It provides reliable, but not necessarily spectacular pizzas. But that may be more than enough in Colombia, where ordering a pizza can be a little traumatic.

The trauma typically begins with the horrendous assumption that all pizzas come with tomato by default or that having requested tomato you’ll find something more than a few slices decoratively placed on top of the cheese. And when it comes to cheese, you may have to make do with ‘house cheese’ unless specifically requesting mozzarella.

Pizza 1969 takes away the pain factor and offers good pizzas and an atmosphere reminiscent of the American Dream itself with shiny happy furnishings and some 1969 memorabilia.

The salad’s can be tightly packed to the point of being impenetrable, although this is surely a deliberate manoeuvre to reassure anyone who was having second thoughts about turning down their wholesome plate of beans and rice.