Arthur’s Pizza
47 Perouse Rd (The Spot)
Randwick, NSW 2031
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Arthur’s Pizza is as “no frills” as it gets, with a cramped interior longing for a new coat of paint and new non-wobbly chairs. Catering for the Uni crowd though, all it really needs is to provide good cheap food and it’ll be a winner. Unfortunately, I was dismayed to see the prices all hiked up by $2. May not seem like that big of a deal, but it’s just the principle of it that annoys! Fortunately, we scored an outdoor table, which was lovely as there were 7-8 of us there for a College reunion.

We ordered 3 large pizzas:

Australian – my favourite because it comes chockers with meat and an egg cracked on top before being cooked
Supreme – nice, but had to pick the pineapple *shudders* off it
Vegetarian – didn’t have any as it defeats the purpose of pigging out on pizza!

Arthur’s Pizza was one of my favourite haunts when I lived in College. I always swore up-and-down that it had the best pizza ever. But $2 price rise aside, I can’t figure out if the quality has gone down, or my expectations have gone up after eating lots of gourmet pizzas since. I think it’s more likely the former. I remember the crust being a bit more crisp 2 years ago.. and less soggy. And I found the pizzas all on the salty side, whereas I never noticed that before. They were all still SO satisfying and come laden with ingredients and cheese, so at least I was happy. I also love how the ingredients go allll the way to the edge of the crust – I get grumpy with pizzas that have a dollop of ingredients right in the middle and tonnnns of crust.

Also had a Caesar Salad which was delicious. It came weighed down with cheese, bacon and croutons – but the cheese was so finely sliced, and the bacon was so crisp that I enjoyed it all :)~

Caesar Salad

Australian Pizza

Some of the girls

Some of the boys

Really cute ugly dog 🙂

Sugarplum Cafe & Ice Cream Bar
25 Perouse Rd (The Spot)
Randwick, NSW 2031

We adjourned afterwards for some dessert at Sugarplum, with a name sweet enough to make me want to eat there 😉 After taste-testing just about every flavour (thanks to the patient guy behind the counter), I finally decided on the Strawberry Swirl. I liked it because it came thick with strawberry-flavour and wasn’t sour at all, it was yummilicious! Chris selected the Mint Choc Chip which I thought looked really uninteresting, hah.

Sugarplum Cafe & Ice Cream Bar

Pretty interior

Array of ice cream flavours

Strawberry Swirl & Mint Choc Chip