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Pizza Express: One of the UK's Largest Italian Restaurant Chains
Pizza Express is one of the UK’s largest chains of Italian restaurants and is best known for its range of pizzas. If delicious cheesy pizza is a favourite of yours, you really are in for a treat! There are more than 360 establishments in the UK, each with varying hours of operation but all with a similar menu of pizza and other Italian favourites that can be eaten in the restaurant or ordered for delivery. Easily one of the more popular Italian restaurants in the UK, there will be something for everyone on the menu.
Here you can choose from starters such as garlic bread, prawns, and other small delicacies. For the main course, you can choose from pizzas or pasta; however, there is also the option for chicken or steak dishes if you don’t fancy something too Italian. There is a kids' menu too, which makes eating out as a family easy enough. There is a selection of fine wines and champagnes on offer, in addition to alcoholic cocktails and mocktails. If you are a Tastecard holder, you can often get discounts on starters, mains, and desserts at many of their branches.
As you might expect, the chain can be found most in cities and larger towns, but because of its takeaway service, almost everyone in the UK will be able to enjoy the tasty menu that it offers. Found primarily on the high streets and in shopping centres, food courts, and services, finding a branch should never prove to be too difficult.
Not many people enjoy pizza for breakfast, so the opening hours for this chain of restaurants reflect that fact. Most branches will open their doors at 11:30 AM all week long and will close at 11 PM Monday to Saturday—and at an earlier time of 10 PM on Sundays. As you might expect, during major holidays such as Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, and even on bank holidays, Pizza Express opening times are going to differ from the norm. Check our Restaurant locator for Restaurants open near you today.
Here are 5 little-known facts that you probably didn’t know:
- It celebrated its 50th anniversary back in 2015.
- In a bid to help prevent Venice from sinking, in 1977 the company created the Pizza Veneziana and pledged a donation to the Venice in Peril Fund for each pizza sold.
- The restaurant also has a partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support and donates proceeds from certain menu items.
- Founder Peter Boizot imported the first proper pizza oven from Italy to the UK and had to knock a wall down to get it into his first restaurant as it would not fit through the door.
- The chain can be found in several different countries.
While the name suggests they sell pizza in their restaurant, you can actually find a number of other Italian specialties on the menu as well. Pasta dishes such as carbonara, lasagne, and spaghetti bolognese, among others, can all be enjoyed. Of course, pizza is the main type of food on offer here, and you will be presented with a menu full of classic favourites such as pepperoni and margherita pizzas and specialty pizzas such as the 'Sloppy Giuseppe' and 'La Reine'.
There are four different menus that you can use when ordering: one is the main menu for when you are dining in, another is a children’s menu with dishes and tastes tailored for children, a light menu that offers some healthier options, and of course, a takeaway menu that you can use when calling up to have a pizza delivered to your home.
They even sell their own frozen pizza in supermarkets that stock them! Now you can cook your very own tasty Pizza Express pizza from the comfort of your own home.
Pizza Express was actually born out of a holiday. Founder Peter Boizot visited Italy one year and then realized that the quality of pizza in London was nowhere near as good as it should be. He decided to start his own pizza restaurant in London in 1965 and added a different twist by bringing in entertainment for guests in the form of jazz bands playing live music in the evenings.
The brand quickly started to grow with new restaurants opening up all over the country. Eventually, their restaurants would be seen in several different countries with more than 100 locations now open across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. As for the restaurant count in the UK, this would eventually grow to the 360+ restaurants seen on high streets today.
