He is always desperately punctual, so I made an effort to be on time by turning up 10 minutes early. Buona looks like somebody couldn’t make up their mind if they wanted to copy MacDonald’s or Pizza Hut, so hey, lets copy them both.

I text him, “The pizza here had better be good, this joint looks like the bastard child of Ronald MacDonald and Ms Hut.”

“Just arriving, let’s give it a spin.”

Good job I listened.

The place is decked out in plastic chairs, and the colour scheme looks like something out of Gymboree – all sunshine yellow and white and fire engine red, and unbreakable. Not the place for a hangover. And no smoking…

But that 50 cm pizza – yup fifty centimeter pizza – was made with whole wheat dough and was not adulterated with all those healthy things like vegetables. Ours came with pepperoni and parma ham. The 2 of us ate the whole thing. It was pretty bloody good. And the espresso, thick strong. Menu scan