Slices in Bury St Edmunds had been on our radar for a while. The restaurant opened on Abbeygate Street in July 2024: a rebrand of pizza restaurant Dough&Co which was there before.
In all honesty, the reason it took us so long to visit was that we hadn’t been massively impressed with its predecessor. So, would Slices, with its bottomless pizza offering, be any better?
It’s not just the concept that’s changed. The restaurant looks totally different: the sand-coloured walls have made way for a beautiful green colour – the place looks very smart.
The kitchen is still open-plan so you can see the chefs hard at work at the back of the restaurant, and there’s a new addition to the tables, too. Each table has its own small light with a pull cord: turn the light on when you want the pizza to keep coming, turn it off when you and your fellow diners are full.
Once seated, the concept will be explained. For £16 per adult or £6 for children under 12 (children under 6 eat free), you can enjoy as many slices of pizza as you want during your two-hour sitting. Head over between Monday and Friday from 12-4pm and the adult price is reduced to just £12.50 (which is exactly what we did).
As soon as the chefs have made a pizza, they slice it up for the Slices team to bring round to each table. Choose whether you want a slice or wait for the next variety – they’ll let you have more than one slice on your circular slate that serves as a plate.
If there are certain pizza toppings you’d prefer, you can put in a request. Otherwise, simply sit back and enjoy the diverse variety of toppings that come round!
You pay extra, of course, for drinks, sides and desserts – and for some options, the prices they charge seem pretty steep. But what about the pizza…?
Between the three of us, we tried quite the variety. A margherita, a veggie pizza, chicken and honey. A chicken, pepperoni and ham option; a plain pepperoni pizza; a controversial ham & pineapple.
The crusts themselves were far better than when we visited Dough&Co. The toppings tasted fresh and there were plenty of them – and there was a good amount of cheese. We were pretty happy with what was presented, our one complaint being that the wildly varying slice sizes made it impossible to judge whether to go for another.
I’m really not a fan of eating from slates – especially when using cutlery – but this was also the case at Dough&Co: I guess it makes sense to stick with what you have. Overall, though, we enjoyed our Slices experience: it’s good to have somewhere that offers something completely different to the town’s other restaurants. I have a feeling we’ll be back again…