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FOOD<br />
Pizza Oven<br />
La pizza è mobile<br />
A pizza’s home is… a van, it seems, nowadays.<br />
A big green van, with a hatch on one side, a chimney<br />
coming out of the ceiling, and a wood-fired oven inside.<br />
On Thursdays, the van, one of three in the Pizza<br />
Oven caterers’ fleet, comes to <strong>Lewes</strong> and parks up in<br />
that car park in Cliffe between Harveys and the Dorset, between 5 and 8pm.<br />
“I’ll have the goat’s cheese and sundried tomato,” I say to the friendly woman behind the hatch, who<br />
immediately sets to work running a splodge of dough through a machine to make it pizza shaped, and<br />
passing it to her assistant, who smears it with tomato, adds the ingredients, and slots it in the oven. On<br />
showing my <strong>Viva</strong>, I also claim a free bit of garlic bread.<br />
The idea’s a great one: these vans travel all over East and West Sussex, mainly to villages, and the villagers<br />
get to know when they’re coming, so whatever night it is they arrive becomes pizza night.<br />
Which is all very well… but do they taste as good as ones made in a more traditional space? I take my<br />
two boxes to that bench under a tree along the path to Tesco, lift a slice of the pizza out of the box<br />
and… wow. It’s a thin crust variety, and it’s perfectly cooked. That old cheese-tomato-basil combo<br />
works a treat, as ever, the 12” garlic bread is a salty delight, and I must look a happy man, to the handful<br />
of people who pass me, as I munch away, a big brown box of grub either side of me. Alex Leith<br />
pizzaoven.co.uk<br />
www.thesussexox.co.uk<br />
@thesussexox<br />
The Sussex Ox<br />
Milton Street<br />
East Sussex<br />
BN26 5RL<br />
01323 870840<br />
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