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Courthouse Shoreditch

Courthouse Shoreditch

335-337 Old Street, London, United Kingdom

Pizza • Vegan • British • Italian


"I have wanted to go to Homeslice for some time now, after seeing the size of huge slices from fellow bloggers on Instagram. This week, a last minute impromptu dinner date landed me here and I honestly cannot believe I haven’t been before. Stepping inside you’re greeted by a burning furnace of fire, their massive wood-fired oven. Stupidly, we decided to sit at the bar right in front of this beast. Two cold pints of beer were ordered to try and stop my face from reflecting a pizza slice and melting on the bar. The menu offers a range of different pizza toppings, and you can order three of the pizzas by slice for £4. A whole pizza will set you back £20, but trust me when you see the size of these bad boys you’ll realise the price is reasonable. A whole pizza is big enough to share between two people and you can choose two toppings and do half and half. Normally I’m a big peperoni fan, they do have a salami option and it did look pretty tasty. However, I was feeling daring, so opted for something a little different. We went for half and half and had the aubergine, cauliflower cheese, spinach and harissa and oxtail, watercress, horseradish and sorrel cream toppings. Aubergine and cauliflower cheese had a delicious sauce, cheesy and creamy. If you like a good savoury mouthful this is the one for you. The aubergine gave an added texture with the harissa giving a smoky, yet subtle kick. The oxtail had a lovely tomato base and the meat itself gave a nice depth of flavour to each bite. I’m not a fan of horseradish, so wasn’t sure what it would taste like with sorrel as a cream. It was extremely good and not overpowering and cleansing to the palate. The pizza here is colossal! Each slice was bigger than my head, the dough was salty, but in a really good way, not too much. The fact that they sell by the slice is a great idea. If I was drunk and fortunate enough to stumble across Homeslice, I’d be a very happy drunk person. I think this is possibly the best pizza in London. Anyone in disagreement, please feel free to contact me. Homeslice has a buzzy and good vibe about the place, but very chilled and relaxed. It is a great place to hang out with friends, sup some beer and demolish pizza. The waiting team were all extremely friendly and it’s cool to be able to watch your pizza get made right in front of you. If you like pizza, lots of pizza, then you need to get your teenage mutant turtle bums down here!"

Papa Del's

Papa Del's

347 Archway Road, London, N65AA, N6 5AA, United Kingdom

Cafés • Pizza • Pasta • Italian


"I was torn what rating to put for this place. The pizzas were good; not fantastic, but definitely above average. The tables are rustic and unusual, I understand why they like them, but with uneven surfaces , it was difficult to keep the glass standing, and they were very dirty, with cracks full of dust and grease, not optimal with a toddler playing with the fork. They should put a glass surface on top. That would keep the nice look, but make it possible to keep it clean. The service was not great, we had an unpleasant experience. I was there with my toddler, who was very hungry. It took a long time for the food to come, and I had to ask them to bring his juice while waiting, they had forgotten. Halfway through the meal, my son needed a nappy change. I left our coats on the bench and took him to the bathroom. When we came back just a few minutes later, our plates, his half full juice and everything else had been removed from the table. I had finished, but he, being a slow eater, had only had a quarter of his pizza, and was still hungry. They offered to make a new pizza, but since my son already had waited so long, and struggled to sit still, I wasn't sure what to do. Fortunately, it turned out his pizza was still on the plate in the kitchen, so they brought it back directly. I asked to get it to go, since I felt very stressed and didn't want to stay a minute longer. It was a nice day, so we finished the meal in the beautiful woods next door instead. It wasn't until long after that I remembered that we also had ordered dessert, which I think they charged us for even though we didn't get the chance to eat it. If I ever try this place again, it will be takeaway, I am not sure I would like to return to eat in the restaurant."

Pizza Express

Pizza Express

114 Watling Street, Radlett United Kingdom, United Kingdom, WD7 7AB

Pizza • Vegan • Cheese • Italian


"We have been to this Pizza Express many times and have had good and bad experiences. I cannot honestly say that it has ever been great but it is more convenient than Watford and St Albans. Our latest experience was not good. Our teenage daughter order a milk. When it arrived she said that it tasted funny, kind of sweet, warm and was yellow in colour.... there was also something black (like a piece of black pepper) floating in it that she took out. My husband tried it and said that it was off. I asked if he was sure as it could be condensed milk, so he told me to try it. It tasted warm and weird. It was certainly not fresh nor been kept in the fridge. We told the waiter (who could also be the manager). He said that he was sorry and walked off trying it and then came back with the bottle putting the bottle in our faces to show us that it was not out of date. We started to feel really uncomfortable. We did not expect to have to defend our daughter saying that the milk she was given tasted funny and did not want another one. The waiter started to act unprofessional and made us feel that we never want to go there again. We had not said that it was out of date, we'd said that it was off. We explained that this can happen when milk is left out and the milk was not cold! Then he took the bottle of milk back and left it on the counter with a brand new bottle of milk. I could see the bottles on the counter for over 20 minutes. We felt that this was poorly dealt with. Service was pretty poor as it often is since they started using online delivery companies. It appears that deliveries take priority. At the end of the meal we decided to have tea while we waited for our daughters to eat their ice creams. We'd forgotten about the milk incident earlier as the service was taking too long and assumed that the bottle of milk would have been disposed off. To my surprise they poured the gone off milk into jugs for our tea. There was only an inch and a half at the very most of milk left in the large bottle... why did they not throw it out?? Again we had to call someone over regarding the one off milk. The waitress brought out the new bottle and poured out more milk for our tea. Meanwhile our daughters ordered their ice creams. The ice creams turned up with the warmed frothy milk and my eldest tried it and said that it tasted like the milk from earlier. We told her not to drink it. We felt that they'd given the gone off milk to them on purpose to trick them into drinking it, then after they'd drunk it say that it must have been OK as they'd drunk it. Our youngest drank all of hers. Just before our youngest went to bed she had an upset tummy that was still playing up the following day. Was it the milk? She had not had anything else at home that could have caused it. We will not be returning to this restaurant for a variety of reasons. Even when this restaurant does not have a lot of customers it is really noisy and incredibly hard to talk to each other and the service is really slow. You literally sit down and they will ask if you are ready to order, knowing that you will not be and then do not return for at least 10 15 minutes and then you are trying to get their attention. The food takes ages to arrive that has often been sitting in the kitchen waiting to be brought over. There appear to be enough staff but they just stand around in the kitchen waiting for food, rather than clearing tables and asking if everything is OK or if you need another drink, etc. If you order water for the table you might need to ask several times."