Porcheta is closed

Ali

Anyone know why? Thought it looked like a flood inside

CityOfSin

Thought the whole chain had folded and remaining restaurants were just seeing out their lease and then closing. The one in Angel has been closed for quite a while.

HolbornFox

It's been dying a slow death for years like the one in Muswell Hill, used to be great but went massively down hill.

Papa

Still does the best pizzas.

But suffered the world's strangest refurb reaction, when somehow getting rid of the walls with paint peeling off and breeze-blocked doorways to the old second half managed to detract from people wanting to go there.

It's crying out for someone to revive it.

mattleys

Can't say I'm surprised. It was a pioneer once but now that kind of pizza is ubiquitous and done better. Plus they really lost out to Pappagone's when they got rid of the wood oven. Weird decision!

kreuzkav

I think after the refit in 2010 it lacked its original authentic atmosphere. The staff all changed from the original Italian to a mixture of nationalities and it just had a chain feel to it. I think the SG one was the original and it expanded to one or two others for a decade., then expanded to more than five over the 2000s Still had the occasional takeaway, the pizzas were still very good, but not as cheap and as tasty I think as back in its heyday.

HolbornFox

They also had a beer tap in there for a while and then got rid of it, stupid decision, the food was pretty good IMO but as said superseded by the likes of Saporita.

Ali

It way the second restaurant on that part of SGR must have been there for about 25 years. The other restaurant was the vegi Indian and thrrey as a jdbab shoot where the Granary is