Pizza Pilgrims
Pizza restaurant · Soho ·
Neapolitan pizza chain serving thin-crust pizzas, negronis, and affogato
Neapolitan pizza chain serving thin-crust pizzas, negronis, and affogato
"Pizza Pilgrims latest spot in Finsbury Park is an NYC meets Stranger Things meets Grease fever dream serving pizza by the metre and a range of massive slices. It’s bright, it’s colourful, there are arcade machines to hygienically put your grubby mitts all over, and it’s bang opposite Rowan’s if you want to double down on the USA-themed evening." - team infatuation
"It would be easy to say that you can’t go wrong with a pizza, but you can go wrong with a pizza. Very wrong. Take the tomato paste tortilla thing (topped with raw cheddar) we experienced in Budapest years ago. Pizza Pilgrims is a far better example of an affordable, good pizza. Dean Street is the original location of this Neapolitan pizza mini-chain and they’re still a go-to for chewy, thick-crusted pizzas with a thin and saucy centre. Their margherita is under a tenner or add a few more quid if you after some other toppings." - jake missing
"A typical tourist might return home from Italy with a Leaning Tower of Pisa fridge magnet. James and Thom Elliot brought back a Piaggio pizza van and became influential champions of Neapolitan pizza, first at Berwick Street Market and then at eleven pizza restaurants. The ‘nduja pizza helped make that spicy Calabrian pork sausage one of the world’s trendiest toppings. Multiple venues." - Daniel Young
"Like all good things in London, this burgeoning chainlet is growing fast. Once a beloved food truck with a cleverly built-in pizza oven, it now has not one but two (as of last week) bricks-and-mortar outposts. The thin-crust pizza at all their charmingly lo-fi locations is superb, as are the negronis and affogato. At the new spot off Carnaby, we’re looking forward to fried pizza courtesy of their first authentic Neapolitan fryer—the guys spent a couple of weeks in Naples recently to learn the art of frying pretty much everything. There are also locations in Soho and Exmouth Market."
"A 'Happiness' T‑shirt that riffs on communal pizza‑eating mantras with an ironic wink — playful merch for devotees of sharing (or hoarding) pies." - Lucas Oakeley