Knead Pizza — Restaurant in Plymouth

We had decided on trying somewhere new to us for a lunch and we were certainly not disappointed. This was really delicious pizza in a nice cosy setting with lovely service.

I had been a bit taken by Franco Manca and their pizza in the last few weeks I will be honest. I think that Knead's pizza probably has a slight edge over theirs in terms of flavour. I had the Nduja Duja Like It and my mate had the Cardy P. We of course had a slice if each others and they were both amazing. We also both has sides, although these came out first and felt more like a starter. I had Calamari and he had the Chicken Milanese. Both were great. My calamari was crispy and perfectly cooked. Not rubbery or oily at all. His chicken he felt could have been leaning slightly to the dryer side but came with lovely rich sauce.

The drinks I will say are on the pricey side. I guess being a smaller place, they can't afford to do the lunch deals the other place does and this is where they make their money. This is fair enough.

One 'gripe' if I had to have one. The bill came and the nice young lady serving us said about the 'Automatic service charge that could be removed if we liked. I have made mention of this happening in another place and my discomfort at it. My friend and I had already discussed this as we had heard another customer mention it. We said we would like it removed please and we would pay her a tip in cash. This feels better and fairer all around to us. Especially as once the waitress had gone and my mate made mention of it, I looked at the bill and the 'automatic' service charge would have been 12.5 %!? Lets face it, there is nothing automatic about it. It has been decided by someone to apply this. As I said, a small gripe and this was a tiny moment that was dealt with very tactfully and well by our waitress. Just seems to be an odd thing that seems to be creeping in to British businesses.

All in all, a great lunch. Worth spending the extra to support a local business, especially as it is quality food...

Its hard to quite encapsulate the dichotomy of eating in and taking away with Knead Pizza. I will try my best though.

When you're there, eating in the gorgeous building, or in the open-air courtyard, with a beautifully illustrated wine menu, looking at your lover across some low light, life feels so good. The pizza comes out looking and tasting incredible. Not a single fault with it. The underpaid staff ask “how is everything for you” just as you've scoffed a whole olive with a stone you're trying to pick clean, and you're a glass of wine down and forget about said stone “mmph vuh ghhd fankh phew”. Life is good when you eat at Knead.

Delivery, however… Its the same pizza, tastes just as good. No complaints there. If you get the correct pizza that's the hard bit done as its a 50/50 chance of a key ingredient missing, or its straight up a different pizza. I'm veggie as well, so this can cause quite a problem when my fake meat bits are actually real. And as for the dispersal of the ingredients on the pizza? Do you remember Club Penguin’s Pizza Parlour game, Pizzatron 3000? Well I am utterly convinced this is the layout of the kitchen now. A conveyor belt of delicious sourdough pizza bases are going past the chefs as they hurriedly, as fast as their minimum wage paid hands can take them, throw the delicious toppings onto the order. And by throw I mean throw. If Im lucky enough to get the right pizza, Im half as lucky again to have the toppings on more than just a single side. And I know its not the delivery guys fault either, I can clearly see the pizza was cooked like this too…

Anyway. Eat in, is a 10/10. Take away? Its like betting all on red...

What a very disappointing meal. My daughter booked here for her birthday meal and previously she had eaten here and loved it.however. From the moment the server served us we knew it was not a good start to the evening. One of our guests wanted the raspberry lemonade with a shot of gin in the reply was no we can’t do this? Although they had two cocktails on the menu that in fact had gin in. The mojitos were too sweet and way too minty. We all ordered pizzas, one chicken side and two rosemary, and garlic oil potatoes. We had a gluten free with us do we enquired about that option and he said they cannot guarantee this is suitable for celiacs due to cross contamination in the kitchen?????? However we were there and we in the process of all ordering and he ordered the “smashed roast potato base”. Hmmmmm well how disappointing this was!! It was so tiny looked like a child’s portion and was not smashed roast potato base it was a bowl of potatoes with a pizza topping on which he said was terrible. The rest of the pizzas were all soggy and slimy, no one finished them and were not very flavoursome. The advertised roast potatoes in garlic and rosemary was shocking!!! They looked and tasted like aunt Bessie’s frozen ones and were horrendous. We all left nearly all our pizzas. I complained about the food and they took the potatoes and GF pizza off, still the server made no comment on the amount of food was left. All in all we will not be back and was very upset with the food. My only regret is we did not...