Castle Pizza

Castle Pizzas is the multi-format takeaway on Barroon in Castle Donington, the small street running off the village centre towards the church. It is the village late-night hedge — pizzas, curries, tandoori, fish and chips, kebabs, burgers and southern fried chicken from a single kitchen, the format common to villages that need one shop to cover the whole evening.

The menu reaches both the post-pub and the family-weeknight trade — the kitchen runs late, and Friday and Saturday close later still, which puts it ahead of the village chippy and the central Chinese. Reviews on Tripadvisor are mixed, with regulars praising the portion sizes and the variety against a smaller pocket of customers reporting longer delivery waits on busy nights. There is no dine-in; collection and short-radius delivery into Castle Donington and the airport-fringe villages are what the operation is built around. Castle Pizzas runs alongside Hel Yen on the Market Place and Donington Fish Bar on Borough Street as the three main central-village evening shops — pizza, Chinese, chippy — in a town that has not over-supplied itself.