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Tom Vincent, Vincenzo's Pizza: Building the UK’s Best Pizzeria in Bushey, A Lifetime of Insomnia, Imagining the “Forgotten Pizzeria”, Persistence, Creating Your Own Hype from Scratch

Jun 24, 2024
01:50:17


Cuff me. 

It gave me the Raging Horn.

The first time I tried Vincenzo’s Raging Hog. 

A drive around the M25 to Bushy, Watford in search of the Pizza Panacea 

The hot steaming Frisbee of Fab landed on my table 

A fresh lattice of red and white cheese, tomato. Tomato and cheese. Jheezeeee. Yes Please. 

A burnished, boisterous-not-backin-tha-f*ck-down crust with little black billowing bubbles of joy. 

Pepperoni. Little terracotta spaceships of poppin’ salty fatty - Deeeeeelissimo. 

Red Roquitto peppers - Little Pocket Rocket fire balls of hellish, chin-splinteringly spicy. 

Smothered in sweet whips and lashes and kisses of hot honey. Honey, it’s Yummy. 

Tom is founder of Vincenzo's Pizza. 

A truly wonderful pizza joint in Bushey, Watford 

He’s making pizza like no one else. He alongw ith  Crisp W6 are reinventing pizza. Some say they’re pioneering “London Pizza” 

We go Behind-The-Slice and unearth the story, it’s full of grit, graft, passion, 20 years of  insomnia

ON THE MENU: 

1. Theo Von: “Once you achieve your dream, you've got to actually do your dream”

1. How Tom turned operational disadvantage into marketing advantage - to get people from all over the world to his pizzeria in Bushey 

1. The History of Pizza in the USA and how to steal “inspiration” without copying 

1. Why Tom is creating the “Forgotten Pizzeria” and combining weird passions of Set Design, Painting, History and Films 

1. The Dark Realities of Turning Passion into Your Job: there's sometimes a rote boringness to following your passion

1. The Art of Persistence: How Tom Kept Going and Walking The Streets of Watford after 100’s of Nose

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