The Pizza Room promises customers that geniune Italian fire-baked pizzas are served up to diners in Mile End and Bow, London. The restaurant is located on Grove Road around the corner from Mile End tube station. I was in the area recently and decided to give the restaurant a try. Pizzas are also offered with multi-grain bases and gluten-free bases. The menu offers a different pizza for every season, but the standard cheese (margherita) pizza was also on the menu. An excellent margherita pizza can't be beat, and it's my favourite. I opted for this and was impressed with the quality of the ingredients and taste of the pizza. I also like the fact that it offers healthier and gluten free bases to customers who need the option. An example of the image below shows how tasty and fresh the pizza looks.
The Pizza Room is actually a new addition to the area as it only opened at the beginning of February. I loved the decoration inside with the brick walls and heart decorations.
After pizza, I opted for dessert. I had the chocolate brownie, which came with a raspberry sauce and a tin bowl of mashed-up strawberries topped with chocolate flakes. The dessert was a little odd, and it did not have much flavour. The strawberry was okay, but having mashed-up lumpy strawberries on their own with a small chunk of brownie was an unusual combination to me.
The only disappointment, besides the dessert, were the drinks. I ordered a Cola, and it came in a small glass and tasted flat and was a generic brand. I also asked for ice with the free water, but they failed to provide that, so I had to make do with room-temperature water.
A couple of buildings down from The Pizza Room is The Coffee Room. It's another Italian business offering coffees, sweets, wines, and savouries to customers. It also seemed to be popular as there were a few people inside. I had one of the dog-shaped biscuits to take away. It was gingerbread with a lemon icing, and this was also an odd combination. I am not a coffee-drinker, but I would have tried the coffee here if I was. As it's an Italian cafe, I would expect the coffee to be good.
Both restaurants/cafes are located on Grove Road in Mile End and are not far from Mile End tube station if you are in the area and wish to try them out.
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