Pizza Express in Cherwell

PIZZA EXPRESS at its best - went for a pre-cinema pizza with the family on saturday night, we booked (suggest you do this as they were v busy), modern clean design, cooking area looked v cool, food was 5 stars and service was the best I can remember - special thank you to our server SOPHIE for who nothing was any trouble - even showing me how to set up the loyalty app - recommend

Always good service. Sophie today was excellent - friendly, helpful & careful with my son's dietary requirements. Thank you!

Leanne was my server today , she really looked after me , I was a lone diner and had to concentrate on some work. She gave me a quiet table , super friendly and knowledgeable about the menu- she recommended the burrata for me. It made my afternoon !

Poor service, that's if if you manage to get seated. There are either not enough staff or they need more training. The food is absolutely not worth the waiting time. There are much better places to go in Banbury which are also cheaper. Avoid.

Recently had lunch at Pizza Express in Banbury and couldn’t be more impressed. From the moment we walked in, the atmosphere was warm and welcoming. But what truly made our lunch exceptional was our server, Leanne. Leanne was friendly and attentive. She also checked in just enough to make sure everything was okay. Will definitely come back again, food and service were fantastic! Couldn’t recommend enough!

Lovely meal - Sophie was great waitress!!

Heidi was amazing so was the food Highly recommended best pizza this side of Italy 🇮🇹 service was first class

Thank you to server Sophie at Pizza Express in Banbury who made a family birthday meal really fun and and relaxing experience!

Great friendly staff. Varied menu. Had pizza and salad - deliscious 🍕 🍺

Liked it.My pitza was a bit thick to what it normally is but tasty.Staff serving us was lovely and friendly.By the lock so nice view

Had a lovely meal there for my daughter’s birthday. GABI was our server - she was very attentive and nothing was too much trouble. Even made a fuss when my daughter (9 year old) mentioned it was her birthday and made her feel very special.

Had a great lunch, the pizzas here are awesome and Megan provided great customer service, polite and efficient! We’ll come again!

Went to celebrate the end of uni, we had Megan and she was absolutely lovely, super kind and friendly and the food was delicious.

Sophie was fab and super helpful

Amazing experience. The manager imran and also Jamie was fantastic. If you are in Banbury please come here. Can not recommend enough.

Great food and service with a particular shout-out to our amazing waitress, Leanne. She has the perfect balance of attention and incredible service. Go Leanne!

Had a lovely experience - great pizza and amazing service. The till accidentally ordered 2 of everything so a lovely waitress Sophie gave us a discount to cover for the mistake and gave us the extra food for free!

Had a lovely meal at pizza express today, our server leanne regularly serves us and she always gives conistant service every time we come in, can't fault the food or staff.

Had a lovely meal, our server Sophie was very friendly, and very helpful with sorting out discounts for us through the pizza Express app! Will definitely be coming again! thank you!!

Had a wonderful time and was served wonderfully by our waitress Sophie who helped out the whole meal.

Really great to come in for our lunch, fantastic service and food thanks Leanne

We had a lovely meal on a Monday evening for a treat as our kitchen was having a make over. Lovely food as always and service was excellent. Sophie was the member of staff that served us, and she was extremely friendly, polite and efficient. I also heard her being extremely attentive to everyone else she was serving. A real asset to the team at Pizza Express as in the past (more than a year ago) we have had some terrible service in there

Popped in for a quick lunch on Sunday afternoon, great spot outside by the canal and the staff couldn't have been better. Our server Megan was fab and perfectly accommodating.

Great food and service as always. Sophie regularly checked we were ok and well served. Great job Sophie

Highly recommend this Pizza Express which is just 3 years old, we were served by Megan who was helpful and polite and very efficient and also made sure we were ok which was a nice touch. Drinks came within 3 mins of ordering at the table :-) Thanks again Paul

Thank you so much to Molly - we had a large party for a birthday celebration this afternoon and she made the experience so effortless! Molly was really attentive, friendly and thoughtful throughout the meal - going above and beyond to make sure we had everything we needed! We all really enjoyed our meals, with such a quick service! Thank you again!

Charming and friendly service from Leanne. Made to feel really welcome even when coming in a quiet time. Thank you!

Great food and atmosphere, but best of all was the excellent service by Sophie. Sophie was helpful, used initiate and appropriately attentive and with a good sense of humour. One of our party left their insulin for diabetes behind. Sophie actually came to the car park to find us and return the medication and blood sugar testing equipment. Thank you Sophie!

We had booked a table for 6 at 8pm. When we arrived we were asked were we aware that there would be at least a 45 minute wait for food. We asked if they were short staffed and they said no they had taken too many take away orders. We had booked a table and clearly we were not the priority. We left a ate elsewhere. We will NOT be back. Exceedingly disappointed. Awful service

I went in today for a hot chocolate to have with my fave stem ginger cake which is the only cake that is vegan as well as the raspberry sorbet Sophie informed me they out of stock and offered me an option although she could see my disappointment She apologised profusely and said she's sorted the hot chocolate bill out without me having the need to even stress. I just want to say she was pleasant thoughtful jolly and full of spirit Staff like this deserves recognition. This could have went another way but it didn't so thank you Sophie that she had pre-empted the situation. Sophie is customer focused as well professional Thank you

the order never arrived!! i have complained but received no responses!

Very Racist place!!! Went with my wife who wears hijab. The waiter gave us a table in a corner behind the door and reception desk and said the other tables are booked. Just minutes later another group of people came in and said they haven’t booked a table. Assigned them the table which he said was booked and gave them the menus and attended to them right away. PS: I mean you can have a policy saying no hijab or no Muslims. But you should write that outside.

The service was slow. We had to wait a long time before our order was taken. Even asking for the bill and paying wasn't simple. The food was of a good standard and some of the staff seemed efficient.

The delivery driver got very close to us then decided to go back to the restaurant with our food and then came back to us. I have no idea what he was thinking, but the food was still cold.

So easy to book on the app and easy to pay between different people when with a group. The service is amazing and the dough balls are brilliant as well as the other foods on offer x

Lovely pizza but sadly cold when delivered. The driver did not appear to have it in an insulated delivery bag.

Noisy with large parties and other tables invading onto yours but enjoyable esp when quiet

Fab staff preparing tasty food, wide variety of choices and a pleasant environment to eat in. Will be visiting again

lasagne was not delivered very hot, was barely warm, salad was missing completely from order and only a few polenta chips in box, not good value

The food was cold no salad dressing ans stale

The atmosphere and food was great however I found Lucy to be quite rude just tried to rush us to finish

Pizzas were cold and mine had no BBQ base when it should have

Fantastic pizza and great delivery service

We’re big fans of a good Pizza Express but the service at the Banbury branch is really poor. Seemingly no manager and overwhelmed floor staff meant we waited an hour for our food on a Sunday evening.

Ordered at 17:50, food didn’t arrive until 20:20 when I had already left for work

When I placed the order the estimated time was 20-25mins but actually arrived 45mins later, although the tracker was updated. The food was cold so not great.

Food was cold and took an hour and 45 to be delivered

I use a small electric wheelchair and was spoken to and treated appallingly by the young ‘meet and greet’ female. The young lad that served the table was fantastic though. If it wasn’t for him, I would have left. The food was as expected but service was painfully slow. Wheelchair users please read below I arrived in my small electric wheelchair. The automatic outer doors were not working, so after a short while a diner came to open them for me so I could get in. I was greeted with a young lady and I said I’m part of a group booking which she did not believe and was surprised to see that the booking existed. I followed her to the table where she told (not asked) me ‘I could sit in that (pointing at my wheelchair) or I could sit on that (pointing at a chair). Which is it?.’ I said I would like to stay in my wheelchair. She then asked me ‘are there any more like you?’ To which I asked for clarification with does she mean wheelchair users, to which she said yes. I said no and she left me to manoeuvre my wheelchair into position. I’m very aware of my wheelchair leaving ample room behind me. Shortly afterwards, without asking she put her arm across the back of my head to hold in my walking stick (in its holder on the wheelchair) as other diners walked past When I felt what she was doing, I held it in myself. The others diners walking by were mortified and gave me facial expressions to relay that. On the way out, again, other diners offered to help me through the external door which she decided to intervene very loudly and spoke to me as if I was 3 years old and proceeded to call me sweetheart. I’m a professional employed person. Needless to say I won’t be going back.

so quick and beautiful food as always. courier was pleasant and courteous.

Ordered as a treat because house prefers Dominos. Food ranged from burnt and dry to dry, cold and falling apart. I try to avoid negative reviews but last night's food was so bad.

We went to Pizza Express in Banbury for the first time tonight and everything was great! The manager Lunna was very friendly and helpful, as was the waitress Keira, both went above and beyond to make our evening memorable. I would definitely recommend. Thank you

Prompt delivery, but the food was a bit cold on this occasion.

Now visited here twice in one week and both times the service has been excellent and the food fabulous. Staff are particularly helpful, polite and very friendly with a special mention for Lunna who can’t help you enough. Currently one of my favourite places to stop for a coffee or lunch. Keep up the great work!!! Rob

Order marked as delivered and never arrived,. No one answers the phone to resolve the issue

Order marked as delivered but never arrived

Food was lovely but service incredibly slow. Took 2.5 hours in total when there were only 2 people at our table and 3 other tables with guests. We ordered fairly quickly but everything seemed to take a long time. The bill was incorrect 3 times (overcharged) and this took 45 minutes to resolve. My older children went there yesterday for a meal with work friends and had a very similar experience...long waiting times and a large overcharge in the bill. Sort it out, Pizza Express, or you'll lose all of your business to Pizza Calzone in the High Street!

Staff are lovely and tentative. Big thank you to Megan for making my mum’s birthday special, she enjoyed the birthday candle in her dessert despite her reaction, honest!

We had a party of 24 and I must say Lunna and Jamie who look after us were amazing very attentive , flexible .. and very helpful and the food was great !!

Lovely evening, great atmosphere and food! Highly recommend.

We arrived Approx 6:50 , plenty of of time to eat and get to the movies . We had booked for 5 and 5 arrived . We ordered drinks and the food the drinks arrived ok . We were being kidded into a false sense of security ? All around us pizza , dough balls salads ! Our table was bare ! 50mins later bare , nothing , nada . Some popped the question to a waiter , said waiter went off and never came back . Hmmm 🤔 suspicious. So we asked another , they came back with it will be 5 mins, But the guilty look said it all . So we asked to see the manger ( by now we had to get going to the movies ) No manger after another 5 mins . So we walked out and my daughter explained why . I was livid , unbelievable incompetence , nobody taking responsibility , all the front of house staff should be ashamed . All the usual hard work going on at the cooking stations people working flat out .

Pasta didnt have enough sauce so was dry.

Incorrect order delivered which I cannot eat due to an allergy and refused a refund by just eat

Excellent Food quality, had an amazing experience

The driver/restaurant gave us the wrong order.

I went to Pizza Express last week for the first time and everything was just great! From staffs to food. The lady manager Luna was very friendly and helpful and Luci the waitress was simply amazing!. The order didn’t take long and the pizza was tasty and delicious. I definitely recommend. Thank you

I recently dined at Pizza Express and was extremely disappointed with the service. Our waitress, Luna, displayed a shocking level of rudeness that made us uncomfortable throughout the meal. Her dismissive attitude seemed to be uncalled for as we were polite. The other member of staff was also poorly trained and had no basic etiquette or hospitality. Who trains these waitresses? From the start, there was no warm greeting, and basic manners like “please” or “thank you” were missing. The service was incredibly slow - waiting almost 45 minutes for one pizza and dough balls in a nearly empty restaurant. The dough balls were incorrect, but we didn’t complain and just ordered more. However, getting the attention of the staff was frustrating. At the end, when we asked to have our dough balls packed away, we were met with irritated looks and annoyance. I expected better from a well-known restaurant like Pizza Express, but this was by far the worst service I’ve ever experienced. We didn’t allow it to ruin our evening but it really could have. I sincerely hope management addresses this issue to prevent future customers from having a similar experience. Sadly, will not be returning.

Really nice NEW Meatball Italiano very nice spicy meatballs .

The biggest thank you to Lunna and all the team for hosting our group of almost 50 people this weekend. We could not have asked for a better way to celebrate the success of a very long sports event nearby. From start to finish lunna and other managers who helped us organise were efficient, organised and super helpful! The planning made perfect and on the day, things could not have gone more smoothly. The staff were awesome, so welcoming and well prepared. All our orders were ready to go, all the food came out together, brilliantly made, and service was flawless. Many compliments received from across the group to say how well you all managed such a big (and quick!) event. No doubt at all that we will be back to do the same again next time. Thanks again from us all :-)

Very nice staff at this pizza express and very good service. Pizza was a little oily, but still good.

Went for daughter’s birthday with a few of her friends. Everything was accommodated and just to say we were welcomed, had great food and entertainment here. Nothing too much trouble and staff very attentive and great attitude. Special dessert was done to wish her a happy birthday. Thanks to Grace and Leanne x

Whatever you do, don't order food for delivery around 9pm on a Friday. Pizza may have well been cooked by candlelight it was so underdone... Original bruscetta was folded in two and crunchy?? How is that even possible?? All served tepid, courtesy of our useless bicycle courier from Uber Eats. All for the bargain price of £40. Hang your heads in shame... Will not order again.

My wife and a friend just had a lunch meal at Pizza Express, Castle Quay Banbury, we were all so disappointed with such poor quality food, I had a pizza with next to no topping on it, most of the topping was tomato puree and a light sprinkle of cheese and a few prawns scattered on top, my wife had lasagne with like a mince juice, our friends meal was so poor, we called the waiter over to complain, thankfully we were not charge for that, what a shame really, made our visit there really unpleasant, never again

Food was amazing, really enjoy the fresh ingredients. However as with several other deliveries recently from justeat the delivery time keeps being pushed back and today my food arrived cold.

The time kept on adjust the pizza arrived cold and the pasta was luke warm temperature which is bad

Tempted by the offer at the time, so we walked in. We weren't offered a choice of where to sit. It was virtually empty! So, not impressed with that. Studied the menu, found the drinks extremely expensive. Asked about the offer, but was told we needed the app. As a result, we decided to leave and eat elsewhere. Might try another time.

Went for a meal for my sister's birthday, big group, poor waitress clearly had no training, she did her very best, with no help from the manager. They ended up bringing out the wrong pizza and were so rude about it and practically huffed about it when I had to send it back, due to dietary requirements. Paying on the app is an absolute shambles, over complicated and after we all paid the bill, another payment came up, appearing out of no where, when we asked for some help figuring out where it came from the manager said 'I don't know', couldn't point it out on the bill and then ridiculed us saying 'it's only £3.95 just pay it' I couldn't believe how hostile the staff were, except the friendly waitress who seemed to be the only one trying to help. Appalling service, very disappointed as I used to enjoy going there, such a shame.

Another great experience with the best service from a great team - Always make you feel welcome.

Just Eat are giving restaurants a bad name. This driver could not be bothered to wait so said I had to call Pizza Express and reorder. Manager at Pizza express was great, and I collected my order. I will not be using Just Eat again.

Great staff.. got us in last minute, and really enjoy the atmosphere!

Great restaurant, the manager was brilliant as had a problem with Just Eat driver. Highly recommend this restaurant 👍🏻

Service was quick and food was very nice. Luciana was our lovely waitress.

AVOID if you would like friendly happy service. Greeting by the most miserable woman, who gave the impression that we had ruined her day as soon as we arrived. Seated us much to her dismay, and then added a sigh when asked for the vegan menu. Left without ordering, went next door to pinto lounge for much more accommodating and friendly service

Been here a few times over the years and it has been alright. But this last visit (24th August 2024), was dreadful. Service was utterly shocking. Delays in being seated, ordering, clearing. Tables messy for prolonged periods. Other guests fed up and complaining which brings down the atmosphere. No table check. Food was bang average this time. Drinks were POOR. £3.55 for an Appletiser, that was served to me warm. Unacceptable. Restaurant was barely even half full. A really underwhelming and unemployable experience through and through.

My wife and I ate here on the evening of Saturday 24th August. Greeting was friendly, sat down immediately and our order taken quickly. Sadly we waited nearly an hour for our food (2 x pizzas) and one of the pizzas was lukewarm and had clearly been sat on the side for a while. Both pizzas were served to us uncut and with no pizza cutter - I’d expect one or the other at a place that serves pretty much nothing but pizza! We requested a cutter and advised we weren’t happy about the wait or the temp of my pizza. To be fair to them, the manager came across and spoke to us, offered to make a new pizza or reduce the bill for us so they did make the effort to put things right. Based on this experience however we would not revisit

Sauce portions microscopic. Pizza not sliced. Excessive plastic.

I ordered 2 garlic and herb dips, the pots were as good as empty

Very clean and welcoming. Service was great and Luna was brilliant even though it was busy. We will definitely go back again.

I was part of a group for someone's leaving do. About 11 of us in total. Despite this being the largest group she had served up until this point, Megan performed amazingly. The service was quick, the food excellent and she was always there when needed. Will definitely be coming here again, with a quieter and smaller group.

Too small portions of pizza! Seriously?!

They didn't give me menu untill I asked for, I was waiting long time for wine and starters, no point wasted time never again !

I had a salad, pizza and a non alcoholic drink, which came to £30 including tip. It’s expensive, but the food quality is good and reliable. I’m vegan and I love that they have a separate vegan menu. This location is particularly nice in side.

‘Date day’ lunch, the restaurant is bright, clean & welcoming. The food was lovely, it arrived quickly & piping hot. And the staff were just lovely, Fuchsia was friendly taking our order & Luna was brilliant, even recommended a dessert to my Husband which he really enjoyed. Thanks Pizza express Castle quay, we will be back soon.

Perfect delivery, lovely food- it was lovely and warm when it arrived 👍🏻

Nice spacious restaurant, wait on food wasn’t long considering it was Father’s Day and busy. We all enjoyed our food and our waitress Amelie was lovely and attentive and helped me with my dietary requirement and provided all the information I needed. Overall great experience, would go again.

Currently on our mini-moon in Avon Dasset and took a trip out to Banbury for some coffee, mini golf and lunch. After small deliberations, we decided to grab a table at Pizza Express for some much needed carbs. My wife and I had two starters and 2 outstanding pizzas. The service was as equally exceptional. We were gobsmacked to see our bill was “on the house” as a honeymoon gift. What a truly wholesome and generous group of people. Can’t thank you enough!

This was ordered at 16.57 and delivered at 18.20 well over the 30-50 mins as specified. When it finally arrived, it was no longer hot and by the texture of the pizza it had been sat under lights for a while.I am no stranger to Pizza Express and usually pick up myself. This is the first time I have used Just eat and I will think hard before using you again.

Very good vegan pizza and dough balls with dips. We tried their new smoked eggplant, pepper, and vegan mozzarella pizza, and it was quite nice. The eggplant could do with a bit of seasoning, but overall, it's a tasty pizza.

The past 2 times I’ve been here have been slightly different from eachother. The first time was underwhelming as I ordered a chicken ceaser salad and so did my friend. The leaves on mine were quite brown but hers were fine so maybe it was a one off but the most recent time I stuck to pizza and it was amazing, very large but yummy. Staff are lovely

Great pizza with fast and efficient service. The puddings were lovely too. Location is great with close proximity to easy free parking in the evening and access to the cinema complex a stones throw away. Go get yourself some authentic Italian pizza and wash it down with one of their fine selections of drinks.

Visiting by myself for business and staying in Premier Inn opposite the restaurant. Absolutely delicious starter (Bruschetta), main course (Romana garlic prawns) and pudding (cheese cake). All made even better by the loveliest, friendly and hospital staff - thank you very much!