Out & About July 2017

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Lusso
Weavers Walk, Newbury
T: (01635) 32128
Fans of the GelArto ice cream van in
Northbrook Street will already know it has a
sister called Lusso dishing up pizza from its
eaterie in Weavers Walk.
And after you’ve devoured their sourdough-
base pizzas you can have a few scoops of
their sublime ice cream with flavours like
Dark Chocolate and Cherries, Pure Piedmont
Hazelnut or Jaffa Cakes.
Co-owner Tommy Szebeni, who runs Lusso
with his wife and brother Peter, said: “We
started the van in the summer of 2014 and
then we got to winter and thought what can we
do? So, last year we set up a marquee in the
same location as the van and did pizza with a
portable wood fired oven. We realised when
they sold well, we could do pizza.
“We had been wanting to have a more
permanent place anyway. We called it Lusso
which means luxury in Italian, trying to convey
we aim for quality.”
Lusso is somewhere you can go to during the
day for coffee and cake, or a lunchtime pizza
and beer or wine, or for an evening meal. The
most popular pizza is the goat’s cheese with
caramelised red onion chutney, pesto tomato,
mozzarella and balsamic glaze.
Aficionados love the Freakshakes, epic
milkshakes with flavours like Nutella and
doughnut, or salted caramel.
Lusso is ideal for business lunches, said
Tommy. “Location-wise we are good for
businesses and as pizzas take four to five
minutes in the oven we are quick too.”
Lusso love: Epic milkshakes, local beers
and wine, children’s menu of pizza and a
scoop of ice cream for £6.50.
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