Al Parco in Camden

Opens at 08H00, which is good. I have only had the scrambled eggs on toast and found it to be good every time. I notice that they serve bacon. They serve not only traditional Turkish coffee, but good stron western coffee in medium sized cups, which is so much better than the "chain Americanos" that one can encounter elsewhere. There are tables and chairs outside, which are screen from the pavement by a hedge. The toilets have been clean when i have visited them. As I've mentioned elsewhere, with three food outlets, Al-Parco, Kalendar & and the (Gail's) Bakery with slightly different styles and atmospheres, locals & visitors are spoilt for choice at that south east corner of Hampstead Heath. . Between

Absolutely fantastic restaurant, the food was amazing and the service was extremely friendly, professional and accommodating, nothing was a problem, I will be revisiting for sure. A very intimate yet vibrant restaurant.

Juste EXCELLENT. Je ne pensais pas que j’allais pouvoir manger une pizza aussi bonne. La pâte est superbe et les formages étaient juste sublimes. Les copeaux de parmesan était mi fondus donc très agréable et le gorgonzola était magique. Le personnel était vraiment génial. Excellent service.

Staff are the best! and ambiance very nice! Food menu is with great variety! .. but when you see your pizza.. "looks good" but no no flavour. The ingredients where bland! Need to get a better quality food!

15 of us turned up for lunch, this did not faze the waiter at all. Very happy to do separate bills. Served us efficiently. I ordered the Seafood Casserole, which was quite frankly gorgeous. Filled to the brim with lots of lovely squid, large prawns, mussels and fish, slightly hot flavour, I would have liked it hotter, but really delicious. Beautifully cooked rice. So tasty. Very friendly customers, good time had by all.

Before I came the next door for Mediterranean part which was delicious as well. Pizza was delicious and so hot. U can see the pizza chef when they are cooking your pizza. I had 1 margarita, 1 orange juice and 1 tiramisu. Everything was amazing 🥰 I was very enjoyed and I’ll never forget u table 14. See u next time. 👏👏👏

Great location near Hampstead Heath. The staff are attentive and the food is very good. Portions are large and the food always tastes excellent and fresh. The pizzas are fantastic and everyone in the party felt the food was top notch. The falafels I had as a started were really light and lovely.

Staff: I read other reviews and people describing the staff as "friendly" I came here a few days ago but I would never have walked away with any impression of a friendly place, nobody was rude, but they literally did their job as expected, and no more, though we had interaction/saw with about 4 staff members in total. Food: Starters, we ordered as a veggie platter which was ample for two to share. It had an mix of different dips and bread and was quite filling. Our mains were a simple pasta dish (which we were happy with) and a pizza. I used to work for a high end independent pizza restaurant, I am sad to say the pizza was very mediocre and I wouldn't bother getting one again.  Overall; Value for money, but I'm not dying to go back or anything.

Popped in on a quiet Saturday evening, lovely attention to details and the service was out of this world. We had a calmari and Filo pasta cheese as starters and Burrata pizza and Calzone as mains, the food was absolutely delicious. Well done guys and see you soon.

9pm on a hot weekday evening. We were lucky to find a table outside. A lovely cold bottle of rose. Two of us had the lamb skewers. I swapped my rice for salad, absolutely not a problem, & ordered a side of a hot harrisa & cold yogout. Delicious. The third had fish and chips & was very happy! Not quite sure how the two restaurants work.. we were sat outside Al Parco and our lamb dish was definitely Turkish? Initial server a bit daft, but the two gentlemen who then brought our water & took over were superb, professional, helpful & very willing. Great value, great food. Simple, honest, fresh. And fabulous to sit outside :-)

Today I needed to use a loo and went in and they let me. I was refused at Carob over the road. We've previously eaten at Al Parco, they are helpful and the food is good. They were fine with a grizzly child and able to provide vegan food as well as non-vegan all tasty and good prices.

This has always been our favourite local cafe. Great for kids and adults alike. Pizza, pasta, Mediterranean dishes, great ciabatta sandwiches. Italian beer and even a fine wine list

Have been coming here for years and dragging everyone I know over to share the best thin crust generous topped pizza outside of Italy in a very great atmosphere surrounded by smiling staff inside or outside whether in winter or summer. They bake their own bread and you will struggle to stop when combined with the self made humus ;-) When the place is busy you might end up waiting a bit, though this is worth your while with the newly updated wine list which is amazing as well. Definitely worth more than one visit!!

it's not the best Italian food in Londond but still good to go. Nice venu almost in the park with nice smiling people working there. Food (and price) can be better though

a very pleasant Italian restaurant adjacent to the vast open space of Parliament Hill. In summer or warm spring days customers can eat on the outside patio. The pizzas are very good and there is a fairly extensive wine list.Had a delicious starter salad, better than I have had in a well known chain, it came with a choice of three types of olive or balsamic vinegar. I believe you can book an outside table , or arrive early to get a space!

Great Buratta & truffles, friendly service. Nice place for dinner. Highly recommend. One of the very best pizza I ever had.

Este es el tipo de lugar que vas a beber rosado si quieres sentirte como si estuvieras en el sur de Francia o Italia. Teníamos un fresco como entrante luego bruschetta una gran pizza de anchoa. Podía tener algún día. Un honesto, pizza unpreintentious.

Al Parco really does have the best pizzas in the area. You can forget the other Pizza restaurants when you compare the Al Parco thin base and generous toppings. This is a restaurant for lunchtimes and evenings. You will not be disappointed!

This is the best restaurant that I have visited recently . Friendly staff, excellent atmosphere and great tasty foods. Excellent service and excellent value. Mr Ali was quite helpful. We really pleased. Thank you...

We have used Al Parco for 15 years as we live very close, and often get takeaway pizzas which are excellent. When we eat in, the staff are friendly and always happy to accommodate multiple choices from a large group. Sometimes therefore service a bit...

Este restaurante se ha quedado sin vapor. Mucha de la comida es microvaved.

La intención de utilizar este restaurante local para las edades, realmente decepcionante. Pedimos a través de, las pizzas deliveroo eran muy básicas, sabor muy poco y nada a ellos. Qué pena.

I used to love eating here but the last couple of times I have felt quite let down. Some doughy pizza and slow service.I'm still hoping things will go back to usual though!!Good place to kids for a reasonable pizza.

Swains Lane has lots of nice-ish places but Parco wins always. It's got lovely staff, great service and nice atmosphere and good pizza. We always go back to Parco, recommend the mixed hot mezze platter, a Turkish breakfast and the Italia pizza.

Great service - nice waiters.<br /><br />House Special all the way!!!

Don't bother with this place it used to be great. But sadly no longer is. We finally got our wine after 45 minutes. The reason was it was in the basement. 4 of my party ordered pizza which were very average. I mistakenly ordered a mixed grill. The pizzas arrived and I waited over 20 minutes after before I decided to cancel my order. When I questioned the waitress she told me it was cooking and after I cancelled it she came back to tell me it would be 2 minutes. I was left very disappointed with the reasons they gave me for the food not arriving. They really need to treat customers with more respect. I will never go back there and will tell my friends and acquaintances of my experience here. This is one to avoid if you have any self respect.

Reliable good value local restaurant with friendly staff and tables outside for sunny days. It is jointly owned with the Turkish restaurant next door so you can choose from an Italian or a Turkish menu.

Abbiamo provato sia la pizza che la carne, entrambe non male!! Non eccezionali neanche i dolci, il tiramisù non era fatto in casa e il dolce di mele era un misto con le mandorle e gelato.Buona la birra Pilsner ... Prezzo : medio/alto

Love this place! Always come here on a Thursday or Friday as I work nearby. Delicious food, friendly staff and very nice atmosphere. Also the prices are amazing. Would highly recommend to come here and try yourself!

I ate here with my boyfriend and we were both very disappointed. I'm tired of paying over the odds for lazy tasteless food in London and this place did nothing to change my mind. The first wine we were served was like vinegar, the second passable. He had a beef lasagne with little trace of beef. It was soggy and formless. My hummus was like oily mashed potato and the falafel like fried pebbles. These are basic dishes but they got them so wrong. The service was friendly...I'm afraid that's the only positive.

Good food, quick service and nice ambience. Nothing amazing about the menu, but exactly what you'd expect to see in a good Italian. Went as part of a group of 14 and the staff managed to pull off that rare feat of serving 14 pizzas within minutes of each other. Well located for the heath and would recommend.

Stopped for lunch here with my parents. All in all very good. I have had a better calzone but my starter and my parents food was amazing. Very good price as well. Would definitely recommend the homemade lemonade, it comes with mint which was an interesting twist.

This place could be so good, but unfortunately at the moment it's terrible! Despite its great location, next to Hampstead Heath and nice al fresco terrace, the experience is complete ruined by stiff pizza with salty "cardboard" cheese and appallingly slow and inattentive service. Ordered a pizza and almost didn't touch it. That cheese! Ugh! Awful. A waste of money and energy. Advice to management: invest in better ingredients and train your staff to give a better service.

Five of us met for brunch, and all of us really enjoyed our meals. Very attentive staff and good service together with good food was all the better for being able to eat outdoors. Overall good value for money.

Fake italian, and this should be enough. The waiter didn't bother giving us cutlery. When we ask for it, waitress said she didn't know we didn't have any. Poor at best.

The pizza you will ever have. The family love coming here the kids eat every mouthful. You can eat in the restaurant or get takeaway. And the salads are to die for.

This is a Turkish run restaurant with the token Italian serving good pizza but that's it, we paid £2.75 for 4 pieces of garlic bread basically french stick absolute rip off and as for the mixed Italian meat starter rubbish 4 slices of salami few mozzarella balls and some Parma ham and really emerald cooked bacon slices ??? Not Italian at all , when I asked shy the bacon and lack of Italian meats they said this is how we do it at a cost of £8.95 another ripp off, finally we ordered the Italian cooked vegetables , wise not to order this as not much Italian about it at all again very disappointed English mushrooms raw peppers and loads of salad, at this stage we wanted to leave but the kids wanted to have pizza , we waited another 35-45 mins for the pizza to come and when it did it was ok , the staff were nice just its a average pizza place but it's definitely not Italian , if you can be bothered go up the hill to Golders Green and go to lartista Italian and compare like for like dishes , absolutely worlds apart and a dam sight cheaper , I never write reviews but felt I had to as it was a bit of a con , anyway had great company which made it ok hope you find this useful Regards John

We'd a lovely meal at al Parco (and then a terrific walk back across Parliament Hill Fields to our hotel in Belsize Park). Very nice waiters at al Parco, a wonderful antipasta plate of meats, very good house wine and a great calzone. Quite reasonable as well. Well worth a visit!

O lugar é bem localizado, perto da estação de metrô. Pedimos uma pizza e achei meio seca, como não gostei comemos só isso, mas o preço era bom

It can be a bit hit and miss with this place, but the plain calzone is one of the best. Some of their ingredients are a bit weird but if you keep it simple its fantastic. Coffee is also lovely

We visited with friends for the 1st time, although having walked by it many times while walking off Hampstead Heath. The restaurant offers a pizza and mediterranean menu which is very extensive in fact as others have commented, there is too much choice and one has to wonder if they do all those meals well. Others in our group went for the mediterranean choices, while I wanted to try the Pizza which was very good – thin crust, good toppings etc. For a group of 4 with a bottle of wine and desserts a bill of £100 is very reasonable. In summary a good place to visit as a local restaurant and we will return perhaps for lunch next time.

Lived nearby for three years and went here almost every week. Fantastic pizzas made with quality ingredients, friendly staff and quick service, all at reasonable prices. Not much more you could ask for from a neighbourhood Italian restaurant.

This restaurant is two in one which i didn't realise until after the second visit.A great range of dishes, if anything too much choice when trying to decide what to have in your lunch hour.The food has always arrived promptly and there were no unreasonable waiting times. They have a small range a lunchtime specials of either a starter and a main or all 3 courses, priced at under £10.The smaller restaurant can be too noisy and seated a little too close for comfort, however the second part is much more spacious. Would definitely recommend.

Went with my wife for a relaxed evening out. Sat outside on a lovely day, which was nice, although the road is quite noisy. Had bruschetta starter that was delicious. Had two pizzas, which were good but not mindblowing. Shared a bottle of good italian wine, for a reasonable price (in London terms). Overall nice authentic italian feel to the place, service was good and food arrived promptly.

It's 2 restaurants in 1. A pizza place and a Mediterranean run by the same people and they offer both menus in either restaurant. This is my favourite place for both dinner and breakfast in London. I'm fortunate it's close to where I live, but it's also next to the Heath which is great after a nice walk. Dogs are also welcome and water is provided outside.The pizzas here are the best I've ever had. I also go there regularly for my veggie breakfast which includes hallumi and the best mushrooms! The staff are all lovely and attentive, but not in your face. The crowning glory is it's also really good value. Perfect!

I'm so glad this restaurant is nearby, the food is delicious and the service is great. I turned up one night at 10.30pm ish when they were cleaning up, and they still made me a pizza. The atmosphere is great, and the decor is lovely. Very cosy place to eat and chat. Would highly recommend, we also couldn't believe what great value for money it was as well. Will be making this a regular place to eat.

I had the misfortune to eat here last week and I can honestly say it was a truly horrible meal. The pizza was meant to have mushrooms and artichokes on it which I stupidly assumed would be fresh but they were obviously from a jar and were so greasy, really horrible. Service soooo slow. Staff okay apart from one waiter who was just plain rude. Filthy menus with food splattered all over them toilets grimy with no toilet paper. Dark and dingy. Yuk.A nasty experience - just don't go.

The menu boasts all ingredients imported from Italy, but on checking with the waiter, we were told that the sausage on the pizza wasn't 'Italian' sausage, but 'breakfast' sausage (presumably imported from the local Tesco). We had starters of Olives and garlic bread - both priced individually at £2.95. The garlic bread was a sad 5 pieces of toasted baguette which was devoid of garlic whilst the olives were saturated with water/vinegar at a cost price of probably no more than 10p. On the plus side, the wine was tasty (although overall the wine list was over priced) whilst the pizza, great thin crust, but the 'mozarella' seemed to have been 'imported' from the Cheddar gorge! We wanted to support a local restaurant rather than a chain, but next time, it'll be Strada!

I like the marinara best - very good value for the area. See my review of area and restaurant here: http://floandelle.blogspot.it/2012/08/area-decoded-nw5-parliament-hill.html

Service was somewhat surly and absent and probably didn&#039;t deserve the service fee. Sitting inside looked as if it might be a tad dreary but there&#039;s plenty of room outside. Food was good though and well priced. It does a job.

I am no specialist nor do I know every pizzeria in London, but so far this is my favourite. I found this place by accident after a long day in Hampstead Heath. We were hungry and left the park through Parliament Hill Fields. I was captured by the Pizza smell in the air and my nose took me to this nice little cantina. I've been there at least 10 times since.

This is our local Italian and it&#039;s lovely. The food, the pleasingly thin-doughed and crisp pizza especially, is hearty and tasty, the outside seating is a pleasure on a warm evening, and it&#039;s very cosy indoors as the weather sets in. Service is warm and friendly if occasionally a little ditzy, but who really cares about that? It&#039;s an informal, cheerful place for dinner, and good value. It&#039;s co-owned with the Turkish restaurant next door, Bistro Laz, which is also pretty good, so if one of your party doesn&#039;t fancy pizza you can just get the Mediterranean menu and help yourself to some kofte or similar.

We have been visiting Al Parco for years now - they have this branch in Highgate, right next door to Hampstead Heath and another in Camden. They do a good range of standard Italian food - pizza, pasta, main courses and salads and all is well cooked and delicious. They have a good pizza oven which turns them out with thin, crispy bases and they put only the freshest ingredients on top. Particular favourites are thr Fiorentina, Vegeteriana and the Funghi. As for pasta, their Napolitana is great and even better is the Arrabiata. There is a good range of salads and main courses and a decent wine and beer menu. They can also offer Turkish / Mediterranean dishes, as they have another café called Bistro Laz right next door - in fact, you can walk between the two. So if you fancy felafel for a starter followed by Spaghetti, it's no problem. They also offer a good range of breakfasts from a Full English to a Mediterranean style breakfast. Service is quick and friendly and prices very reasonable. The inside is cosy and there's also a large covered terrace for warmer days.