Eating my favourite dish – The Real Man Pizza signature

One of the joys of owning your own restaurant is that you can decide the music play list. So at Real Man Pizza the music played is pretty similar to that played at my 40th Birthday party – almost nothing from after 1997. Another joy is tweaking the menu. Chocolate pizza, banana and butterscotch pizza – my ideas. No doubt the British Nanny state will regard these dishes as war crimes as it tries to force its citizens to be thin. But my favourite dish has required some work with the staff here but eating it today they have got it 99% right.

It is my daughter’s godmother Iska who introduced me to this winner. Tuna in a salsa Verde sauce with a side dish of Orzo with finely chopped basil and tomato. For those not in the know, Orzo is a rice shaped pasta which each shell post cooking about a third of an inch ( I am loathe to say one centimetre) long. The sauce is a green avocado based creation, spicy and slightly sour. To follow, Manx spirited treacle tart (a recipe all of my own making). Ahead of a month of hard dieting and intensive running, I feel I deserve a minor blowout. Anyhow, yum, yum.