Warehouse Pizza, Berkhamsted

Sometimes the mood simply strikes for an easy, let someone else do the cooking evening, especially when the day has been filled with other things. Other things on this occasion included, for one, a trip to Hampshire to understand how garden furniture is made and, for the other, the repairing of a raised vegetable bed and the cutting of the grass.

Reunited in person and in hunger towards the end of the afternoon we agreed we would visit Warehouse Pizza in Berkhamsted. It is well-named as this Italian style pizzeria, which caters for on and off trade dining is housed in a former industrial unit on a road filled with builders merchants, furniture restorers, electrical suppliers and the like, plus a gun shop, dance studio & theatre, and a household waste facility.

This should not deter the diner, the food is good.

We ordered two, twelve inch pizzas. One was a Truffle Shuffle, topped with Fior di Latte Mozzarella, Portobello mushrooms & white Truffle cream and served with a Rocket salad, and the other was called Boscaiolo, which didn't have the Truffle cream but did have added fennel sausage, togther with San Marzano tomatoes, Grana & Stracchino cheeses.

The dough bases were soft and light, freshly cooked and, given that a children's party was happening in the bar area hidden away at the back of the restaurant and that the previous customer had ordered twelve pizzas to take away, delivered in good time.

Both were delicious and filling (there's one quarter of the Truffle Shuffle waiting to be consumed around the time Countryfile will play) and good enough that we will probably return. Next time we may well eat on the premises as the short journey home was long enough that neither pizza was piping hot, although this did not spoil the experience.

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