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‘socials’ are something which are massively encouraged in my office. Each
month, one of us is selected to get everyone together and organise some kind of
after work event where we can mingle and socialise outside the pressures of our
busy office. We’ve done a variety of things from Jack the Ripper tours to pub
quizzes, but our most recent social has been one of my favourites: pizza
making!
The venue of choice was Ponti’s Italian Kitchen, located just behind
Oxford Circus which runs a ‘pizza scuola’ on Sunday-Thursday evenings. On
arrival, we all lined up at a long table in front of the wood- oven kitchen and
were introduced to one of the Ponti’s pizza chefs who would be our mentor for
the evening. He spoke to us about how they make the pizza’s at Ponti’s and
showed us the correct way to prepare and shape the dough, before giving us a
demonstration by throwing dough in the air and spinning it around his fists!
Each of us had our own pre-made dough base in front of us and were encouraged
to practice stretching and shaping it into our desired pizza shape – the dough
is really fragile, mine virtually split as soon as I stretched it so I decided
to leave the pizza tossing to the professionals!
Once we were happy with our bases, we got to work creating our own
bespoke pizzas by loading them up with tomato sauce, cheese and a selection of
ingredients which had been laid out before us. I went for a particularly piggy
pizza consisting of chicken, red onion, chargrilled veg, goats cheese, olives,
pepperoni and chillis – literally everything in sight!! Your pizzas are
then cooked in the kitchens and served to you back in the restaurant. We had
such a good evening and was great fun being able to get hands-on with your
dinner, I’d highly recommend going with friends or even as an alternative date
idea, I know this is something my boyfriend Tom would love!
The evening sessions cost £23.90 per person, in which your pizza, a
glass of Prosecco and ice-cream is included. Ponti’s pizza school operates
Sundays throught to Thursday and you can book on the website here:
http://www.pontisitaliankitchen.co.uk/home/pizza-scuola
www.pontisitaliankitchen.co.uk
5 - 7 John Princes Street Oxford Circus London W1G 0JN
5 - 7 John Princes Street Oxford Circus London W1G 0JN
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