Pizza Express 1 Bridge Street, Winchester SO23 9BH

"Disappointed with our experience at this well-established chain restaurant. Visited during a fairly quiet dinner service, with a booking. We were greeted and seated and then took our time to browse the menu. Restaurant looks lovely from outside and whilst appearing rather small, has ample seating and well maintained toilet facilities. Once we had studied the menu we placed our order and then waited. Our drinks were obviously with us first, however I was highly disappointed at the length of time we waited for our lasagne and pizza mains. Having been seated, we waited close to one hour for the mains, with the starter dough balls appearing after around 45 minutes. The dough balls were delicious, the cheese topping was satisfactory but the portion size was small and I wasn’t impressed at the value for money offering on this menu item. The lasagne was full of flavour and of high quality, the dish and presentation was exemplary. Very impressed however again, in my opinion the portion size could have been slightly larger for the price. Pizza, delicious. High quality and fruitful with toppings, obviously a staple item on their menu and one that the cooks do a great job preparing too! Really sad though how after this tasty food, we had to wait an excessive amount of time to simply pay our bill. Other customers seated after us were also getting their food first. The extremely slow service and poor value for money offering has led to me leaving a two star review. I wouldn’t visit again unfortunately as the service didn’t impress me and the bill was approximately £44.00 for two mains, one drink and a starter. There are various other establishments in the local area offering better service and value for money. We did not receive a farewell greeting."

"Nice meal at pizza express winchester, pizza's where nice but dough balls were a bit over done unfortunately. Service was good and food came quickly"

"Good overall pizzas. Service really good Quite a small restaurant Toilets poor Good location by the river Celebrating Christmas already"

"We went on a very busy Friday night and it was pretty clear that the team was getting overwhelmed. Our server was nice and friendly but our food took over an hour to arrive. Halfway through the wait, we were informed that some items we ordered had run out so we had to change the orders on the fly. When we did get our starters, the table next to us were quite disappointed as they had arrived and ordered before us but hadn't received their starters yet. It wasn't the end of the world but I'd caution against busy times of the week."

"Simply amazing! You can't really go wrong with Pizza Express but the service we received from the second we arrived was 1st class! The food was outstanding! We'd just done a very long walk along the River Itchen so to be greeted in such a friendly way followed by such amazing food was a perfect. Food was quick, service was quick, the wine was cold, the sun was shining! The atmosphere was great. We didn't want to leave! We were in Winchester for 3 days and this was the best meal we had. The Jalapeño Dough Balls were super spicy but delicious and the Leggera pollo ad astra was cooked just perfect."