Zizzi Restaurants

Love this place. Regularly go here with my colleagues. Also there’s great offers on so great food at great prices.

I’ve always thought that simplest food franchaise concepts, are the ones you can replicate over and over and still manage to keep current and financially viable for the business and its customers.
Zizzi’s is a great example of this. After a mega pants couple of weeks on the job and romantic fronts’, three of my fierce but fabulous musketeers and I, decided a collective debrief of our woes, followed by some finely chosen motivating words for each other was in order.
We caught up over the obligatory lattes, then dived head first into the menu which was serviceable but not anything out of the ordinary. Our waitress appeared somewhat reluctant to take our order. She swished past our table four times, before I got the ball rolling with a neatly timed from the till to the table intervention.
The bruschetta or Bruschetta Al Pomodoro to give it its fancy name was lush with just the right balance of tomatoes, garlic and a cheeky dash of red
fact it was moreish enough for me to make a dive for the last piece on our table.
My lasagne was ok… nothing crazy just ok. it tasted generic almost like a reheated ready meal. It’s my own fault, as it was exactly the same the last time I had it there.
As I plunged my fork in for more, I longed for a more authetic, flavoursome, rustic lasagne like the last one I had Babbo’s on Albermarle Street.
Wow I loved that one so much, that my ex said he thought I might throw a ‘I can’t believe it’s over ’ hissy fit when I finished it. Which was just about the same reaction I gave him when we broke up!
Dessert as we all know is my absolute favourite part of any meal (bar my latte), I went for a gelato trio — two scoops chocolate, one scoop pistacchio. A pleasant surprise and a definite step up from my encouter at Afters Originals. Silky smooth chocolate and nuts… what more could sweet nut ask for?
Zizzi’s delivers exactly what you think it will for a reasonable price. My only bug bear about the Croydon branch oh dear the décor !
A cheesy, cheap looking, loft style exposed brickwork job circa 1980s inside and a sludgy terrocotta exterior so ugly it offended my eyes, and compared really unfavourably with the more neutral but customer sympathetic interiors and exteriors of Pizza Express, which is further along on the same road.
And how did the catch up go? Well we didn’t mend the two broken hearts in our midst or solve the work chaos that’s engulfed two of us, but we did leave with hugs and smiles and that can’t be bad can it?