Out & About January 2017

Lusso Weavers Walk, Newbury T: (01635) 32128

“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.

www.gelartoicecream.co.uk/lusso 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.

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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