Pizza Geeks

19 Dalry Road | Edinburgh EH11 2BQ
Phone: 0131 347 8863

After regular appearances at all kinds of markets and pop-ups in recent years, Pizza Geeks have opened the doors on a bricks-and-mortar spot just round the corner from Haymarket station. Inside, it’s a perfect marriage of the two halves of the name – the ‘geek’ part comes courtesy of the endless references to, and merch from sci-fi and comic book culture, as well as a pretty impressive selection of arcade games to play while you wait for your food; the ‘pizza’ is deliciously crispy and impressively inventive, served up from a brilliant wood-fired oven.

Superheroes and galaxies may feature highly in the branding, but the recipes are surprisingly traditional, with all pizzas made in a traditional Neapolitan style. There's something distinctly likeable about the simplicity of the four base ingredients (flour, water, yeast and salt), slow-proved over 48 hours and then handshaped to form a soft dough with a chewy crust, before being cooked under an intense heat.

The creativity comes into place with the flavour combos. Take The Prince of Persia, for example, which comes with a beetroot pesto base, baba ghanoush and chilli oil. Or The Braveheart, featuring, the food of our homeland, haggis and Stornoway black pudding. And don't even get us started on The Wildling, smothered in garlic oil, butternut squash and homemade chilli jam. Be still, our beating saliva glands.

As if providing the capital's residents with barry bites wasn't enough, Pizza Geeks is also a business with social consciousness at its core. In 2018, they launched Pizza for the People, an intiative that sees the sales of their featured pizza matched and donated to the homeless people of Edinburgh. If that ain't worth popping down for, we don't know what is.

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    Pizza Geeks
    19 Dalry Road
    Edinburgh EH11 2BQ

    Pizza Geeks

    Opening Hours:
    Mon: 12:00 - 22:00
    Tues: 12:00 - 22:00
    Wed: 12:00 - 22:00
    Thur: 12:00 - 23:00
    Fri: 12:00 - 23:00
    Sat: 12:00 - 23:00
    Sun: 12:00 - 22:00

    Phone: 0131 347 8863
    Web: http://https://www.pizzageeks.co.uk/
    Email: hello@pizza-geeks.co.uk