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Dear Slice: Here's Where to Get Pizza in Zambia
Clicking in to the Slice inbox today, we've got this awesome email from Justin C. in Zambia....
I'm a federal civil servant currently on a four-month detail to Lusaka, Zambia, and until recently I had accepted that I'd be without good pizza during that time. Lusaka is the capital of a very undeveloped country, and the options are very limited even in the city. There are a couple fast-food pizza joints here (South African chain Debonairs and Pizza Inn), but they're terrible.
A couple colleagues recommended I go to Black Knight, a local bakery/coffee shop chain that makes pizza. The location in the Kabulonga neighborhood of Lusaka is the only one offering pizza, so after a few weeks of emptiness in my life, I finally (and skeptically) checked it out.
As the photos show, I was pleasantly surprised. Black Knight has two wood-fired clay ovens, and produces pies with good crust and tasty sauce. The cheese is a little weak; the aged mozzarella here has a slightly sour taste and inelastic texture, but not enough to ruin the pizza. The "Margherita" is really a New York–style cheese pizza with a little dried oregano sprinkled on top. Black Knight has a spinach-feta pie that's very good and a few others I haven't tried that get good reviews.
It's MUCH better than anything I expected to find 7,500 miles from the East Coast, and good enough to hold me over. If any readers are in the neighborhood, make sure to check it out.
—Justin C.