Rolled in here after a stiffish walk from Waverley Station avoiding/dodging Christmas shoppers and feeling rather peckish after so much activity.
Great warm atmosphere with a real buzz - babies,buggies,friends and a few office suits answering mobile phones and pretending to be Warren Buffet - but just a great relaxed place to eat.
Huge, delicious Italian pizza cooked only a few feet away in the open kitchen by smiling competent attentive staff - pizza overflowing on a slate and at least as big as your head - but boy, you have just got to be hungry if you order a Calabrese or Pollo Forza - just couldn’t eat it all so we had a doggy bag to lighten the load.Thank goodness we didn’t have starters or extras.
Washed down with a couple of large glasses of Merlot and we were ready for anything.
Great service - all for just over £40 quid - will definitely return.
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You’ll know Pizza Express, they’re a well-established pizza chain that focuses on Italian-style pizza: thin bases and interesting toppings; pizzas that don’t swim in cheese. The company has quite a following and even have a range of pizzas and dough balls that sell through supermarkets. For Spring 2014, Pizza Express has a new menu and has also launched an Express Lunch menu. I went to investigate.
Pizza Express’ Express Lunch menu offers a range of tasty, lunch-sized dishes at good prices. For those of you who like sandwiches, there are piadino, pizza dough pockets stuffed with with fillings like Italian cold cuts or mozzarella. There are also pizzas, scaled down to stop you from getting too full, salads, or, for something really light, soup. For hungry days there are sides: add polenta chips, or rocket salad to your meal. Prices start at £3.45 for soup and go up to £5.95 for pizza Pollo ad Astra.
Pizza Express Quensferry Street is my closest Pizza Express. When I worked in the West End I regularly ate lunch or dinner there. It was nice to come back and visit. We sat towards the back, in the sunny conservatory and smiled at people passing, wrapped up in coats and scarves. It was that kind of Edinburgh spring day: lovely and warm behind a sheet of glass, cold and windy outside. I like a sit-down lunch. I’ve had hundreds of sandwich-at-my-desk lunches in my time but I much prefer soup, salad or even yesterday’s left-overs at a table. When you work in an office it can be difficult to fit cooked food into a lunch hour and it can be difficult to find a table to have it at.
The idea behind Pizza Express’ Express Lunch is that you should have time to get away from your desk, eat lunch and get back without stretching lunch too far. It works: we were in the restaurant 40 minutes and in that time we ordered, ate and had coffee.
I was torn between the salad Nicoise and the meat piadino. After swithering for a couple of minutes and complicating the choice by adding pizza La Reine to the mix, I went for the piadino. It was a bread pocket covered with crunchy melted cheese and stuffed full with salad, mozzarella, Coppa, Finocchiona salami, Milano salami and pesto. It was fresh, tasty and very filling.
C. had a good range of dishes to choose from: there are several vegetarian options on the menu, as well as gluten-free and light options. C’s final decision was a Veneziana (minus sultanas). The smaller size is perfect for lunch.
Getting out of the office is good for you. Take a friend, get out and recharge mental and physical batteries alike with some lunch. At Pizza Express they’ll make sure you are fed and watered quickly and with food that doesn’t make you fall asleep at your desk in the afternoon.
We were very hungry on a cold january evening after a long walk at princess street. We spotted pizza express and the thought of piping hot pizzas tempted us very much. The place was bubbling with people and very cosy. Service was quick and food very tasty. Glad to have stopped by for dinner here.
Nice quality of the food . Great and friendly staff . 100% recommended .
Would slice the pizza before serving tho. (Not enough space to slice it on a plate )
With little time to spare we popped into Pizza Express for a quick pizza & drinks before a concert in Princes Street gardens last night.
We both had Polo ad Astra romana base with Anchovies, red wine & coffees.
All tasted great !
Service was brilliant, staff very helpful and we got the 2 pizzas for £15 , absolute bargain compared to other chains.
Will definitely be back soon.
On our first trip to Scotland we went to Pizza Express on our first evening in Edinburgh. The first meal was so delicious, we went there again on the second evening as well. Thumbs up for the people over there, the service and the good food!
The pasta is really nice with a nice combination of smoky meat and cheese. The sticks also contain a light, stretchy cheese coated in breadcrumbs.
The tiramisu was delicious. Nice and creamy and you can really taste the coffee in it.
In addition, Pizza Express allow you to order and pay via the app, along with claiming your rewards on it which is really handy. You can also split the bill on the app. I wish more restaurants did this.
Friendly place. Service was quick. Pizza was great. Drinks were good and well priced. The price was very reasonable.
Ahh the first of many places I visited when arriving in Edinburgh and it will certainly won't be my last!
The staff were very welcoming and had a charming twinkle in their eye while the food was as amazing as a Sunday morning stoll in Switzerland.
Great place, very friendly staff and food as always was amazing. Fantastic vegan options
Wonderful staff, specially the guy who seemed in charge and the blonde smiley girl, they really made such a warm atmosphere in the restaurant. Lovely pizzas as always, and the honey comb slice to die for.
Love the food, quick being met at the door. Social distanced well across the restaurant..little one loves the piccolo menu. Hubby loves the pizza and I always have the niciose .
Gluten free pizza was a small and lacked flavour. If I had to pick another gluten free dish again, I wouldn't go for the pizza. They are good about taking tesco vouchers though. Service is great and they didn't make me feel like a burden when I said I was gluten free. Location superb and they were kind enough to move me to a table with a light so I could read.
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