{"id":537570,"date":"2026-04-18T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537570\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:07:08","slug":"pineapple-on-pizza-no-thanks-meet-the-chefs-bringing-the-real-italy-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537570\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple on pizza? No thanks. Meet the chefs bringing the real Italy to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Justin Ashwin, chef at The Social Trattoria in Poynton, Cheshire, has been working in catering for nearly 20 years and specialised in Italian cuisine after meeting his partner, who is from Venice, eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The restaurant was also recognised in the awards, coming highly recommended in the front of house category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of big UK chain Italian restaurants stick with the classics of bolognese, lasagna and the garlic breads,&#8221; Justin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you go to Italy, they don&#8217;t really have these dishes everywhere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not their standard. They use whatever they can to put in the pasta dish, whether it be local or seasonal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we use loads of old school traditional ingredients and dishes that nobody&#8217;s really heard of, but we like to bring them back as they&#8217;re tasty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Away from the restaurant experience, he said the explosion of recipes and video tutorials on social media mean people at home are also &#8220;willing to try new things and really push the boat out&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Ashwin, chef at The Social Trattoria in Poynton, Cheshire, has been working in catering for nearly 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-537570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}