Zio Pierro

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Zio Pierro, Severn Road, Canton

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My favourte pizza place in Cardiff is undoubtedly Zio Pierro's just off Cowbridge Road East on Severn Road. I've been going there since I was 7, and have never ben able to ween myself away from their excellent pizzas - good base (although not a crispy as I'd normally go for), nice ammounts of tomato and toppings, and the perfect quantity of mozarella cheese. I always go for either a pepper-sausage and asparagus, or a prawn, chilli, and garlic - both of which will stay with you for days in the form of garlic oozing out of your skin - but the experience is well worth it. The rest of the menu is not so divine, but is perfectly acceptable 'Family Italian Restaurant' fayre - decent (but not spectacular) pastas, a very good and nicely meaty lasagne starter with a good tomatoey sauce (big portion), nice enough whitebait, Very good Garlic Mushrooms with Cheese (recommeded), some nice meat dishes including great veal or pork escalopes(don't know about the veggie side of things - sorry). Deserts are, as is so often the case with UK Italian restaurants, mainly of the pre-packaged frozen ice cream in an orange/a coconut variety, although they do a perfectly passable home-made cassatta, or a very good tiramisu. The house wine is a very drinkable Montepulciano D'Abruzzo - and isn't too expensive. The staff are VERY friendly, and will always remember you and have a chat and a laff or exchange a few words. The decor is cheesy in the extreme, as it should be. The walls are lined with all manner of memorabilia from Italy including those wicker-lined chianti bottles, bad oils of sultry looking women with guitars, and postcards that people have sent the restaurant from all ofver the world. Pavarotti is often played. Well worth a try - and perfect for a romantic candle-lit dinner with the one you love.

Posted by Llantwit 12 Jun 06