Piccolos

I was lured in by the big sign on the front advertising gluten-free and vegan options as I’m coeliac and lactose intolerant. When you walk in, it seems like a nice place for a takeaway. This feeling was quickly eradicated when I started asking questions about allergens. Every question I asked was met with a “I don’t know” and there was not much interest in trying to find out until I pushed. This was to no avail as they had no allergen records on site, and when they tried phoning someone else to ask, they also didn’t know. Not a great impression. In the end, given it was Sunday evening in the days between Christmas and New Year and my options were limited, I went for it by choosing a pizza with the safest toppings and asking if they could clean the surfaces of the paddles et cetera when preparing my gluten-free base. They said they did but from what I saw all they did was wipe it down with a yellow rag they grabbed from on top of the oven that seemed to have been used for other things. The guy preparing my pizza did make an effort to wash his hands first, but then also dried his hands with the same rag they used to clean the paddle. They then however used a different paddle to take the pizza out of the oven which I did not see them clean down before hand. They also sliced the pizza with the same pizza cutter used for other pizzas. So really they had no awareness of cross-contamination. In short, I would not recommend this place if you’re coeliac. I took a stupid risk by eating half of the pizza and was glutened.

The make gluten free fresh pizza which is a god send. And they are delicious too