Pizza Pilgrims offering free pizza this week at new pop-up

Much-loved London chain Pizza Pilgrims are giving away pizza this week, on Thursday February 9, to celebrate National Pizza Day and their forthcoming new restaurant in Shoreditch.

The Pilgrims will be taking their three-wheeler van – which gave founders Thom and James Elliot their start – down to The Red Gallery on Rivington Street in Shoreditch. Throughout Thursday, the team will give away free pizza to anyone willing to draw them something on one of their pizza boxes. The best contributions will be then be used to decorate the walls of the new site.

The new Naples-inspired pizzeria will open on Shoreditch High St in early March will be the first Pizza Pilgrims where customers are encouraged to BYOB (Bring Your Own Booze). There will be a £2.50 corkage charge.

It will also be the first of three new Pizza Pilgrims opening across London this year. There are also plans for openings in West India Quay and Waterloo.

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