Fire & Stone Overview
If you’re looking for fusion dining, look no further. Fire and Stone is the latest offering from Carodene, a west-end restaurant group that includes Covent Garden’s Rock Garden restaurant / Gardening Club and the upmarket International overlooking Trafalgar Square.
Centrally located on Maiden Lane, this venue certainly has the wow factor – wanna-be movie stars can flounce up the illuminated staircase, past a monstrous pebble-dashed pizza oven – reputedly the UK’s largest, offering 29 new wood-fired, stone-baked pizzas - to the huge, airy restaurant which is almost big enough to house a 747. Decor-wise, think Manhattan chic with a touch of the orient. An industrial grey ceiling reminiscent of up-turned egg cartons meets blood red walls adorned with Japanese cherry blossom and bamboo-effect accessories. It’s still early on a Monday night but the smart retro seats are already packed with diners.
Continents collide on the menu too. After a limited starter selection of pizza crusts or, well, pizza crusts (from £3.95 - enough for two), we ponder a weird and wonderful journey around the thin-crust of the world. Dipping into the Americas section, Fire and Stone’s Acapulco (£7.95) was deliciously peppy – slow-cooked chill beef with jalapenos, red onion and mozzarella, slathered in sour cream and guacamole. My hesitations over how well Asia would translate onto pizza dough were laid to rest – (four) juicy garlic prawns nestled on a generous heap of glistening fire-roasted peppers, drizzled with chilli oil, spring onions and hoi-sin sauce – brilliant fresh flavours with an oriental twist (Lombok, £7.95).
The verdict? As an alternative pizza experience, Fire and Stone have combined all the right elements in a chic, stylish environment - from the excellent service down to the complimentary mineral water. I did find the caramel and banana pizza with coconut ice cream (£4.50) delicious but it was an overkill after my two previous pizza courses. Perhaps a few additions to the bookends of the menu would be the icing on the cake – or should I say, the topping on the pizza.
Sarah Elliott
Fire and Stone restaurant London is a stunning pizza restaurant located in the heart of London’s Covent Garden WC2. Set over 2 floors, this stunningly designed restaurant has room for up to 250 diners & offers pizzas like no other London pizza restaurant. Fire & stone is one of London’s most exciting & talked about new restaurants and is now one of London’s leading pizza restaurants.
Fire & Stone takes pizza to an exciting new level bringing you absolutely amazing stone-baked pizza made from entirely fresh ingredients, cooked to perfection in their gigantic wood-fired oven, the largest of its kind in the Northern hemisphere. (Updated 17/07/2007)
Additional Info: Food, Food Recommended, Children Allowed, Cocktails Recommended, Non-Smoking Area, Late License
Nearby Venues:
- Porters English Restaurant & Bar, English (0.02km)
- Covent Garden Grill, International (0.02km)
- Rules, British (0.04km)
- Porterhouse (The), Gastro (0.06km)
- Mongolian Barbeque (The), Asian (0.06km)
- La Tasca, Spanish (0.06km)
- Paul, French (0.07km)
- TGI Friday's (Covent Garden), [Other/Unclassified] (0.08km)
- Bok Bar (Covent Garden), Bar (0.09km)
- Bedford & Strand, Eclectic (0.10km)
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