The Italian Job

The Italian Job has traded from the Cheapside parade in the heart of Spennymoor town centre for years, occupying one of the busiest pedestrian stretches of the High Street one-way circuit. The shop runs an unusually broad menu for the format: alongside the pizza, kebab and burger sections that drive the bulk of orders, the kitchen offers a house-specials range with Italian, English, Mexican, fish-and-chip and continental crossovers — a deliberate one-stop approach that suits the mixed evening trade of a town-centre takeaway. Reviewer feedback is mixed: the food itself draws the more positive comments — bases, kebab meat and burger toppings — while delivery timing on busy nights and the occasional quality-control slip account for the lower scores. Trading hours are unusually wide too, with a midday window Monday to Friday followed by the standard late-afternoon-to-midnight evening session, and weekend trade running 5pm through to midnight. Cheapside's position — a short walk from the King Street pub run, the bus interchange and the Town Hall — gives the shop a built-in post-work, post-school and post-pub footfall that has kept it trading through changes of ownership and the wider shake-out of Spennymoor's town-centre takeaway sector in the last several years.