The Pizza Man

The Pizza Man trades from a small shop on the busy London Road parade at Alvaston, the south-east Derby suburb running south from the city centre down the A6. It is an independent pizza, burger and kebab takeaway aimed squarely at the local-budget end of the market, with a menu built around 10-inch and 12-inch pizzas, side orders of garlic bread and chicken wings, burger meals and a short list of house specials. The kitchen runs a couple of long-standing meal deals — any large pizza for around eleven pounds, and a buy-one-large-get-an-eight-inch-free offer that comes up regularly in reviews — and these deals are why most local custom keeps returning. Service is friendly, turnaround on collection orders tends to be around twenty minutes, and delivery is run out of the same kitchen to the surrounding Alvaston and Boulton streets. There is no dining room: it is collection and delivery only, evenings only, and closed on Sundays. The shop sits on the main London Road retail run between Alvaston village and the Brian Clough Way junction, sharing the strip with the parade of Indian takeaways and Chinese kitchens that has built up along this stretch over the last twenty years.