Pizza Express: Strand, London

Lured to this venue by discussion of acoustics and carpets (see here, including comment) I can but report – there are not as many carpets on the walls as I expected in the Pizza Express, Strand:

Even worse, the chocolate glories have shrunk – though perhaps this will put an end to the various running out of ingredients and improvising with a different combination each time pattern that has become a regular feature of the Pizza Express experience?

It is a mostly underground Pizza Express with roughly 50 seats on the ground floor but another 170 or so in the not quite circular nor really elliptical basement. It is down there that the carpets are and I would rate them a moderate success. Sharp noises are certainly dulled but the overall noise level gets very high.

Anyway, that’s 12 down and 116 to go (on the increasingly unlikely assumption that the total count is still accurate, but I think I’m a little way off having to worry too much about that…).