PizzaExpress

First, I should probably say that I have celiac disease,
so I always eat gluten-free.
Four of my five kids also have celiac disease, as do two of my siblings,
so we are a gluten-free family.

When eating out here in Norway, I almost always go for salads or sushi.
I have my few favourite places I usually feel safe eating at.

So when I travel, I often fancy a hamburger at a well-known restaurant,
like Honest Burgers in the UK, or some pasta at PizzaExpress.
Something I know is safe and easy.

I have eaten elsewhere in London,
and got so incredibly sick that, for a while,
I honestly didn’t think I would make it home again.

If you are looking for fine dining, you won’t find it here.

You can find PizzaExpress in almost every UK city, I guess.

I have been to PizzaExpress in many different locations across the UK.
But I had never eaten pizza there until this summer.

And that’s kind of funny.

I always ordered the gluten-free Pollo Pesto.
Pasta with chicken, mushrooms, red onion, mozzarella, béchamel and pesto sauce.
And I don’t even like pesto, but this is so good!

But this summer, we were in Brighton for my daughter’s graduation.
We were actually supposed to eat somewhere else,
but happened to stumble in here.

And for the first time, I actually wanted to try the pizza.

We shared two pizzas, both gluten-free.
And the gluten-free Calabrian Feast is the best pizza I have ever tasted.

It was so good.

Even my youngest daughter, who does not have celiac disease,
said that the gluten-free pizza tasted even better than the ones with gluten.

And she should know.
She has eaten a lot of pizza in Brighton over the last three years.