![]() ![]() VIEW DETAILSĭetails: 15 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QD | Open Mon-Sat 11.30am-10.30pm, Sun 12-9.30pmĬovent Garden. Luckily the food doesn’t attempt that same fusion, and sticks to their tried ‘n’ tested toppings. With chequered tiled walls, daily menus scrawled on mirrors and intimate seating with wooden pews around reclaimed tables, Pizza Pilgrims Exmouth Market is full of Anglo-Italian charm. ![]() If an old Cockney pie & mash shop and a pizzeria had a lovechild, this would be the – admittedly unexpectedly – beautiful result. READ MOREĭetails: 11 Kingly Court, W1B 5PW | Open daily from 11.30am (12pm Sundays) until late Perched on a corner of Dean Street, it’s a two-level space, dressed up with vintage Italian film posters and adverts their now-signature gingham tablecloths and, naturally, a foosball table… READ MOREĭetails: 11 Dean Street, W1D 3RP | Open Mon-Sat 11.30am-10.30pm, Sun 12-9.30pmĭescending elegantly into the colourful Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street, is Pizza Pilgrims numero duo, acting as both pizzeria (which is Italian for “ pizza place”) and friggitoria (which is Italian for “ fried goods restaurant packed with tables that spill out onto the sun-drenched courtyard, where you can swill negronis and house limoncello with tonic, and feast to your heart’s content on smoked mozzarella arancini, breaded artichoke hearts, and deep fried mac ‘n’ cheese”). Their first bricks and mortar(della) space Pizza Pilgrims Soho is the original, non-truck based incarnation of Pizza Pilgrims. So behold, a brief introduction to each Pizza Pilgrims restaurant in London – including the vital intel on which one will serve you chocolate bar calzone for dessert. Unsurprisingly, when they popped up with a Soho street food stall the following year, they were quite popular.įast forward, and they’re now proud brother-parents to eight individual Pizza Pilgrims across the city (as well as a pop up at Swingers crazy golf and another branch in Oxford). They may not sound like the best way to make a steady income.īut the fateful Piaggio Ape that James and Thom Elliot bought back in 2011, drove at a hair-raising 32mph across Italy and brought back to London a year later… turned out to be the best purchase of their lives.īecause it was on that tour across Italy that they painstakingly perfected every part of the pizza-making process, tracking down the most respected pizzaiolo in each town and assiduously studying how to prove the dough, what flour to use, and how to get the best out of the toppings.
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