The Christmas Menu is coming from Pizza Express
their first restaurant on Wardour Street in Central London. Since then they are gone from strength to
strength becoming a familiar sight on most High Streets with over 430 restaurants.
I was invited to a special event to taste their Autumn and
Christmas menu items. What a fun
surprise to arrive at the chosen venue near Liverpool Street Station and see a
lovely Christmas tree all ready for the festivities.
Staff walked around with each item whilst others refilled
our glasses (There will be Bollinger on the menu this festive season) and we tasted our way through so many delicious new starters, main
courses and desserts (I could only manage to taste two of the desserts I was so
full!)
including aubergines, pancetta and eggs.
These make sure that diners with a gluten intolerance are catered for
and don’t need to feel left out. There
are vegetarian options as well.
The Calzone, the Carbonara pizza was a big hit, pancetta and
an egg in the middle, tuna with prawns in a spicy sauce and a shredded duck
were the evening favourites with everyone talking about these the most.
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| Carbonara Pizza |
with a lovely tomato sauce and topped with melting mozzarella cheese),
Calzone pizza filled with spinach, ham, basil, pepperoni and lovely tastes)
Calzone is a pizza that is filled with loads of goodies and folded in half –
calzone meaning pocket in Italian so you have something to carry your pizza to
work in your pocket, very much like our traditional Cornish pasty.
chocolate mousse torte, Christmas pudding cheese cake, seasonal chocolate rolls
and a sweet dough ball. What to choose?
left, I didn’t feel conspicuous on the train home with my furry Christmas
stocking!!
Many thanks to Pizza Express for inviting me. I did not
receive payment to attend and as usual all opinions and photographs are my own.
Chocolate mousse torte – yes please. Lucky lucky you Heidi.
It was sooooo creamy too!
This looks like one event that I would have really enjoyed , sadly I could not make it.
Yes, too bad you couldn't come along – next time hopefully
It was fun event to go to and they really pampered us royally ! Manjiri – http://sliceoffme.wordpress.com/
I am still dreaming about that calzone!!