Not A Trace Awards 2016

Regular readers will know that each year I have my own little awards ‘ceremony’ where I acknowledge the best products / companies in various categories.

The awards for 2016 are obviously a little late(!) and as my blog posts were few and far between last year, due to a certain little person taking all my attention, the 2016 awards are more a summary of my blog reviews from last year.

Despite my inability to blog of late, it’s great to have had over 58,000 blog views since Not A Trace began. I am also very proud to see the constant stream of views every day even if I haven’t blogged for a while. Thank you to you all!

So, on to the awards / 2016 round-up….

Pizza Express – gluten free dough balls

Since I last wrote a review about Pizza Express back in 2013, I’ve visited the restaurants on numerous occasions, whether it be on my lunch break, with the Bristol Coeliac Group or when I booked to have a meal at one of the restaurants in Bath for my hen night!

Back when I wrote the first review, the starter options were quite limited, but now everyone’s prayers have been answered – they have gluten free dough balls! 🙂

Pizza Express, Corn Street, Bristol

Last week my lovely boyfriend offered to take me out for a meal to celebrate that I’d got a new job :).

As the choice was down to me as to where we went, I opted for Pizza Express. Despite hearing great things about their ‘new’ gluten free options, I still hadn’t tried them for myself, so I thought that now would be a great time to try them out.

When we go to Pizza Express in Bristol, we tend to go the one near the centre of town in Corn Street, so I booked a table online. I discovered that they were still running their weekend offer of 3 courses for £13.75, but I’d previously seen comments that gluten free options weren’t included in this, and indeed none were shown on the set menu options.

I tweeted Pizza Express the evening before we were due to go to see if this was indeed the case, but I didn’t receive a response until after the day after I’d been (more on that later).

I still signed up for the offer as at the very least my boyfriend would be able to make use of it, so we headed into town and to Pizza Express.