Fire & Stone in Covent Garden, London

Fluid Eating's Review of Fire & Stone

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)

Fire & Stone Food & Drink Menus

Listed below are few sample food and drinks items available at Fire & Stone. These lists are not enhaustive, but are instead designed to give you an overview of the venue's offerings and assciated prices.

Fire & Stone restaurant offers an exciting, contemporary menu with not only a large range of gourmet pizzas, but also some delicious salads, starters & desserts.

Fire & Stone’s team of dedicated restaurant chefs make everything with the finest fresh ingredients, making sure that you always have a first rate experience every time you visit the restaurant.

Fire & Stone makes, & twice proves, its own pizza dough every day on site in the restaurant to provide the lightest & crispiest pizza base possible. All produce at Fire & Stone is sourced from local & specialist suppliers ensuring that all produce used in the restaurant is authentic & extremely fresh.

Fire & Stone Food menu

As well as fantastic pizzas, Fire & Stone offers a superb selection of drinks, designed to suit all tastes and occasions.

Choose from our great selection of quality wines (all available by the glass), Champagnes, beers & spirits, or try one of our stunning cocktails, the perfect way to begin your Fire & Stone experience.

Fire and Stone also offers a delicious range of smoothies & shakes, where the whole flesh & fibre of fresh fruit is blended with exotic ingredients to make a delicious treat to boost both health and vitality. These are a superb accompaniment to any Fire & Stone pizza, and whilst some are healthier than others..all are heavenly!

Fire & Stone Drink menu

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“The idea of pizzas with toppings from different worldwide dishes isn’t very nice; I’d recommend you to stick to the sensible choices. It was a very busy Tuesday night and obviously they were rushing around trying to avoid eye contact with dinners to prevent more work, although they did seem nice whilst serving. However, when it came to paying! I found it VERY CHEEKY that the OPTIONAL service charge of 12.5%! was included in the total without any subtotals to tell you how much it would be without the service charge. And to add to this! Before I was able to ask for this to be removed from my payment, the lady took my card and went off with it to their till without a word (a card should never leave its owner’s sight as you would never know what they would be doing with it, they could be copying down your card details and you would know until you find money missing from your account! And I wasn’t too happy about that). I was expecting it was a chip and pin, but she came back with” Rating: — Susan, London (01 Oct 2008)

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