Fans of the Apprentice will be very familiar with Anisa Khan, but for anyone else, the idea of an Indian-Italian fusion pizza may sound a bit strange. But I can confirm, as Alan Sugar’s colleague Claude Littmer said in the interview round, that it’s an absolutely five star pizza.
Anisa runs Bombay Pizza, which brings an Indian twist with a curry paste on the base and authentic Indian toppings; it’s not something I ever thought would have worked together but the taste, texture and even appearance were all top-notch.
Bombay Pizza became so popular in the last few weeks of the Apprentice’s 2025 series that the restaurant – which is actually a ‘dark kitchen’, cooking for takeaway and delivery from the kitchen in Anisa’s father’s Indian restaurant, Akash – had to stop taking orders for delivery and only accepted walk in orders and in-person collection. Luckily, Bombay Pizza is about a mile down the road from me in Wallington, south London/Surrey.
We tried to go about a week after the Apprentice final was on television but the wait for pizzas was too long. It was a Saturday so not surprising, but we had a visitor staying who wanted to try the pizzas too so thought we would give it a go. We queued outside for about 20 minutes then when we got to the desk inside were told it was about a two hour wait for a pizza which we decided was too long as we had children wanting their dinner as well. I got chatting to the people behind me in the queue and found they had come all the way to south London from Essex just to try Anisa’s pizzas!
Our second attempt was more successful a couple of weeks later mid-week. By now we were able to place an order online, still to collect in person, and could pick our collection time. We were still sitting in the restaurant for nearly 30 minutes past the collection time but got to see Anisa in action and speak to her, which was an added bonus. (She was really nice of course!)
We couldn’t wait to try the pizzas and they lived up to our expectations. The base was excellent; good texture and thickness and there was a layer of some kind of curry paste instead of tomato on the base. I had chicken tikka masala pizza and the toppings were a million miles away from the chicken tikka pieces you can get from some of the national pizza chains. This was proper Indian cooking- and it worked surprisingly well on top of a pizza.
My husband tried the spicy margherita which he thought was very good and we also had a tandoori paneer, a regular margherita and some masala fries. All the food was excellent, and worth waiting for!
Is it child friendly? (Since this is a parenting blog)… the level of spice on my chicken tikka masala and the spicy margherita was relatively mild (I don’t like spicy food); there are hotter spices on other pizzas but these are clearly shown on the menu. Also, they offer non-spicy normal Italian pizzas so we got a regular margherita for our daughter which she was very happy with.
The pizzas are between £11.95 and £15.95 each which seems reasonable; when we order from the likes of Domino’s we do always save money by getting combo deals but Bombay Pizza is a small independent business and we obviously wouldn’t expect that – and they are well worth the money.
Anisa is now offering pizza by post, where the pizzas are made fresh in her kitchen, packaged and sent by express courier for you to cook at home which is a great idea; she also has plans to expand to a second kitchen and I can see Bombay Pizza becoming a huge success even without winning Alan Sugar’s backing.
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