Pizza Union King's Cross
Roman-style, fire-baked, out in minutes, margherita 5.95, eleven to eleven seven days.1
Why go
The house is blunt about what it is: We are Pizza Union, a Pizza Bar, not a restaurant. Every pizza is fire-baked, Roman style, thin and crispy, made to order and served superfast, all day.
1 You order at the till and it arrives in minutes, which is the whole model, and the operator points out the side effect: nobody argues over the bill
.1 Prices are the pitch, with marinara from 3.95, margherita at 5.95 and frozen cocktails at 4.95.1 The Pentonville Road room is one of five, alongside Aldgate, Holborn, Hoxton and Spitalfields.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: the margherita, and a frozen cocktail if it is warm.1
- Avoid: waiting for a server. This is a counter.1
What locals & experts say
- Nobody has written about the pizza. No guide, newspaper or award body names the chain, so everything above is the operator's own account of its own format and prices.
Good to know
- Timing: 11am to 11pm, seven days.1
- Groups: big tables and a group booking page, which is what the format is built for.1
- Which door this is. King's Cross, 246-250 Pentonville Road. The other four are Aldgate, Holborn, Hoxton and Spitalfields.1
Verdict
listed — The operator refuses the word restaurant and calls this a pizza bar, which is the most useful thing on the page: you order at the till, the Roman-style base comes out of the fire oven thin and crisp in a few minutes, and a margherita is 5.95 with a frozen cocktail at 4.95. Eleven to eleven, seven days, five sites, big tables and no argument over the bill. For a group killing an hour near King's Cross that is a genuinely good answer, and the pricing is the point rather than an apology. It sits on the bottom rung because nobody outside the company has written a word about the pizza, so nothing here is a judgment on how it tastes.