Restaurants / Italian
Bosco bosses it
Bosco pizzeria on Whiteladies Road has arrived with impeccable credentials and the kind of opening buzz most restaurants can only dream about.
Kensington Arms owners Miles and Charly Johnson have recruited former RockFish manager Joe Cook as general manager and Jake Platt (formerly of The Bird In Hand, Pump House and Kensington Arms) as head chef.
On the first Saturday night, the place was packed – even having to turn a few people away.
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Some diners were sat at the bar as we occupied a small circular table in the centre of the room, black and white tiles on one half of the floor and polished wood on the other, excited chatter all around.
You can’t fail to spot the wood-fired oven in one corner, out of which appears Neopolitan-style pizzas and a menu we are told has been informed by Miles and Charly’s travels around Italy.
Until I had suckling pig on a pizza at Bosco, the only place I had seen it previously was at the former Ocean tapas bar a few hundred yards away where you had to give about a week’s notice, and at large family parties in Spain where the entire pig is served on the table.
It’s not so elaborate here but just as beautifully tender, on a pizza served with wild boar salami, béchamel, rosemary, garlic and pecorino.
My parents who I was with also had the suckling pig but not on a pizza, both choosing the “porchetta”, boned, rolled and roasted.
Other options here include cured meats, regional Italian cheeses and some perfect puddings from which I had a “sgroppino al limone”, a Venetian summer dessert with sorbet, lemoncello and prosecco.
Bosco, 96 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2QX
01179 737 978
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