{"id":854747,"date":"2026-03-27T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/854747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:20:21","slug":"famous-pizza-restaurant-giving-away-free-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/854747\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous pizza restaurant giving away free pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved pizza restaurant, Forbici, held its grand opening in Sheffield City Centre today, marking the occasion by giving away one thousand free pizzas.<\/p>\n<p>Queues of people lined the streets, with some people waiting for over 50 minutes in Millennium Square to get their hands on a box of Forbici Pizza.<\/p>\n<p>A queuer said: \u201cExcited is an understatement\u2026 we saw it on Instagram last night and thought that this was our activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sheffield restaurant will be the second Forbici restaurant in the UK, after the Manchester branch opened last year.<\/p>\n<p>For the grand opening, Forbici collaberated with Henderson\u2019s relish to create a Sheffield signature Neapolitan pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby, a Henderson\u2019s Relish ambassador, said: \u201cIt has been super busy, they had a super good turnout\u2026 We thought we would collab and give everyone a taste of the relish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1804-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Queue's around the front of the pizza shop\" class=\"wp-image-70048\"  \/>Forbici in Millennium square<\/p>\n<p>Forbici\u2019s signature dishes include classics like the marina, and margherita but also more unique Italian dishes like the Provola e Pepe.<\/p>\n<p>Forbici itself means \u201cscissors\u201d in Italian and symbolises the way that Forbici uses scissors to cut its pizza\u2019s four ways.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant takes pride in its dough which is made fresh every morning and has gained praise from celebrities and famous chefs including Marco Pierre White, who called the pizzas at the Manchester restaurant \u201cdeliciously good\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The free event took place from midday until two in the afternoon, but bookings are now open as usual.<\/p>\n<p><video height=\"960\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 540 \/ 960;\" width=\"540\" controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7AA142FB-B023-49D6-B785-D52A57226394-1.mov\"\/>Queues for Forbici across the city centre<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t Post Views: 132&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved pizza restaurant, Forbici, held its grand opening in Sheffield City Centre today, marking the occasion by giving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,27653,1620,16,15],"class_list":["post-854747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-pizza","tag-sheffield","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116303470720131545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}