Ma Bella Pizza

Ma Bella Pizza is a small pizza and pasta takeaway based at Central Garage on the High Street in Newton Poppleford, incorporated in 2024 and also delivering into nearby Sidmouth. It's a straightforward operation built around made-to-order food rather than a sit-down room: order online through Just Eat or Foodhub and it comes to your door, or collect it yourself from the shop.

The pizzas are 12 inches, hand-stretched and baked with fresh toppings, and the dough, tomato sauce and pesto-garlic sauce are all made in-house to the shop's own recipes rather than bought in ready-made. Pasta and burgers round out the menu alongside the pizza, giving a bit of range beyond the usual takeaway staples. It's the kind of neighbourhood takeaway that works because the basics - the dough, the sauce, made fresh rather than from a catering tub - are done properly, rather than because of any fuss around the food or the setting.