Pizza Geeks - Haymarket

If you love pizza and geeky nostalgia, you cannot beat this place. The pizza was amazing! I wish I was capable of eating both the pizza and their dough balls, because the dough balls looked amazing as well. It is a really cool place with awesome staff and a great atmosphere. Also, they run a monthly pizza and every time that pizza is purchased, they donate a pizza to help the homeless in Edinburgh! I highly recommend stopping in and checking it out!

TL;DR The best pizza. Absolute gem of a place. Taste: It is the perfect slice, a little bit floppy, but with the perfect dough:sauce:cheese ratio such that it doesn't get soggy and nor do the toppings fall off unlike many other pizzas. The dough is just as light as traditional neapolitan pizza, with a crispy, crunchy, delicious crust. The sauce contains a dash of sea salt and fresh herbs, resulting in the tastiest pizza sauce I've ever had. The cheese is top-quality and fresh, sprinkled with a few torn-up basil leaves on top. Usually I'm not a fan of basil on pizza as, personally, it tends to overwhelm the flavour profile - but by using less leaves and tearing them up the balance is absolutely perfect. Consistency: Many pizza restaurants are very inconsistent. Sometimes there's too much cheese so the pizza is greasy, and other times there's too much sauce resulting in a soggy mess and sad, droopy pizza slices where the cheese falls off! Been here 6 or 7 times now, and has always been a 9/10 or 10/10 (9/10 is for when slightly too much basil goes on the pizza - the dough:sauce:cheese ratio is always perfect!) Strongly recommend dining in instead of getting takeaway so that you can enjoy the pizza straight out of the oven.

Brilliant Pizza! We stopped here for lunch the other day. We had the place to ourselves apart from a couple of takeaway customers. The shop is small but very geekily designed, with comic strips as wallpaper, geek memorabilia all around the shop. They even have an arcade machine. The guy was sound that served us. We went with the chorizo and haggis dragon balls for starters with a garlic mayo dip. These were terrific! Great flavour and texture. Garlic mayo was very tasty. I’ve never been to a place were you can customise your own fillings for dough balls (they have about 20 different options), so I thought that was very cool and unique. For the pizzas we went with the Luigi and the blanka. Again, both pizzas were brilliant! Probably the best Neapolitan pizza I’ve ever had and maybe the best pizza, full stop, my wife has had. It was well cooked in the massive brick oven and the toppings tasted great. There was very minimal oily fingers and it felt a lot cleaner than most pizzas you get these days. We didn’t have to wait long for our food to arrive but whilst we waited we played cards that they provide which was a nice added touch. We were going to have the cinnamon dough balls for dessert but they had run out. I will for sure be back to this gem!