Trying quirky pizzas from Crazy Pedro’s in Manchester for National Pizza Day
National Pizza Day celebrates all things pizza for 24 hours, and lovers of the delicious dish can devote a whole day to it on February 9 each year.
Whether you're a classic Margarita fan, enjoy a white pizza, or perhaps something with a lot of different toppings - pizza can be made in each and every way.
The delicious cheesy carb is a perfect comfort food and dish to share with friends, and it's no wonder it has a whole day dedicated to it.
This year for National Pizza Day we thought we'd head down to one of Manchester's favourite beer and pizza places, Crazy Pedro's at its site in the Northern Quarter - the venue which sells food until 4am every day of the week.
We sampled some of the restaurant's quirky pizzas - including chicken and waffles, and even one with ketchup, mustard, and a hot dog!
Whether you're a classic Margarita fan, enjoy a white pizza, or perhaps something with a lot of different toppings - pizza can be made in each and every way.
The delicious cheesy carb is a perfect comfort food and dish to share with friends, and it's no wonder it has a whole day dedicated to it.
This year for National Pizza Day we thought we'd head down to one of Manchester's favourite beer and pizza places, Crazy Pedro's at its site in the Northern Quarter - the venue which sells food until 4am every day of the week.
We sampled some of the restaurant's quirky pizzas - including chicken and waffles, and even one with ketchup, mustard, and a hot dog!
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00:00 We've actually put crickets on a pizza before. Didn't really sell very well, but yeah, we just
00:05 kind of do something a bit different, just kind of push the boundaries really. Some of it works,
00:08 some of it doesn't, but it's just all part of the fun, isn't it?
00:11 National Pizza Day celebrates all things pizza for 24 hours, and lovers of the delicious dish
00:17 can devote a whole day to it on February 9th each year. Whether you're a classic margarita fan,
00:22 enjoy a white pizza, or perhaps something with a lot of different toppings, pizza can be made
00:28 in each and every way. The delicious cheesy carb is a perfect comfort food and dish to share with
00:34 friends, and it's no wonder it has a whole day dedicated to it. This year for National Pizza Day,
00:40 we thought we'd head down to one of Manchester's favourite beer and pizza places, Crazy Pedro's,
00:45 at its site in the Northern Quarter, the venue which sells food until 4am every day of the week.
00:51 We sampled some of the restaurant's quirky pizzas, including chicken and waffles,
00:55 and even one with ketchup, mustard and a hot dog.
00:58 It just ticks every box, doesn't it? It's just like comforting, it's also great the day after,
01:02 yeah it just kind of ticks every box really, you can sort of do whatever you want with it as well.
01:07 Every day's pizza day, without us being sort of cliche, but yeah every day's kind of National
01:10 Pizza Day at Pedro's. What sort of food do you want at that sort of time? I think it's very much
01:14 like that kind of, typically you maybe go like a kebab route or something like that, but why wouldn't
01:18 you want pizza until 4am I guess? Some of the flavours are kind of nostalgic flavours that you
01:22 typically have in other dishes, whether that be sort of the mac daddy, which is kind of a riff on
01:25 a big mac pizza or something like that. So it's kind of stuff, flavour combinations that people
01:30 are aware of and sort of aware they've tried before, but just not actually on a pizza. So
01:34 it kind of combined people's sort of two favourite foods really, and we just kind of have something
01:38 for everyone really, so it's one of those places you can kind of come in, grab a slice, grab a
01:41 beer, whatever you want, and just kind of the combinations, I don't think you'll ever see sort
01:45 of chicken, bacon, maple syrup, waffles and stuff like that on a pizza, so it's kind of just a bit
01:50 of a USP really. So hot dog pizza is your classic New York, obviously the New York style pizzas that
01:54 we do, but we thought we'd put kind of a New York hot dog thing on, so it's just kind of sliced hot
01:59 dogs, bits soaked in beer, and then it's ballpark mustard, ketchup and then sort of crispy onions
02:05 to finish off, and then the chicken and waffle is just your classic sort of breakfast, you know,
02:09 you kind of get chicken, waffles, bacon, maple syrup, so it's Belgian waffles, fried chicken,
02:15 sort of like streaky cured bacon, and then drizzled with maple syrup, it's pretty cool to be there.
02:20 Well I can't say I haven't celebrated National Pizza Day, and let's be honest, out of the two
02:24 favourite combinations we've got chicken and waffles and the hot dog one, definitely say the
02:28 chicken and waffles is my favourite, there's that element of like sweet that's really tasty,
02:33 not sure I can get on board with ketchup and mustard on a pizza, but for some people I just
02:39 don't think it's for me, but there's combinations for everyone here at Crazy Pedro, so definitely a
02:46 good chance to try out some new flavour combinations, and who knows what they'll do next.