Michelin-starred chef Marcus Wareing claims Pizza Express does the best pizza in London
- Michelin-starred chef Marcus Wareing revealed where to find the best pizza
- Read More: Eva Longoria mocked after revealing the best Italian food ever
Marcus Wareing revealed where to find the best pizza in London saying he’s eaten the same one for the past 20 years.
Speaking to content creator Jesse Burgess, from London, on TOPJAW’s TikTok the two Michelin-starred chef also divulged his go to order.
Marcus who owns three restaurants, including the two Michelin-starred Marcus in Knightsbridge and Tredwell’s in Seven Dials, revealed the best pizza was from the popular restaurant chain Pizza Express.
Asked by Jesse: ‘What is the best pizza?’ Marcus replied: ‘This one is easy, but you’re not going to like the answer. Pizza Express, I know, I know.
‘I still eat the same pizza I was eating for the past 20 years, American Hot, I love it, Romana, a little bit of extra chilli, I love it, it’s got to be a Romana base.
Marcus Wareing revealed where to find the best pizza in London saying he’s eaten the same one for the past 20 years in viral TikTok
‘And do you know what everytime I go it’s cooked exactly the same.’
Jesse revealed his go-to favourite is a Sloppy Giuseppe on a Romana base.
To which Marcus replied: ‘You’ve got your flavours I’ve got mine, it works.’
People rushed to the comments with mixed views as some agreed with the chef while others were horrified by his choice.
One person wrote: ‘He should hand back his stars!’
Another said: ‘LOVEEE pizza express.’ Another wrote: ‘He’s right. I used to love their Quattro Stagioni.’
While Pizza Express said: ‘Yes, chef!’
A Pizza Express spokesperson said: ‘Our iconic American Hot has long been a favourite with customers – and now a Michelin-star chef, too! There will always be a marble table with Marcus’ name on it at Pizza Express.’
It is widely known that the chef loves to visit the popular British pizza place with his children as he has previously spoken about it in numerous publications.
Speaking to Spear’s Magazine in 2012 he said: ‘This may be a surprise but I am a regular at our local Pizza Express with our children and I think it is a fantastic business. I have tried other pizza restaurants but the service is lacking.
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Speaking to content creator Jesse Burgess, from London, on TOPJAW’s TikTok the two Michelin-starred chef also divulged his go to order
‘When I go here I know what I am getting, how long it will take, the kids love it and it gives me a day off from cooking!’
When asked by The Guardian where does he take his kids to eat out the former MasterChef judge said: ‘They love Pizza Express, which I think is consistently good. And The Butcher and Grill in Battersea. They get a proper meal, and colouring books.’
It comes after Hollywood star Eva Longoria once gushing to Jack Whitehall that the best Italian food she had ever had was at one of their restaurants in Cardiff.
The 48-year-old American actress, who writes cookbooks and opened an LA diner which has permanently closed, praised the Pizza Express branch while in Wales filming BBC comedy series Decline and Fall in 2017.
People rushed to the comments with mixed views as some agreed with the chef while others were horrified by his choice
Speaking about his co-star on food critic Jay Rayner’s Out To Lunch podcast, Whitehall, 35, claimed Longoria was completely unaware that Pizza Express is a popular restaurant chain in the UK.
Tweeting a link to the podcast yesterday, Pizza Express said: ‘Listen to this brilliant podcast from @jayrayner1 and, 30 minutes in, @jackwhitehall reveals the name of what Eva Longoria considers one of the best Italian restaurants in the world. It’s a small family-run place in Cardiff.’
The account finished the tweet with a winking emoji.
Whitehall told Rayner: ‘She said, ”Oh God, I found the most incredible little Italian last night. The owner, I think it’s family-owned, he was so charming and I had the best pasta I have ever had anywhere in the world.
”’It’s called . . . Pizza Express.”’
Speaking to MailOnline, an Italian staff member at the Cardiff branch who asked not to be named said: ‘I’m not surprised she liked Pizza Express.
Longoria starred as Margot Beste-Chetwynde in the 2017 TV series which follows Paul Pennyfeather (Whitehall) as a student at Oxford University in the 1920s
Pizza Express gently poked fun at Eva Longoria on its official Twitter account
The actress gushed about the restaurant (pictured, a Pizza Express in Cardiff)
‘I’m from Naples myself and I can tell you that our food’s authentic. Our ingredients are fresh and we have high standards. It’s no wonder she thought it was the best Italian food she’s ever had.’
Pizza Express was founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot, who brought back to London from a trip to Italy a pizza oven from Naples and a chef from Sicily.
Opening its first restaurant on Wardour Street, the chain now boasts more than 470 restaurants across the UK and a further 100 overseas across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
In July 2014, the group was sold to the China-based private equity firm Hony Capital in a deal reportedly worth £900million.
Five years later, Pizza Express hired financial advisors in preparation for its talks with creditors after experiencing financial difficulties following a downturn in demand for eating out.
Cries of #SavePizzaExpress echoed through social media showcasing the nostalgic meaning that the restaurant chain has in the UK.
In March 2020, all Pizza Express’s restaurants in the UK were forced to shut indefinitely during the Covid pandemic.
That July, the group announced that ‘dozens’ of its closed restaurants would not be reopening amid reports that it had accrued a debt pile of £1.1billion. The next month, it was announced that the company would close around 67 restaurants in the UK and cut 1,100 jobs.
In November 2020, the group restructure was completed and reportedly helped cut the debt by more than £400million.
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