Gossip Cicchetti in Poole - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

The best and most authentic pizza outside of Italy. Warm, friendly and efficient service too!

Always great food great service and a warm welcome

Booked a table. Had confirmation plus email reminder. Turned up and restaurant was shut! No phone call - nothing. Now 2 days later.

Unbelievable! Your website states PennHill Gossip is open for lunch Thursday-Sunday so I booked a table for Thursday and got a confirmation email. Fine, I thought. Then on the Wednesday when I phoned to confirm, I was told Penn Hill was not open for lunch on any day!!! Then, would you believe it, on the Friday I received an email thanking me for my visit (?) and asking me for feedback?!?! What kind of incompetence it that? You do not deserve any clientele if that is how you treat customers. I will never set foot in any Gossip in the future and and will be telling all my friends to avoid your establishments. Patsy Berry

Handy location, nice decor and comfortable interior, service and food; don't bother. Surly and disinterested waiter, pizza base soggy, problem with toppings. Issue over bill (waiter apparently misheard our wine order) dealt with rudely and no apology. Won't return.

Ordered a pasta with Aubergine, you needed a magnifying glass to see the tiny bits of aubergine, just stingy. The pasta wasn't home made but the ordinary dried supermarket stuff. Partner ordered gnocci which was so rich you couldn't eat it. If you don't want pizza or pasta you are stuck as there's nothing else. Although i had pre booked table for 2, we were put right next to the bar. It was cold, i sat with my coat on. It was noisy, couldn't hear what Partner was saying. Expensive for what it is, I wouldn't go again.

Unfortunately i reserved a table at the wrong venue my mistake however pen hill had a gas leak offered us a table at Westbourne a very good experience food was excellent except i ordered lasagne was full of pasta sheets not alot of sauce we would go again i will order something different

Wonderful food. Friendly and polite staff. Throughly recommend.

We were the first customers of the evening but received the most basic service - unwelcoming and curt. When ordering, I asked for the mussels starter, and was rebuked with just, "no mussels". At no point were we asked if we wanted anything else or if the food was to our liking. We even had to get up to ask for a side plate to put salad on from the large portion we ordered. However, when a family who were obviously regulars came in, they received a friendly jovial welcome. At those prices and with such an attitude, we certainly will not become regulars. Finally, there was rather grating fast electronic music playing at an intrusive volume. It didn't seem appropriate to this kind of restaurant.

An unexpected pleasure being taken by friends to Gossip in Poole. A loquacious and lively host/owner explained the process and the style of food (given his non Italian origins) and off we set to order. He made one or two helpful suggestions and then the plates began to arrive and a host of flavours and taste bud surprises. The meal gave an opportunity to try flavours and one member - a vegetarian found he had more options than in a conventional restaurant. I we lived in Poole we'd be there frequently but certainly on our next visit!

Delicious food and friendly staff

just a very good atmosphere, decor, and excellent service. The food was excellent, the staff brilliant and reasonably priced will go again

We were seated at a table by the waitress but the chairs were uncomfortable so we sat in a booth. We then waited about 5 minutes and had to call over the waitress to order a drink! The food was average. We only had a starter and two mains and soft drinks as we are on dry January and it was £50.

Very friendly - pasta was delicious but garlic pizza a bit overdone. We were only ones in but it was midweek and 5.15!

We visited here on a very busy Christmas Eve a party of 4 for dinner WOW the service was excellent and the food was lovely I went for the taps menus sadly the mussels had sold out BUT that was the only down side to the whole night highly recommend and will certainly be visiting again.

Excellent food, great friendly service. Tortellini prosciutto is my favourite, the small chicken Caesar salad is fab, courgette Fritti great as ever, in fact it’s all good!

Pizzas were great. Place deserves to do better. Not many people in when we went. Wine and drinks were expensive. Taking the cost of a simple supper to c£30.00per head

Great service, delicious food. Will definitely be back.

Amazing warmth and smiley service. Yummy food. Great flexibility over portion sizes too. Love eating here.

Great service good honest Italian food. Can’t rate it high enough. Attentive service hot fresh quick pasta and food. Great quality top notch

My wife ordered a gluten free pene bolognese dish. She was given a non gluten free spaghetti chicken dish. When questioned about this, the person on the phone was very rude and unhelpful and said "I just work here"

Such great pizza and authentic Italian food - (and I’ve lived in Italy and now live in London - so have eaten my fair share over the years!) and lovely warm service at Gossip. The burrata mozeralla salads are awesome - the pizza’s are traditional thin crust with perfect amounts of topping - juicy and crispy all at once - top notch! We had a large family group of 9 with two young children and we all ate at the same time and had very attentive service to make it a lovely family evening - Italian style! Quality food fairly priced - get yourself to Gossip Penn Hill if you’re in and around the area! Thanks 🙏🏼!!

We were on holiday around the corner for a week and had dinner there once. Pizza and pasta were good, the Primitivo OK. The atmosphere was a little too cool for me, but it was balanced out by the fact that we could sit right next to the window. The visit was given a special charm by the original, somewhat older waiter who served us: great! We would go there again.

I booked a table. When we arrived you were closed. Notification of this would have been good.

Great food, fab service from our waitress Maddy and the owner too, really enjoyed … would highly recommend!

Had a very nice pepperoni pizza, freshly made too order... Bobby_G

Good service, not busy when we were there, but the atmosphere was fine. The lasagne and pizza were good

Popped in very very busy but given a table by the window I barely squeezed in and had to apologise to the next diner. Tables are crammed in far too many and the noise level was excruciating loud. If you want to chat and talk forget it. I did not find it a finding experience it was chaotic. No vegan cheese for a pizza so just opted for bruschetta of three pieces. My partner had the bolognese devoid of any meat and small portion. £14 to boot. We had four beers one starter and one bolognese main meal. Doubt we will return but the place was absolutely packed so we won’t be missed. Far to many people packed into this restaurant. The waiters were charming and a nice serving jovial manner.

Food was very disappointing. Tapas was acceptable but very basic. All four of us had pizza which were almost inedible. Very soggy. Three of us left almost all of the meal. Waitress asked if all was ok when clearing the table and we pointed out the issue but, she just said sorry and left. I went to the bar to pay mentioning the issue again and the staff just said no one else complains and the bill is 172 please! It was a special occasion so I did want to make a scene but, won’t return. Very unhappy customers. My son and partner live in Ashley Cross so local custom lost. Despite it being a Saturday night there were very few customers and no atmosphere. Very sad.

Myself, wife and daughter went out to celebrate my wife’s birthday last night at Gossip, Penn Hill. I’ve never been, even though have lived locally for over a decade! Boy have I been missing out on some amazing Italian food! The cicchetti (tapas style sharing dishes) meant you could sample all your favourite dishes in one meal… so we had calamari, veal, oven baked aubergine with cheese and sauce (amazing), mussels etc and my kid had pizza. The wine was good quality not seen in the supermarkets and the service from the fabulous Maddy was really attentive, polite and friendly, you can’t ask for more than that really. They even heard us talking about my wife’s birthday and gave her a surprise celebration! Service really makes a place and makes you want to come back and recommend to others. Recently we had poor service in a certain local marina café restaurant and have decided to venture to new places, this one is a gem! Penn Hill is decent and has a lot more potential too.

Go for the "gossip" pizza..shell on king prawns!! Mind blowing! A proper kick up the bollox! 10/10

Service wasn’t good , you have to be friendly and welcoming really. It wasn’t busy it was empty so staff were not rushed. Food was ok but it’s not worth visiting for it particularly - prices were fair . The atmosphere was nice , music was on - good for a few drinks ( saying that they didn’t have any drinks on tap on.. strange ) go for the wine maybe :)

We went for lunch on a Tuesday the place was empty but that’s fine. The waitress was good the food mediocre BUT THE STENCH??? Oooohhhh SERIOUSLY BAD DRAIN smell in the whole restaurant- we moved out it was so bad. Imagine if the place was full? DISGUSTING. I hope health and safety pay them a visit soon. They need to. Avoid in the meantime.

Fantastic service and food! The atmosphere was great, Staff were friendly and informative and our food and drinks came quickly.

Delicious food, delightful staff and a great setting. To be recommended.

Staff are friendly and attentive. Food is great quality and reasonably priced.

Super buzzing atmosphere, delicious Italian food, reasonably priced wines and the staff are fabulous; Attentive, friendly and helpful…full marks !

Great evening. Came by Gossip purely by chance having struggled to find anything we fancied and so pleased we did. The restaurant had a great atmosphere with mixed clientele from us oldies to youngsters seemingly having a great time. The waitress was extremely attentive, polite and professional. As for the menu I struggled between 3 of the main dishes or pretty much all of the tapa’s plates. My wife and I opted for the tapas and enjoyed every mouthful. Reasonably priced as was the beer snd wine. The result a great evening out, just what we wanted and if we are ever back that way again I wouldn’t hesitate to go back. Thank you.

Great place just wish we had booked a later time as only small place very noisy with children would visit again but would book it after 7

I booked to go here for dinner for my partner’s birthday as he loves Italian food & it did not disappoint! Greeted and seated by a friendly waitress who looked after us so well all evening.. (sadly I didn’t catch her name but a blonde lady with a lovely smile working 5/4. We had 5 small plates between the 2 of us and every single one of them was delicious, fresh and authentically Italian! I would particularly recommend the Buratta Prosciutto… so creamy and such a generous portion size. We had originally discussed sharing a pizza after our small plates but there was no way we could have fitted anything else in after the sharers. We decided to have a small break between main and dessert and we felt able to sit and chat, enjoy the atmosphere and our drinks without being rushed or pestered. Like the main courses, the desserts were totally worth the wait (and deliberation)!! I had the Gnocci with Nutella and my partner had an affogato which was gladly made upon request without an issue. All in all, a wonderful visit, lovely food & friendly staff and fantastic value for money. Thank you, we can’t wait to come back again soon & will recommend to family & friends looking to enjoy some scrumptious Italian cuisine!

A dining experience I did not enjoy. Very kind and apologetic staff, but their problem was, they were short staffed. It took 25 minutes for them to cook some calamari, and 1 hour for them to make a Margherita pizza. Not worth the wait, the food was nothing special. They were short-staffed, but quite a poor experience on what would've been a relaxing night.

Would give it a zero if I could. Staff was rude.Come here if you want attitude.

The service staff were friendly and attentive - the problem was the speed of service. Impression was that Deliveroo orders took priority over tables in restaurant. A shame as the food when it came was all deliciois

Tasty pizza but service poor. Only offered 1 drink all night and no pudding menu offered. Large rowdy group right next to us who spent the entire night in and out of the toilets! Had to shout to hear over them!

So, we couldn’t decide what to cook for dinner so decided to just head here and give it a try and pasta / pizza was appealing to us, upon entering we were greeted warmly and asked if we had ever been there before, we hadn’t, and the gentleman said he thought so as he hadn’t seen us before, this made us feel so comfortable instantly as it gave a sense that they get a lot of regulars, so it must be good, and yes… it was more than good! The décor is modern yet rustic and comforting with great music playing, the ambience was spot on. Upon being presented with menus everything was explained to us and we were given advice on the draft beer available and a wine list. To start we ordered a large glass of Exhibition Rosé – it was crisp and fresh with just the right level of acidity and my fiancé had a pint of San Miguel, you can’t go wrong there, as well as Calamari Fritti and the olives & bread board, both were very tasty, light batter on the calamari and a good quality balsamic with the bread. For mains my fiancé had Spaghetti Carbonara, with an egg yolk on top, and I had a Prosciutto E Fungi pizza – both were full of flavour, lots of topping on the pizza and plentiful pancetta in the pasta, the addition of a mini pizza wheel to help cut was a great touch and I added chilli oil, which from the look of it was made in-house and had a subtle warmth to it. Time for dessert, all of which are homemade… Chocolate Almond Cake with a Brandy Sauce and Tiramisu, we were eating Italian after all… both were delicious, you could tell they were homemade, portions were big and full of flavour, the Tiramisu was some of the best I’ve had, all washed down with a double espresso each… yum. Service was spot on, attentive and warm but not overbearing in any way and everything was well priced. Service was not added to the final bill and I felt awful as there was no option on the card machine to add gratuity and I don’t carry cash, if the owners / staff are reading this, I’m sorry! I will be making up for this when we return, which will be soon!

So, we couldn’t decide what to cook for dinner so decided to just head here and give it a try and pasta / pizza was appealing to us, upon entering we were greeted warmly and asked if we had ever been there before, we hadn’t, and the gentleman said he thought so as he hadn’t seen us before, this made us feel so comfortable instantly as it gave a sense that they get a lot of regulars, so it must be good, and yes… it was more than good! The décor is modern yet rustic and comforting with great music playing, the ambience was spot on. Upon being presented with menus everything was explained to us and we were given advice on the draft beer available and a wine list. To start we ordered a large glass of Exhibition Rosé – it was crisp and fresh with just the right level of acidity and my fiancé had a pint of San Miguel, you can’t go wrong there, as well as Calamari Fritti and the olives & bread board, both were very tasty, light batter on the calamari and a good quality balsamic with the bread. For mains my fiancé had Spaghetti Carbonara, with an egg yolk on top, and I had a Prosciutto E Fungi pizza – both were full of flavour, lots of topping on the pizza and plentiful pancetta in the pasta, the addition of a mini pizza wheel to help cut was a great touch and I added chilli oil, which from the look of it was made in-house and had a subtle warmth to it. Time for dessert, all of which are homemade… Chocolate Almond Cake with a Brandy Sauce and Tiramisu, we were eating Italian after all… both were delicious, you could tell they were homemade, portions were big and full of flavour, the Tiramisu was some of the best I’ve had, all washed down with a double espresso each… yum. Service was spot on, attentive and warm but not overbearing in any way and everything was well priced. Service was not added to the final bill and I felt awful as there was no option on the card machine to add gratuity and I don’t carry cash, if the owners / staff are reading this, I’m sorry! I will be making up for this when we return, which will be soon!

Delicious pizza, very good service. Just a little bit disappointed they did not have the crab ravioli as they do in Westbourne Gossip.

Enjoyed a nice night at gossip, prompt with table service. a very good quality food and the waitress always had a smile on her face and was very polite..

This small neighbourhood restaurant had a pleasant vibe mid week with contemporary decor and good background music. Service was good and I enjoyed a Poretti beer which I have not come across before. The food was okay but nothing fantastic. I chose Zucchini fritters as my starter which were a little soggy. They could’ve done with being fried a little longer. For my main, I had crab ravioli which was well presented with cherry tomatoes in a tasty sauce

Took my daughter for a meal sat night ,amazing staff ,amazing experience and amazing food

Great quality food and lovely staff. I loved the choice on the menu and really enjoyed my truffle pasta. Nothing extraordinary though and the service was very slow for my liking.

Thoroughly enjoyed our first visit to Gossip at Penn Hill. We booked an early table so was very quiet when we first arrived but soon started to fill up. It was very hospitable and welcoming. Great menu and we really enjoyed our meals. Hubby had his usual swag bog and I tried the pappardelle with lamb which was delicious. I usually have ice cream desert but went mad and had gnocchi with nutella, strawberries and white chocolate and it scrumptious and spangly not over sweet.We will certainly be going back in the very near future.

Stopped by gossip penn Hill after work and never eaten at a gossip before. It was a delight. Lovely ambience, very friendly service and very tast meal. Worth a visit if you're in penn Hill, or westbourne

Love this place. Great decor, superb atmosphere, super friendly staff/owner and great food. Cannot fault this place at all. Many thanks

Lovely restaurant with great staff, great food at very reasonable prices! The Italian owner was a great host and even wished us luck for the England game! Defo a revisit on the cards!

Visited on Friday evening with my family, brilliant and friendly service and great food. They are very welcoming to the children which is good. Well Worth a visit

Friendly service and great food. We had some "small plates" to start and then shared a pizza! All delicious ... the pizza was superb!

Consistently rude waitress - shakes her head and disagrees with the customer about table timings and how long the table is assigned for. This is the second time this has happened now and it won't happen again as we won't go there. Doesn't make you feel welcome from the start and leaves a bad taste in the mouth. After this incident she didn't serve for the rest of the meal as she knew she had upset my 17 year old daughter. She is extremely disrespectful and gives dirty looks. She is not new and has always been there from the restaurant's opening. We refer to her as 'the mean waitress at Gossip'.

Reported to the food standard of the agency As they gave non-gluten-free food to a person with coeliac disease. The restaurant was told three times that gluten-free food was needed, once upon online booking, once upon a telephone call that day, and once when ordering food. The menu had gluten-free options available yet they still failed to bring out gluten-free food and admitted it was normal food after the person with coeliac disease had eaten it. They just said oh sorry the waiter should’ve told you we do not do gluten-free bread, yet the starter was still brought out with bread and they did not inform that it was normal bread containing gluten. I have also reported the restaurant to the Bournemouth Echo. They have admitted and knowingly cause someone to become considerably ill and sick and this restaurant is an absolute disgrace, the staff are incompetent, and I do not recommend anybody with any dietary requirements goes there because you are clearly not safe. This restaurant needs to be fully investigated and they don’t even seem to care about the damage they have caused giving gluten containing food to a person with coeliac disease. This restaurant is an absolute joke and If it was up to me should be shut down.

Awful service. We won't be stepping foot in any Gossip restaurants anytime soon.

By far the best Italian we have visited! We really enjoyed the food and atmosphere will most definitely be returning soon.

Amazing Italian food and friendly service! Wanted to come in and try for ages and didn’t disappoint. The spaghetti vongole was incredible!

Best place ever for decent food and service really everything was delicious from starters to main dishes. I tried everything

Disappointed apointing seem to be much smaller tapas, and expensive.

The misses and I went here for date night and it was perfect! We had 6 smaller tapas style dishes between us which was the perfect amount for 2, as well as a beautiful bottle of wine. Followed by 2 deserts I was expecting to have to take out a loan to pay for it but I was pleasantly surprised. Delicious food and not overpriced! Will definitely be visiting more often - I want to try some of the full size mains.

Friendly staff, amazing food and prices reasonable. Only negative was music too loud. Having been to the newer Westbourne restaurant for lunch previously we were hoping food same standard. It certainly was and a more traditional decor. We have a new favourite Italian!

Friendly and helpful staff. Pasta Dish mains a bit on the small side and the amount of Pancetta pieces in the Carbonara could be counted with one hand. But maybe we were just unlucky with our choices.

Wow, it ain’t food at its best with service to mate h. Eating in bournemouth and the surrounding areas is becoming more and more frustration as many rely on passing trade who never come back it’s sad. Gossip however want you to be happy and return this is obvious in the way things are run here. First class

Brilliant atmosphere and tasty varied menu. We have not been to Gossip Penn Hill before and hoped it would be as good as Westbourne where we've been several times. It was every bit as good. Just fab.

Worth the trip ,great restaurant.

Nice food and great service. Thank you

Excellent service! Super friendly staff, brilliant atmosphere and the BEST PIZZA AROUND!’ Great for all ages!!!

Loved it, was fun, staff are lovely, music was a tad loud, we had to shout, but all good

This is the second time we have eaten here, had an early supper. Service much improved from our last visit. We opted for the shared small plates. Food was good the only criticism was the tomatoe sauce, 3 dishes had the same tomatoe sauce and it has no depth of flavour so slightly disappointed and the cheesecake we shared for dessert had a soggy base and a grainy texture. Overall it was nice.

We have visited Gossip in Westbourne but unfortunately it was fully booked. We have eaten there before and it was really good, so we figured the sister restaurant in Penn Hill would be the same. Unfortunately it was not a very good experience from the start. We arrived and service was slow, under staffed, but eventually asked for drinks. They have beer on draft so we asked for a pint only to be told they didn’t have any due to no delivery but they did have bottled Peroni which always work out more expensive. We asked for a coke, which we go along with the fact it was the last bottle of coke and they didn’t have anymore. We ordered a bottle on wine, which we got and was quite nice but the waitress over poured and filled both glasses over half full, and she did acknowledge that she had over poured and apologised. We had to wait some time for someone to take our order. My son ordered a pizza with extra jalapeño. Another pizza which clearly started ‘ Diavaolo ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... £12.95 Spicy Italian sausage and fresh chillies . The pizza with the extra jalapeño didn’t have any and the Diavola pizza was just a pepperoni pizza with chilli oil over the top. We pointed out what the menu specified only to be told they didn’t have any sausage but could add something else, we opted for some chicken. Lastly, the pizza that didn’t have any jalapeño on, had a chilli on it. My son, who is 22 and likes spice, decided to take a small bite out of it only for it to be so hot that his tongue became numb and he felt really unwell. I pointed out that as this was a family restaurant with lots of children, they should not be putting chillies that ferocious on a pizza. My son is a grown man, imagine if a child had bitten into it!!! I was told that chillies are a gamble as you don’t know what you are going to get….. well let’s hope they don’t take that gamble and someone bites into one and are allergic. Will not be returning

Good food and service. House white wine also very good.

We went for dinner and the moment we sat table was sticky and we made the point of wiping it to attract attention of staff or the owner of restaurant but nobody reacted so we end up put paper napkins across as it was just...

Authentic Italian pizza made by authentic Italians. Excellent pizza, very pleasant surroundings. Very good.

We enjoyed this place came on a recommendation from one of my clients. We really enjoyed it, will definitely be back soon.

It’s walking distance for us, so ideal if you want a glass of wine. Took our foodie god daughter. Shared the meat platter starter and fought each other over the calamari. The pizzas were fab - but we could have easily shared two between three (very hungry) people! Lovely service. Buzzy informal and friendly vibe. We will definitely be back

Delicious food and fantastic service. Thank you for a great night out xx

Delicious food, great value and amazing service highly recommend

Another great experience at Gossip, Penn Hill. Great food, great service, never hurried, buzzy atmosphere! Love it here

Really nice place, lovely food!! Great pizza and pasta. I will come back! Recomend this place if you like Italian food.

Cracking little restaurant a must for everyone!. We were welcomed at the door by ‘Curtis’ who was an excellent front of house host and made us feel very welcome from the minute we arrived. The drinks menu was extensive as was the food menu. Various...

Great service, food was delicious, hot and feshly cooked to order. Dessert was lovely. Will definitely be back soon.

I have been here few days ago. I have started my dinner with some lobster and crab arancini, which they were very tasty. Later I took a pizza, which was the best I could choose. The consistency of the dough was very soft, cooked spot on. The quality and the freshness of the ingredients was amazing. Well done👏👏

Cosy restaurant,friendly atmosphere and I can say i ate the best pizza in town!I high recomend it!

Great friendly service and the pizza is amazing! Prices are great for the quality and size as well! So yummy will definitely be going back

The food, ambience, service was fantastic!

We visited on Friday with our daughter who’s 11. We had the tapas option so a selection of smaller plates to share. It was all absolutely delicious, perfect amount for the 3 of us. Puddings where huge, so I took half of mine home with...

We visited on Friday with our daughter who’s 11. We had the tapas option so a selection of smaller plates to share. It was all absolutely delicious, perfect amount for the 3 of us. Puddings where huge, so I took half of mine home with me to enjoy the next day. Wine & beer were good and plenty of soft drink options. The service was excellent, one waiter in particular was really friendly making us feel welcomed. We’ll definitely be back, so nice to have a local restaurant with good food and atmosphere within walking distance.

Really good food and a great atmosphere! Will accommodate large groups of people. The staff were really good and attentive. Will definitely come back again!

My wife tried pappardelle Al ragu which was supposed to be 6 hour slow cooked lamb ,which probably was if you could find it.i had callzonne which had plenty of filling but the dough was under cooked. The waiter offered too change the dishes but...

Service and food is great, Highly recommend this place. An excellent Italian restaurant

I acquaint lots of Italian restaurants from london to florence to rome to Bournemouth. Nice place but the owner is a little feisty and needs to improve his manners. Food well presented but Tasteless and Tiny portions. £30 for 2 small pasta dishes matches c.london...

Dropped in here for lunch. Restaurant very quiet. Waitress very attentive and pleasant explaining that some dishes were unavailable because of delivery problems (unfortunately not unusual these days) but they did affect our choices. No bottled water? Anyway food was very average / the pasta...

Really impressed with the atmosphere, the place had a real buzz, and the staff were attentive and professional. Unfortunately the food was a disappointment. We ordered several tapas dishes, meat and fish, and they were all deep fried and bland with the same garlic dip....

I really wants this place to be good as I love Italian food however the place was a real disappointment . Of all the beers on tap only 3 were available - the chicken Milanese starter was hard and dry, the main course of Pollo...

Tasteless fried pap. Couldn’t taste anything at all. And the only beer they had was perroni. Been to thejr Penn hill cafe a few tines as well as the new Westbourne one tonight, all the same :( Also surprised they’ve nit put their own stamp...