Gracey's Pizza in St Albans

Gracey’s Pizza – St Albans Review Location & Atmosphere (4/5) Tucked away on a quiet parade in St Albans, Gracey’s Pizza is the definition of a hidden gem—blink and you’ll miss it. Small, charming, and with room for just 10 diners inside, it has that cosy, independent vibe. Pro tip: Book your pizza (or dough) in advance. Like many independents these days, once they’re out of dough, that’s it. I got lucky with a 45-minute wait, but walk-ins behind me were turned away. Annoying? Maybe. But it’s part of supporting small-batch, quality-focused spots. The Pizza (4/5) I went for the Marg (12”), marketed as New Haven style. Now, what makes a pizza “New Haven”? Think of it as New York’s thinner, slightly charred cousin—meant to have a light dusting of cheese, a bit of chew, and those signature charred spots. • Gracey’s version leaned more thin and crunchy than chewy, but honestly—who cares about strict authenticity when it tastes this good? • There was a nice slight char, a crispy base, and the sauce and toppings were solid. • It wasn’t a mind-blowing, life-changing pizza, but it was a damn good one—the kind you’d be grateful to have as a local option. Value for Money (4/5) At £12, it’s fairly priced for an artisan-style pizza with quality ingredients. If you’re local, it’s a no-brainer. For those travelling in, it’s worth it—just not a weekly pilgrimage. Drinks (1/5) Quick side note: the non-alcoholic beer was dreadful—easily the worst I’ve had. Avoid it entirely. Overall Rating: 4/5 Gracey’s Pizza delivers a tasty, well-made pizza in a cosy, no-frills setting. Whether or not it ticks every box for a true New Haven style doesn’t really matter—what counts is that it’s good pizza. If you’re local, you’re lucky. If you’re travelling from London, it’s worth a visit—but pre-book and manage expectations around wait times. Would I return? Yes—but I’ll plan ahead next time.

We'd seen reviews about how good Gracey's is and we made the 45 minute journey. Can't recommend it highly enough and we will be back.

Best pizzas in the area, a real treat for a Friday night!

Pizzas are top. Thin and crispy with a top undercarriage

Nice and chilled spot for pizzas highly recommended ! Dine in few tables available best to book as gets busy

Delicious pizza! You won’t regret it! Just make sure you book your pick up/delivery in advance as they get very very busy and you could wait a while! But it’s all worth it!

Liking the new additions and the new ranch/dill combo dip us excellent

Fantastic food. Fantastic customer service. Lovely people. Why wouldn't you want to go there? Already looking forward to the next one. The Soppresata & Romesco Special was amazing

Small cozy place with great pizza. They need to provide good crockery and cutlery

Great service great pizza - Desserts were amazing aswell!

Fab fab fab. What else can I say. Out of allllll the new “London style” pizzas I’ve tried, Gracey’s is who I keep coming back to! Truly divine pizza and my fave is the large new haven with extra cheese. Amazing happy staff, cosy and a great asset to the local area.

Deservedly busy and bustling. Delicious pizza.

Absolutely amazing gluten free pizza! Always such a treat, thank you very much for providing pizza for people with gluten intolerance!

We regularly order our pizza from Gracey’s and every time we do the pizza is always amazing food. We often change our choice of toppings and every single flavour is always delicious. Thank you Gracey’s pizza for being the best pizza around, we will never order from another pizza place as Gracey’s always delivers.

The best pizza. The dough is incredible!

Another amazing pizza from Grace and the crew and great to see the restaurant buzzing. The new Soppresata & Romesco Special is excellent and the sauce adds some extra zing to the salami. I’ll definitely be ordering this again before it disappears off the menu.

Consistently excellent, their Smokey Ron is a winner! Staff do an amazing job despite how busy they get. They do excellent gluten free pizzas aswell

Consistently excellent, authentic pizza, with friendly and helpful service.

The pizza ist amazing. Like a super crunchy neapolitan american style mix

The focus is entirely on pizza and I’m happy with that. This place is worth the trip!

Great pizza, ready for collection at scheduled time. Eat half at the restaurant with a beer and the other half at home!

Great pizza: a high quality product, made with care. And an opportunity to try a slightly different style of pizza ("New Haven") to some of the more prolific versions. Very friendly people in the team. Highly recommended for an affordable and tasty experience.

Delicious pizza ! Friendly, professional and happy staff - a real local gem.

We are regular customers & hands down the best pizza around.

Pizza was top! Next time we would like to eat in rather than takeaway. We drove it home (1 hour drive) and then ate it, and I still think it's one of the best pizzas I have had in a long time.

super tasty pizza!! excellent service as well, served quickly and cheerfully by the staff :)) all the pizzas are great, but my favourite is the bufalo :D

Simply exquisite bit of pizza. Can’t wait to return

Absolutely sensational pizzas 🍕 solid 9.2/10. Will be back.

Excellent pizza, crisp base with zero flop. Definitely worth the drive. Nice vibes and service too. Looking forward to going back!

Amazing pizzas! Taste delicious and never disappoint. If you haven't tried Gracey's Pizza's before I would totally recommend ordering one today! Enjoy!X

Absolutely incredible pizza, best I’ve ever had

Fabulous as always. Graceys is outstanding; so lucky to have Graceys in Chiswell Green.

We pre-ordered for two to sit in. Preordering was super easy and we specified our arrival time. The pizzas were delicious - we had the Bufala and Papa Jim. Roquito peppers were added to the Bufala as an extra, which was definitely worth it. The Papa Jim was upgraded to 16”… huge! The Bufala came out 10ish mins later than the Papa Jim which did mean that one of us ended up finishing our pizza ‘alone’. The service was friendly which softened the blow of this. Gracey’s is clearly a super popular spot locally. It’s very cosy so you must preorder if you want to secure a table. They accommodated walk-ins as best they could but I wouldn’t suggest leaving it to chance.

Fabulous pizza. I ordered at their location in the Battersea Power plant Mall but it was really fabulous. I had to leave a 5 star review. Wasn’t expecting much but it was delicious. Crispy thin crust and delicious tomato sauce. Lots of flavor with the sausage pizza.

You will not find better pizza in St.Albans, 10/10

Delicious pizza, fantastic staff. A lovely Valentines meal with the family! We'll definitely be back soon.

Was probably the best pizza’s my husband and I have ever eaten! Margarita was lovely and tomatoey with a subtle tint of garlic while the Chiorizo had a slight smoky background flavour. Delicious! We ate the lot!

The Chorizo pizza was amazing and the Dips were delicious (hot honey and herb ranch). It was really easy to order through their website and the pizza was ready when we arrived. Would definitely go back

Pre-ordering a time slot for pick up works a treat. The pizzas are very VERY good. Can’t think of anywhere better in St Albans and surrounding area. Especially the fungi and Gorgonzola. We get 16” to share. 👍

Easy to see why this is so highly rated! Got to go try it out!

Best pizza I’ve had. Everything else can get in the bin.

Ordering and collecting was super easy. We got the pepperoni (with extra hot honey), - chorizo and one each of the baklava and tiramisu. The desserts were great, the pizzas pretty average which was really disappointing given we’d heard so many good reviews. Wouldn’t have thought there was any hot honey on the pepperoni.

Simply stunning pizza, fantastic service, lived up to their growing reputation as one of the best pizzerias around. It was everything we hoped it would be and more! We’re already planning when to come again!

My partner and I recently moved to the area from north london. Our usual rainy Sunday ritual was to grab a pizza from an amazing pizzeria near us in north London. After our move we thought that ritual would come to an end, how wrong were we! Gracey's to the rescue! Simply gobsmacked! This place is clearly a local favourite, and we'd recommend pre ordering, as it is busy but we totally understand why ! The pizza is top tier - rivalling some of the heavy hitters from London like Crisp. We are a drivable distance from Gracie's and after this one trip it will absolutely be out go too! Worth the visit !

Staff were extremely rude and unwelcoming. Won’t be coming back

First and last time! Heard they had such great reviews and arrived there and sat down not one staff member looked at me I then got up after 10 min and asked if I am to order at the desk only to be told they’ve run out of pizza! I was annoyed as the staff could have come over to me to advise but instead they avoided me like the plague!

Can’t fault this small pizza establishment. The New Haven and fungi pizzas were amazing. Great service also. I arrived without having pre-ordered on a busy Saturday evening, and they kindly squeezed my order in.

Really good pizza- the hot honey dip is a must.

Just fabulous pizzas. Never going anywhere else again.

Hands down the best pizza for miles. The consistency, the friendliness of staff, always with a smile and the pizzas are always bloody delicious (especially the specials) Our Go-to Friday night addiction. 5***** from me every time X

Absolutely the best pizza you can find in Hertfordshire, or anywhere!

Keep up the deliciousness please!

Delicious pizza, probably some of the best I have ever had. Deserves it's rating. Seats could be better 🤷‍♂️

Fantastic ! I ordered 3 pizza, there were so good that by the time I was home there was only 2 left … !!!

Amazing pizza! The sauce is so flavourful and the crust is so crisp. Perfect amount of cheese too! Absolutely loved them 😍(Only thing we didn't love was the garlic and dill dip which was watery and bland) Pre-ordered online for pick-up and the pizzas were ready when I got there as sadly live just a tiny bit too far for delivery. On another visit didn't get to order any pizza as all the slots were "sold out". Strange as they were still taking orders for people who'd come to dine in the restaurant. Seems to be more of a delivery place than a full restaurant that can only make pizzas if told in advance. Don't try walk in - you won't have any luck.

Tasty enough but New Haven very floppy

Amazing pizza the best I’ve tasted, the dough flavours crispy base is amazing, whole family said same. We shared 3x16, 1x12 between 6 ppl more in than enough. The hot honey is really nice to dip into. Loved it.

Very good pizza, fantastic and staff, very helpful. Definitely recommend this place. I found the website a little tricky to navigate for the eat in option but this was resolved with an email and a reply. Looking forward to my next visit. I dropped 1 star from atmosphere only because the very busy Friday night takeaway comings and going’s was a little disruptive for those dining in. It’s great to see a place so busy though.

Unbelievable pizza, I can’t believe it’s only 10minutes away. I’m writing this review after several visits and it wasn’t a one time fluke. Consistency is also exceptional. How often can you find pizza that looks exactly like all the pictures people have taken, but then tastes better! Crust and tomato sauce are easily the best I’ve ever had. I really hope this place sticks around and grows. The only negative is that it’s small and parking can be annoying. But that’s to be expected for a small ‘newish’ business

I genuinely love this place, staff and owners are nice and accommodating towards customers. The Pizza is definitely the best in St. Albans in my opinion, I’m Italian from Naples so quite picky on food and especially when it comes to pizza. Keep going guys!

New Haven Pizza was good. The other pizzas are pretty standard.

Amazing pizzas always! Thanks guys!

Very good New Haven style pizzas. Cooked to perfection and tasted great.

Always order here! The pizzas are amazing and the customer service is very very good! Very welcoming and warming

Graceys pizza is amazing! Highly recommend

Great pizza, friendly and helpful staff. Lovely little place and a bonus that they are dog friendly! The new haven was the best pizza we have had :)

First time customer. Pizzas were delicious. Service was great. Also had tiramisu dessert which was amazing. Definitely recommend, i will be returning again.

Been wanting to try Gracey’s Pizza for ages and today I took the drive over. The pizza was absolutely delicious and look forward to trying different ones. Beats any of the Pizza places in Borehamwood

Great vibe, amazing food, best pizza in St albans!

Remains the best pizza I’ve ever had. Have made the trip to St Albans a number of times and was lucky enough to stumble across their pop up in Battersea. The owners are amazing people and the pizza is better than you’ll find anywhere. If you’re reading this you must go!

Cannot fault anything with this place (except perhaps the dips). I come all the way from Reading to get this pizza and it is exceptional everytime

Unbelievable pizza and a fair price, will be back!

I got takeout from this pizza place and it was very good. I had margherita with extra mozzarella and my boyfriend got smoky ron with hot honey.

Was served by Amelia who was very efficient and friendly - great customer service. Was recommended the smoky Ron and it did not disappoint 👌🏾 - AJ

Love this place, and the pizza is so light, crispy and amazing. I tried New Haven style (APizza). I will be back as soon as I can. If I had this place within walking distance I'll be eating there every day.

What was a hidden gem is no longer hidden - pizza that makes you forget the gram and taking photos but fills the stomach and the heart!

Excellent pizza establishment, a cut above most. Hidden gem in Chiswell Green.

This was our first time trying Graceys Pizza 🍕 it was a takeaway which we ordered online the Funghi with a Bianco base, Buratta and hot honey drizzle. It was ready on time, we didn’t have to wait, we got home and we didn’t even take a pic as we couldn’t wait to try it. It was absolutely delicious with a fabulous thin base and crispy crust. Just perfect definitely making another visit.

World class I’ve eaten some fairly serious pizza, the usual heavy hitters from NYC and Naples, this is definitely up there or better in some respects. The pizza base, 0 flop and crispy but tastes magic. Tomato sauce, don’t start… depth of flavour is absolutely unreal and it just doesn’t get boring. Chilli sauce is somewhat unique in texture but it’s the best I’ve had so a must try. Defiantly worth the 2 hour drive 10/10 would smash again

Amazing pizza we’ve been here couple times already. Highly recommend the smoky Ron and funghi!

Just what I needed tonight! I wish I could give you 10 stars. Gostosa demais 😘

Really enjoyed our dinner - amazing pizzas and friendly service

Pizza was great and ready for collection on time 👌🏻❤️

Superb pizza and friendly service. Highly recommended.

Tonight was my first time ordering pizza, even though I live so close by in Bricket wood. The staff were so lovely and friendly. I took the pizzas home, my 13 year old son said it was the best pizza he had ever had and trust me he eats a lot of pizza 😂 I really enjoyed it too. We will definitely be ordering again. Highly recommend.

another great pizza order. Ready on time. Delicious crispy base. Never disappoints

Easy to order. Only 10 mins late but gave us a free tiramisu. Will be buying oizza and tiramisu again!!

Graceys kept popping up on my Instagram with rave reviews, with insta foodies travelling far and wide to visit. Considering it’s only 10 mins away I had to try it. I expected it to be good but was taken aback by it being the best pizza my partner and I have ever had! Outstanding pizza, so fresh, so crispy, full of flavour.

Just love the pizza’s we order every time!

Amazing pizza, definitely the best in St. Albans area - by far! If you ask me right up there also on the national level, I kid you not. Occasionally slightly overcooked, but that's a style, so if you're not a fan of (over-)charring, just mention it with your order. Otherwise an exceptional pizza: really tasty tomato sauce, perfect dough with lots of soft and fluffy aeration on the inside and that satisfying crisp crunch on the outside... and proper generous chunks of aubergine on the melanzana... You can almost taste the love and hard work that's put in this pizza by this adorable little establishment. Keep it up Gracey's!

Never fails to provide the best pizza!

Amazing pizza and lovely people 🫶

Amazing pizza. Super light, crispy with a bit of chew

If you like New Haven Style Pizza made with love… this is your place! High quality ingredients and never any compromise on quality!! They also have a great wine list and the tiramisu is 5 Stars!!!!!!

an absolute gem ✨ I’ve been meaning to visit Gracey’s for a while but decided that our anniversary would be a good excuse to try them. I requested that the pizzas be heart shaped as a surprise for my partner and omg they were the cutest pizzas ever! They didn’t just look good they tasted amazing too. The staff were all so friendly and it was so cute that they all smiled from the kitchen when I was given the pizzas. Couldn’t recommend enough and will 100% be back 🍕❤️

First time having a Gracey’s pizza, now I know what all the fuss is about. Delicious!

Perfect New York-style pizza—thin, crispy crust, bold toppings, and great service. A must-visit!

The absolute best pizza around, you'd be mad not to try it

There’s a reason why Gracey’s is voted top 50 pizzas in the UK - they are wonderful. My favourite is Smokey Joe but the Funghi is super too. Get the dill sauce and baklava cheesecake - yum! Plus the team of people there are friendly and enthusiastic. Love this place thank you for opening in St. Albans!

By far the best pizza I’ve ever had well worth the 1hr 30min drive