Pizza Express

We were on our way home from Merry Hill and fancied Pizza Express. partly because it was a Wednesday, but mostly because my girlfriend (who isn’t Italian…) loves the place.
We phoned up and ordered so we could pick it up on the way home. Well, I phoned up when we were about a minute away so didn’t really give them too much notice. We had the Orange Wednesday deal and so order dough balls, garlic bread, a Padana for her and a Da Morire for me. I love the Da Morire, with its ingenious combination of leeks, artichokes, cheese and ham — genius. Anyway, enough salivating… We picked up the pizzas, paid the bill and headed home.
I only live less than 5 minutes drive from the restaurant but already they were cold by the time we got back, which was very sad and so we put them into the oven to heat up and tucked into the dough balls and garlic bread. The balls were a bit squashed, enough to make any man’s eyes water, but they were very generous with the portion of garlic butter and we happily tucked in to the starters.
Once the oven dinged we got down to the pizzas, which had probably been tainted somewhat by putting them in the oven but the dough on mine was slightly like cardboard and there wasn’t that much topping (something I’m sure was not my oven’s fault…) but they were tasty enough nonetheless.
I’ve been to this Pizza Express before to sit in (thankfully they do have chairs) and it’s an alright branch with lovely staff who are very attentive, but on this occasion it’s only 3 stars from me!

Pizza Express is a great place to eat. We have been for lunch, for a celebration, for a Christmas night out, for a treat and just cause we felt like it! The food has always been good but they have just recently launched a new menu which is just fantastic. The service at Stourbridge is great, lovely staff who see to your every need depending on what you need. Nothing is too much trouble. The choice of wine is ample is is about the same prices as you would find in other restaurants. If you go on an evening, it is quite easy to park in the high street outside the restaurant. We usually get a taxi down there and it’s not hard to get a taxi home from there. I recommend the etna pizza and the risotto beautiful