Citysearch 2010 - Best in the city WINNER

Citysearch 2010 - Best in the city WINNER

Editorial Review

Citysearch® 2010 Best in the City Winner: Best Cheap and Cheerful!

Chapel Street, where Lucky Coq is located, seems to change like the latest fashionable haircut. Serving cheap pizza in an old pub furnished with couches from your Grandma's place, Lucky Coq seemingly has a hairdo that won't go out of fashion.

It's not the place you'd go for a fancy dinner; more a casual first date or meal with beers and friends. Your dinner will be perched on an occasional table. You'll probably share it with others in your group. You might just spend more time staring at someone else across the room.

It's generally a young, fashionable crowd slunk into the couches while filling on the super-thin crust pizzas. And there's wide variety to choose from - 12 vegetarian, 6 meat, 4 seafood and 4 “sweet” dessert pizzas. Anyone up for the Cherry Coco Mature sweet pizza (cherry, mascarpone, chocolate, coconut)?

The number of vegetarian options sets the menu on a different course to other specialty pizza joints. The chef seems to have a cheese fetish to match. At last count there were pizzas with haloumi (saganaki), taleggio, mascarpone, fetta, mozzarella and soy choose used as an ingredient.

Served by staff who look like the crowd but with more friendly attitude, you can choose to sit upstairs or down. The open air courtyard upstairs caters for the smokers. The bar is full of niche tap beer options, not forgetting the house-flavoured vodkas, to wash down your meal with.

No matter your haircut, Lucky Coq seems to have matched demand with supply and should do so for some time yet.

Bruce Thurlow, September 2010