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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Hannah Twiggs

Why we are all suddenly happy to pay £5 for a slice of pizza

People are opting for one slice of a pie – but they are fairly enormous - (Getty/iStock)

London has found another way to spend a fiver standing up.

The pizza slice, once principally the food of New Yorkers, students and anyone making questionable decisions after midnight, is having a rather polished moment. Across the capital, enormous triangular wedges are appearing for £4, £5, sometimes £6 or more, topped with everything from pepperoni and hot honey to burrata and vodka sauce. You can fold them. You can walk with them. You can take nice photos of them.

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