Pizza Express in South Oxfordshire

Best service I've had in a Pizza Express for a long while. The food was it's usual brilliant standard and despite our booked table not being ready for us on arrival, we only had to wait a few minutes

Disappointed ordered our food carbonara it took forever to arrive other people came in after us and got served before us food was disappointing very bland not impressed won’t be going back

Beautiful meal after a boat trip near by in Wallingford. Everything was perfect. Mainly due to the excellent host we had serving us, Steve! An absolute gem he is. Made us feel like we were at home. 5 stars all the way!

Fantastic Pizza and great service. Steven really looked after us, highly recommend this Pizza Express.

We popped in with the grandchildren, staff were amazing, service faultless, food excellent and to top it off the bill was acceptable. All in all, a great experience which we will repeat. Thank you to all the staff for just being so brilliant.

Ordered 4 pizzas and might as well of eaten the cardboard they came in. they tasted of nothing! Shame as we have eaten at the restaurant before and it has been nice but these pizzas where terrible. Waste of £60 :(

Best pizza I had for a long time my boys favourite restaurant. Martin was extremely friendly and experienced. Atmosphere is great love coming here for dinner at the weekends. Thank you !

Prices are just not worth it anymore. My calzone was smaller than my phone (S20 5g if you are wondering) my sons pizza didn't fill the plate even. What food was served was lovely, but tiny. A 2/3 bowl of pasta for my wife, 3 drinks = £76. Terrible value. Well be saving our money and going elsewhere in future.

We had a Birthday Party and the staff was very friendly, helpful and take care of the party . Recommend 100% !

First time at a Pizza Express. Has the interior designer never been to Italy, you could convert it into a hair dresser within half a day and not be any the wiser it was an Italian restaurant. The starters are over priced and my beef burnt ends pizza was wet in the middle. The cheesecake was an expensive mousse. Staff were pleasant but I had to ask for a knife and fork to eat my pizza. I understood that Pizza Express try to be less like a Pizza Hut, but I didn’t see or feel I was in a Italian restaurant. I’ll go and get a better dining experience across the road at The Old Post Office for my £70

Overpriced pizza (buy them in Tescos for £3) and rip off special offers on your phone app. The service was good but the starters were very poor for the money. The pizzas were ok but £16, in house, £3 special offer in a supermarket....

We had our daughter's birthday party at Pizza Express today and all the kids had a wonderful time. The event was led by Summer, who did really well to get the kids involved and made the event go really well. Nothing was too much trouble for Summer and her colleagues and it was a great birthday party experience - highly recommended!

Staff very friendly, food delicious. Nice surroundings, gone for the Ndjua Calzone mouthwatering. Visited with my family very welcoming to young families and engaging with children. Download the Pizza Express if visit as it offer good discounts

I’ve been last night in a staff dinner and I must say that our experience was beyond expectation.. as I have also been in other branches and would expect the same. But this time in Wallingford staff was very pleasant and atmosphere super agreeable and cozy (although it could do beautifully with a few plants). We were a big party of nearly 20 but our drinks and food were served in perfect timing, the waiter Steve was super attentive checking on us and making sure the table was looking clean and pretty all the time. We were all quite impressed by how smooth and lovely everything was (normally with big groups that doesn’t happen often)…… this morning our WhatsApp group was popping up with messages on what a great time we had! Thank you guys!

Very very fast service, almost too fast. Ended up eating starter and mains within 20 minutes and leaving

Excellent Pizza, fantastic Vegan Pizzas. As we ate early (5pm) there were lots of children and thus it was quite noisy.

One of the better ones we have visited, service was great & friendly food was good

Great food - vegan and gluten free dough balls available! They did almost given us non-vegan dips with our dough balls though, we were lucky the waitress herself decided to double-check. Staff was really lovely and happy to help when we knocked over a glass of water by accident.

This old listed building is a little gem in the heart of Wallingford. As we entered the Waitress showed us to our table, which my friend had booked. The lady who served us was very polite and friendly. Made us feel welcome and not rushed. Food was very tasty. When we entered we were welcome with a big smile. We were given water as we sat down and offered a drink not long after. Order was taken in timely manner, food was well presented and at the right temperature. Thanks we will be back soon

Delicious food as always in friendly environment

Quick meal out with work colleagues. The food was delicious and service was impeccable. Will be back when next in Wallingford. Thanks

The pizza and dough balls were good however this did not compensate for the appalling service we received. We walked in and had to find a server as it was empty in the front of house, we were then pressured into ordering more food than we wanted. The food then arrived and our waiter proceeded to touch our pizzas with her bare hands after we requested a pizza cutter. She then continued to pressure us to order more which resulted in an unpleasant experience. Would not return!!

Small restaurant but good attentive service and food arrived quickly.

We always enjoy going to Pizza Express in Wallingford. Alex and his team are friendly and efficient. It’s a great menu (something for everyone) and every dish is a tasty one.

Really good service 👏 lovely food

Nice food and friendly staff, we had a good time when we went. Took a while to get the bill paid and we did find some food on the floor under our table from previous customers.

A pizzeria without really cheese. I do not know if this is due to shortages, Brexit, cost of living. But I am not sure pizza branch should stay in business if they cannot offer a variety of cheese options on their pizza. Other than the issue with cheese, the pizza base was decent, and the toppings although skimping a bit, was well grilled. Service was okay, the waiter tried his best.

Called into Wallingford Pizza Express for a meal before attending a show in the nearby Corn Exchange. Pizza was spot-on! Staff appear to be run-off their feet though, so could perhaps benefit from having an extra set of hands on a Friday or Saturday. Our waitress was grinning through it however and was super friendly.

Ordered a romana, must be a shortage of cheese. I think if you put the amount of cheese that was on the pizza, you'd be hard pushed to get 2 slices. Couldn't complain as was with my son, and he gets the hump if I moan. I'm very disappointed as Pizza Express is the only pizza I'll eat outside of Italy!!!! AND as with anything it's not a cheap meal!

We asked for housewine but got served most expensive wine when our food was allready finished.. too bad

Do not bother using their app to order for delivery, intact don’t expect a delivery from them. We ordered for delivery at 8:30pm on a Friday 9th June 2023. The order was accepted and we got notification that our order was being prepared and due out for delivery at 9:05. Great news we were expecting it within the approximate time quoted when we ordered happy days. 8:50pm the delivery time changed to 9:15pm, no biggie. We got the plates out in the garden it was going to be a good night. I happened to check my phone at 9:10 just to be sure it was still on time! And I saw “your order has been cancelled”! What? How can they cancel it less then 10 minutes before it was due to be delivered! I called the restaurant and they simply said they didn’t have any drivers. My point was if you have no way of fulfilling the order why accept it in the first place. And why wait 40 minutes before you realise you are not able to complete the order. We all had had a drink so we were not able to drive there to collect it. So basically the moral of the story is don’t bother ordering for delivery they will for sure let you down. If I could give them zero stars I would.

Pretty poor show on a quiet night. Called the order through to pick up,arrived and they had forgotten about my order. One of the pizzas was on the wrong base. Last three experiences at PE, Wallingford have been poor. Shame as I have always been a big fan of the brand

Typical Pizza Express, a bit quiet for a Sunday though. Service raised the occasion to a higher level. Cris (?) made it an enjoyable experience.

Great food and service. Nice chilled atmosphere.

A quiet restaurant, which is a shame. Always seem to mess up the wife's request for 'not spicy' peppers. Only go there because if the Tesco vouchers!

Small pizza and a pasta with way too much garlic.

Not coming back. Poor quality food there's no other way to describe it. Greasy, soggy and simply not good value for money.

managed by a manager who clearly has no concept of staff management , terrible service, too long gaps between courses, rude, I will never set foot it that place again.

Really lovely young lady served us. Unfortunately, prawns weren't on the menu, but we enjoyed all we did order Will definitely visit again

Great example of a pizza Express, friendly staff, good service and value for money.

I am giving pizza express 5 stars because they really do deserve it! Delicious food , great service but the staff, they were the best , absolutely incredible! Amazing speed, good knowledge and the friendliness was unbelievable. The food was very tasty, fast and well cooked . I love the fact you can see the chefs doing their amazing work and the staff always working hard to please their customers, that is what I like to see. Very child friendly, wheelchair access is okay but there are some stairs doted around near the back which would cause some problems. But all round 5 star restaurant. Would 100% recommend for a night out. Kudos to the staff

Always a reliably good place to go, especially with young children

Arrived on time for booking, stood around for a few minutes until told our table wasn't ready. Our table of 8 was seated in the main thoroughfare resulting in people and staff pushing past the back of our seats to squeeze past a pillar. Due to one of our party having some serious allergies we requested a slight change to one of the main course dishes from the menu, at first we were told that was fine, then we were told that the chef had said no changes, then we recieved the order and were told the change had been made...upon inspection the dish had the ingredient that could have caused a night in A&E. The manager upon being told this didn't seem particularly concerned. Several mix ups on our order ensued throughout the evening finally resulting in one of the party not recieveing their pudding at all and not being told until the rest of the party had finished theirs and then the coffee ordered was requested again. When asked the staff said that all of that pudding (it was listed as NEW on the menu) was out of date.... the waiting staff were clearly stressed and the manager was clearly putting pressure on them, this resulted in the staff making mistakes. This also resulted in the general atmosphere being poor. Shame really as not long ago it used to be a nice relaxing place for a meal with the family.

Visited on a Wednesday evening for pre-theatre meal and we were not disappointed. The new to the job waitress was so friendly and helpful that she didn't need to be apologetic about being a bit slow programming our order into her ipad thing (although she did apologise). I had a salad and polenta chips and it was delicious. I am a bit snooty about chain restaurants but this one is lovely.

Delicious pizza. Special appreciation to Lauren for her warm, kind and very organized service

Went there at about 8.30pm on a sunday night. The place was deserted except for a group of four women with a couple of toddlers. There seemed to be more staff than customers who kept themselves busy by engaging with their mobiles or chatting with each other. One of them came over to take the order after I must have looked at him a couple of times to indicate I was ready to order. The order was for a Margherita pizza. It duly arrived and I could tell just by looking at it that it was going to be tasteless. Unfortunately that was the case. It lacked seasoning and not a hint of oregano. It was BLAND, BLAND AND BLAND. I was forced to send it back and asked for another with some seasoning and at least some oregano or basil on it. It arrived after waiting for about 15 minutes. It was a definite improvement on the previous one. I ordered Tiramisu for dessert which was ok. Not sure if I was served a double portion to make up for the pizza which was returned. Staff are young and not welcoming and not customer focused. Perhaps just there to earn some money while studying. It my be harsh to say I wouldn't recommend this place based on my experience of one visit.

Service was incredible (was the Peters first night and unbelievably friendly, funny and super attentive!) Had their new carbonara for the first time and was delicious. Could not recommend enough!! 🥂

Hannah greeted us really warmly at the door and made sure we were seated by a radiator as requested (it was cold outside!). Peter on his first night of service was helpful with menus and took our order really promptly. Food was great. Atmosphere was lovely. Playlist was really good. We’ll come back again.

Took my grandsons for a treat, the food was delicious but when I came to pay they wouldn't accept my £50 note, the young server just said he wasn't allowed to accept them... as I had come over from France and thus is what the bank had given me I wasn't too pleased, I'm just glad I had a credit card on me.

Had the most amazing experience at Wallingford Pizza Express today. The food was amazing, fresh and delicious and the staff was outstanding. Amazing service. Had lovely conversation with the boss aga and would 100% go again and recommend to all family and friends.

Can't fault it - especially when you've got a decent set of rewards via the App. Less than £20 for two of us to have two courses and a drink or two each.

Great service, excellent pizza, thanks a lot Hari, Charlotte, Zak and the chef: we will be coming back soon 😀

We arrived early for our booking but this was no trouble at all. The service was prompt and extremely helpful. The food was delicious. All in all a great experience.

Decent food, decent atmosphere, decent service

Really enjoyed food , would go again

Lovely setting and really enjoyable meal. My kids thoroughly enjoyed the food and the service was good. Would recommend.

Friendly and helpful staff. Pizza Express still offers good value quality food.

Great food, pleasant and professional staff.

Haven’t been in a while, menu is great and staff were very attentive!

Very good food, service was lacking slightly though. Almost felt as though we had inconvenienced her slightly. With the app though fed 5 for £36 so actually really pleased.

I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen for a long time. Unfortunately we felt very rushed. Our starters came and we were chatting and enjoying our food, I finished and my friend was still eating. Our main dishes were “plonked” in front of us whilst she was still eating her starter!! Ridiculous and rude. We said she’s still eating and the guy just laughed! Food was ok nothing special. The waitress was quite miserable, no pleasantries at all! Very matter of fact and quite harsh. We were asked if we wanted anything else, we had coffee then asked for the bill which miraculously was already made up and again “plonked” in front of us! Basically, no atmosphere, no niceties whatsoever, disappointing to say the least.

Had my daughter's birthday party there at the weekend and the staff were all brilliant. They were great teaching the kids to make their pizzas, really patient and helpful. Everyone had a great time

Tried to order pizza online for collection but got message saying unavailable. Arrived to collect pasta items and asked why no pizza. Informed that they have no dough. See people eating pizza in restaurant and ask how there is dough available for them. Informed there is dough available if you book a table. That is totally unacceptable and completely ridiculous. As ever, Pizza Express fails to deliver and offers pathetic and untrue excuses.

I had a lovely lunch today. I was served by Teasa who was friendly and knowledgeable. Pizza arrived in no time and was delicious. I loved how welcoming the team was and the sttention to detail when it cane yo serving the meal. Overall, I will definitely visit again soon.

Disappointing meal of lasagne and a pizza with a salad in the middle. Just no taste. Sloppy lasagne made with a few sheets of lasagne covered with a sauce I think is actually a made for a pizza base covering. The service was very fine.

Children's birthday parties seem fun here, they get to make their own pizzas.

Pizza fab Pasta like a microwave meal Go for the pizza.

Food as expected, Staff very good!

The food was good but the place lacked atmosphere.

It's a normal Pizza Express right in the city center of Wallingford.

Service good food hot and tasty but the room so cold I needed my coat on 23/2/22 @ 1400hrs I'd still go back

Nice food, good service, but the toilets were disgusting. Not just dirty seats but grimy grouting to tiles, very third class

Went for a family meal, Ignored for at least 5 minutes in an almost empty restaurant - then seated in a very dirty table, asked to move straight away, however the staff were very uninterested and made to feel an inconvenience to them. This branch has gone down hill over the last few visits, would never go back.

Food as expected for Pizza Express. Nice, efficient service.

Friendly Staff, Good Food. Good standards, a good choice for a meal out.

Went in and it was empty asked is there a table for 4 and they said sorry we have only got enough dough for the booked customers very poor won’t be going back.

Staff were obliging but appeared bored. Starters were delicious. Pizzas seemed dry and I could only eat half because of this. I thought the quality of the food had gone down.

Not as good as it used to be. Came here 8ish Saturday, hardly anyone there. Two of us went in, were turned away as they were full?! Went in another evening after booking, again almost empty. Mediocre food, though reasonably priced, but there are much better places to eat in the area. Just an overall 'meh' to this place now

Went for lunch with my daughter and baby grandson. Just felt a bit disappointing - placed order and then told after some period of time one of the mains wasn’t available- ordered a pizza - leggarra - overall food was ok had to ask for original unavailable main to be removed from the bill- as payment is cashless /QR this could easily be missed - £12.25 for. Pizza with scant topping and about the same for a vegan pizza - added £4 for mushrooms and qourn- especially when compared to other chains like Franco Manca and independents.

Brilliant staff here, food always spot on.

Popped in for a bite with the family - 5.30 pm , on a Sunday and the place was empty . We were turned way. The waiter said they were fully booked - the tables were empty. Until we get an apology we will never return. @pizzaexpress

Love pizza express. Service was a bit slow today which is unusual for the Wallingford express. Not cheap but you may know this from other pizza express outlets.

Me and my friend wanted to go for lunch today, when we arrived there was one table at the back of the restaurant and a man came up to us who I presume was either manager or assistant manager, wasn't wearing the pizza express uniform, just a black shirt. He asked if we had booked, we said no should we had, he said that because they only had one guy in the kitchen and him on the floor that we needed to book (almost burst out laughing due to the lack of customers as they clearly weren't struggling.) I then asked if I could book to which he said that booking had been turned off so we couldn't have lunch. Clearly just didn't want to serve us, very poor people skills and rude in my opinion.

With out doubt this wad the worst experience I have ever had… firstly the place was dirty all the empty tables were left full of previous customers… there was only 2 table of customers looking hungry still waiting, whilst the staff were out the back having drinks by the sound of it… then after I had stood at the door way for 25 min the manager came over and said we are full… clearly he had not looked his restaurant… Top tip to the Exec team get out and see what you actually deliver…

Lovely lady greeted us upon entry, we were allowed to choose where we wanted to sit. Starters were amazing, lemon chicken pieces and calamari. Our pizza was made just how we asked for it to be made by Aaron (chef). The pudding was absolutely amazing, honeycomb cheesecake with chocolate ice cream. We would have given five stars if it wasn't for the waiter giving us our bill half way through us eating our pudding when we wanted coffee after. We will definitely be returning 🙂🙂

Food to the standard expected for the chain. Attentive and polite service.

Had 3 pasta dishes. Food good but the portions were small for the price. Spent £40 and walked out hungry.

Food was nice and the service was good. Good social distancing between tables and seemed to have good hygiene measures in place.

Pizza Express in Wallingford is great, friendly staff, good food. Small outside for when it's warm, nice loos.

Great food even tracking into account the reduced menu. Excellent service and the food arrived promptly.

Food was good, but no atmosphere due to Covid and distancing.

Quite quiet tonight (Sunday) but efficient & friendly service from the team. Our preferred P.E. of choice.

Fast service and tasty pizza, free dough balls with an online code. Made even better by the eat out to help out offer.

Great forgot how good their prize was

Used to go here pre Covid 19 and liked it. Went recently and didn’t feel safe. We were seated by other people even though the restaurant was almost empty apart from some people outside the back. Everyone was clustered together. Only one member of staff wore a mask and a man leaned over us to put things on the table even though that’s what the table at the end was for. I saw a woman cleaning a table with their normal cleaning product and she didn’t do the sides or just under the table or the chairs as I would have expected. The toilets did not look clean and one was definitely not as someone had left something behind!!! The food wasn’t the same either. It was either a new chef or he had forgotten what went into the various recipes. I have to say though that the waitress was lovely, helpful and efficient. The overall experience was awful though. I think they’d forgotten we are in the middle of a pandemic. They should have been more prepared (they’ve had plenty of time) and made the customers feel safe and that all precautions were being taken. I definitely did not feel that at all and I won’t be going there again any time soon.

We know why Pizza Express is struggling.. £111.00 for 3 adults and a 4 year old.

It does not feel like there are any less tables in Pizza Express since it reopened. It was full inside & out last night. I appreciate it was Wat out to Help out night but everyone was packed in like sardines. No social distancing & no staff wearing masks or visors. Didn’t see any cleaning going on either. Very disappointing and made us feel very uncomfortable.

Good pizza, good kids pizza party 🍕🍕🍕

We thought we would give them a try when we found out they offer gluten free and vegan options. We ordered three lots of Gluten free dough balls one with garlic butter the other from the Vegan menu of Tomato bot dishes were very nice and the dough balls tasted great. Pizzas ordered were a normal base One gluten free base - American One gluten free base with Vegan top ( Diary free ) Both of the gluten free pizzas arrive on BLACK slates - ( company warning if your gluten free does not arrive on a black plate you are to send it back ) All pizzas were very nice - the only thing i would say is the gluten free ones are smaller than an normal base - I was fine with the amount i had but some people may prefer the same size as normal pizzas The staff were friendly and the service was quick We would look at going again - Meal was just over £70 for 3 starters 3 pizzas 2 large wines and a coke

My husband and I decided to avoid the 'fun' of an evening meal on Valentine's Day, so elected to go for lunch instead. We were very well looked after and enjoyed the Valentine's Day special, which was amazing value. Well worth thinking about lunch rather than dinner if you want a quieter experience.