The first Tokyo-style Neopolitan pizza
It’s hard to say a restaurant has done a ‘first’, so when Akiba Dori, a restaurant in Dubai Design District, revealed it had the city’s first Tokyo-style Neopolitan pizzas through the ‘Tokyopolitan’ brand – people took notice. More so because its pizzaiolo, Luigi Mercogliano, was sent to Tokyo to train with Tsubasa Tamaki, who had trained with the inventor of Tokyo Neapolitan pizza, Susumu Kakinuma.
Aegis Hospitality founder Samer Hamadeh says: “I put Tokyopolitan in the Akiba Dori food hall space and gave it its own identity (and even social media channels) because I believe that it can grow as a stand-alone concept. People who love pizza will appreciate the quality, attention and effort that goes into making our Tokyo-style Neapolitan pizzas. Besides being dramatically lighter that typical Italian pizzas, our product has no yeast, making it easy to have one on your own and not feel bad afterwards.”
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He adds: “The F&B space is an exciting and dynamic one; and while you can’t own an idea, you can always execute it better than the next person. So if you get the opportunity and the market conditions are right, don’t be scared to innovate.”
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