Suede Lounge Bar and Pizza Kitchen

A new opening in the centre of Nottingham, just north of the Lace Market in the trendy district of Hockley, the Suede Lounge Bar & Pizza Kitchen does exactly what it says on the tin: superb cocktails, ales and wines from the bar, and authentic, stone-baked – Nottingham’s largest stone oven, since you’re asking – Italian pizzas from the kitchen. We can’t say fairer than that, and heavily encourage going down to Heathcoat Street to see what the fuss is about.

Italian restaurants come and go at a rate of knots in Notts, but out on Heathcoat Street in Hockley, a new pizza place has opened that we think’s here to stay. Suede Lounge Bar & Pizza Kitchen is a step up from the average red sauce joint, limiting themselves to just pizzas – do what you do better than anyone else and the punters won’t ask for more – made from their self-devised, 24 hour-fermented pizza dough recipe, and then baked in Nottingham’s premier artisan pizza oven. Simple stuff.

Suede work under the slogan of “Death to Bad Pizza”, and in search of this goal, they’ve devised a huge range of toppings that deviate from the Italian can(n)on like Garibaldi after a few grappas too many. One replicates a Peking duck with a pizza taking the place of the pancake alongside the spring onions, cucumber and hoisin sauce; another takes a Mexican slant, with spicy beef, peppers, habaneros and even tortillas. With such a menu, plus an ever-changing specials board – not to mention an ever-rotating ale selection – you’d be losing if you only made one visit to Suede.