Mr Slice Guy LP Eats
In our latest video as part of our LP Eats review series on the hunt for Preston's best pizza, we headed down to Mr Slice Guy to try their famous wood-fired pizza and see if their good local reputation was well-earned...
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00:00I'm Jack Marshall and I'm a digital reporter with the Lancashire Post and welcome to our
00:07latest LP Eat video. Now as you'll know this season we're reviewing pizza in the city,
00:12the lovely city behind me, it bathed in lovely October sunshine even though it is a bit nippy
00:17out there. So we've been heading out to some of the most kind of well-reviewed, recommended,
00:24top-rated pizza spots across Preston. We've tried three so far, this is going to be our
00:29fourth and we're going to go down to Mr Slice Guy which is located about a 20-minute walk
00:34away. So I'm going to head over there, try it out, see what I can find and see if the
00:37slice measures up. Cheers!
00:39Hi guys, just walking across Preston now towards Mr Slice Guy. It's cold today despite the
00:46sunniness but yeah I'm excited. I think this place kind of brands itself on doing like
00:51wood-fired pizza so I'm expecting something really authentic, classic, thin crust, that's
00:56what I'm looking for. Let's go see what it's like.
01:00Hi guys, so when I left here I was just heading across Preston in the unseasonably bright
01:06October sun, which we've got more of today by the way, to try Mr Slice Guy and like I
01:12said I was looking for kind of proper wood-fired authentic pizza and I've got to say I was
01:16seriously impressed. Now there was a couple of cufflefuls in the sense that they didn't
01:21take, the card machine was broken but that's not their fault, just went next door and grabbed
01:25some cash so that was fine. I'm giving the vibe in there like a 3.5. It was a little
01:31quiet but again, it was early, it's just, they need to be a bit more, they need to take
01:36advantage of the fact that they've got a really cool premises there, they've got a really
01:40cool pizza oven, they've got a really cool setup, make it a bit more kind of hospitable
01:44for sitting, dining, that's the only comment I'd have, the people are friendly, that's
01:48it. 3.5 out of 5 on the vibe front.
01:51Now to the pizza itself, the dough. This dough was the best dough I've had so far
01:54during LP Eats. It was perfect, it's exactly what you want from pizza dough. It had that
01:59kind of like lightness to it, an airiness to it with a bit of a nice yeasty flavour,
02:05it was part of a mouthful, part of a meal, part of a flavour rather than just being the
02:10thing that all the flavours are on top of so it had a bite to it but it wasn't stodgy,
02:14it was a perfect balance and because we've got that classic real pizza oven, it was like
02:19charred around the edges which is a really nice touch, I really enjoyed that. 5 out of
02:235 for the dough, cannot complain, cannot fault it, cannot find any way to improve on that
02:27dough, it was delicious. Now onto the toppings. Toppings were the same, 5 out of 5 for the
02:33pepperoni. It was thick cut but it didn't like fray up at the edges when it had gone
02:37in the oven. It had like a depth of flavour where it wasn't just pure salt or pure pepperiness
02:42or pure spice, it had something a bit more about it, it had depth to it. It was perfect
02:49pepperoni, brilliant, proper bite to it, like I say really thick, lovely, cannot complain
02:53whatsoever, 5 out of 5 for the toppings. Now onto the cheese and the sauce. The sauce was
02:58really nice, really really good, cannot fault the sauce at all, really delicious, you could
03:04taste it, it had that proper homemade nature to it, there wasn't too much of it, there
03:07wasn't too little of it, perfect balance, got like a nice bit in each mouthful so that
03:11was good as well. The cheese, there could have been a bit more cheese, I wanted to notice
03:15the cheese a bit more, I didn't really get any like stringy bites, that's the only thing
03:19I'll say. I'm giving them a 4.5 out of 5 on the cheese front because like I say the
03:24cheese just needed to be a bit more impactful in terms of what it was bringing to the pizza
03:28party. And then finally we come to value, now this pizza cost me £10.79 which is okay
03:33but given that this was a takeaway pizza, you weren't dining in, you weren't having
03:36anything, there were no benefits on that front, you weren't really doing it, you were just
03:39picking it up and going. Yeah, solid deal, it was delicious, it was really good, so I'm
03:45giving her a 3.5 out of 5 for that because it was very, very good but I feel like maybe
03:50if I'm being really persnickety for that kind of price, you'd like to maybe be able to sit
03:54in if you wanted to but anyway I might be nitpicking. That gives me a total score of
03:5921.5 out of 25 which is a really strong score. I enjoyed my time, enjoyed my pizza from Mr
04:05Slice Guy, try it out yourselves, let me know what you think and stay tuned for next week's
04:09pizza review. Cheers!