It's quite hard writing a vegetarian food blog when I'm extremely strapped for cash! I don't want this to de-evolve into a 'What I had for dinner...' column (Lord knows I've done that before), mainly because it would expose how repetitive my personal cookery is. I'm also holding off reviewing things like Waitrose's vegetarian sandwich range until I've at least reviewed one proper restaurant. But out of fear that this blog would just wither up and die I've decided to review something that I can technically class as 'eating out'.
I was very pleased to see that Pizza GoGo had included a new vegetarian pizza on their menu, it seems like a very rare occurence that an outlet that probably tailors to the beer and pizza crowd would introduce something that doesn't include slabs of meat, meat-stuffed crust and a beefamisu for pudding.
We're not dealing with pizza finery here though, their pizzas are good, tasty and come with two little tubs of sauce that help you get through those darker plain crust moments. Prior to the unveiling of this new pizza I've had two options; the basic vegetarian and the vegetarian hot which is the same pizza but with green chillies and jalapenos. This new beast is called a Tropical Vegetarian and scores points for including the two things I always ordered on my Pizza Hut 'make your own' pizza: pineapple and sweetcorn. This was usually met by scrunched up faces of disgust and confusion from my fellow diners. I've also recently succumbed to squirting BBQ sauce on my post-pub pizzas to give them a bit more, er, flavour perhaps... but Pizza GoGo have gone and read my thoughts by basically replacing their tomato sauce with barbeque sauce, genius!
The resultant pizza is a somewhat strange experience, the barbeque is somewhat overwhelming at times, but - I must admit - I was dropping these mouthfuls into a lake of beer, and my usual pizza consumption is either conducted in such a state of drunkeness or tiredness that I could probably be eating a shag carpet that, as long as it was coated in BBQ sauce, I'd throughly enjoy.
Anyway, well done Pizza GoGo for introducing a new veggie option! (Plain cheese and tomato doesn't count.)
Find your local Pizza GoGo and order online here: http://www.pizzagogo.co.uk/
