Full list of Pizza Express restaurants set to reopen, including in Newcastle and Durham

Both Newcastle and Durham are included in a top pizza chain's new list of branch locations which will be reopening to dine-in customers in July.

Pizza Express has announced that Thursday, July 9 is to be the opening date for 46 restaurants which will be serving up meals again for the first time in months.

And its pizzerias in intu Eldon Square, Newcastle, and Saddler Street, Durham, are included among them.

The next nearest for North East fans after that will be its branch in Carlisle.

During lockdown, Pizza Express has been running trials of delivery and click and collect services at a pick of locations in the south and on July 2 it also will be extending these services to more restaurants around London.

Its latest stages of phased reopenings are being developed in line with the new Government advice and will adopt similar safety measures to those tried out during the trials, such as extra cleaning, social distancing and menu reviews.

Additional measures will include introducing regular health checks for staff, rigorous hygiene procedures, hand sanitiser stations, digital menus and online payments.

Zoe Bowley, managing director of Pizza Express, said its teams and customers are "top priority" and following Government advice and its prior trials, the company is "delighted" to announce its first 46 pizzeria reopenings.

She added: “The extensive safety measures we have in place across all reopened pizzerias will allow us to provide the full Pizza Express experience that our customers have come to love, in a safe and responsible way, as we work to gradually bring back our freshly hand-made pizza to even more locations in the near future."

These are the Pizza Express restaurants reopening on July 9

1. Jersey – St Brelade
2. Jersey – St Helier
3. Buxton
4. Carlisle
5. Cheshire Oaks
6. Chester
7. Didsbury
8. Gretna Gateway
9. Hale
10. Knutsford
11. Liverpool – King’s Waterfront
12. Macclesfield
13. Poynton
14. Wilmslow
15. Bar Marzano – Norwich
16. Basildon
17. Bishops Stortford
18. Braintree
19. Brentwood
20. Bury St Edmonds
21. Chelmsford
22. Colchester
23. Ely
24. Hatfield
25. Hertford
26. Ipswich – Regatta Quay
27. Kings Lynn
28. Lakeside
29. Newmarket
30. Norwich – St Benedict Street
31. Norwich – Forum Building
32. Rayleigh
33. Southend
34. Berkhamsted
35. Beverley
36. Durham
37. Harrogate
38. Hull – Princes Quay
39. Ilkley
40. Newcastle – Eldon Square
41. Skipton
42. York – River House
43. York – McArthur Glen
44. York – St Sampsons Square
45. London – Abbey Road
46. London – Bankside

Pizzerias open for delivery-only and click-and-collect services from Thursday, 2 July

1. London - Fulham Road
2. London - Kennington, London
3. London - Highgate
4. London - Putney
5. London – Wimbledon, Broadway
6. London - Islington
7. London - Stratford East
8. London - Pimlico
9. London - South Woodford
10. London - Mill Hill
11. London - Barnet
12. Reigate
13. London - Teddington
14. London - Herne Hill
15. London - Whetstone
16. St Albans
17. London - Walthamstow
18. London - Richmond
19. London - Curtain Road
20. Esher
21. Walton On Thames
22. London – Harrow, St George Centre
23. Woking

Pizzerias already open for delivery-only and click-and-collect services:

1. Abbeville Road
2. Balham
3. Belsize Park
4. Camden
5. Chiswick
6. Croydon – George Street
7. Dulwich
8. Ealing
9. Fulham Road – (363)
10. Greenwich
11. Notting Hill Gate
12. Shepherds Bush
13. Wandsworth – Trinity Road