La Pergola is one of the most welcoming restaurants in the area, much loved by its many regular customers for the quality of its authentic southern Italian cooking, and for the ever-friendly service offered there by the De Simone family. It’s renowned for its stone baked pizzas, which are freshly made in the restaurant’s authentic clay wood-burning oven, but the menu is equally packed with classic and original pasta dishes, salads, antipasti, chargrilled meats and traditional desserts. The ingredients used in the restaurant are all sourced as locally as possible, with many travelling no more than a few yards from the family’s own vegetable plot right beside the restaurant! Seasonal dishes recently added to the menu include rigatoni con salsiccia a pasta dish containing the family’s homemade sausages, which combine pork, fennel, wine, chilli and a hint of orange peel. Other great new dishes include a wild mushroom risotto using mushrooms picked by the family at a secret location and a Quattro Formaggi pizza with gorgonzola, provolone, mozzarella and parmesan.
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