If you’re at a loss for how to entertain the family this weekend, aside from gorging on chocolate, then I have three words for you.
Creme Egg Calzone.
Okay, so that technically is also gorging yourself on chocolate, but it is chocolate wrapped in pizza dough, so it’s sort of different? Only not really.
On Tuesday this week, I took Belle and my Mum to Prezzo in Bridgwater to try out some of the treats on their Easter menu. I grew up in Bridgwater and so there’s a huge amount of nostalgia for me in sitting in the Bridgwater Prezzo, looking out onto the town centre, remembering when my friend Nicky used to have a Saturday job in Bewise and when Marks and Spencer dominated Fore Street. Bridgwater still mourns the loss of that M&S, decades later.
Anyway, we were in Prezzo, it was raining, but we were cosy and ready to eat a LOT of carbs. Honestly, we ate so many carbs. I would like to say it was work because of writing this, and that was why we ordered both truffle fries and carbonara fries as sides, but I think we both know that would just be an excuse. (Carbonara fries, in case you are wondering, are as good as they sound.)
We were welcomed very warmly indeed, and could not have been better looked after. Everything came quickly, there were no mistakes, it was all round a very solid 10/10. The food was delicious – particularly my pea and goat’s cheese ravioli. I’m an absolute fiend for peas and will die on the cross of proclaiming them our most underrated vegetable.
Starters, main courses, blah blah blah. We know what we’re all here for don’t we?
Creme Egg Calzone.
The Creme Egg Calzone is exactly what you imagine it to be – a whole creme egg wrapped up in pizza dough and baked, so that when you cut into it, (or bite into it, depending on who is watching), both the chocolate and the filling are warm and oozy. It’s served with ice cream and sprinkled with chocolate flake and is only a fiver, which is an absolute bargain.
I will tell you now that I feel like I could happily eat a Creme Egg Calzone everyday for the rest of my life, and I don’t say that lightly. When you think about it, what’s not to love? Melty Creme Egg? Tick. Hot pizza dough? Hell yes. BOTH AT THE SAME TIME? I don’t mind if I do.
If you are a dessert person, you will be interested to know that Prezzo also have a fun rock, paper, scissors game going with their puddings – one person gets to challenge your server, and if they can win the game, they win 2 for 1 desserts for your whole table! Isn’t that fun?
You know how sometimes you go somewhere and you have no real expectations one way or the other, but you come away smiling happily and keep saying to each other, with an edge of surprise in your voice, ‘that was actually really lovely wasn’t it?’
It was like that. Everything was just NICE. The world felt like a slightly better place when we left.
Prezzo have some great offers this Easter, including a £20 set menu and a ‘kids eat free’ offer until April 27th. Find out more here.