00:00 "Christmas is a special part of the year, which means you need to get something special
00:06 which is going to remind you, 'Rudy's Christmas, okay, I'm going there.
00:11 It's things I'm going to get only on Christmas, like for example the pumpkin one, which you're
00:15 going to find here on that small amount of time, and you say, 'Okay, I'm going there
00:20 and I want to try.'"
00:22 This festive season, Manchester favourite Rudy's Pizza Napolitana has launched two
00:26 new winter special pizzas. From Friday the 24th of November, the popular pizza joint
00:32 with sites in Manchester, London, Leeds, Liverpool and more will be serving two festive pizzas
00:38 throughout Christmas.
00:39 Zucca is the Italian word for pumpkin and as the name suggests, this vegetarian pizza
00:45 features a pumpkin cream base, topped with fior di latte, goat's cheese, roasted garlic
00:50 chestnut mushrooms, toasted pumpkin seeds and chilli flakes.
00:54 The second is a white pizza topped with fior di latte, gorgonzola, cured pork cheek, fresh
00:59 pears, toasted walnuts and fresh thyme.
01:02 These two dishes will be served in all Rudy's pizzerias and we headed down to its Portland
01:07 Street site to taste test them both.
01:08 "There's a lot of background on the back, which a lot of people are working on a new
01:15 special, on a new menu. Guanciale with the pear, it's a strong flavour of guanciale and
01:21 the pear is sweet with the gorgonzola cheese which is really strong cheese. When you eat
01:26 it, the flavour is made to say 'wow'. And about the pumpkin one, we are on the end of
01:32 November which is pumpkin everywhere. It's something which you don't get every single
01:40 day, it's something you get in a small period of the year but you're going to enjoy it because
01:46 it's like a seasoned pizza."
01:47 "Ok so I'm here today at Rudy's Pizza on Portland Street which is right next to Piccadilly
01:53 Gardens and so today I'm going to be trying the two Christmas special pizzas they've got.
01:57 One is a pumpkin base and the other one is a white base pizza which has pear on it and
02:04 crushed walnuts. Two very different pizzas, one doesn't have meat on, one does. So two
02:09 Christmas specials, one for vegetarians and one for non-vegetarians and we're going to
02:13 have a little taste of both and see exactly what is going on with the Christmas special
02:18 pizzas. So I'm very excited, let's give these a cut."
02:23 Both pizzas were certainly unique flavours and unexpectedly my favourite happened to
02:27 be the pumpkin pizza. It was sweet and had a little kick from the chilli flakes and the
02:32 pumpkin seeds added an extra crunch.
02:34 "I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this. It's actually really sweet, it's
02:39 really delicious."
02:40 For the pear and pork cheek pizza I was really surprised with the flavour since gorgonzola
02:44 is normally quite a strong cheese. Everything paired really well and it was delicious. I
02:49 ended up finishing half of both right then and there for my lunch.
Comments