Pizza Roma

Pizza Roma sits a few doors from Pizza 4 U on Grosvenor Road in Ripley and is the more Italian-leaning of the two — stone-baked pizzas as the headline rather than the kebab-shop pizza-by-the-slab approach. The shop currently trades as Pizza Roma by Mr T's, the operator having taken over the long-standing Pizza Roma name and added the Mr T's branding from his own existing kitchen.

The menu runs the standard Italian-takeaway list — margherita, capricciosa, four-cheese, meat-feast, American hot, house specials, plus pasta dishes, garlic bread, dough balls and a side of kebabs, chicken wings and burgers for households that want a mix. Collection is from the Grosvenor Road counter and delivery runs through the shop's own ordering and Uber Eats across central Ripley.

Reviews consistently single out the stone-baked base and prompt delivery times. For the south-Ripley residential streets around Grosvenor Road it is the obvious independent pizza option, and worth comparing head-to-head with Pizza 4 U a few doors up.