Pizza has emerged as one of the most popular dishes in the UK today. But the history of pizza is a long one. It is first believed to have appeared in Naples before the turn of the first millenium, where it was a dish which was served as a cheap food to locals, made from dough which had been used to test the temperature of the oven by bakers.

Pizza came to the English-speaking world much later on, when Italian immigrants entered America. Cities with high Italian populations such as New York saw cafes begin to sell pizza to the local Italian-American population.

Pizza is usually a dough base with tomato sauce and mozarella cheese with a selection of toppings. In 1990, a South African supermarket chain took this idea to the next level, when they built the world's largest pizza.

Papa Luigi Dial-a-Pizza emerged in 1983 and was the UK's First Pizza Delivery service. The company has gone from strength to strength with stores across the region in Peterborough, Northampton, Milton Keynes and Huntingdon.

Peterborough
Peterborough's football team The Posh have their ground on the London Road just a stone's throw away from Papa Luigi's store.

Papa Luigi Pizza have been proudly serving pizza in Peterborough for a number of years. Over 25 in fact, and have made many commemorative pizzas in their Peterborough Store. The association with football in the town was notable when Papa Luigi made a special world cup inspired pizza called The Capello and invited Fabio Capello lookalike to come and launch it. Local Peterborough pizza fans were delighted and the pizza was very popular in both Peterborough and across all of the papa luigi stores in Huntingdon, Northampton and Milton Keynes.

Pizza Peterborough
As the home of delivery pizza, Peterborough has a great tradition of ensuring that when you order a pizza, you get your pizza fast. That's why Papa Luigi use state of the art technology to ensure that any pizzas going to any of our customers in any of our stores be that Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Huntingdon or Northampton will get there in record time, and still be piping hot!