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Pizza place in Victoria Station. Mainly notable for its all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet, which is served until 10:30am and costs £4.70 as of October 2007 (drinks are extra; a pot of tea is £1.30).

Kake, bob, Billy, Adam, Martin, Nick, and other Circle Line pub crawlers visited for breakfast on a Friday morning in October 2007. The hot buffet ("meat buffet") offered hash browns (replaced at one point by chips), beans, bacon, sausages, fried eggs, fried mushrooms, fried (fresh) tomatoes, and toast. The toast was actually quite good, cut thickly from a decent enough loaf and not soggy at all. Bob thought the fried eggs were overcooked.

There was also a cold buffet ("veg buffet") with fruit and stuff, which our party entirely ignored. I don't know if you're allowed to mix and match, or if you're meant to stick to one or the other.

Despite the sign at the entrance asking people to wait to be seated, we were there at the tail end of serving time, when it was fairly empty, so we ended up just wandering in, grabbing plates and food, and seating ourselves. They did take ages to get around to coming and offering us drinks (some of us had already finished eating).

secretlondon tried the non-breakfast offerings in November 2008; unfortunately the pizza was poor. The buffet did include fruit and salad though.

Dawn and Emma (two visitors to this site) tell us that they've always been very pleased with the selection and taste of the pizza and pasta dishes and salad bar, and consider it to be the best they've tasted. (We are a little surprised by this verdict.) They also say the staff are always very friendly.

To get here from the concourse, go up the escalator next to Upper Crust, go along a bit, and go up again to the top floor. Strictly speaking, this area is known as Victoria Plaza.
Last visited by secretlondon, 29 November 2008. Breakfast prices and times confirmed on our October 2007 visit.

Comment added by Anonymous: I ate at this DISGUSTING pizza restaurant above Victoria train station today the 12th of May 2009. The pizza was absolutely revolting and tasted very much like a frozen pizza which had been bought from a local supermarket. I couldn't believe how bad the food was. Plus the garlic bread was like eating rock, and when we questioned one of the staff members he just laughed it off like it was not a problem. We considered just walking out and not paying the bill as this is the worst place we have ever eaten in. They were very lucky that we paid the bill. For anyone reading this, AVOID eating at this so-called FRESH pizza restaurant. The pizza was far from fresh!!!

Comment added by East Londoner: The appearance of this place is very misleading, as it looks like a proper pizza restaurant but in actual fact is just a fast food joint disguised as a restaurant. The food is appalling. The pizzas are best described as pieces of cardboard coated in grease with no flavour whatsoever, there was only one type of pasta, and the salads were supermarket stock. I was lucky not to break a tooth on the garlic bread which must have been there for about five days. Revolting place, don't go there.

OS X co-ord: 528844 OS Y co-ord: 178933 (Latitude: 51.494155 Longitude: -0.143786)
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