Pizza Metro Pizza

I’ve been to both pizza metro restaurants and love them as much. These guys don’t skimp on portion sizes, and ingredients are top quality too. Eating here is a must every time I come to London. Yum

Came in with some friends for a loy w-​key Sunday dinner. I liked the vibe — homey décor, lots of families (a really cute little toddler at one table drumming with an empty water bottle) and small groups. We asked about the «pizza by the meter» concept — basically, they bake all the pizzas the table orders into one long super-​pizza. So the four of us each ordered a different pizza, but we still got the impressive presentation of a mega-​pie on a stand on our table.
As for the quality of the pizza, I’d say it was pretty good. I went for the Napoli, with anchovies, capers and black olives. Black olives were from a can — which they actually do in Naples (I was a little surprised when I visited there that they usually use lower quality ingredients as toppings for pizzas — maybe because the only «legit» pizzas are marinara and margarita?), but the quality of the cheese and sauce were good. Everyone else liked their pizzas — the guys even went for a second round (too much for me, though — the first was already quite a generous portion!) We split a bottle of Montepulchiano, which went down nicely.
Overall, pretty good value, good food, friendly staff. I still prefer Franco Manca (better quality ingredients, better wine), but the presentation here is unique and kind of cool, especially with a group — the more people, the longer the mega-​pizza. Good for a low-​key, not too expensive dinner out.

Having had this recommended by an Italian friend, I decided to give it a go. Service was good, and it was wonderful to have a seat near the kitchen and to see them make the 1m pizzas that are available for parties for 4! The dough tasted amazing, and the ingredients were all fresh and of a great quality.

Pizza Metro serves up a metre-​long pizza that is appetising, satiating and delicious enough to want you going back for more despite not being able to finish the generous portions the first time round. There are a unique and vast variety of pizzas to choose from. Don’t worry, each pizza is not a metre long but can be that way when baked together or ordered in combination. The olives and vegetables are nicely fresh but the grilled vegetables though grilled and presented well were a little bland in taste. The meatballs in sauce are a good choice of starter. There is a limited choice of drinks and these are a little overpriced. But all in all the atmosphere is great, the decorations well placed, the service joyous and the food of high quality; in short a great local pizza place. Warning: if it’s your birthday the restaurant has a gong they bang to announce the occasion.

Great pizza place! Excellent pizza, warm environment and service. The only thing missing was a better choice of wines.

Pizza here is delicious. I always go for the Diego but have tried a few others as well and they’re always great. Lasagna was delicious too. Can’t go wrong with the house red if you fancy a drunk with dinner. Service is always quick and friendly. I always book ahead as it gets quite busy.

The best pizza in London. This is the real deal.

Really great pizza, base is especially light and delicious. Definitely recommend and order again! Not too big either.

I would give this place 3.5 stars if I could. I liked the place — it seemed very authentically Italian. But I think I ordered the wrong pizza — I got the mushroom/​truffle oil one, and it wasn’t very flavourful. Not bad, but I wasn’t excited about it. I liked my starter a lot better, the baked goat cheese. But between the two of these, I couldn’t finish my pizza, I was so stuffed! I came with a group of 6 people, and we got good service — they gave me a cute box to stick my leftover pizza in. It was a good time overall, and everyone else seemed to really like their pizza, but it just didn’t blow me away.

So delicious! Great pizza for great value, very cheerful and helpful customer service too. I recommend the salami and Gorgonzola!

If you love your pizza then you definitely have to come south of the river for this. The service is friendly and the wine is good though the selection is very small. The best part of coming is to share a huge pizza covered with different toppings conveniently sliced to try them all. It can be very noisy on a Friday or Saturday night but otherwise great. Favourite has to be the Gorgonzola and Salame pizza.

My jaw dropped when I saw one meter pizza. I‘ve never seen such a pizza
before. Besides the look, the taste was also very good. When the pizza
arrive at the table I felt like Gargantua :) Give ot a try and be at least 4 people to feel the maximum experience from the visit.

Best pizzas in London! Fun and lively restaurant with a strong menu. The Quattro Formaggi pizza is my favourite choice. Cheese overload (in a good way). Highly recommended!

I love pizza. I’ve been missing pizza. Pizza in the US is an amazing thing. I had yet to have decent pizza in the UK, until Pizza Metro Pizza.
A new friend suggested Pizza Metro Pizza while we were wandering around Northcote Road and I absolutely had to challenge my skepticism of UK pizza. The pizza here is good! Really good! The ingredients are all obviously fresh, the crust is perfect and fluffy on the inside, crispy on the outside. My Quattro Formaggi (oh, I hope that’s spelled correctly) was delicious, but perhaps a wee bit heavy handed with the ricotta. This was an easy, scrape it off fix, though.
The service was lovely, no complaints there at all! We skipped dessert because I was chock-​full of pizza, but the dessert tray was a bit dubious looking at best. I’m sure they’re delicious items, but the presentation leaves something to be desired.
Overall, a great experience. Beware the birthday gong!

Okay, so the pizza here is seriously good, like in fact everything else at this place.
Let’s start with the pizza. Quite simply, each ingredient is outstanding. The base is the pivotal element here, enjoying the rare combination of being thin, fluffy and chewy. It’s unusual to find this: pizza bases are frequently too crispy or undercooked. But not here — it’s absolutely delicious. The tomato sauce meanwhile is fresh, tasty and in a perfectly judged quantity. Likewise, the cheese, all too often the killer of pizzas by being in excess, is sparingly applied and of excellent quality. Together, it all adds up to a class-​leading pizza, right up there with Franco Manca and possibly even preferable to it if you don’t like the sourdough tang in Franco Manca’s pizzas .
The pizza alone would merit a 5 star rating for Pizza Metro Pizza. But stopping at that would be unfair on the other aspects of my experience here:
The service was fantastic. Quick and polite, with the waiters going out of their way to be helpful, for example always topping up my glass with tap water when I’d emptied it.
The dessert was of similarly top quality. I opted for a Tiramisu, which had a consistency perfectly balanced between creamy and moist. I also liked the lack of dessert menu: instead, a waiter simply arrived with a tray containing examples of each dessert on offer. Although Pizza Metro Pizza can’t claim a first in this presentation of desserts, it’s a rare and welcome innovation when the normal alternative is to buy blind.
So, in sum, this is comfortably 5 star material, buoyed by some of the best pizza in London. My only comment is that though the Bufalina I had was excellent, it was also quite expensive at £12.50 — such is this place’s mastery of the basics that I’d go for a £8.50 Margherita next time.
Overall though, this is one of the top pizzerias in London. Highly recommended to pizza lovers, foodies or anyone after a quick and relatively cheap meal.

I have to admit when a friend suggested dinner at this place, I looked at the website and was about to suggest something else in the area. I’m so glad I didn’t! It was 4 of us and we ordered 2 starters — fried cheese (yum, reminded me of mozzarella sticks) and the garlic bread… that looked like a little pizza.
We ordered 4 different kinds of pizza and yes, it arrived in a meter and nicely placed depending on where you were sitting. I ordered the Buffalo Mozzarella one and it was one of the best pizzas I’ve had in London.
Definitely recommend making a reservation because it was packed — even when it was snowing!

Have to say that I was a little disappointed with this place as I was expecting better pizza. It certainly isn’t one of the best pizza places in London and does not warrant ⁵⁄₅ stars (as Time Out suggests).
Don’t get me wrong, the pizza here is still nice, but it’s not fantastic. From the reviews I was expecting an experience like I’ve had in Rome or Naples, but it fell way short. The pizza was tasty, but I’d score it no higher than ⁶⁄₁₀.
I wouldn’t discourage you from going here, but neither would I encourage it. I’m sure you can have much better pizza in London (SpaccaNapoli was certainly much better before it closed).

Really delicious pizza; love the novelty factor of ordering it by the metre and having a massively long pizza raised up in the middle of the table on its own platform. Liked the memorabilia and noisy atmosphere.
A fun place, and I’ll definitely go again when we have guests who have never seen a very long pizza. However, this place misses the top mark for me because the service was slow and inattentive on the Saturday night that we visited, and the pizza dough was verrry soggy (albeit tasty).
P.S The dessert ‘menu’ has to be seen to be believed. Rather than a printed menu, our waiter brought over a plate which had on it a dry old slice/​bowl of every dessert that they offer. If that weren’t heave-​making enough, the ice cream is represented by a balled up piece of toilet tissue dipped in glue, then cocoa powder! I bet their dessert sales would go up threefold if they threw away the crusty replica food and typed up a normal menu!

Went here with the wife on a Saturday night. Had no problems getting a reservation on the day of.
We’ve done the pizza by the meter thing at Made in Italy, which is closer to where we live. I loved the pizza at Made in Italy so I was doubtful that the pizza at Pizza Metro Pizza would be as good but with all the rave reviews, I figured it was worth trying.
We started with a plate of grilled vegetables. The vegetables were very thinly sliced. I’m not sure if I liked that but they were pretty good.
Then we got our pizzas — we each got a pizza. If you’re not a big eater, you can probably get by with 2 people to a pizza but you can always take leftovers home. It was pretty good. It seemed like the pizza was not cooked as long as at Made in Italy — I like my pizzas crispier and slightly burnt as opposed to soft and squishy.
One of our pizzas had rocket on top — kinda strange. It’s like taking your salad and dumping it on top of your pizza. Not sure if it worked for me.
Overall, the pizza was still excellent. The dining room is very bright and has plenty of room for large groups.

I was expecting great things from this pizza restaurant, which has rave reviews on most food and restaurant review sites. We went with an Italian friend, who considers this his favourite Italian restaurant in London, which is another high recommendation.
For those not in the know, this is a traditional and Italian owned pizza and pasta restaurant, about 5 minutes’ walk from Clapham Junction station. Its speciality is pizzas to share: they are oblong, and you order ‘by the metre’ (actually 25 cm per person).
It comes on a long platter which, if there are more than two of you, is placed on a metal ‘table’ put on top of the main table. Three of us had pizza like this, and my other half had pasta. (If there are two of you, they seem to put the smaller platter on the table itself). It’s a little pricey — around £9-£10 a head — but freshly made with quality ingredients. Overall, expect to pay around £25 a head for pizza, wine and coffee: 12.5% service charge is added to the bill automatically.
The plus points were that the service, when we arrived, was very friendly and swift, and the house wines completely acceptable (although buying by carafe is more expensive than some of the bottled wine, so be warned). They were also happy to serve us generously with tap water, which is another good sign in my book. By 8pm the restaurant began to fill up, and by 9pm it was packed, with people waiting for a table.
My partner’s seafood pasta arrived first, and smelt very fishy, and was by all accounts delicious. Our pizzas — or should that be pizza? — was a little longer in arriving. They/​it were absolutely delicious — the roasted and smoked vegetables on mine were as good as anything I’ve tasted, and there was plenty of it: I was glad not to have had a starter.
The downside, however, was that the platter was metal, and cold, and putting it on the metal stand (also cold) meant that after the first slice my pizza was cooling rapidly, and by the third slice (of four), was completely stone cold. It was also a pain to have a metal stand at nearly at eye level — hardly conducive to good conversation. All in all, this seemed to me like a triumph of gimmickry over food quality.
The second gripe was that, as they got busier, service quality declined alarmingly: my partner had to ask for butter (to go with the bread) four times before it arrived. The bill and payment, in contrast, were sorted quickly.
Overall, the platter concept spoiled our meal: a normal plate, heated beforehand, would have made all the difference, and apparently they will serve it that way, if you prefer. That is what I shall do in future.