About Us

The Italo’s is an all-day café and restaurant in Islington that serves everything from eggy breakfasts, to take away salads, to your classic sit-down hearty Italian fare. This place feels like the lovechild of a venetian cicchetti bar and a modern diner, and it’ll work for a business breakfast or a casual weeknight catch up with your mates. The Italo’s should definitely be on your radar if you work in the area and are after some morning pastries to eat on the way into the office, or a grab-and-go Pinsa Romana by the slice, a fresh made sandwich or a salad come lunchtime.

Styled as a modern Venetian with a trendy Londoner twist dining experience located on two floors with an open bar and a beautiful open kitchen, it’s easy to love, just like the menu. A combination of classic cicchetti, antipasti, pasta, pizza and meaty secondi, you’ll also find rarer delicacies on here, like the unique Pinsa Romana, crispy fried seafood, amazing fresh pasta and plentiful boards with high quality cheese and dry cured meats.

With reasonable prices and an equally easy on the eye brunch menu, The Italo’s is just the place to enjoy a leisurely Italian brunch, a quick lunch and a relaxing dinner.

Owned by Venetian restauranter Clark Manwar with the collaboration of Chef Enzo Minopoli, The Italo’s offers a well tough menu using carefully selected ingredients from Italy and the Uk. Our coffee is one of the best brand around and our baristas are trained to give you the best experience to start your day or to enjoy while sitting in our cosy dining room.

The benefit of our dough, the spirit of Italian eating and the London lifestyle.

Just as a great chef goes to Market to choose his ingredients carefully, we hold our ingredients to these same standards. Only the ripest tomato, most aromatic basil, freshest mozzarella and brightest peppers make the cut. Our prep work is done daily, in house, for optimum crispness and freshness. Our sauces and meats tell a story of flavour and spice like no other. Our toppings are carefully balanced, and our chefs will show you how to create your own perfect flavour harmony too.

Pizza isn’t new, but ours is revolutionary. Fall in love, live on the edge of your seat, play it safe, or craft it your way. At the Italo's, we know every dish has a story, interesting and unlike no other. Come tell us yours.

OUR OBJECTIVES

Fresh-made, spectacular, light-enough-for-everyday, customizable individual pizzas – great for any lunch or mid-day snack. Satisfying enough for a fresh-made, light, quick dinner

CULINARY POINTS

SPECTACULAR FLAVORS, “CAREFULLY CURATED”, BALANCE – IN OUR MENU, IN OUR RECIPES , RESPECT THE DOUGH – WORLDLY FLAVORS, STUNNING VISUAL APPEAL

OUR KEY POINTS OF DIFFERENCE

  • Our pizza is spectacular, leaps and bounds above the rest
  • We are the only pizza brand that gives you artisan quality pizza and gourmet ingredients chosen by our chef in the comfort of your home
  • We are the only ones with a truly light, feel-good, dough that you will crave to eat.
  • We are the only ones with a spectacular pantry of innovative sauces and the freshest ingredients we can find.
  • Our pizzas are the most carefully crafted/curated in the marketplace – we respect culinary art, ingredient honesty, and balance in all that we do

CULINARY BUILDOUT NOTES

SPECTACULAR FLAVORS

  • Spectacular, chef-created, topping profiles and ingredient combo recommendations.
  • If it isn’t spectacular, it doesn’t earn its way onto the menu.

CAREFULLY CURATED

  • Curated/crafted” approach to toppings, not a “smother-it-with-meat-and-sauce” approach
  • Topping profiles that respect the fundamental essence of the consumer core benefit: “a lighter, thin-crust pizza I can eat at lunch or on the go and still feel good afterwards
  • Variety of tastes as you eat the pizza, not the exact same bite in every bite (no “one-note” pizzas).
  • Topping profiles that make the dough shine.

BALANCE – IN OUR MENU, IN OUR RECIPES

  • A GOOD MEAT/VEG BALANCE – throughout the menu and in the topping profile of many our signature pizza recipes
  • FRESH POST-COOK TOPPING OPTIONS - Our recipe pizzas should all include some type of fresh, post-cook topping – either an herb/spice, greens (basil/Rocket), veg (fresh tomato, red onion, etc) or a drizzle sauce.
  • Vegan and gluten free options available.
  • GREAT CHEESELESS RECIPE OPTIONS – we should offer one or 2 great cheese-less options and be able to recommend other great cheese-less BYO combinations
  • Topping profiles that make the dough shine.

RESPECT THE DOUGH

  • Through 4 tastings in 3 countries with different line-ups, we have consistent feedback:
    • The crust is good enough to eat all the way to the edge.
    • The most successful pizzas have been the ones where the toppings are in harmony with the flavour/texture of the crust.
    • The most appealing pizzas are the ones where the artisanal qualities of the dough are mirrored in the artisanal care and curation of the toppings.