Al Forno Pizzeria in Brighton and Hove

Fantastic, fresh and tasty pizzas with great vegan choices and quite reasonably priced. Excellent and fast service. They fit in quite a few tables which makes it a little cosy but they manage it well. We've enjoyed deliveries too and are never disappointed!

Very good pizza, definitely recommended!

Love the food! Best pizza in Brighton, and the staff are all so friendly

Easy to book, good food, cosy restaurant.

Hate to give such a low review, as the pizza here is amazing. However on my last visit, ordered a pizza, even pointed to it on the menu, but was given the pasta dish by accident instead. The waitress who served was very rude. Was then given my correct order, but then was charged for the pasta dish at the end, even though the waitress had made the mistake.

Fantastic service from the restaurant and driver. Thank you so much!

Fantastic pizza. We really enjoyed it. The best one out there. Thank you team at Al Forno.

Wonderful red sauce with meat. Good Cesar salad and caprese. Wonderful atmosphere!!! Just lovely.

Very good pizzas with plenty of dairy-free options

Their pasta dishes are fair but pizza looks really good! One of very few restaurants in the street. One complaint is the lighting. Take your shades or rub on Factor 30. Please dim the lights just a bit (a lot) please!

Today pizza was amazing, one of the best pizza I ever had , I’m very happy

Small authentic Italian restaurant. All Italian dishes catered for. I had pasta plenty of seafood and a very nice amount of pasta. A nice touch was the free limoncello. Reasonable prices, cheery helpful staff and quick service means the food was nice and hot. Best to book first. Downside is very noisy because sadly and many restaurants the same, they have no sound deadening walls or curtains to reduce the echo. Recommended and will be going again

The Al Forno Special was one of the best pizzas I've ever had

fabulous atmosphere🤩🤩🤩 Great Service 👏👏👏 Wonderful staff 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Well prepared, well served food...with Fuller's London Pride too.

Excellent restaurant. Highly recommended, authentic Italian food, nicely cooked, with a nice atmosphere too. Been a few times and happy to go back again.

The pizza was not delivered in a flat bag so all of the toppings had slid off. Why allow couriers to do that? It’s a pizza! Very disappointing.

Best esspresso in town, and amazing hand-made baguettes

Wonderful fresh tasting crispy pizzas. Never disappoints.

Had a takeaway staff were friendly and polite and food was excellent

We stumbled across Al Forno as we were on our way into town for a pizza. We decided to try it out as it looked really nice and authentic (and my partner was getting hangry). I’m vegan and my partner isn’t, so it can be hard for us to find somewhere without having researched it beforehand but I thought if there aren’t vegan options I can just get a cheeseless pizza (it’s actually not bad). I was lucky enough that they had a whole vegan section of the menu. I can’t remember the last time I had so much choice! I forget which one I had, but it was soooo good. I did ask for half the amount of cheese, as vegan cheese can be a bit funny tasting. And while it was really tasty, I’m glad I only had half the cheese as I think it might have overpowered it otherwise. The flavours worked so well together, and the crust was so light and fluffy. They had a good pasta section too, so I can’t wait to go back and try that with some garlic bread. AND they had a vegan lemon cheesecake which I also can’t wait to try. It was a great find.

Absolutely over the moon with finding this on a trip we had over the weekend! We actually had reservations at a different pizza restaurant in the lanes however decided to cancel as Al Forno was closer to our guest house and we’re so glad we did! Lovely little pretty, clean, tasty and the most surprising part fast and efficient. No sooner did we order our starters were with us, then as soon as we finished those our mains were too and they were beautifully cooked. In and out within 40 minutes and beaming with delight. Thank you for making our night team Al Forno ❤️

I ordered a seafood pizza, and I wasn’t satisfied, the pizza was very soggy and not much of seafood, hope they will do better in the future

Best pizza in town! Really incredible meal thanks again 🙏

Good food, good price staff are welcoming and friendly

So yummy fresh ..I took take away..delicious..I love it, chef made it front of me , oven was do nice authentic Italian style, definitely come back again. Highly recommended

£3 pounds extra for a gluten free base when they have the bases frozen and just have to heat it up it is just an abuse.

Great pizza. Very good value. Burrata is delicious 😋

First time ordering from Alforno and this will now be my regular go-to. The delivery was extremely quick so the food arrived piping hot. I added additional requests to my order which the company listened to. Hands down the most delicious pizza I think I’ve ever had with top quality ingredients! After using a local Kemp Town company for a while who failed a few times I’m so glad I looked elsewhere as the pizza here is so much better. Thank you

We order from Al Forno every week it’s the best pizza in Brighton

Lovely food and service. Authentic little Italian. Food was served really quickly and efficiently. I would recommend this restaurant very highly. Well done.

Delicious pizzas and great cocktails 🍸🍹

Amazing place you can feel you somewhere are in Italy 🇮🇹 in a home made family 👪 running restaurant ♥

We order from them all the time and the pizza is really good

Lovely cosy Italian restaurant , fantastic staff , great food (including the gorgeous home made tiramasu!) lovely friendly atmosphere and good value. Just come back from a weekend in Brighton , having visited Al Forno 3 times in 4 days! Would definately recommended it , looking forward to seeing you all again soon !

I’m genuinely wondering whether or not this restaurant is a joke or not? Just opened a box of antipasti bits and bobs that my partner decided to give a go through UberEats… I physically recoiled at the state of the contents. Looks like they swept all the leftovers off of the counter into the box! And the SMELL!! Oh my great giddy aunt. The smell made me GAG. I read through a few other reviews and saw that a few others have mentioned out of date ingredients and have also seen the owner defending himself like his life depends on it- what the reviews say are true. Whatever is in this box is long out of date… the meat is just foul. I don’t know how this place hasn’t been shut down after reading that this has been an ongoing problem. Disgusting.

Pizza ok. Dessert stale. The presentation was as if it had been packed in a shed.

Thank you the pizza was delicious and the egg yolk was still runny. Which the ingredients were spread out towards the edges because they were not so flavourful just pizza, sauce and cheese. But you are the best pizza place around this area. Which a great variety of choices for both vegetarian and meat eaters. Thank you for the diversity of choices. Keep it up🤩✨💜

Brilliant restaurant, first time there. Food is really good.

Really lovely restaurant. Lovely staff. Food is fresh and nicely prepared. Good menu choices. GF pizza bases available. Wild boar topping is wonderful. Nice wine selection.

Called into Al Forno on Friday night for a bite to eat and I was very pleasantly surprised. Our pizzas were delicious. Service was good and desert was tasty too. Will definitely be back.

We ate well. Good welcome. Fast service. Cohesion between cuisine and service. Good dishes and desserts. Limoncello offered at the end of the meal. Good value for money.

Delicious food, the calzone was the real thing. A bit late but was kept updated.

Amazing selection of smoothies ! ! !

Oh my gosh!! We should have just walked straight out! When we entered the premises the staff were arguing (in Italian) an continued to argue few several minutes after we arrived. Eventually one staff member managed to get a word in between the shouty lady shouting and her talking a breath, we are shown a seat ( a very tightly situated bench seat too tight to the table to be comfortable. Then the whole experience took on another level of shock, ftom oder to delivery was max four mins ! Which in some ways was good but given the shouting and the attitude of the server(shorty lady) it all felt like they didn’t want us there at all!! Unfortunately the pizza was very soggy in the center although the rest of it was tasty! I had to just cut the middle out and leave it . Inedible! As we found we had more time due to the speed of the pizza we ordered puddings, something we wouldn’t normally do, these already plated in a display fridge cabinet seemed to take forever to arrive ironically enough! To the point I had to ask if they were still coming as we need to leave to see a show( Leif Vollebekk, our reason for being in Brighton) They did arrive and were very average indeed! We paid and left vowing to never return!! Luckily the concert was amazing!

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Best pitza I've had! You get what you pay for! Saying that I had a bloody Mary cocktail and wasn't impressed!! Still I will return.

A Kemptown gem. Dinky pizzeria that serves authentic pizza in the best looking oven in Brighton. Staff are very friendly and the rest of the menu is excellent too. Dogs welcome, which was a nice surprise and made our visit.

Second time I have ordered from here, one mistake I barely forgave, but same problem a year later? Read the order, cook the order. It’s not that hard

Everything was just spot on,so good pizza,decent amount of toppings,tiramisu worth to try

Got here late on a Sunday evening, was really good. Pizza was all fresh, lovely place.

Restaurant makes tasty pizzas and beautiful service .. The restaurant decor is comfortable and the place and I like it very much.. The best restaurants that put everything on the table like them 😎🇮🇹thank u ( to the waitress Kate and the chef luka )

Excellent food and service. So glad we discovered this little taste of Italy close to our hotel. Would highly recommend.

Great service and food, will be returning again

Very quick Surprisingly. Great.👍

Had a lovely dinner here with my boyfriend a couple of weeks ago. Staff were very attentive and the food was nice and fresh. We enjoyed it. Lovely to support local independent restaurants like this.

Good pizza, freshly prepared and a real Italian vibe. All 3 of our dishes were good, Greek pizza, Greek salad and spaghetti bolognese. Service was prompt.

Lovely local restaurant with great service. Amazing food. I'd thoroughly recommend dinner

I can't comment on the restaurant as I have never been there but I do order from there regularly. The calzone pizza is absolutely delicious! It's always my payday treat. I have tried quite a few things on the menu and they are all wonderful. Keep up the good work guys!

Best pizza in Brighton. We go there most weeks as it’s consistently excellent. I’d be loathe to try anywhere else now.

We were away for the weekend and found this place by our hotel, the staff were so welcoming and got us seated very quickly. The food was hot and so nicely cook.

Gorgeous meal, highly recommend!

Lovely fresh pizza. The restaurant is incredibly small but they manage to pack tables in there quite efficiently so it gives everything a cozy feel. We were seated on a busy Friday night really quickly and weren’t forgotten about. Food and drink arrived quickly. Highly recommend!

I can say best pizza in brighton and service is excellent. I will returned back

Excelent pizza and Emma is the most friendly and carefull to atend us all the time.

The pizza was very good, I liked it very much, it was very light, I would like to see you again, thank you very much for your interest.

Decided to use this restraunt for a celebration. All confirmed bookings week before and 2 hours before we were ment to turn up they phone us and cancelled our table with no reason and hung up without letting us speak or even give us a reason Terrible customer service don’t know how it’s allowed

Lovely staff, lovely food, lovely restaurant. Everything is lovely!! You will not be disappointed. Their desserts are next level. Open until midnight as well!! Excellent prices.

Lovely food with gluten free pizza and pasta options. Staff lovely too!

The worst place to have any event. I graduated today, and had a booking that was made weeks ago. I called to today to see if we could push back the time further, and when they said they couldn’t i said thats fine and we would see them in the reserved time. They then call me back 2 minutes later to cancel my booking and leave me with no plans for my large party for dinner. This was by their management. I hope they all get what they give out in life, as they are money grabbers and do not care about your special events. Edit: Their reply under my review is after spam messaging me on whatsapp to remove this review. I got a confirmation from them, they knew my name when i called and said the time and amount of people.

I came in for breakfast and it was by far the best decision taken. Breakfast options such as paninis, hot chocolate etc are very well prepared and absolutely delicious. Even the waitress who served us was a really sweet and helpful young lady. Definitely a must-try when coming to Brighton

vegetarian pizza Mila ❤️ amazing taste

Very nice food. Pizza was delicious

Nice Italian taste. Lovely pizza and bolognese pasta. Been to Italy myself and it’s comparable :) Bit crammed but worth the trip.

Great breakfast and food was great and plan to come in future for afternoon /evening meals.

Casual but lovely space for Italian food! Amazing salads, pizza and starters with great decor like fresh basil at each table!

I popped in for some lunch - a simple pasta dish and a glass of house red. The service was good and the food was excellent. Finished with the homemade tiramisu. Highly recommended.

Super friendly service, they were really tasty.

Delicious pizzas!! Stunning pizzas !! They are a great size, great price and also very affordable. I love the atmosphere of this restaurant and the friendliness of the staff! The Staff are really warm and make you feel welcome. Definitely recommended!

First time eating here not impressed pizza just basic margarita tuna and olives thrown on top service slow , poor and sloppy also high prices for qty of pizza . pasta the sauce was thick and not really any taste to it the only good point tidy and clean

The place is very beautiful. The pizzas were great and the service was very fast.

Ordered takeaway meat pizza. Sat outside at nice little table & waitress bought out pizza after only 10mins. Cooked in stone oven & excellent quality & taste & not shy on ingerdients. Highly recommend.

Good restaurant for breakfast. The service was very nice. It only took a moment before we could order.

Both my partner and I agree it’s the best vegan pizza we’ve ever had. Atmosphere was great, service was excellent. Loved it!!

From an Italian to a non-Italian pizzeria that pretends to be Italian. I ordered a pizza with Parma ham and rocket salad, instead of a decent Parma ham I got the cheapest and hardest Cerrano ham from Aldi, pizza on the menu £15.50 already crazy over priced but ended up paying £17 with no warning on the menu of whatever extra service I had to pay. Pizza itself less than average to put it nicely, it was covered with rocket salad so much so I had to find a napkin and remove 3/4 of it, a recommended price for such a mediocre pizza £7 and still wouldn’t come back. Sorry I must be very honest these days when you spend £17 pounds with only tap water for a terrible pizza.

I would definitely return again Margherita pizza was out of this world and great price only downfall was customer service not very friendly staff need up their game and speak to customers I know it was busy ish last Thursday, the restaurant has amazing decor etc

Wow. Popped in on the off-chance whilst visiting Brighton 4th July 2024. Absolutely loved the food we got served. I had a spaghetti bolognese, my husband had a carbonara, we shared fried chicken breaststrips and garlic pizza bread with caramelised onions. I was mmmmm'ing with every mouthful and didn't realise I was doing it lol. The pasta dishes were cooked perfectly, not overly saucy nor dry. Chicken was cooked lovely, it was moist, light and crispy and the star of the show was the garlic bread lol. Nothing undercooked or overcooked. It was perfect. Service was great. Didn't have to wait too long and even though it is a tiny restaurant, it still felt cosy and intimate. Will definitely visit again when back in Brighton. To be honest, it's got to be one of the best Italian restaurants we have experienced.

My go to in Brighton...cannot complain .I always order a mila pizza .best pizza I've ever eaten

The best cheesy garlic bread I've had in a long time. Great pizzas and pasta and lots of vegan choices

My pizza was tipped up and the filling was in the box rather then the pizza

Did not expect an amazing full english breakfast at an italian resturant but it was brilliant. Great atmosphere as well, very cozy. The food came out very quickly.

Always here the food is so delicious .. Thank you chef( Luca) and ( Emmi )

Just received our 2 pizzas & both boxes have clearly been turned on their sides. Really disappointing! Who, in their right mind, would tip a newly baked pizza box upright, rather than leaving flat? We order from Al forno fairly regularly & the pizzas taste great, but they can a bit hit & miss. Several months ago I got the best looking pizza I think I’ve ever had (I always opt for Fiorentina) It was like a work of art, (wish I’d taken a photo!) with plenty of toppings. Next pizza delivery, there was no comparison & toppings about a third of the previous - please, at least be consistent! And, today, to our squished pizzas! I’ve no doubt they will taste as good, but please instruct your delivery folk NOT to tip the boxes on their sides!!

Food is delicious, and so are the staff!

Late night Calzone from here... perfectly cooked, full of great meaty fillings & delicious!

Great food and fantastic service Can’t wait to come back!

excellent vegitain breakfast with really good coffee. Large portion for reasonable price. loved it

Great little find. Didn’t have a booking but they made space. Attentive service, good food and drink options, yummy pizzas! Would recommend.

Great little restaurant. We didn’t have a booking but they squeezed us in. Service was friendly and pizzas were yummy. Good veggie/vegan/GF free options too. Only slight criticism was the paper under pizza which went soggy and then just started getting stuck to pizza. Would have been much nicer just served on the pizza board. Could have done without the table behind us who just clearly thought they were the most important people in the restaurant/world, but thankfully they moved 👍

the guys at Al Forno are fantastic, food is freakin' amazing!