Santa Maria Pizzeria Ealing
Pizza restaurant · Ealing Broadway
11 Bond St, London W5 5AP, United Kingdom
Highlights
Authentic Neapolitan pizza with blistered crusts & fresh ingredients
Authentic Neapolitan pizza with blistered crusts & fresh ingredients
"Santa Maria is still delivering its saucy pizza from its Ealing location." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak
"Back in the dark ages, people used to come to London, eat the pizza and go ‘Che diavolo e’ questo?’. Luckily for us, over the last few years, some of those same people came back to London to save us from pizza abominations like ‘BBQ chicken’ or ‘ham and pineapple’, that we had come to know and mildly tolerate. Santa Maria is one of said saviours. Santa Maria has been a beloved local pizzeria in a place far, far away called Ealing, for a few years now. Recognising that people in Zone 2 also had a right to simple and delicious Neapolitan-style pizza, they recently set up their second shop in Chelsea / Fulham, which also delivers, adding to a growing mountain of reasons why we have a mild dislike of Chelsea (it’s also known as jealousy). Santa Maria is a solid all-rounder; delivering great pizza topped with simple ingredients from both Italy and here in the UK, great for chilled dates, catching up with mates, and for creatures who have small creatures attached to them (we think they’re called “parents” and “children”). It also has enough variation on the menu to keep everyone happy, or “contento”, for those in the know. photo credit: Karolina Wiercigroch" - Eileen Twum
"Ealing’s homage to Naples and one of London’s pioneering Neapolitan pizzerias is still delivering from its W5 headquarters (and from Chelsea and Fitzrovia, as well). Flash-cooking in a wood-fired oven blisters the crust of these excellent pizzas, while the interior remains chewy and yields spectacularly. Toppings are almost accessories, given the quality of the base, but there too, there’s quality — nduja, fior di latte, the tomatoes. There’s no such thing as a bad time for pizza, but right now there’s something extra special about the receipt of one of the city’s finest." - Adam Coghlan, James Hansen
"Still one of London’s best pizza restaurants by a distance, the original Santa Maria’s tiny terrace and even tinier dining room has been replaced by a much larger dining room a few minutes away. The blistered crusts, impeccable tomato sauce and melting cheese remain — and now groups can get in, too." - James Hansen
"Still one of London’s best pizza restaurants by a distance, the original Santa Maria’s tiny terrace and even tinier dining room may be no more, but its blistered crusts, impeccable tomato sauce and melting cheese have moved just a few minutes away to Bond Street." - James Hansen
