Scream for Pizza — Restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne

After hearing nothing but good opinions about Scream for Pizza I decided I would give them a try myself. On two occasions I was left downhearted as all collection slots had been booked for the whole weekend, which I guess added to the fact they are highly regarded!

Yesterday I managed to order two Shuffle Truffle and two Meaty Crab pizzas. The dough, the ingredients and the taste of both pizzas was amazing. It lived up to the hype that everyone has around these pizzas.

The only thing that let us down was the amount of oil they used for the pizzas, in particular for both of the Meaty Crab ones. You could see the oil floating on top of the pizza. As soon as you picked up a slice, there was such an excessive amount that oil would drip everywhere. It seemed as if the finishing touch had been to add a copious amount of oil to the pizza once it was in the box ready for collection.

I'm not sure if this was intentional or if it simply was a one-off mistake. Either way, I will not order again for collection. I might give them a second chance once the restaurant opens again for dine-in (to ensure I can verbally ask for a non...

To be honest, all pizza is good. But here it really is brilliant, proper Neapolitan pizza. Came for the lunch time special, which was great value with a soft drink included from a smaller choice of pizzas from the main menu. Don't remember the names of the soft drinks that were included, I'd never heard of them before but they were delicious!

There's also a specials board and we saw what sounded like too good a dish to ignore for a starter to share - meatballs, tomato sauce, mozzarella and toasted sourdough... So we ordered that too. It actually came after the pizzas but we didn't mind that, the service here is super friendly and relaxed and this just adds to it. You don't have to have things in a particular order. And the sauce from the meatballs was ideal for dipping crusts in.

The pizzas were spot on, puffed up crusts superb. Right balance of soft and chewy. The kind you'll keep on eating even when you're full.

Parking nearby is a bit of a pain with not too many places to park up if you're driving. But it won't put us off from...

Pizzas are really good and they get the rating. Everything else about the experience was pretty poor. Service was so slow (one guy on his own, not totally his fault) it then took quite a while to get our drinks when we did order.

Once food started coming another member of staff had turned up, she came and checked on the table, and asked us if everything was ok, I had said yeah all good but we were just waiting on some more sides, which she said oh they will come. Our chips never arrived and by this point we had realised the ‘baked’ burrata was just terrible and had formed a cottage cheese resemblance. However as they had checked back before all the food had come out we had no way of letting anyone know. Tried multiple times to try and get a member of the teams attention. We mentioned the errors once my husband got up to get the bill (no one cleared the table) and the chips were removed off the bill.

Overall the pizzas are really good and really interesting toppings, but it was such a let down that everything else didn’t meet the...