Jenn P.
Yelp
Hugo's is a cute restaurant in Manly right on the water. The restaurant is open-air and serves pizza and seafood. We made a reservation for 7PM on a Tuesday evening. When we arrived, we were seated immediately in a table with beach and harbor views.
Our server was OK - she didn't seem to know a ton about the menu (more on that later) but she was attentive and seemed to always be around our general area. We ordered some drinks, appetizers, and entrees.
For the appetizers, we got both types of oysters (regular oysters with sherry/shallot mignonette and a fried one with horseradish and caviar). I don't eat horseradish so I only tried the former, but everyone else seemed to enjoy the fried one. I liked the natural oysters a lot; we were off to a good start.
We each ordered a personal pizza. They were all served as thin crust. One pizza is enough to feed one person, and each is in the 20-30$ range. We ordered:
-Mushroom - wild mushrooms, taleggio, goat's curd & caramelised onions
-Chorizo - La Boqueria chorizo, olives, chilli, smoked mozzarella, red onions & rouille dressing
-Fig - fresh figs, crispy pancetta, gorgonzola, tomato & basil
-Pork - slow roasted pork belly with sweet & sour onions, radicchio & bocconcini mozzarella
I ordered the mushroom pizza, and it was excellent. It was lemony and the mushrooms were fresh. I didn't get a lot of goat cheese flavor, but it was still excellent. The chorizo pizza had a bit of a kick, and I enjoyed the meat itself. The fig pizza was interesting - the grilled tomatoes on top added to it. Didn't get much gorgonzola, though. Lastly, the pork was OK - not my favorite. It was strangely EXTREMELY spicy, and our server didn't know why (I found it odd that she didn't know if it was weird for a particular pizza to be spicy or not). We asked if any of the ingredients themselves were spicy and she just shrugged. There wasn't much mozzarella on this, either.
All in all, we enjoyed most of the food and certainly enjoyed the views. The ingredients were fresh and all added to the pizza. We heard that the dessert pizza was really good, but we didn't have any room left for it. Maybe next time!