Brothers who went from street food markets to restaurants are hoping to bring their indie pizza chain to one of Nottingham's most buzzing streets. Pizza Pilgrims was founded by Thom and James Elliot after a pilgrimage across Italy to find out how to make the perfect Neapolitan pizza.
Travelling the length and breadth of Italy in a three-wheeler "at blistering speeds of 18mph" they found the best ingredients for the menu, which means flour from the Caputo Mill in Naples, parmesan from Reggio Emilia, tomatoes from Campania and olives from Sicily. The brothers went on to install an oven in their Piaggio Ape car to sell pizzas at events for 18 months before landing their first bricks and mortar restaurant in London in 2012.
Since then they've grown to more than a dozen pizzerias in the capital, Brighton and Oxford. Now they've announced plans to head north to Nottingham, opening the first in the Midlands.
