Pizza East Kentish Town

Food was decent but slightly overpriced. The place is pretty cool and it would’ve been an enjoyable experience if our server hadn’t been so cheeky and charged us for more than what our bill was for, including the additional «optional» 12.5% tip. Disappointing finish to what could’ve been a decent meal.

Awesome place with great atmosphere and tasty pizzas. All the pizzas are nice and crispy and you can either stick to
basic pizzas or try some of there more original topping choices. I was immediately drawn to the fried egg and portobello pizza bc you can’t really go wrong with adding a fried egg to anything. It was phenomenal and I devoured it. Their appetizers are also divine and I highly recommend the Mac and cheese and the garlic bread! Service was good and the resulting carb coma was worth it.

So yummy. And now, so close! Yippee!
You can also ask for a keychain to get deals on a Wednesday. Shamone! Or is it Tuesday???

Our group of 10 dined at the Kentish town branch of pizza east as I was out voted on my suggestion of the Chicken shop which is located in the basement of the same building. There was a vegetarian within the group so I suppose Pizza East was a more appropriate choice.
Some of us chose a few starters to share. My favourite were the courgette fritti with aioli. The portion of lamb meatballs that I tasted was luke warm and lacked much flavour. The chargrilled calamari with lemon and chilli was the most disappointing starter, there was not even a hint of chilli the dish was drowned in olive oil.
Although I am not a fan of eating pizza, for mains I chose a Speck pizza as the other options of lamb cutlets and baked salmon did not sound enticing and presumably pizzas should be the restaurant’s specialty! Apart from the Speck, asparagus, Parmesan & mozzarella pizza, I also tried a piece of the mushroom, spinach & egg as well as the veal meatballs & prosciutto. Of the 3 I sampled surprisingly the vegetarian pizza was the winner. The veal meatballs pizza was much too oily.
Pizza East is a good option for large groups looking for a casual dining environment. We arrived on a Saturday evening without a reservation and were able to get a table for the group without waiting.

It’s amazing how busy they were on a Tuesday night, but for very good reason. Anyone lucky enough to have the I love PE keychain gets 50% off the total bill, drinks included! Our party of 3 waited just about 40 minutes for a table, but were able to have some drinks at the bar in the meantime.
To start, we had the Burrata, aubergine & chilli as well as the Raw beef & artichoke, both arrived quick and fresh. Definitely recommended to ease hunger while waiting for your pizzas to be fired!
We had the buffalo mozarella, tomato and basil pizza, Four cheese pizza and the Veal pizza. They were perfectly sized for one person, not too big, not too small. Expect a thick crust, best eaten quickly as it gets chewier as time elapses. The four cheese pizza was loaded with the most scrummy cheeses: Gorgonzola, mozzarella, scamorza, pecorino! Now THAT’s a proper Four cheese pizza! The Veal meatball and margherita pizzas were simple but tasty.
We were limited to 1.5 hours at our table but the flow of dinner meant we didn’t feel rushed at all. Service was attentive, staff were personable and fun. I’d recommend this restaurant for equally for a night out with your partner as well as with a group of friends!

This place is unreal!
We held our team pre christmas get together there… yes in november but still… its pre christmas drinks! The food was brilliant!
The brushetta and buffalo mozzarella pizza were exceptional!
The setting was pretty cool as well, with a nice lay out and interior.
Great meal for my first in Kentish Town!

Awesome, thin crust wood fired pizzas, many choices of creative toppings. Also a great casual, laid back, hip urban atmosphere with friendly service. If you get a chance, order the mac cheese. It’s comfort food to die for! Totally rich, creamy and decadent!
If you sign up as a regular, you get a key chain which entitles you to 50% off the entire bill on Tuesday nights… Awesome!

Location:
«Trendy» is probably the best word. Fun albeit not quirky décor and essentially lots of wooden tables packed fairly close together give it a really buzzing atmosphere. We were there on a Saturday too so I imagine the effect was heightened since the average alcohol consumption per person would presumably be higher.
Anyway, had a 9pm reservation and were told we could only have the table till 11. Due to TFL incompetency (Northern line was down and I missed 2 of the bus I need (214) as it was full and for some reason it’s only a single-​decker) I only got there at 2130. Anyway, fortunately they let us have the table all night (Kentish Town really isn’t that happening at 11pm so it would have been a surprise if the restaurant was still rammed then) and we were there till 0015.
Food:
To start we had the Lamb meatballs, Burrata, Garlic Bread and Calamari. Everyone seems to rave about the burrata and they’re spot on. It’s particularly creamy. Calamari and Meatballs were excellent as well.
Pizza wise I had the San Daniele (a particular type of aged prosciutto apparently) and it was really really good. The defining feature of the pizzas here imo are the buttery crusts. These things feel like they’re almost dipped in butter. Gives it a really nice texture and ensures it’s packed with flavour. I often end up leaving the crust on my pizza but here, I polished it off with ease.
I also tried a slice of the veal meatball pizza. Felt the veal was a tad dry and wasn’t as impressed.
For desserts we had the Tiramisu and the Salted chocolate caramel tart. Both were outstanding. One of the more enjoyable tiramisus I’ve had in London. As for the tart, it was hard to have more than a few bites but it was spot on.
Others:
Good drink selection, kind of cool that they have prosecco on tap (didn’t order it though); Cocktail wise I tried the Grey Goose fizz which I really enjoyed (I love most things with elderflower).
The one marginally annoying thing was that we had ordered shots of tequila at some point, and when the bill came, these were £9.5 each. Anyway, we queried it and he said it’s because we ordered the premium tequila. We said that we absolutely didn’t specify and had no particular interest in the premium one. They were kind enough to reduce the bill and charge us for the normal one though so that was alright in the end.
Overall:
Good food, and a really fun place for dinner. I’m always on the hunt for high energy weekend restaurants and I’d add this to the list with the big caveat that there isn’t a whole lot going on around Kentish Town after midnight (or maybe I just don’t know where to go).

Large open space, little industrial feel, great interior that ticks all my boxes. Open kitchen and the food on display. Everything looked wonderful. A lot of options for a vegetarian as well, salads that looked truly amazing. I had a pumpkin, lentil and cale salad. My friend had two of the small starters, and my husband a pizza that looked rustic and perfect. Not to big, and not small either. Perfect for lunch.
The place filled up pretty quick, and I suspect we were lucky to get a table without a booking. Will visit again. The bus from the city stops right outside.

Love the pork cracking on the pizza!!! Great mains as well. Décor is cool and service is amazing.

I had an awesome time at Pizza East. We arrived on a Saturday night expecting to be haughtily turned away or told it was a 1h30 wait (given my previous Shoreditch experience) but instead we were ushered to some seats on the bar overlooking the kitchen, right in front of two hilarious Italians making pizza overseen by the world’s calmest head chef, whose slight smiles/​shakes of head kept the production line going phenomenally quickly. It was incredibly entertaining watching their interactions and the different characters — the young mischevious guy rolling out the dough an occasionally burning pizzas and then being admonished by the looming bearded desserts guy (head chef just gave slight shake of head, which seemed to scare young guy way more).
Oh yes… the food. I thought the burrata was exceptionally good and could have eaten several more platefuls, in fact I did suggest ordering it for dessert. However I was glad we went for the doughnut (cooked in the pizza oven as we watched) and salted caramel tart because both were also outstanding. The combination of tart sweet chocolate and salty caramel was perfect, and the dough on the doughnut was as fresh, sweet and tasty as any I have had.
The pizzas themselves were also very good, we originally planned to share but then at them all ourselves which is probably a pretty good indication of hwo much we enjoyed them. The menu really has an appealing range of options and they’re a good side if on the expensive side.
Overall a great night, nothing like dinner and a (surprise) show. Would definitely return if in the area, it’s a particularly good combination with a stroll up Parliament Hill. Fun times.

Veni, vedi, pizza!
I hadn’t been to the original Pizza East location in Shoreditch, but I sure had heard about it. Now, I’d also heard many things about this location in Kentish Town, especially in junction with Dirty Burger (next door) and the Chicken Shop (underneath); apparently they all belong to the Soho House Group and as much as I dislike these «big» conglomerates, I have to say that these folks know what they’re doing. (I’ve been to the Soho House in Berlin a few times and really loved it!)
Anyhow, I came here for lunch and we had a really nice time. It was surprisingly busy for a Thursday lunchtime (especially given it’s non-​central location), but the waiting staff was on top of it and we felt well-​taken care of all along the way.
I browsed the reviews of my predecessors and decided on the Porchetta pizza. My other half went for the veal meatball pizza. We also ordered two veggie side dishes: wilted spinach and gem salad (gem, broad bean, courgette, caprino). The pizzas were both delightful — both the porchetta and the veal meatballs were superb toopings (Porchetta, by the way is a «savoury, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition» according to Wikipedia). The gem salad looked rather boring, but they added lemon zest to it, which spiked it up quite nicely.
At the end of our meal we also got invited to join the Pizza East «keyring club» — upon presenting this keyring (see picture), you get a 50% discount for the entire party at lunchtime on certain days of the week. I mean, this is a great deal… especially as the prices are not cheap and a discount like this would make me plan a visit again!

Pizza East, North. Pretty much the same set up as the Shoreditch affair, albeit embedded in a somewhat less aggressive hipster-​teeming, more yummy-​mummy-​middle-​class fabric that be Parliament Hill. Let’s be honest, a ten minute walk down Highgate road towards the heath can’t really be classified as [the more gritty] Kentish Town now.
Do you like pork chops on your pizza? Then there is definitely something here that will impress. Do you also like to be told there is an hour wait to be seated, so when you opt for the take-​out menu, they suddenly muster you up a table within ten minutes? Well then that is something else to be impressed by. I am docking stars for pretentious attitudes that belong to a select set of pretentious locations, Parliament Hill, you might have acquired the industrial warehouse décor along with three new Soho House dining enterprises, but you can NOT start being all East London vitriolic without, for better want of a phrase, backing-​it-​up.
The pizza is good, though not my favourite, so it really is the [contrived?] atmosphere you pay for here, and the rocket-​sprinkled burrata. Well at least you won’t be able to argue that institutions like this, transformed an un-​gentrified area into an elite middle-​class haven…

i came here before a gig at the forum, looking to fortify myself with pizza and wine. the atmosphere in here is really nice, it’s dark and sultry. i like it. the wait staff were really busy, so they were courteous rather than friendly. they did check up on us, but were slow to bring our drinks and slow to give us the bill/​take payment. we weren’t in a rush, so this wasn’t a problem, but i guess it could be frustrating had we been.
so. pizza. for years i didn’t like pizza. i’m half italian, so i know this is wrong. i wanted to stop the madness, so i made myself like it, and now i do… but i am still fussy about what pizza i enjoy. i ordered the pizza that came with gorgonzola, and it was only okay. the flavours just weren’t there for me. i liked that the wine came in a tiny little carafe though!
i’m glad we tried this place, and i would definitely come back with friends if i was in the area as the atmosphere and casual dining suits us to a t, but first we would need to check out chicken shop next door, so it might be a while before we get round to coming back and eating just okay pizza.

You know what, I just really liked this place. Lovely décor that both managed to feel cosy and also like you were in some cool joint in New York. The pizzas were very well-​made — like somebody had gone to Naples and tried extremely hard to replicate that kind of gorgeous simplicity. We sat on stools at a kind of kitchen bar area, watching the food being prepared and baked in a proper traditional oven. A simple margherita pizza sets you back just £7 (is even Pizza Express that cheap these days?) and they have the option of a carafe of wine. I LOVE it when restaurants do that.
This place loses a star for the hideously over-​attentive staff who constantly refilled our glasses and checked everything was okay, thus breaking the flow of conversation. They’ve employed too many people if it’s possible to do that on a packed Saturday night.

Seriously, this pizza is good stuff. Thin, interesting and easily rivals 800 Degrees in LA or Pizza Delphine in SF. And as an added bonus the pizzas are certainly budget conscious ie. completely affordable. Noteworthy menu items: the mac n’ cheese, the speck hispi cabbage app, the porchetta pizza, the manager (not really on the menu) — she was extra cool– secret code: talk food with her. Oh, and Chicken Soup is just downstairs and Dirty Burger is just out back. Win. Win. Win.

I loved the place! But I would recommend checking the menu before visiting.
The great: Quick service, nice ambiance, very tasty pizza crust!
The good: Quality ingredients, good salads, a constantly filled water glass
The bad: Sadly the pizza didn’t meet my expectations– the cheese wasn’t hot when it arrived & there was very little sauce, which made the crust hard (or soggy in places). Also, the menu was kind of limited… I wish I had asked if I could choose my own toppings for the pizza, instead of going along with their combinations. The only veggie toppings offered for the pizza were mushrooms or leafy greens (basil, rosemary, radicchio).

Very good staff, extremely attentive. The service was only part of the charm, great décor, very cosy and lots of lovely people eating.
Now for the food, luxurious pizza with pesto and veal meatballs was my choice, thin base with fluffy outer crust superb. Definitely would recommend, to top it all off, the price was fantastic!

You know, I tend to shy away from Italian restaurants like the plague, but Pizza East is pretty neast.
The pizza’s I’ve tried so far (Mushroom pie. anchovy pie.) have been above average with a very minimalistic approach. Much appreciated dudes.
I was not into the cold salads I tried… these were a bit too average for the price.
The lasagna was a bit fatty and heavy as well, but at least the ingredients were solid.
The pan fried sea bream was fresh; the only complaint being the large rustic cuts of vegetables were a bit too big to enjoy all at once with the fish.
The custard doughnut is VERY good
The salted caramel. not so much. It’s nice but a bit heavy at times.
Overall, I’d give this place a chance. I think they do a nice job overall.

Super Pizza, not expensive and excellent food quality. All hand made and very unique, it’s really cool watching your Pizza being made. But very, very busy, a bit too crowded.