The photo on their website shows the fire off to the right but this night they were burning directly along the back wall. I’d love to see the temp lower and a longer bake to get some structure in there. Our slices were saggy, which is manageable for small pies but not with something this size. My personal opinion on this is that the oven’s running too hot for such a large pizza. The oven’s mouth is slightly wider than most recent Neapolitan ovens, a necessary difference for anyone wanting to bake giant pizzas. The oven at Homeslice with fire directly in the rear. As the name suggests, you can also get pizza by the slice. The resulting pizzas are large and thin, perfect for sharing among two or three people.

They also use a wood-fired oven but opt for a large New York style instead of sticking to Neapolitan. Next up was Homeslice(not to be confused with Austin’s Homeslice), just around the corner from Pizza Pilgrims. Sharing a half-Margherita half-mushroom pizza at Homeslice. As we continued to learn throughout the night, the folks at Pizza Pilgrims are wonderful human beings who also happen to crank our lovely pizzas. But as my friend John Arena ( Metro Pizza) says, they aren’t competition they’re colleagues. On top of having excellent pizza, the Pizza Pilgrims location we visited in Soho boats this fantastic collection of pizza boxes from both Napoli and London! You gotto love a place that puts its competition on their own walls. Pizza boxes on the wall at Pizza Pilgrims. These Pilgrims have certainly settled into a comfy zone and everyone we talked to along the way had heard of them. The oven may have been a bit hot that night, as you can see by the fast bake. Two brothers started the operation as a truck and now have two brick-and-mortar locations. They do typical Neapolitan pizza and they do it very well. The base is light and puffy, as expected, and toppings are spot-on.

Margherita and Sausage + Rapini pizzas at Pizza Pilgrims.įirst up was Pizza Pilgrims, a convenient starting point for our gracious hosts. Here’s a rundown of our pizza crawl with a couple additional bonus stops from throughout the week. The kind folks at Pizza Pilgrims offered to escort me and Steph (Mantis, exhibition designer) to the most talked-about joints in town. I recently spent a week in The Big Smoke while hosting an exhibition of amazing pizza boxes from around the world and you KNOW I took the opportunity to sample as much pizza as possible. Great news: there IS good pizza in London!

Pizza pilgrims