Forchetta

Ali · November 2012

Looks like we are getting one next to Christophwer Charles

miss annie · November 2012

Oh goody, another pizza parlour.

emine · November 2012

I think it's the same La Forchetta as the one on Upper Street innit. Do cheap and cheerful Italian restaurants now outnumber wig shops?

boxrunner · November 2012

They certainly outnumber bakeries (and delis).

Idoru · November 2012

At least it's not betting shops.

Papa · November 2012

Is it a ploy to confuse and sucker in out-of-towners walking up from the station to La Porchetta?

boxrunner · November 2012

@Papa L: I think you mean 'to Pappagone'.

Papa · November 2012

Is that an attempt to trigger the eternal pizza argument. I'm not biting.

boxrunner · November 2012

You've got to bite (unless it's a very Sloppy Giseppe). I did used to be a Porchetta fan, and when we moved here it took me a little while to consider Pappagone. But I was fairly evenly split between them until Porchetta had their refurb which I can't stand (and I swear their pizzas shrank). Ever since then I've only had eyes (and a belly) for Pappagone. I'm unapologetic.

ChangN4N6 · November 2012

The new one nr the chip shop is good in Tollington park. Less of a chain. Our cooker broke in Lorne rd so have lived in take always for a week. Yings in Hanley rd has gone down. Ordered beef and got home and it was chicken. And rice ratty. Place looks like funeral parlor . Mexican place surprisingly good and lovely bird who served us cheered us up. Spicy in all ways. Black sea kebabs inexpensive but don't like the grease. The Indian take away up from cats very tasty and the man in there is a top bloke. Good indian bread. I could write a book. New cooker coming Saturday thanks to landlady Joyce . Chang

vetski · November 2012

The new La Forchetta isn't going to be a pizzeria, at least judging by the signwriting, which says Cafeteria, Gelateria, Pasticceria, Paninoteca; the awning says Cafeteria Gelateria. Didn't see any mention of pizza.

yagamuffin · November 2012

Is this where the deli used to be?

miss annie · November 2012

Is it not this chain? <a href="http://www.laforchetta.co.uk/gallery/">http://www.laforchetta.co.uk/gallery/</a>;

vetski · November 2012

Yes, it's where the deli used to be, and if it is that chain, it's a totally different format - maybe they're trying out a cafe format? Will see if I can get a look inside next time I go past.

ActionVerb · November 2012

The Forchetta in Farringdon is more of a cafe / sandwich / pasta takeaway place. They had opened up another one in similar format further up the road towards Angel, but that closed down pretty sharpish.

Papa · November 2012

I tried to stop myself but....I can't....I'll bite, I think Porchetta's pizzas are better than Pappagone's, a bit thinner, a bit crispier, a bit more hold it up and everything will slide off. I think Pappagone's are very good though. But I'd slip Piccolo Diavolo's in between the two. We are blessed for pizzerias in Stroud Green. Not tried La Favorita yet. The refurb of Porchetta while a little generic was much needed, as the plaster was falling off the walls and the bare breeze blocks in the old entrance to what is now the back of the Sugar Lounge were no longer a novelty. Service suffered a bit afterwards, but is now back on top and the TV is switched off. Pizzas are plenty big enough, although I do notice size varies.

boxrunner · November 2012

@Papa_L: "I think Pappagone's are very good though. But I'd slip Piccolo Diavolo's in between the two. We are blessed for pizzerias in Stroud Green. Not tried La Favorita yet." Interesting, haven't tried Piccolo Diavolo's yet (though we've been meaning to). I'll have to give it a try. We tried La Favorita recently and were quite impressed there too, nice to have something different. Now I'm just imagining what it would be like to eat a pizza stack of Prochetta, Diavolo, Pappagone. Could get very messy......

boxrunner · November 2012

PS - How do you refer to a user (using the '@'; symbol) where the user has a space in their name?

andy · November 2012

tried a bunch of things and the answer seems to be, you can't

RedSturgeon · November 2012

poxy · November 2012

Does this work? @papa%20l

poxy · November 2012

Nope.

poxy · November 2012

@papa ;l

poxy · November 2012

@papa_&_nbsp;_l didn't work either

poxy · November 2012

Bored now. And drunk.

poxy · November 2012

Bored now. And drunk.

andy · November 2012

Ace. Exactly the same set of things I tried.

andy · November 2012

Not just us, either:<div> <div>http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/15187/mentioning-users-with-spaces-in-their-names</div><div>https://vanillaforums.com/discussion/336/spaces-in-the-usernames</div><div> </div></div><div>And vanilla consider this a feature, not a bug</div>

RedSturgeon · November 2012

I tried the %20 thing last night too. Vanilla must be stripping out the '%20' and spaces and stuff - if you 'edit the source' of a message so it reads like so: <a href="www.stroudgreen.org/profile/papa%20L">@Papa L</a> you get: <a href="www.stroudgreen.org/profile/papa%20L">@Papa L</a> Which looks fine when you're editing a comment, but contracts down to @Papa L again when you save the comment, and weirdly strips out the %20L from within the quotes when you click on the hyperlink. In an ideal world you'd've thought Vanilla would've prohibited usernames with spaces if they weren't going to cater for them. Perhaps a sign that in this as in so many other ways the world is less than ideal... Cheery thought for the day!

boxrunner · November 2012

Apparently Vanilla does prohibit user names with spaces <a href="https://vanillaforums.com/discussion/336/spaces-in-the-usernames" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://vanillaforums.com/discussion/336/spaces-in-the-usernames</a>, perhaps these accounts are from before that block was put in place? Or it's an admin-customisation.

Papa · November 2012

@Andy can you alter people's user names? I'll happily volunteer to lose my L

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