About the shop
Fireaway Pizza Croydon is a local pizza shop at 142 High Street, CR0 1ND. We make pizzas to order for delivery and collection, and we keep the menu flexible so the person ordering decides what goes on the pizza. This page covers how the shop works and where it sits in the wider UK pizza scene.
Inside the shop
Fireaway Pizza is a UK pizza brand built around made-to-order pies, and the Croydon branch is one kitchen inside it. Orders come in, dough is stretched, toppings go on, and the pizza goes into a hot oven. Nothing is held under a lamp waiting for someone to want it. If you have ever wondered why a custom order sometimes takes a few minutes longer than grabbing something off a shelf, that is the reason.
One address, one delivery area
That shapes everything: the delivery area is local, the kitchen serves the streets around us, and the people ordering are usually nearby. It is a different setup from a national chain with hundreds of sites, and we treat that as the point rather than a shortcoming. A shorter delivery route and a kitchen tied to one address mean fewer handovers between the oven and your door.
From the oven
The kitchen works one way, every shift: dough is stretched to order, the sauce and cheese go on to your chosen base, and the toppings follow whatever you asked for. A pizza that sits around loses the crust first, and there is no way to bring that back. So we don't hold pies. The one you get was assembled after your order landed, which is the whole of the claim — a kitchen routine, not a slogan.
Via the website, over the phone, or the platform you use. Size, base, and topping choices arrive with it.
Fresh dough pressed and stretched by hand, then dressed in the order your ticket was written.
A short, hot bake sets the crust and melts the cheese without drying the middle.
Cut, boxed, and handed to a driver or set out for you to collect at the counter on High Street.
Your call, your pizza
The menu is built around customisation. You can take a house combination if you want a suggestion, or build from the topping list if you know what you like. Sizes scale from one person to a group, and bases can be swapped to suit the order. That flexibility is deliberate: it means a single order can cover a household where nobody agrees on toppings, and nobody has to settle for someone else's idea of a pizza. If you are building from the topping list, tell us how you want it split and we will keep each half straight.
UK pizza delivery is dominated by large national brands, and customers have come to expect fast turnaround and app-based ordering as standard across the board. We cannot compete on scale, and we are not trying to. Here is the honest comparison.
What a local shop offers is proximity: a shorter delivery area, a kitchen tied to one address, and a menu that answers to the people actually ordering from Croydon. That is the trade. We give up the reach of a national brand and keep the short line between the counter and your door.
Plain answers
It is an overused word, so it is worth being specific. It means the pizza is assembled when you order, using the base and toppings you selected, rather than being pre-made and kept warm. It does not mean anything more than that. We are not claiming a special ingredient list or a secret method, and we do not want you to buy on the strength of a word. If you want the details of how a particular item is prepared, ask us and we will answer directly.
The same goes for anything else you want to check before ordering — allergy questions, how a topping is handled, or whether a request is possible. The phone line during opening hours is the fastest route to a real answer, and the contact page has the details.
Ask the shop a question
We run both routes with the same kitchen and the same menu. Neither route changes what you can order, which is worth saying because some shops restrict custom builds to collection only. Here we do not.
Delivery
Delivery covers a local area around the shop, so the route between the oven and your address stays short. Check your postcode on the delivery and collection page before you build an order — if you fall outside the local area we will say so rather than take the order and hope. Drivers leave with your pizza once it is boxed, and the address you enter is the one the kitchen works from.
Collection
Collection is from 142 High Street and is often the faster option if you are already in town. Order ahead and it will be coming out of the oven around the time you walk in. It is the same pizza, the same menu, and the same customisation — the only thing that changes is who carries it home.
Croydon has a busy takeaway market, and pizza competes with everything else on the high street. That is not a problem for us. A shop has to be worth walking to or ordering from, and the way to be worth it is to make the food well and keep the process easy. We would rather do that than make claims we cannot back up.
It also means the choice is real. If someone on your street wants a burger and you want a custom pizza, the two orders can come from the same kitchen. That is the practical advantage of a local shop on a street with options: nobody has to compromise because of where the food is coming from.
If you are nearby
Orders for delivery or collection can be placed the same way, at any point during opening hours. There is no separate menu for one route and no restriction on how you build a pizza, so the only decision left is whether you are coming to High Street or waiting at home.
See how delivery and collection workShort answers to the things people check before placing a first order. More detail sits on the FAQs page.
142 High Street, Croydon, CR0 1ND. The counter is on the high street itself, so collection orders are picked up there during opening hours.
Yes, to addresses in the local area around the shop. Check the delivery and collection page for details and to confirm your postcode before ordering.
Yes. Choose your base, size, and toppings, or start from a house combination. Splitting toppings across one pizza is fine — tell us how you want it divided.
Often, yes, if you are already in town. Collection removes the drive to your address, so ordering ahead and walking in to High Street usually gets you a pizza sooner.
Call the shop during opening hours, or send a message through the contact page. If it is about how something is prepared or what is in it, we would rather answer before you order than after.
Yes. Fireaway Pizza is a UK pizza brand and this is its Croydon shop — one kitchen, run to one standard, at 142 High Street.
The shop is at 142 High Street, Croydon, CR0 1ND, open Monday to Sunday from 11:00 to 23:00. The contact page has the phone number and a form if you want to ask something before ordering. If you just want to order, the menu is the place to start — build the pizza you actually want and we will make it when the order comes in.
