San Carlo Flying Pizza: One of the oldest restaurants in Leeds

What are your memories of the Flying Pizza on Street Lane in Roundhay? We meet Daniele and Claudio from one of the oldest restaurants in Leeds.

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00:00Flying Pizza was established in 1974 so we're talking about more than 50 years ago

00:06and to this local community means really a lot I mean as soon as I landed in Flying Pizza back in

00:142019 I soon realized that it wasn't just an ordering restaurant it was more of an institution

00:20to the local community as well. It's got a great history we're going back 1974 when Franco Pardini

00:27and Italian opened it and since then it has been the focus and in the talk of people for

00:36celebrities rich people and so on it always been a parade for people to come and show off

00:45their latest fashion their sporty cars at the front of the restaurant. From being a classical

00:52Italian to modern Italian as well we cover every taste by having the classic pizza and pasta that

00:58we can do so the lasagna the spaghetti bolognese and the the margarita pizza and all that but then we

01:03we do have something like a little bit more refined such as like the lobster thermidor we can do we can

01:09do like all kind of cuts of meat generation over generations the people of the local community

01:17around day has been coming here I used to come and dine here in the 1980s when I came to the UK we

01:23talk in 1986 and already was the talk of the town so that's when Adriano Piazzaroli was running the place

01:32which is very very very well known by the local community since then it's gone through a few changes in

01:41ownership and eventually the familia di Stefano Carlo decided to take over as he was a kind of attached

01:52to the to the restaurant in a in a way even though he's always been a great businessman he had there

01:58was a personal feeling to the place because he used to come here with his children we've always been

02:02sort of like a great ambassador of the Leeds United team and we we know the players singularly as well

02:09and as a team one of the celebs that we had in on site has been David Dickinson you all probably

02:15remember him from his famous tv show called bag and hunt the atmosphere in the rest was second to none

02:24the saturdays the friday the evenings were buzzing buzzing with life and so therefore we had for this

02:30reason we are grateful to the to the di Stefano for what they've done because we've invested a lot of

02:35moment and a lot a lot of money and commitments in in the area in occasion of his 50th birthday

02:43we we we have done a beautiful uh refurbishment of the place hopefully by delivering the correct

02:50service and keeping this relation with the local people alive will establish the legacy for more time to come