Located on Kingsland High Street (obvs),
Voodoo Rays is part of the same venture as Dalston Superstore. It is a fairly
simple concept: late night pizza, but
executed in a manner that will leave you confused about why this hasn’t been
around forever. I have been there twice now and walked past about 8ish on a
Tuesday night last week and the queues made it is obvious that people like
their pizza in slices (being in the Sunday Times Style Magazine as a new trend
also helps).
The pizzas are large slices which are reheated in the oven
and delivered to your table at a temperature similar to molten iron. There is a
decent selection of premade pizzas, though if it ain’t
on the counter then you ain’t in luck - my choice of the Honolulu (Ham and Pinapple) was everything you expect the pizza to be and what you want at 1am - cheesy, hammy, fruity, salty and filling. They
also serve beer and margheritas so you can ensure that you get in that utterly pointless one last beer before heading home. The first time I visited it was after a long
Efes session which meant after two bites I was done. I obviously wasn’t going
to waste any food so wrapped it in tissue paper before using my girlfriend as a
mule to get it home. Having got the chance to taste the pizza in a sober mode the
next day I can confirm that it was still pretty tasty, a rather good
indictment. The pizzas are also decent value for money, all around the 4 quid
mark.
In all, it is a pretty good place to get a post or
pre-session snack. This isn’t the type of place you should come to replace a
meal out, but to compliment some heavy drinking it is ideal. And obviously it
helps that you come out feeling you are the front of the coal face discovering
trends that will sweep Britain, rather than when you leave USA PIZZA feeling
like you have purchased diabetes.
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