ABOUT US

GB•PIZZA•CO started life in the back of a vintage VW Campervan.

Its co-founders, an award-winning chef, Rachel Seed, and travel and food journalist, Lisa Richards, moved to Margate in the Olympic summer year, 2012. Serving their wood-fired pizza from the Harbour Arm in sun, wind and occasional sideways rain. They launched their first permanent restaurant, on Margate’s historic seafront, in October 2012. Since then, the restaurant has been lauded in national and international press.

LISA RICHARDS is co-founder of GB•PIZZA•CO. In a past life she worked in publishing, as a magazine editor, travel and food writer and photographer’s assistant – amongst many other things. She even did a stint on live TV, working for This Morning. After winning ‘Gastropub of the Year’ and ‘Best Food Pub’ for her first hospitality venture, a pub in Wiltshire, she switched sides permanently, from reviewer to restaurateur.

Favourite pizza: A simple Margate-rita or a chorizo and chilli with extra pear (believe me, it works).
Cheeky extra topping: Tahini on everything.
Favourite view in Margate: Apart from out of our window? I love a cold winter’s day when the beaches are deserted and the ships are taking shelter just off-shore.
After-work drinks: Off Licence, Picnic or Sête.
Out for dinner? We are SO spoilt for choice. Margate has become an incredible destination for independently owned restaurants and bars. Dive, Angela’s, Bottega Caruso and Fort Road Hotel are all favourites.

OUR TEAM

We are so lucky to have an amazing team, many of whom are Margate born and bred. We aim to deliver high quality, wood-fired pizzas topped with predominantly British ingredients, meticulously sourced. It’s incredibly important to us – and always has been – that customers can eat and drink well at our restaurant for under £10.

CHANTELLE ELSE

is the manager and a shareholder of GB•PIZZA•CO. She has been working for Team GB for four years. During the toughest of times for hospitality, Chan has motivated the team and brought them back together post-Covid, for two bumper summers. Chan is passionate, hard-working and is happy to get her hands dirty. No job is too big or small.

Favourite pizza: Air dried ham
Cheeky extra topping: Goat’s curd
After works drinks: Too many places! We’re spoilt.
Favourite view: From our neighbours, Number 42 Guesthouse’s roof terrace.

ELLIS JOBSON

is our Front of House Manager. She’s been with us since just after Covid, and works alongside her partner, Chan. Ellis is always so upbeat and positive and is such a huge support for her team. She worked tirelessly when the restaurant was closed due to an arson attack, working alongside Lisa, Chan and designer Sara Heskin from Raven Collective to rebuild GB•PIZZA•CO.

Favourite pizza: No Smoke Without Fire.
Cheeky extra topping: Goat’s curd.
Favourite view in Margate: From Fort Road Hotel’s rooftop. Preferably with a cocktail in-hand.
After-work drinks: Wildes in the Old Town.
Out for dinner? Lillies. The tapas is so great here.

ABOUT RACHEL

Rachel Seed launched GB•PIZZA•CO in 2012, alongside Lisa Richards. The 45-year-old, who had been diagnosed with

a brain tumour in 2005, worked tirelessly at the stove and oven despite four rounds of brain surgery. She died on 29th December 2018. She was GB•PIZZA•CO’s founder, mentor, our boss, our friend and GB Pizza’s inspiration.

Rachel’s legacy will live on, both in the little pizza restaurant she helped to create but also in her fine words of wisdom, “Rachel’s Rules for Life” which she wrote for her nieces and nephews before she died.

Look out for the plaque in our restaurant at her favourite place to sit, eat, work and chat to our team.