Pizza Amicos

Pizza Amico's sits on the lower stretch of Bath Street, the pedestrianised shopping street through central Ilkeston, and is one of the busier independent pizza-and-kebab operators in the town. It works off the standard wide-front Ilkeston template — pizzas, kebabs, burgers, southern-fried chicken — but has built a reasonably consistent following on its own website and the major delivery aggregators.

The menu spans pizzas in three sizes with about thirty toppings, donner and chicken-shish kebabs, beef and chicken burgers, fried chicken wings and strips, wraps, calzones and a long sides list. Meal deals and family bundles drive most of the volume. Customer feedback is mixed in the usual takeaway way — the people who love it praise the speed of delivery and the hot, well-cooked pizzas; the people who don't complain about the occasional order mix-up — but the volume of orders is what tells the story about how the shop trades day to day.

Hours run from late afternoon to late evening seven days a week, with a slightly later finish on Friday and Saturday. Delivery covers Ilkeston town centre, Cotmanhay, Shipley, Kirk Hallam, West Hallam and Awsworth. Most regulars order through Just Eat or the Pizza Amico's site, and collection from the shop itself is quick.