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I love coming to this spot with friends for a pint and a pizza, the hill station cafe has a great community-fuelled atmosphere and it’s a great idea to have pizzas you can order in or out.
However, I wanted to say something, as the last time I came, for my siblings birthday on 13 March, I was really disappointed. I got a gluten free pizza which I think I paid £3.75 extra for. But it was given so little care or attention, I could barely eat it. It had hardly seen the heat of the oven! The crust had got no colour, the passatta was sour, sloppy and not hot, and the cheese barely melted. Eating gluten free is already a pain, but when you have to pay 25% extra on top, the experience was unpleasant and I felt embarrassed to eat it in front of my friends. I asked for some olive oil or salt first but the new waitress said they didn’t allow this. The staff at hill station were attentive to my needs and tried to find some olive oil for me. By this point I asked another wait staff to put it back in the oven for me, and he kindly did so. This made it a bit better. I understand you are super busy on a Friday night- but if you have people paying this much more for a gluten free base that you have imported from Italy, at least treat it with some love! There are many celiac Italians who would back this I’m sure!
I would like to come again as it is fairly rare to know a cute place to hang out that does do gluten free pizza, but please adjust your quality to reflect the price / charge less!