The choice for an Italian favourite in Nottingham is set to get wider when a new pizzeria opens its doors next month. Pizza Pilgrims will welcome the public from Monday, April 17.
The new restaurant will specialise in Neapolitan pizzas, famed for the delicious puffed up, airy crusts. Pizza lovers will have 12 different varieties to savour - from a classic margherita to a meaty double pepperoni and spicy honey.
The normal four cheese pizza has been taken to another level - with double the cheesy joy. The eight cheese pizza will have ricotta, two types of mozzarella, Grana Padano, gorgonzola, provola, Parmesan, and burratina - topped with sweet chilli jam.
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Veggie and vegan pizza include Ve-Du-Ya, made with cashew-based vegan ‘Notzarella' ’and knock your socks off vegan 'nduja, and Pizz’ & Love with veggies and basil pesto. Gluten-free bases are also available, at no extra cost.
A range of sides are sold, amongst them mozzarella garlic bread, burrata Caprese salad and artichoke fritti, and desserts, one of which will be a winner for Nutella fans. The house tiramisu comes loaded with Nutella, a splash of Kahlua, and is served in the Nutella jar.
No fewer than three types of espresso are on the menu - as affogato with gelato, with a teaspoon of Nutella, and thirdly 'proper' espresso - strong, short and Italian.
Most of the 18-strong chain's sites are based in London. Nottingham will be the furthest north. Outside the capital, there's restaurants in Oxford and Cambridge and Brighton. The company was founded by Thom and James Elliot after a pilgrimage across Italy to find out how to make the perfect Neapolitan pizza.
Pizza Pilgrims have taken over the former Italian fish restaurant Crazy Fish My Love, in Carton Street, Hockley. It was previously Sexy Mamma Love Cicchetti and before that Edin's Natural Kitchen, run by Edin Gondzic.
The property has had a revamp both inside and out. A new shopfront has been fitted, with green woodwork and a stripy green and white canopy. One old feature that remains is the Art Deco clock of William Taylor's Jewellers, hanging next to the first floor windows.- the occupant before it became a restaurant.
Last week Nottinghamshire Live reported that a former Sainsbury's Local in Carrington Street is being transformed into a bar and kitchen serving Detroit-style pizza.
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