Neapolitan pizza, on the Shore.
Ciro Abbate’s wood-fired pizza at number nine on the Shore, Leith: the dough rested for 48 hours, baked at 485° in ninety seconds. Eat in, or ring us and collect it hot.
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9 The Shore, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6QW
Nine pizzas, and only nine.
When a new one comes on, an old one comes off. Rosse are made with tomato; bianche without.
“The marinara is the best nine pounds I spend all week.”
Ewan, Leith
We can’t make a gluten-free base: the flour is everywhere. The marinara is vegan as it comes, and we can leave the cheese off most of the others. For under-tens, a small Margherita, £6.
Call 0131 496 0909 to order
1
Rossa
Marinara
Tomato, garlic, oregano, olive oil
£9
2
Rossa
Margherita
Tomato, fior di latte, basil, parmesan
£10.50
3
Rossa
Bufala
Tomato, buffalo mozzarella, basil
£13.50
4
Rossa
Diavola
Tomato, fior di latte, spicy salami, chilli
£13.50
5
Rossa
Calzone
Folded, with ricotta, salami, fior di latte, tomato and black pepper
£14.50
6
Bianca
Salsiccia e friarielli
Fior di latte, fennel sausage, wild broccoli, chilli
£14.50
7
Bianca
Patate e provola
Smoked provola, roast potato, rosemary
£13
8
Bianca
’Nduja e miele
Fior di latte, ’nduja, ricotta, honey
£14
9
Bianca
The Shore
Smoked haddock, leek, potato, crème fraîche, chives
£15
To start
Pane
£5
Bread from the oven, olive oil and oregano
Montanarine
£6.50
Three little fried doughs with tomato, parmesan and basil
Arancini of the day
£7.50
Two
Fennel, orange and black olive salad
£7
Burrata
£10
Roast cherry tomatoes, basil oil
To finish
Tiramisù
£7
Babà al rum
£7.50
With cream
To drink
Natural wine by the glass
from £7
From small growers in Campania, Sicily and Puglia. By the bottle from £28.
Beer
£6
From a brewery down the road in Leith
Lemonade
£3.50
Made here
Espresso
£2.50
48
hours in the cold room
Two days for the dough.
Ciro makes it every morning from four things: Italian 00 flour, water, sea salt and a pinch of fresh yeast. Then it goes into the cold room for forty-eight hours, and only then does he stretch it, by hand.
Ninety seconds at 485°.
The oven burns kiln-dried hardwood from the Borders.
Seconds in the oven
0
30
60
90
In. The base sets the moment it lands on the oven floor.
Turned. The edge puffs up and the first spots char.
Turned again. The tomato bubbles and the cheese just melts.
Out. Soft in the middle, puffed and spotted at the edge.
One from Naples, one from the Shore.
Ciro Abbate was born and raised in Naples, and he runs the oven. Morven Baird grew up three streets from here, and she runs the room and the wine.
They opened Forno Nove in June 2019, in what was a ship chandler’s shop until 1994, and built the oven inside it, brick by brick.
Ciro Abbate
The oven. Born in Naples.
Morven Baird
The room and the wine. Grew up three streets away.
Ring it in. Collect it hot.
Ring to order for collection, any time we’re open:
0131 496 0909
We don’t deliver, and we’re not on the apps: a Neapolitan pizza is at its best in the first five minutes. So take it across the road and eat it on the quay.
Collection
Forno Nove, 9 The Shore
1
Ring us with your order.
2
We’ll give you a time, usually about twenty minutes.
3
Collect it, and pay when you do.
“We rang at six, collected at twenty past and ate it on the quay wall.”
Priya, Newhaven
Forty seats, four at the window.
Book a table for up to six online. We keep half the room for walk-ins, so if we look full online, come down anyway. Dogs are welcome at the window.
Book a table
WhatsApp about a group
6
Up to six
Book online: pick a day and a time, and tell us anything we should know.
20
Seven to twenty
Ring or WhatsApp us and we’ll set a long table, with a set menu at £28 a head: starters to share, a pizza each and a tiramisù.
40
The whole room
We’re closed on Mondays, and then the whole room can be hired for up to forty.
At number nine, on the Shore.
9 The Shore, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6QW
Opening hours
Tuesday to Thursday
5pm–10pm
Friday and Saturday
12pm–10.30pm
Sunday
12pm–9pm
Monday
Closed
The last pizzas go in half an hour before we close.
0131 496 0909
WhatsApp 07700 900909
ciao@fornonove.co.uk