Pizza Express confirms Portsmouth Gunwharf Quays restaurant will reopen for outdoor dining on April 12 - full list of restaurants reopening

Outdoor dining will be allowed from April 12 under the government’s roadmap out of lockdown.

Customers can then eat indoors from May 17.

Pizza Express has announced it will be reopening 118 restaurants next month – including in Portsmouth, Andover, Aldershot and Basingstoke.

On its website, the company writes: ‘From 12th April, selected England sites will be open for outdoor dining. You’ll be able to book your table soon, so keep checking back.

‘We are unable to control the great British weather, and due to restrictions, we will be unable to accommodate your booking inside of our restaurant, therefore, please consider this when making your booking.’

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The Pizza Express restaurants in Whiteley and Port Solent were closed permanently last year.

Here is the full list of sites opening on April 12:

- Abingdon- Aldershot- Andover

- Balham, London- Banstead- Basildon- Basingstoke Winchester Road- Bath Theatre Royal- Bedford- Belsize Park, London- Berkhamsted High Street- Bexleyheath- Bishops Stortford- Blackheath, London- Bluewater- Bracknell- Braintree

- Brighton The Lanes- Brighton Marina- Bristol Harbourside- Bromley Widmore Road- Bury St Edmunds

- Camberley- Camden, London- Canterbury- Caterham- Castleford- Cheshire Oaks- Chelmsford- Cheltenham- Chichester- Chiswick, London- Clapham Abbeville Road, London- Cobham- Coventry Belgrade Plaza

- Didsbury- Dulwich Village, London

- Eastbourne- Eltham, London- Esher- Exeter

- Falmouth- Fulham Road (895), London

- Guildford

- Harborne- Harlow- Harpenden- Hastings- Haywards Heath- Hemel Hempstead- Horsham- Hove

- Ipswich Regatta Quay- Islington, London

- Jersey St Brelade

- Kew- Kings Road, London- Kingston Portsmouth Road

- Leeds Birstall- Leeds Headingley- Lincoln- Liverpool Kings Waterfront- Liverpool One- Loughborough- Luton

- Macclesfield- Manchester First Street- Manchester Piccadilly Gardens- Mill Hill, London- Milton Keynes MK1- Muswell Hill, London

- Newbury- Newcastle Jesmond- Newquay- Northampton

- Paddington, London- Petersfield- Pimlico, London- Poole Tower Park- Portsmouth Gunwharf Quays- Putney, London

- Radlett- Reading Oracle- Reigate- Richmond- Rugby- Ruislip- Rushden Lakes

- Salisbury- Sheffield Ecclesall Road- Shepherds Bush, London- Shrewsbury- Slough- Southend-on-Sea Southgate, London- South Woodford- St Christopher's Place, London- St John's Wood, London- Stockton Heath- Stratford Theatre Square- Surbiton- Sutton- Sutton Coldfield

- Tamworth- Taunton- Tonbridge- Tunbridge Wells

- Uckfield

- Walton-on-Thames- Wandsworth Trinity Road, London- West Bridgford- Wilmslow- Wimbledon Village, London- Wokingham- Worcester- Worcester Park- Worthing

- York St Sampson's Square

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