On Tuesday June seventeenth, Base Face Pizza will open their subsequent website in Richmond at 112 Kew Street, TW9 2PQ. Based by former skilled jazz musician, Tim Thornton, Base Face is a lockdown invention impressed by a uncared for (Ooni Professional) pizza oven in Tim’s again backyard which proved to be a worthy funding.
With life as a touring jazz musician compelled to cease throughout lockdown, it gave Tim the chance to discover his foodie aspect. What began with making pizzas for mates on his driveway through the first lockdown in 2020, shortly changed into a burgeoning pizza enterprise. Realising that C-19 would have a knock on impact for years, not days, and with a younger household to take care of, Tim determined to swap his double bass for his apron and Base Face was born.
Transferring off the driveway, the primary everlasting Base Face website opened on King Avenue in Hammersmith in June 2021, with Barnes following in January 2023 and Putney in February 2024. An awesome success, Hammersmith’s bijoux proportions meant Tim and his crew shortly grew out of it and the seek for an even bigger ‘flagship’ website started.
With Hammersmith now closed, Base Face will switch its central operations to its new residence in Richmond which is able to open on Tuesday seventeenth June and can seat as much as 30 diners, full with 8 seats exterior. The Base Face signature inside of wood tables and chairs full with a racing inexperienced color scheme stays and naturally, the star of the present is the pizza oven situated in the back of the restaurant.
Not shy of ambition, Tim can also be conscious that to do issues properly means retaining it easy. For that reason Base Face presents a succinct menu of 12 pizzas, obtainable in a 12 inch and mega 18 inch proportion. Be it a easy Marinara (tomato, basil, oregano, garlic oil) to a extra adventurous Cheeky Pineapple (Pineapple jam, Cobble Lane pepperoni, jalapeños, mozzarella, tomato, basil) or a white base Manjamo 3.0 (Nduja sausage, home jalapeño jam, pink onion, mozzarella, basil) – Tim is devoted to the perfection of the proper pizza. All toppings are made utilizing seasonal British elements and utilise lengthy ferment and wholesome grains to create an ideal skinny and crispy pizza in true Neoplitan fashion. Best for households, the 18 inch is an ideal choice for sharing and for people who would slightly maintain issues to themselves, then the 12 inch is for you.
A candy end is all the time a good suggestion and the Nutella Dough Sticks (contemporary baked dough sticks, dusted with icing sugar and served with a pot of Nutella to dip) or housemade Tiramisu in both Clotted Cream or Pistachio flavour are bestsellers for a cause. Wash all of it down with a number of wine from Tim’s small however completely shaped wine record courtesy of Lea and Sanderman or a Battersea brewed Mondo Beer.
To rejoice the launch of its third website, Base Face Pizza, is providing 50% off all pizzas from Tuesday seventeenth to Sunday twenty second June, 12-9:30pm for people who guide a desk at its brand-new residence on Kew Street in Richmond (low cost is not going to apply to stroll ins).
An inspirational journey, Base Face Pizza has taken on a rhythm all of its personal. With its third website quickly to be in full swing, Tim is sustaining spectacular momentum however is nowhere close to reaching his crescendo – that is simply the beginning.
