Pizza Geeks — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

Brilliant Pizza! We stopped here for lunch the other day. We had the place to ourselves apart from a couple of takeaway customers. The shop is small but very geekily designed, with comic strips as wallpaper, geek memorabilia all around the shop. They even have an arcade machine. The guy was sound that served us. We went with the chorizo and haggis dragon balls for starters with a garlic mayo dip. These were terrific! Great flavour and texture. Garlic mayo was very tasty. I’ve never been to a place were you can customise your own fillings for dough balls (they have about 20 different options), so I thought that was very cool and unique. For the pizzas we went with the Luigi and the blanka. Again, both pizzas were brilliant! Probably the best Neapolitan pizza I’ve ever had and maybe the best pizza, full stop, my wife has had. It was well cooked in the massive brick oven and the toppings tasted great. There was very minimal oily fingers and it felt a lot cleaner than most pizzas you get these days. We didn’t have to wait long for our food to arrive but whilst we waited we played cards that they provide which was a nice added touch. We were going to have the cinnamon dough balls for dessert but they had run out. I will for sure be back...

TL;DR The best pizza. Absolute gem of a place.

Taste: It is the perfect slice, a little bit floppy, but with the perfect dough:sauce:cheese ratio such that it doesn't get soggy and nor do the toppings fall off unlike many other pizzas. The dough is just as light as traditional neapolitan pizza, with a crispy, crunchy, delicious crust. The sauce contains a dash of sea salt and fresh herbs, resulting in the tastiest pizza sauce I've ever had. The cheese is top-quality and fresh, sprinkled with a few torn-up basil leaves on top. Usually I'm not a fan of basil on pizza as, personally, it tends to overwhelm the flavour profile - but by using less leaves and tearing them up the balance is absolutely perfect.

Consistency: Many pizza restaurants are very inconsistent. Sometimes there's too much cheese so the pizza is greasy, and other times there's too much sauce resulting in a soggy mess and sad, droopy pizza slices where the cheese falls off! Been here 6 or 7 times now, and has always been a 9/10 or 10/10 (9/10 is for when slightly too much basil goes on the pizza - the dough:sauce:cheese ratio is always perfect!)

Strongly recommend dining in instead of getting takeaway so that you can enjoy the pizza straight out...

Well... This is a tough one, I am exceedingly fond of the Pizza Geeks in Leith and was excited to have a birthday meal with pals at the Haymarket one before going to the cinema

The chap who served us seemed to think that working there was an incredible burden, he was abrupt, rude and completely uninviting. When asked if we could change a topping on the pizza it was as if we had asked to dookie on his pillow before he took a nap, (I'm altering the order pray I don't alter it any further) he accommodated the request, but it looked like it took a physical toll on him. I can only hope that he was at the very most a manager, and not the owner. If working in a restaurant with only two tables of customers is too taxing for him to be unable to muster the faintest whiff of the most basic form of acceptable customer service then I'd recommend mixing things up a bit, perhaps a career in mud maintenance, or as a tepid tap water taster

The pizza was dope, the chap reminded me of Bernard from Black Books...fun to watch, but not when you're paying... To use gen Z vernacular 'Do better' :)...