JOIN USNothing fancy, the large dining area is like KFC, Pizza Express maintains quick service restaurant’s (QSR) decorum, only that they serve you on your table. It has recently launched in the capital but is an aged chain in United Kingdom. Its pizzas repute is comparable with ‘Burger King’s’ burgers. Don’t misconstrue the analogy here, whether you liked Burger King or not, pizza fans will find happiness in food here.
They have a wide range of pizzas, ranging from Italian to Hawaiian. The Hawaiian ones are part of the new summer menu which they have introduced for some time. Thin crust and thick crust pizzas have their own place here. Even if their style is QSR their pizzas are exotic, nothing like this you get in Delhi at these prices. Though many gourmet pizza restaurants are still unrecognised, Pizza Express outlets around the city will definitely attract eyeballs, at first for its stature.
They have heavy salads, for that friend who dies to go to a pizza place but is too guilty to eat it. The Grand Chicken Salad has generous amounts of grilled chicken, anchovies, emilgrana, cos lettuce, croutons, Caesar dressing and warm dough sticks. So many leafy and nutritious veggies will leave less space for anything else.
Their starter, Gambaretti Piccante is a prawn dish, in which the prawns are soaked in pasta sauce, chilli flakes, garlic oil, spinach and santos tomatoes and finished with parsley. This exquisite starter is so beautiful to look at, it vanishes too easily from sight.
Metrolife ordered, two rather simple dishes from the mains Pollo Arrabbiata which is a pasta in red sauce with chicken chunks, where Penne is in passata with garlic, red chilli, grilled chicken, grilled red and yellow peppers and topped up with emilgrana and parsley.
We assumed if a simple pasta tastes good then the exotic ones should. But Pollo Arrabiata was not appealing to look at or even in taste, the penne pasta stuck to our teeths undesirably and was not saucy, even after being topped up with sauce. We greedily stared at the pictures of others pastas, they looked so good, try one of those.
But Metrolife would suggest sticking to pizzas here. Their mocktails are not particularly great, but good to go with the food. The fizz ones are better. We tried the Ginger Fresca.
The simple pizza we ordered was Il Padrino 65 which was a thin crust pizza topped with grilled chicken, mozzarella, roasted tomatoes, chargrilled vegetables,
tomato and pesto base.
The pizza will definitely serve more than two people as per its size. But after one bite, it might be difficult to share.
When we came to our desserts we were extremely full, but we were served with two types of desserts, Tiramisu and New York Cheesecake.
And however full we were, we readily ate the whole New York Cheesecake, which was considerably big. It was yummier than the Tiramisu, but then after finishing the New York Cheesecake, which was full of milk and cheese, and extremely filling, we had to eat the Tiramisu, considering both were not deserving of being wasted.
All in all, Pizza Express is a satiating experience. It’s a good place to enjoy food and catch up too. Other pizza chains, except Jamie’s Pizzeria do not offer such an
environment.