Angeles just so I could sit in a cab for something like two hours in heavy traffic to make it to Gjelina. In 2016, Gjelina was all anyone at the conference would talk about, so I played hooky to experience the low-key Venice restaurant with all the hype and man, I was glad I did. My fellow colleagues/truants and I dove into the hyper-seasonal, vegetable-driven menu with the zeal of sun-starved non-Californians, ordering nearly everything and eating like it was our job, because it is. There were some very lovely salads done with the sort of insouciant minimalism that put California cuisine on the map, a few astonishingly delicate handmade pastas, and the star of the show, Gjelina's famous Neapolitan-style pizzas. All floofy, charred edges, they were topped with things that made me, a former pizzaiola, swoon. The bold anchovy, roasted tomatoes, and smoked mozzarella pie was so impressive that I picked up a copy of then chef Travis Lett's 2015 Gjelina cookbook on my way out the door. I've used that book a lot in the intervening 10 years. While the restaurant's street cred has perhaps waned a little since Lett's departure, the pies are still flying off the menu and the book holds some solid lessons in how to cook. But… (you knew there was a but) the recipes are kind of a lot. Lett chose to write the book in a way that tells readers exactly how they do things in the restaurant, where a dedicated kitchen staff spends hours prepping the pickles, confit vegetables, sauces, and infused oils that make Gjelina's food taste so distinctively delicious. While I admire the transparency and flavors the effort yields, all that prep work is a pain in the patoot to create at home. Take the pizza chapter, for instance. The dough alone requires at least 27 hours to make. Lett writes in the headnote that the recipe is among the simplest he's ever worked with. Good Lord above, where was he making pizza before, the French Laundry? He starts with fresh yeast, which is only available at restaurant supply stores (in large bricks, no less) and doesn't explain why you would need to use that versus active dry yeast, which is much easier to find. Just a quick calculation and he could have converted the recipe so it was easier to use for home cooks. A cookbook is meant for home cooks, right? The recipe calls for two types of flour — low-gluten, fine-milled imported Italian Antimo Caputo 00 flour and higher-gluten King Arthur's Sir Galahad bread flour. That's fine if you have both flours knocking around in your cupboards (hint: neither will be at your local grocery store). I have found that using 00 fine-milled flour from a domestic source (Bob's Red Mill #FTW) makes for a lovely pizza crust with nice bubbly pockets, a crispy bottom, and perhaps not quite the chew of Lett's recipe, but close enough to get the Neapolitan pizza idea across. Restaurants use a low-yeast, slow-fermented dough not just because it helps the flavor and texture of a finished crust, but also because they are making large batches ahead of time and can let the dough rise over a day or two in the fridge until it's needed. Lett's recipe requires two fermentations, the first of which is at warm room temperature until the dough has risen to 50 to 75 percent of its original volume, about three hours. It's a hell of an ask for a home cook to suss out the volume in such terms. I stared at the dough for so long trying to figure out what 75 percent relative volume was that I had a very unpleasant algebra class flashback. Also, Lett writes that the temperature of the room should be 80 degrees during this initial bulk rise, but unless you live in Southern California or are making this pizza in August without AC, you are apparently f**ked. Next, the dough is risen slowly for one to two and a half days in the refrigerator. The recipe then goes on for a page about how to divide the dough and form it into taut balls, only to rise it again for a bafflingly wide time window (one and a half to three hours). After that, the dough balls are dunked in another blend of semolina and all-purpose flours, stretched by hand (NEVER with a rolling pin, but Lett doesn't say why). And at the end of all this dense and confusing prose comes this tidbit about the dough: 'If it is superelastic [ sic ], then the dough probably has not proofed enough. If the dough is supersoft [ sic ] and tears easily, it has proofed too much.' That didn't inspire much confidence. It also doesn't guide you on what to do in either of these scenarios. All of this is to say that I found the dough recipe to be excessively fiddly and time-consuming, and that the dough it yields is sticky and hard to handle. It also tastes pretty good but looks nothing like the photo in the book. Eventually I gave up on Lett's method and came up with a single-rise, single-flour dough that is ready in just under two hours. As for the toppings, the base of my favorite Gjelina pie is not tomato sauce but tomato confit, a sub recipe wherein you roast 3 pounds of blanched and peeled Roma tomatoes for four hours with garlic, herbs, and 2 cups of olive oil. For one pizza, you'll need ⅓ cup of said confit tomatoes and all that oil is collateral damage. They're delicious, and you should make the recipe sometime when you've got a ton of tomatoes and even more time, but do you know what else works? Roasting just 1 pound of smaller Campari tomatoes with garlic, herbs, and just ½ cup of oil in the oven as you are heating up the pizza stone. In just 45 minutes to an hour, the tomatoes will let go of their juices, intensify to a lovely sweetness, and their skins will crinkle and come away from the flesh as easy as plucking daisy petals. Ditto for the roasted red bell peppers. The cookbook has you flip to another sub recipe and grill the peppers over a charcoal fire, gas fire, or in a cast-iron grill pan indoors (which takes a very long time and is not recommended by yours truly). You're better off setting the peppers over a gas flame on the stove or baking halved peppers skin-side up for 30 minutes in a 400-degree oven. You could also just open a jar of roasted peppers, but if you do I recommend the meaty intensity of roasted piquillo peppers. Thankfully they're getting easier to find in grocery stores. So that leaves us with the cheese. The recipe calls for fresh, smoked mozzarella. Sadly, the only version I could find melts to the consistency of hot snot in a milky puddle and tastes like a campfire. I now use plain fresh mozzarella (blotted thoroughly with paper towels to remove excess moisture) along with a sprinkle of grated scamorza, a lightly smoked semi-firm cow's milk, for a subtle, smoky twang. As for the anchovies, I suspect that people who don't like them may only be familiar with the skinny inferior canned fishies that are thrown on lesser Caesar salads as an afterthought. I'm not sure why the book's recipe recommends salt-packed anchovies —maybe they taste better — but after leaving four different gourmet shops empty-handed, I couldn't tell you. I use Ortiz Spanish anchovies that come in a small glass jar affixed with a tiny bonus fork. They are meaty, firm, and have a buttery flavor that makes anchovy pizza well worth the fish breath. Finally, Lett instructs you to sprinkle the finished pizza with Sicilian dried oregano, because oregano with fewer food miles simply would not do. I can't say I could really taste the difference, so now I just use what I've got on hand. In the end, I've developed a recipe that is admittedly a distant homage to the stellar pie I had at Gjelina. That's because even when I followed the Gjelina recipe to the letter, I never got a pizza like the one in the book's photo with the bubbly charred crust, perhaps because my oven can't get up to 800 degrees like the restaurant's purpose-built pizza oven. So I opted to create a doable pizza recipe with a crisp crust and bold, savory toppings that takes a little less than two hours. It's a pie I make frequently. With the 25 ½ hours I save, I have time to hold down a job and make the velvety butterscotch pot de crème with salted caramel recipe in the back of the Gjelina cookbook, which never fails to make my life instantly better. Two-Hour Anchovy and Roasted Pepper Pizza Recipe Adapted from Gjelina: Cooking From Venice, California Makes 2 (10-inch) pizzas, serves 2 to 4 Ingredients: 2 teaspoons active dry yeast1 cup warm water (70-75 degrees)2 tablespoons plus 1 ½ teaspoons olive oil, divided3 cups (384 grams) Bob's Red Mill 00 flour, plus more for dusting1 ½ teaspoons salt1 teaspoon sugar2 to 3 tablespoons polenta or semolina flour6 ounces fresh mozzarella, torn into pieces (⅔ cup) and patted dry with paper towels½ cup grated scamorza cheese or low-moisture smoked mozzarella cheese1 cup Quick Roasted Tomatoes (see recipe below), skins discarded, flesh torn into ½-inch chunks½ cup jarred, sliced roasted piquillo peppers or roasted red bell peppers, patted dry with paper towels10 good-quality oil packed anchovies ½ to 1 teaspoon dried oregano Instructions: Step 1: Put a pizza stone on a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 500 degrees. Bake the tomatoes (if using) as the oven heats up (see sub recipe below). Step 2: Make the pizza dough. In a measuring cup, combine the yeast and water and set aside for 5 minutes until creamy and a little puffy looking. Add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and stir to combine. Combine the flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large bowl (if kneading by hand). Add the yeast-water mixture and mix on low speed (2) with the dough hook until the dough comes together into a smooth, stretchy dough, 4 to 5 minutes. To test if it's got enough gluten development, try the window pane test; if the dough is developed, you should be able to stretch a small amount of dough between your fingers until it is almost see-through at the thinnest point without tearing. If kneading by hand, dust a work surface with as little flour as possible and knead until smooth and stretchy, 5 to 8 minutes. The wetter the dough, the crisper the crust will be. Step 3: Let the dough rise. Rub the remaining 2 teaspoons of oil in a large bowl, add the dough, cover, and set aside next to the oven until the dough is puffy and nearly doubled in size, 1 to 1 ½ hours, depending on the temperature in your kitchen. If you're not sure if it's ready, try the poke test. Step 4: Stretch the pizza dough using the steering wheel method. Divide the dough in half. Leave one piece in the bowl, covered. Put the other on a lightly floured surface and gently press down the center of the dough to create a fat disc. Gently stretch the dough into a small round with your fingers, leaving ½ inch of the edges untouched to create a puffy edge. Pick up the dough near the edge, letting the rest hang down and continuing to leave a half-inch of the edge untouched. Gently pinch the dough while rotating it until it is stretched to about 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Gravity will help stretch the dough and rotating it while you work ensures you get a round-ish shape. Step 5: Sprinkle a pizza peel or the back of a baking sheet with a four-finger pinch of polenta or semolina; the coarseness will act like ball bearings and make it extra easy to slide the dough from the peel onto the pizza stone in the oven. Transfer the dough to the pizza peel, making sure it isn't sticking anywhere. Carefully arrange half of the tomatoes over the dough, followed by half the cheese, peppers, and anchovies Don't let any toppings get on the peel or the dough may stick. Step 6: Open the oven and transfer the pizza to the stone by putting the front edge of the peel very close to the stone. Using a decisive jerking motion, quickly slide the pizza onto the stone, almost as if you were pulling a tablecloth out from under a fully laid dining table. Bake, rotating the pizza once for even browning, until the crust is crisp underneath, the edges are deeply browned in places, and the cheese is bubbly, 10 to 12 minutes. Using the pizza peel, transfer the pizza to a large cutting board. Sprinkle with half of the oregano and drizzle with 1 ½ teaspoons of olive oil (or the oil used to bake the tomatoes), cut into wedges, and serve immediately. Step 7: Let the pizza stone heat up again for 15 minutes. Make the second pizza with the remaining dough and toppings. Quick Roasted Tomatoes Recipe Makes about 1 cup, enough for two pizzas Ingredients: 1 pound medium-size Campari tomatoes, halved2 large garlic cloves, sliced1 teaspoon oregano¼ teaspoon thyme½ teaspoon sea salt1 pinch chile flakes ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil Instructions: Step 1: Prepare the tomatoes. Poke the seeds out of the tomatoes and discard. Place the tomatoes cut side up in an 8-by-11-inch baking dish (or any other baking dish that can fit the tomatoes in an even layer). Tuck a slice of garlic into each tomato half. Sprinkle with the oregano, thyme, sea salt, and chile flakes. Pour the olive oil over the top. Step 2: Bake the tomatoes. Put a piece of foil loosely over the baking dish and place it on the center rack of a cold oven, on the rack above the pizza stone. (Do not put the baking dish on the pizza stone itself or it will prevent the stone from preheating properly.) Set the oven to 500 degrees and bake until the tomatoes are collapsed and smell amazing, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from the oven, uncover, and let cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Remove the center rack from the oven to make it easier to slide the pizzas into the oven. Step 3: When the tomatoes are cool enough to handle, pull off their skins and discard. Place the tomatoes and garlic in a bowl and break them up with a spoon into large chunks, then set aside until you need them. Reserve the olive oil left over in the baking dish to drizzle on the pizzas. Any remaining oil can be kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week. Dina Ávila is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. 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