The Eat, Pray, Love pizzeria has come to London – but is our version as good as the one in Naples?

North London now has a serious contender for London's best pizza, since Naples institution L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele opened on Stoke Newington Church Street.

The original shot to worldwide fame after Julia Roberts, playing Elizabeth Gilbert, visited in 2010's Eat, Pray, Love and declared after just one bite that she was "having a relationship with my pizza”.

To reduce its popularity to one film scene would be unfair, though. Since opening in 1870, is has long been a local favourite, serving just two dishes: the traditional margherita (tomato, mozzarella, a touch of basil) and the marinara (tomato, oregano, olive oil, garlic). The pizzas are not round and come decorated with black burn marks. They are always bigger than the plate they come on. People queue for them: generations have queued for them.

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