What’s for lunch?
What happens when you take a gourmet pizza, add a little cheese, the warmth of a great Italian family and the jolliness of a great South African legend?
The best lunch ever, I realise as I take another bite of my delicious tasty Mimmo’s Rude Awakening Moroccan pizza. The flavour burst is unreal as each one of my taste buds are overwhelmed and willingly surrenders to the remarkable flavour sensation.
Who knew that a little pizza dough; a spoonful of Neapolitan sauce; Moroccan spiced chicken; chickpeas marinated in lemon preserve; marinated brinjals; yellow and red bell peppers; 8 halved bella rosa tomatoes and mozzarella cheese topped with fresh mint, could be such seduction.
And so good for the soul too. Mimmo’s the Italian family restaurant has once again teamed up with the Rude Awakening team from 94.7 Highveld Stereo to bring you the Mimmo’s Moroccan pizza – the pizza in aid of charity.
For every pizza bought, during the next four weeks, a percentage of the sale of the pizza goes to the Food4Africa initiative, who provide balanced meals to hungry children across Africa. This year the team, with the help of ordinary South Africans aim to feed 3 000 hungry children for a year.
I finish the last bite and reach for the napkin to wipe the sauce from my chin. In the background I can hear the heartfelt laughter of the boisterous Jeremy reverberate through the restaurant, people are drawn in by him.
Mimmo Cioffi, Mr Mimmo’s himself, pulls up a chair and takes a seat. He wants to know if I enjoyed my lunch. I smile. He smiles too, and in that moment I experience the true Italian warmth and sincerity which makes Mimmo’s such a great family restaurant.
(And have I mentioned the Pizza?)
The restaurant is filling up and I know that my seat is needed so reluctantly I get up and head for the door. I wave to Jeremy and Mimmo and smile.
The Mimmo’s Moroccan pizza was a good meal, great flavour and at only R65.00 is the best value for money.
And tonight, I go to bed, knowing that today, during my lunch hour, I helped to feed a hungry child in Africa.
