"Inauthentic pizza"
Fans of Joseph Abboud's pizzas will soon find them at The Moor's Head, Thornbury.
UNTIL he moved down the road a couple of years ago, Rumi's Joseph Abboud had a cult following for his Lebanese pizzas at next-door bar The Alderman.
Soon you'll be able to find them again at his new Thornbury pizzeria, The Moor's Head, in a warehouse behind High Street.
Abboud and Rumi manager John Farha are enthusiastic about the up-and-coming area. ''It really feels like Brunswick did when we moved there,'' says Abboud, who has seen his part of Lygon Street boom with hospitality businesses over the past five years.
The Moor's Head (named for the head of the arak still) will have a simple menu of pizza, salads and antipasti.
''We're calling it inauthentic pizza - people will say it's not Turkish and it's not Lebanese but we're fitting them into an Italian format,'' Abboud says.
Traditionally eaten as a breakfast or lunch snack in the Middle East, they will be bumped up in size. Aboud hopes to open in a couple of months.
Source: Epicure
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