Pizza Pilgrims

Their £5 pizza soup with pizza sauce and accompanying calzone wins my best office lunch ever award

Pizza are easy. All you need is good dough, a wood-​fired oven and some excellent quality toppings.
Easy peasy, in theory.
And yet so many places get it wrong. But not Pizza Pilgrims.
I have many favourite (basically half the menu) but I’d especially recommend the Fennel sausage white pizza and the signature ‘Nduja (spicy ground sausage).
And if you’re feeling especially creative, you can also submit a new piece to Pizza Pilgrims’ pizza box wall of fame!

A new @pizzapilgrims in Exmouth Market is opening this Monday and I was fortunate to go eat there this weekend.
One cocktail I haven’t tried before was ‘Lola’s Cherry Cola’: Prosecco, Disoranno, Chinotto, Glacé Cherry. What’s not to like about these ingredients. This was light sweet and refreshing. My sort of cocktail.
For mains we shared the veggie of aubergine, and two meats of porchetta and salami. Thought the salami was jam packed with toppings and had a great smokiness to it. Aubergine could have done with a bit more on it. The ‘Peppa Pig’ Special might be a new branch at Exmouth Market special but had to order and try. A margherita base with Porchetta and Sweet & Spicy Poponcini peppers. Was good. Still preferred the salami I think.
For dessert we had a Nutella and Ricotta Salted ring. This was awesome. No words.
Also had a quite strange mix of ice cream and espresso. You literally had to pour the hot espresso into the cold ice cream and mix. Weird. Tasted like coffee ice cream by the end; Which I liked, but it was a bit of a strange concept. Seems like a drunken idea one night down the pub. «Oi oi… you know what would be amazing… coffee chasers with ice cream… nah mate better still you know what, just pour the f-​ing thing into the ice cream… hot into cold innit. Pizza Pilgrims very own Heston science experiment». NOTE: I just realised it’s called an ‘Affogato’ and is quite common in Italy. Learn something new everyday!
Customers can also design their own pizza boxes. Of which they are kept by Pizza Pilgrims. Cool Idea. Some are on the walls. Décor of which is nice. Footloose and Lethal Weapon italian posters on the wall too. I do wish the place as whole was bigger though.
All in all when tomato pizzas are this good it’s hard to fault it. Service was fantastic by the way. They are so chilled and friendly. Really hope it goes well for them. Third branch but a banging location.