As someone who wouldn’t necessarily order pizza on a menu when there are other options, I’ve definitely been swayed by the predominantly-pizza menu at Pizza Pilgrims.

Although there are multiple Pizza Pilgrims restaurants dotted around London, I’d never been before.

And wow, wasn’t I missing out?!

Your Local Guardian:

I went to the Soho Dean Street restaurant, and there’s not much better than buzzy central London on a Saturday night.

And it turns out there isn’t much better than Pizza Pilgrims pizza either.

The restaurant sits underground, below the kitchen and takeaway.

Your Local Guardian:

It’s cool, retro, cosy and colourful inside – and it’s the perfect place for a casual but yummy dinner.

There’s the option to add extras onto your pizza, so I went with a classic and chose a margherita with just some mushrooms on top.

Your Local Guardian:

My dining partner had the Nduja, which is a slightly more exotic and exciting pizza with spicy sausage on top – described on the menu as “meat loving, chilli heads”.

We shared a Burrata Caprese Salad too – just in case we didn’t have enough cheese on our hands – and I think I can confidently say it was the best one I’ve ever had.

This is my go-to at Italian restaurants, so I’ve had a fair few, but genuinely the tomatoes and pesto were top notch.

It also came with a huge piece of dough-y bread with it, and again, where I’ve had my fair few my pet hate is when my burrata doesn’t come with bread.

Your Local Guardian:

The service was quick, the waiters and waitresses were uber friendly, the restaurant was chilled but vibey and I really enjoyed my experience.

The prices are reasonable, especially for London and especially for Soho on a Saturday night, and there’s more than enough on the menu to cater for pretty much everyone.

With a sweet tooth like never seen before, I can only wish I’d have had room for dessert – and I definitely need to learn to stop eating so much of my main course so that I can eat dessert because it is my favourite part.

I can’t even say which dessert I’d have chosen because with a mini ice cream sandwich, a Nutella pizza ring and a nutellamisu on the menu I reckon I’d have to have got a bit of everything once I’d got started.

I can’t wait to go back to one of the other Pizza Pilgrims branches and eat pizza to my cheese-loving, tomato-drooling, bread-addicting heart’s content.