Pizza Express Dairy Free Update 2015! Also Gluten Free

Pizza Express has definitely rocketed up my list of places to visit recently after I discovered there are in fact Pizza Express dairy free options, as well as gluten free.

Yes, we are in Pizza Express & Yes, there is Dairy Free Cheese on this Pizza!

Of course we all know by now that Pizza Express have provided us with Gluten Free Pizza Bases for a few years. For many people this has been a life saver. It might not be your absolute favourite gluten free pizza base but it is definitely up there & is great when you are out with friends and want to eat normally alongside everybody else. I will still forever wish they would serve me some gluten free dough balls or some gluten free cheesy garlic bread like they do at Dough in the Northern Quarter, Manchester… but we can dream!

Pizza Express do have a stupidly delicious gluten free starter on the menu at present however, that made me not care ‘so’ much about the lack of gluten free dough balls. The Risotto Fresco is insanely good and is the perfect amount to still give you enough room for your gluten free Pizza! The Risotto Fresco is creamy & full of tasty oak-roasted salmon & Gran Milano cheese, it is seasoned perfectly & I would highly recommend it. (I am not usually a starter girl as I never want to spoil my main but this totally hit the spot)

Obviously in terms of main I couldn’t choose anything except my favourite gluten free pizza.. The American. Simple as, the classic pepperoni was and still is my favourite in Pizza Express!

My delicious Gluten Free American Pizza

However, for once, ENOUGH ABOUT GLUTEN FREE! This post was for me to mention a new discovery for me in terms of the Pizza Express Dairy Free offerings! Now don’t get too excited, there isn’t any dairy free cheese just yet in Pizza Express… but in the past the only way for Mark to eat at Pizza Express was to ask for his pizza without cheese. Pizza Express still state this on their website: “Unfortunately we don’t have a dairy / lactose free cheese but you can leave the cheese off any pizza of your choice.” However upon reading further on their site under the Pizza Express Dairy Free FAQ I found this:

“You are also permitted to bring in your own cheese to top a pizza provided it is in a sealed pack, in date and the date is clearly visible.”

Now I know bringing your own vegan/dairy free cheese might not be for everyone and isn’t always the most convenient thing to do, but for us this was amazing news! We always have vegan/dairy free cheese in the fridge so for us it was very easy to just bring some along with us in a bag. On this occasion we chose to bring some Violife which is definitely one of the very best vegan cheeses around, there are so many different flavours of it I cannot wait to try. On other occasions however I think we would be tempted to take MozzaRisella; I absolutely love MozzaRisella on a pizza, it works amazingly.

When we ordered our meals at Pizza Express it was very straightforward and they understood exactly what we were asking for with the dairy free cheese. I ordered my gluten free risotto starter & pizza and then Mark ordered his pizza. He asked for the mozzarella cheese to be removed and replaced with his Violife dairy free. The waitress was very helpful and made sure we felt happy with the ‘dairy free procedure!’ She explained that it would all be done very separately so to remove any cross contamination. When our main courses arrived our waitress went through each of our orders once more just to make sure everything was correct. This was really positive and made Mark and I very reassured.

Pizza Express Pizza covered in delicious Violife Dairy Free Cheese

Mark’s pizza looked amazing with the Violife Cheese covering it. Violife is a great melting cheese and the guys at Pizza Express had definitely taken the time to scatter it across the pizza perfectly and allowed it to melt. Mark was over the moon being able to eat a pizza with cheese on it at Pizza Express. Let’s face it a pizza without cheese just doesn’t quite hit the spot!

Maybe in the future Pizza Express might jump on the Dairy Free Cheese Wagon, but for now, this is a great option and I thank Pizza Express for this. I love the Gluten Free American Pizza & we live 5 minutes away from our local restaurant so this is perfect news for us.

What do you think about the Pizza Express dairy free option of allowing you to bring in your own cheese? Let me know on Facebook or Twitter.

Thanks for reading,

Becky xxx

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Pizza Express Dairy Free Update 2015! Also Gluten Free

REVIEW: Mozzarisella - Vegan / Dairy Free Cheese

Cheese Cheese Cheese! If you didn’t know I love cheese! Our house is a dairy free cheese zone & Mozzarisella is definitely a great vegan cheese choice! Whether you love pizza, pasta or just cheese on crackers, this dairy free cheese works in every situation. What’s even better now is that this dairy free cheese brand have introduced some new flavours.. Blue Cheese anyone?

Mozzarisella is a great vegan / dairy free cheese for Pizza

When I was a kid if you asked me my favourite food I would have 100% always said cheese. I don’t think I ever had a sandwich with any other filling. My favourite weekend lunch was cheese on toast. When I was at university I learnt the joys of putting cheese on everything… chips included! I actually don’t have any dietary issues with cheese at all… lucky me! Unfortunately, Mark does and therefore we have completely changed our cheese eating habits over the past few years. Of course when I’m out I continue to eat plenty of cheese & if I am back seeing family I will devour a cheese board! However in our house there is not an ounce of dairy cheese and I don’t mind one bit!

That’s because our house is full of Dairy Free Cheese! I have tried so many different types from the supermarkets & at many Allergy & Free From Shows that I now have a few favourite dairy free cheeses. What I find the strangest thing about dairy free cheese is that it can be made from such different things. From soy to tofu, to coconut oil, to what I am going to tell you about today… rice! Mozzarisella is made from germinated whole rice! When I first heard this I thought it was crazy and questioned how it could possibly taste like cheese, or nice at all for that matter! However the very first time I tried Mozzarisella I was genuinely blown away. Our first outing with Mozzarisella was at the Allergy Show in London last year. As big fans of Venice Pizza Bakery’s Gluten & Dairy Free bases we rushed over to their stand to be pleasantly surprised by the free samples. They were giving away pizza samples topped with the dairy free cheese, Mozzarisella! Mark was really pleased with this as no other stand was offering such a service, I think we ended up eating most of it!

Since the Allergy Show we have found Mozzarisella being stocked locally in a number of Manchester Vegan cafes and supermarkets, (V Revolution & Unicorn) which has made our gluten & dairy free pizza making lives amazing. It has also made gluten & dairy free pasta bakes amazing too.

Mozzarisella is amazing with pasta too.

Mozzarisella is a fairly soft cheese that comes in a sausage like shape (you know what I mean right?! But it is definitely vegan… no real sausage in sight!!!) It comes in four different varieties which I have to tell you are all amazing. I initially tried the original flavour which is the plainest of all the flavours, yet it is still delicious. It works perfectly on a pizza and has a similar taste to mozzarella. It melted like a dream and I would be pretty sure you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between this and it’s evil dairy cousin.

The next flavour I tried soon after the original was the Creamy Mozzarisella. The creaminess that comes with this dairy free cheese actually brings a lot more flavour too. Again it would sit perfectly on a pizza or in a pasta dish but equally I happily just spread this on crackers and it tastes amazing. I think you could use the Creamy Mozzarisella instead of a dairy cream cheese in a recipe and it would work very well.

The smoked flavour has been our favourite ever since we tried it. It is our number one choice out of all dairy free cheese for putting on a pizza. As with all Mozzarisella it can be cut into circles and placed on a pizza where it will melt down into a gooey heaven-like form. I also have found that the this smokey dairy free cheese works brilliantly in a toastie or a panini with some ham. The Smoked Mozzarisella smells amazing too, I basically just think you really need to try it. I cannot recommend this flavour enough for those with or without a dairy intolerance.


A few weeks ago I got the chance to grab a couple of their brand new flavoured dairy free cheese, the Blue Cheese! At first I was a little apprehensive. I am fairly picky when it comes to my blue cheeses and I couldn’t imagine it coming close to a big chunk of stilton. However, I will now hold my hands up and say I was wrong… the Mozzarisella Blue Cheese is seriously unreal. As I am sure you know from eating dairy free cheese, many of them have fairly similar tastes. Most taste really good but the underlying flavour is often very similar, regardless of what it is made from. The blue dairy free cheese that Mozzarisella have created is very different.. it has a really strong flavour, like that of a proper blue cheese. The texture is slightly softer than the other 3 varieties of Mozzarisella which makes it really spreadable. It is delicious on crackers, I can also imagine it being added to a sauce or even into a gluten free / dairy free blue cheese tart. Mark & I have been eating a lot of this cheese; a couple of days ago we made the decision to put the Mozzarisella blue cheese on our home made pizzas… I was apprehensive, would it be too overpowering? How wrong was I, I think this might be the greatest discovery of them all & I will definitely be putting it on my pizza again!

The brand new BluRisella!

If you haven’t tried Mozzarisella before, but are on the look out for a vegan / dairy free cheese then I highly recommend taking the time to try this. All the different flavours have a place in my fridge so it depends what sort of cheeses you like. Mozzarisella has confirmed to me that not all great cheeses need to be made from dairy. It is a great alternative that really can be enjoyed by everyone.

You can buy it online at a variety of different stockists & also in a lots of independent food shops spanning the entire UK.. click here for details.

You can also find out more about Mozzarisella by checking them out on Facebook by clicking here, or on Twitter by clicking here.

Let me know if you get the chance to try out this delicious dairy free cheese & what you think of it.

Thanks for reading,

Becky xxx

REVIEW: Mozzarisella - Vegan / Dairy Free Cheese