--- title: Apparently Pizza Festival Under Delivers on Slices description: The Notting Hill Pizza Festival promise unlimited slices but failed to deliver for attendees, who were left hungry when an oven broke. canonical: https://time.com/5276953/pizza-festival/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-14T20:14:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:51.371Z og:title: A Pizza Festival of "Unlimited" Slices Sadly Under-Delivered og:description: The Notting Hill Pizza Festival was thwarted by pizza oven problems og:url: https://time.com/5276953/pizza-festival/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Pizza Festival of "Unlimited" Slices Sadly Under-Delivered twitter:description: The Notting Hill Pizza Festival was thwarted by pizza oven problems twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Pizza Festival Doesn't Exactly Deliver the Slices After Oven Breaks  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 14, 2018 8:14 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 14, 2018 8:14 PM UTC [Pizza](http://time.com/5267785/taylor-swift-foster-kids-private-concert/) lovers probably thought that the Notting Hill Pizza Festival seemed like a dream: unlimited slices dished out by Italian [pizzaiolos](http://time.com/3994219/best-pizza-places-america/) for the price of admission, eaten at your leisure during the event on Friday. Unfortunately, that promise may have turned out too good to be true, according to the [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-44112260). After the primary pizza oven for the event went out of commission, attendees to the food fest ended up waiting for an hour or longer, [according to some](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-44112260) Twitter observers, just for one slice of pie. “When you come to Notting Hill Pizza Festival and there’s no pizza,” one disappointed festival visitor complained on social media, documenting a crowd of pizza-less people. In an apology letter, the organizers explained the situation — but insisted that there was, indeed, pizza to go around. “In contrast to claims that there were not enough pizzas, this was not the case,” they wrote. “Our team was hard at work to ensure that everyone was able to sample pizzas… However, it was unfortunate that the queues grew due to some overzealous appetites, preventing others to be able to enjoy the food.” Given the situation, the organizing body decided to provide “complimentary VIP passes” for pizza party attendees to go to a BBQ festival to be held in July. > [](https://twitter.com/Gower2708/status/995328842465234944) > [](https://twitter.com/bellmontelife/status/996053665214554112) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5276953/pizza-festival/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5276953/pizza-festival/"},"headline":"Pizza Festival Doesn't Exactly Deliver the Slices After Oven Breaks","datePublished":"2018-05-14T20:14:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:51.371Z","description":"More pizza, more problems","url":"https://time.com/5276953/pizza-festival/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Pizza"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5276953/pizza-festival/","name":"Pizza Festival Doesn't Exactly Deliver the Slices After Oven Breaks"}}]}] ```