Tom Emery, owner of Teds known locally as Sourdough Teds in Albert Road, Southsea.
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00:00I'm Tom from Teds, or Sound Rec. Teds.
00:03Brilliant. So tell me why you wanted to open up Teds.
00:06So I started cooking pizza about five years ago and started the business in lockdown in Dorset.
00:14Since I've moved back to Portsmouth, where I'm from, did pop-ups around the city,
00:20then came into the cellars last year.
00:23So I've been with them for about a year and now I've taken over the whole place.
00:27So it's just enjoying cooking and pizza-ing and bringing good pizza to the city.
00:35So tell me what the reaction's been like.
00:37It's been good. It's been positive so far.
00:40It's good to have the place to look after everything, including the beers,
00:44and get some really good beers on, which I'm quite into as well.
00:47So yeah, it's good to see some old faces come in and it's good to take the whole place on.
00:53And has the menu changed?
00:55The menu's changed. I changed the menu last week.
00:58So it's similar, but I've kind of made them prettier and more luxury, basically.
01:04So yeah, still classics on there, but there's some real good ones on there.
01:08Tell me what the sort of favourite things are on the menu.
01:11The favourite in here is always the diavola, which is obviously the spicy meat one.
01:15So it's and do your, I've just, I've done that a little bit.
01:19So that's, yeah, and do your pepperoni, chilies, whipped ricotta, hot honey.
01:23Yeah, so it's a nice spicy with the smooth cheese.
01:27And yeah, it's all, it tends to be a favourite with the beer drinkers, the spicy ones.
01:32Brilliant. And just going back to the beers, tell me what sort of beers you have on.
01:36So it's all like craft beer, so small batch of craft beer from across the UK.
01:40So it's all kind of New England, the hazy IPAs.
01:44And we have some lagers on, the ciders and some spirits.
01:47But yeah, the beers are all from like really good well-known breweries around the country.
01:52Is there some local ones from Portsmouth?
01:53We will get some local ones in eventually.
01:55Yeah, we just, yeah, just need to get in touch with them.
01:58We'll get it all sorted.