Pizza Pilgrims to open quirky three-storey Nottingham restaurant

Opening in the Hockley area of Nottingham, the quirky three-storey venue will be  housed in a building that was once home to the city’s oldest jewellery shop and will have statement design features that include a giant Piaggio Ape-shaped disco ball, a ‘disco toilet’, where users are encouraged to push the ‘secret’ disco button, and a ‘Dramattic’ third-floor rave cave, an event space filled with costumes and featuring a screen for karaoke and FIFA that doubles as a 20-cver PDR.

The restaurant, which will have space for 80 covers, with 66 inside and an outside area of 14, will also sport polychromatic 1970s wallpaper, 1950s light fittings and a ceiling decorated like an Amalfi lemon-grove, as well as posters and artworks collected by the founders Thom and James Elliot on their trips to Italy.

The menu will feature classic pizzas as well as those with a twist such, as an eight-cheese option.

“We’re so excited to be firing up our ovens and bringing our puffy-crusted Neapolitan pizzas to Nottingham,” says James Elliot.

“It’s such a vibrant city with an amazing music scene so we have designed a pizzeria to match. Coming for pizza should be special and we fully intend on making this the funnest pizzeria possible.”