Where I ate:
Pizza
Express, High Street, Brentwood
I haven’t
been out in Brentwood for ages and to be honest, there aren’t many restaurants
to shout home about, in fact there’s nothing there at all (unless you’re a
TOWIE fan). But I went to Pizza Express a fortnight ago, as I’d not been for
ages and it’s one of the better places in town. Being between Christmas and New
Year, it wasn’t busy at all and despite booking for 8:15, I could have easily
turned up 15 minutes earlier and got a table. Unfortunately I was driving and I
wished I hadn’t when I saw this Christmas menu:
Prosecco AND
limoncello, seriously what I was thinking?! Instead I had a sparkling water,
but did have three courses, thanks to a deal code: £13.95, bargain.
Like I say,
it wasn’t busy: the restaurant was about half-full. We sat at the back, where
there was loads of space – everyone else seemed to be in the window, or between
the front and the kitchen. It was quite nice being out of the way. Our waitress
was lovely and friendly and definitely made the evening a lot better – there’s
nothing worse than a good meal but crap service.
What I ate:
Starter – dough balls
Main course – pollo pancetta salad (chicken
and pancetta with Peppadew peppers, sweet baby onions, vine tomatoes, cucumber,
red peppers, seasonal mixed leaves, basil and mint. Extra virgin olive oil
& red wine vinegar dressing, Gran Moravia cheese, warm dough sticks)
Dessert – chocolate fudge cake (with cream)
You can’t go
to Pizza Express and not have the dough balls, it’s pretty much the rules! I
can never normally manage a whole portion, with a pizza afterwards, but from
the set menu, it was well worth ordering – even if I couldn’t eat them all. How
do they make them taste so light?
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