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Pizza Express: St Martin’s Lane
There are two key things to bear in mind when visiting the Pizza Express on St Martin’s Lane: timing and books. Being in the heart of theatreland, the St Martin’s Lane outlet gets very crowded at the peak times shortly before evening plays start – and the staff are so focused on quick service during [...]
Pizza Express: Euston Road
You sit down in a crowded Pizza Express, on a table surrounded on all sides by other tables in use. As the evening progresses, an exclusion zone appears around your table as each table near you clears out and does not have anyone else sat at it. By the end of the evening, there is [...]
Pizza Express: South Woodford
Having talked toilets, it is time to talk power points once more. Pizza Express is one of those chains now advertising free WiFi in many of its outlets but also is following the fashion not to advertise electricity power points. Which strikes me as odd given how often people worry about having to recharge their batteries; what [...]
Pizza Express: High Road, Loughton
This Pizza Express in, as the estate agents would say, picturesque Loughton is done up in the new stripey (sophisticated continental or criminal with a bag of swag, delete as you wish) look. Complete with tree silhouettes on the wall, marking the Loughton Pizza Express’s closeness to Epping Forest. Which makes the toilet signs interesting. [...]
Pizza Express: St Christophers Place
So, what to say about the Pizza Express in Barrett Street, St Christophers Place? Well, it continues the saga of strange toilet signage – for not only is the men’s toilets indicated by a sign with a shoe on it, but the A4 paper signs showing the way to the shoe-adorned door show silhouettes on which [...]
Pizza Express: Westfield Centre, Stratford
Well, that was a Pizza Express visit and a half. To keep regular readers updated with the key information: Convenient powerpoints for gadget laden pizza fans? Yes. Turn left as you come in through the door and head to the wall by the hatstand. Toilet signage? Unlike the Sutton Pizza Express, the legs on the [...]
Pizza Express: High Street, Sutton
Fat legs. That is the distinguishing feature of Pizza Express, Sutton. Not on the staff or the other customers, but on the picture of a man on the toilet door. Very fat legs. Perhaps this is in homage to the nearby cycle lanes which feature unusually elongated bicycles painted on them? At any rate, the fat [...]
Pizza Express: Lavender Hill
What to say about Pizza Express Lavender Hill? Electricity! That’s what to say. Like many other places, Pizza Express has got into offering and boasting about having free WiFi. But it also (unadvertised, unboasted) provides that other key ingredient to keep a modern gadget fanatic fed: electricity, courtesy of these nicely located power points (in [...]
Pizza Express, Chase Side, Southgate
Want to go and have a pizza whilst looking at a large photo of a man on a bicycle playing poor man’s polo? And then be able to perambulate along the widest corridors leading to the toilet facilities in any Pizza Express this side of Panama? Then the Pizza Express, Chase Side, Southgate is the [...]
Pizza Express: Heath Street, Hampstead
One of the charms of the Pizza Express chain is the distinctive character of each outlet. But it is rather unexpected even by Pizza Express standards for this one to have a large area that looks and feels like a slightly cramped loft conversion. My seat gave me a perfect view of the fire exit [...]
