[ Home ]

[ Menus ]

[ Gallery ]

[ Links ]

[ Our Story ]

[ Contact us ]


No Ordinary Restaurant

NO service charges
NO huge markups on wine
NO bottle over £10
NO minimum spend per head
ALL wines available by the glass
FULL menu 10am - 10pm
OPEN all day, every day
KIDS eat free on a Sunday
LOYALTY card -> free pizza
FULL takeaway service
FREE home delivery
10% student discount

HAPPY HOUR - 2.30 to 4.30, Mon to Fri - All regular pizza 1/2 price

BEST VALUE LUNCH IN TOWN - LTS - Pizza, Garlic Bread and Coleslaw - only £4.15!

Welcome to The Pizza Cafe, Newton Abbot

Mark Thuell's obsession for the last 20 years has been to create the perfect neighbourhood pizza restaurant…


Mark’s early life was spent in the Far East and he acknowledges the influence this has had in the strong, clean, exotic flavours that come through in his pizzas. He achieved an H.N.D. in Hotel Management in Torquay before opening The Tall Ships Restaurant in Dartmouth specialising in south east asian / seafood dishes. For 5 years he ran this very successful enterprise as chef/manager. He then embarked on his extensive world travels for a seven years, working and trekking especially around his beloved east, something he still loves to do today. He returned to Devon with a vision of his future in the catering industry and set about creating the restaurant that was to become his passion.


The Pizza Café was born in 1987 and from day one has always been an informal, friendly place where anyone can call in anytime for a coffee, snack or 3 course meal with wines and beers from around the world. Home delivery was soon added to enable the people of Newton Abbot to enjoy great tasting fresh pizza in the comfort of their own home


The development of the Pizza Café has been an organic evolution always responding to the changing tastes and lifestyles of its many hundreds of loyal customers. A willingness to introduce new things such as wraps, paninins, tex-mex and fresh fruit smoothies ensured that the Pizza Café became a leader and innovator in the fickle restaurant business and also somewhat of an institution in Newton Abbot.


Mark understands that good staff is the key to success and one of the special aspects of The Pizza Café is the quality, loyalty and dedication of its staff. Manager Steve Campbell started as a chef on day one, assistant manager Tracy Grant, 19 years ago as a dishwasher and shift managers Luke Turpin, Sarah Strickland and Christie Cheer have over 30 years experience at the Pizza café between them.


The Pizza Café also leads from the front in terms of ethical policy. Coffees and teas are fair-trade organic, ingredients are high quality locally sourced organic, all waste is recycled and packaging is biodegradable wherever possible.
Sponsoring the Helen Foundation, a local charity supporting artistic endeavour in the youth of Teignbridge, by donating 25p from every American Graffiti pizza sold.


The magic of The Pizza Café lies in its ability to appeal to a wide cross section of the local community from the elderly to the very young, families to business people, and couples to large parties.


20 years on and the initial foundation concept of ultra fresh food, attention to detail, fast friendly attentive service all at fair and reasonable prices ensures the future for this unique establishment.


The vision lives on.

The Management Team at The Pizza Cafe

© The Pizza Cafe 2007 | website design by -eatout-designs