Storico (wood fired pizza & fresh pasta)

You'll find yourself on Northgate Street with a wood-fired oven doing the talking—the sort of place where they've bothered to get the fundamentals right. The pizzas come out with properly charred crusts and toppings that don't feel like an afterthought, whilst the fresh pasta is made in-house, which matters more than you'd think. There's a genuine warmth to how it's run, the kind of spot where locals have actually settled in rather than just passing through. It's got that rare quality of being both unpretentious and genuinely good at what it does.