La Besi in Leeds

What’s happened? It used to be 10/10, I used to pay £20+ without batting an eyelid for 1 meal, now it’s terrible, I thought I’d try again hoping last time was a one off, but I ordered a Penne Arrabbiata pasta dish with extra olives £1.50, already part of the dish anyway, (I got 8 in total) the meal was sat in oil and a weak bland of cheap penne sauce to try make an authentic flavour, to top the meal off it had cheese mixed throughout the dish making it a stringy sloppy mess. Gutted, was my fav.

Don’t be fooled by the appearance of this modest and unpretentious restaurant- the food is authentic Italian, large portions and home-cooked delicious. Everyone in our party of 5 enjoyed every course they ordered - highly recommended

Food is always delicious, arrives promptly and the delivery man is very polite and friendly.

Excellent food, nice chilled spot. Great vibe

Food delicious as always, very friendly, helpful delivery driver

absolutely brilliant food and service!

Great service and good quality food, especially the pizza! Highly recommend

Quality food, delivered hot (quite rare for pizza!)

Steak burger very tasty and easily cut in half would do 2 adults. Would prefer no onions mixed in with steak to make burger.

A lovely place nearby the uni to enjoy tasty Italian food with a large portion, but decent price! Geni and Ini have always been helpful and hospitable! Love the chilling atmosphere. Usually, I would go at noon to enjoy a meal myself peacefully or go with friends at night to have fun and chat together🙌

The Salmon Pasta was really nice & so was the starters - Gamberone

Best pizza around. Coupled with the best service ever

Thanks for the bruchetta guys - and bringing the rice for my Salmon dish. Enjoyed it.

The Margherita pizza wasn't a Margherita pizza. There was no fresh basil, just tomato base, cheese and dried "italian herbs" spice sprinkled over, Previously I ordered one with extra basil and was hoping the unaltered margherita wouldn't just be a cheese and tomato pizza, I was left disappointed by this. The Tortelloni was alright, arguably a bit salty, and the sauce had a bit too much peppercorn, and I usually love adding extra black pepper into my food.

Lovely meal at La Besi. No frills restaurant that serves delicious Italian food.

I am so disappointed unfortunately. The food was amazing but the restaurant was full of a massive group of students that unfortunately thought it was appropriate to be playing loud drinking games, pouring wine over each other and screening and shouting in a restaurant. This made our evening really unpleasant as we couldn’t even hear one another speak and many tables had to leave because of this one groups behaviour. It’s just a shame that this group weren’t asked to be quiet or leave as it really ruined our special evening.

It was was nice but wasn’t worth the price for the lasagne was bland

Good food with excellent lunch deals like pizza and a drink for £10

I ordered vegetarian pizza. Very delicious and I called to add something for my food. They accepted without charge. Thank you 🌟🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

A nice place to have meal at near Hyde park . I visited this restaurant this evening and the experience was really good. The environment is very clean and the staff was friendly. I order prawn linguini and that was delicious, the prawns were fresh and tender and the linguini was well cooked and flavored. The price was also quite reasonable. Would visit for another time.

Dine in for the first time. Very nice Italian food. Will definitely come again.

The Bruschetta & Salmone al Spinachi was very nice.

Tasteless over cooked pasta the worst pasta meat balls I’ve had

Food is always great, delivered on time and the delivery driver is very friendly and helpful

Was a little late contacted the nice people that work there and was reassured it was not going to be long and it arrived literally 2 minutes later as for the food as always delicious and tasty and well worth the wait will definitely be ordering again.

Always good & hot. Thanks for the good service guys.

Love the Pastas from La Besi. I like to add ingredients to them too for variation. Its a tasty hot & healthy takeaway. I can recommend.

Food set off from the restaurant and took 35 mins to deliver. It was cold by the time it arrived! Would not go back here!!!

Yep really enjoyed the food - the Penne alla Pollo pasta & Chef's Pasta are great. I add broccoli to the pasta's & sometimes courgettes and the such. Can recommend. Food came really hot too which was great.

Food was absolutely bang on, as usual, but unfortunately they delivered a bottle of diet coke that expired in May :(

Really excellent pasta dish, arrived hot👍

Fast delivery but unfortunately pizza was nothing special.

We got unlucky on the night and we were sat next to 12 chatty uni students and a crying baby behind us. As we were in the main room it was quite boxy and the sound levels were just to much unfortunately I understand this does not happen often

I love the food from La Besi, the most delicious carbonara in the whole of Leeds I can guarantee you.

Rolig stemning. Hærlig mat. Verdt besøk. Du kan bringe din egen vin flaske hvis man vil.

surprised that the place was so quiet because it’s very good plus for a cheap price!!

Absolutely amazing food and people will definitely be ordering from here again special thank you

Lovely food,shame we didn't take our own wine ...waiters were thoughtful

Lovely italian restaurant! Tasty food and good portions! I really recommend the goats cheese starter and canaloni! A £1 charge to BYOB.

Lovely fresh, tasty piping hot food, and polite, friendly delivery

Very good food and excellent customer service specially from Valentines . Nice place 👌 and very good

NEVER WILL I ORDER AGAIN £45 THIS CLAIMS TO BE A RESTAURANT. THE FOOD WAS BLAND NO FLAVOUR VERY OVER PRICED IVE CANCLED THE PAYMENT. SHOULD TASTE WHAT YOU SEND OUT. VERY DISSAPOINTED!!!!!

The best pizza in Leeds This guys know How to make a delicious food.

As good as always great lasagne

Amazing food. Delivered hot and delivery man was so polite.

Excellent experience at La Besi! My friends and I had pasta and garlic bread, the food was great with generous portion sizes and really well priced. BYOB is an added bonus. The waiters were also super friendly, will definitely be going back here x

As always delicious food served hot and fast will order again my go to Italian restaurant.

No toppings to talk about, very bland flavour, cold and like cardboard

2nd time in a night ! Lol amazing guys found my new favorite takeaway

Lovely delivery person and the food was great.

Delicious hot pizza delivered a little earlier by a really friendly delivery driver. Couldn't have been better. Will order here again!

The food was good and tasty, but the taste of risotto was far away from Italy.

Prawn gamborone starter was stone cold, we ordered bread with it. Politely told waiter it was cold. He brought back another gamborone with 2 prawns in it and no bread, it was reheated and had loads of spice dded to it second time round.. accidental? 😐 Then kept ignoring us. Main was bang average and rude AF customer service not in a rush to come back. Has serious potential but sort it out.

Lovely food but small portion sizes for thhe money.

We ordered 10 pizzas for a work do and they were all excellent

Lovely restaurant, very beautiful veranda!

Very nice food ,recommend 100% thanks Raf

Little topping on the pizza and pasta, on the small size and didn't look freshly cooked.

Best food i ever try on Leeds. Definitely will order again 🥇

Made a booking, recieved an email saying my booking was confirmed, got to restaurant, it was closed. Nothing on website about a closure. Really quite disappointing.

Ordered from here quite a few times and always been lovely. However the latest time I ordered it was awful. The lasagne was about 3 small sheets of pasta hidden beneath loaadddsss of tomato sauce. The sauce tastes like it was just Heinz tomato soup, it really wasn’t pleasant. The carbonara hardly had any bacon in it, and the bits that were there were like hand chopped bits of thin bacon. Really disappointing. Would possibly order again as may have been a one off that it wasn’t nice (after having lots of previous good experiences) but if it was like this again I wouldn’t go back

can safely say if just eat was a game then I've completed it !!! la besi is by far the best Italian food in the LS12 area !!!

Been coming here for 17 years. Still awesome!

Rather bare setting, more cafe than restaurant. Service excellent. Food tasty but modest portions

Everything was perfect! Will definitely go back!

Always fantastic food my only Italian in Leeds, totally recommend. They never disappoint xx

Guess what? Couldn't imagine I will find such a good food in a small restaurant in Leeds. Fresh ingredients, smart cooked dishes, great taste. If you're ever nearby just try it!

A great restaurant with great tasting hot fresh food that is authentic. I will definitely be ordering again.

Missed the first phone call so delivery driver left with our food and refused to bring it back. Food was stone cold by the time he delivered it as it had left the restaurant over a hour ago

Nice Italian restaurant near the university with reasonable price for students. The food was delicious and the portions were big.

Food was available to collect earlier than stated

Pasta is well good and the staff are friendly. Prices are decent for such nice food.

Delicious creamy mushrooms. Steak cooked beautifully and was so tender

Simple, relaxed, unpretentious, good Italian food. I came here for an early, reasonably priced dinner – away from a standard chain restaurant – and it didn't disappoint. The UK needs more places like this.

Wonderful Italian food - simple, but made with love. Super!

Very nice genuine Italian pizza.

I used to order almost daily from them ..is a shame they don’t do deliveries to my address which is 5 min away from Restaurant is 3rd week I try and nothing....anyway ..I will look for another place

Carbonara had no flavour. I threw it in the bin!

Had beautifully made tagliatelle carbornara and garlic King prawn starter. Subtly made cheese and very tasty. I took my time. Excellent service.

Wow, beautiful food! I haven’t ordered from here for about 7 years as moved out of the area, and it’s just as banging as it was, if not better. Everything was spot on and absolutely delicious :)

Some of the best pizza I've had in the uk and at a very reasonable price.

Myself and my daughter were looking for somewhere to eat before a gig at The Stylus and La Besi looked welcoming enough. Our waiter was very pleasant and the food was surprisingly good and decent value. The restaurant could do with a spruce up but it has some charm.

Baby mozzarella was very slightly undercooked but it's the only time food has arrived anything less than perfect! Delivered a few minutes early and food was hot and tasted great (even despite the previous comment). Big portions so enough for left overs tomorrow 🤌🏻

We booked La Besi for a meal of 5 after our son's graduation. It turned out to be the perfect place for us. The food was superb, everyone was pleased with their choice. Service was excellent, all five dishes for each course was served at the same time and good and hot. We had a great night, thank you La Besi!!!

I've travelled all over and spent a lot of time in Italy. I have to say it is hands down the one of, if not the freshest and most authentic Italian restaurants I've found outside of Italy. The pizzas have a delicious sauce, with the right quantity of toppings and proper bases. I tell everyone I know who craves genuine Italian cuisine about La Besi.

Gorgeous Italian Food/Takeaway! Me and my partner have been ordering pasta dishes from La Bessie for over 2 years. I can’t fault the pasta dishes whatsoever! We’ve travelled to Italy many times and La Bessie’s dishes are spot on 🤌🏼 🇮🇹 it’s so good to Italian pasta in the city of Leeds. We 100% recommend the spaghetti alla carbonara, salmon fettuccine and the fettuccine san marco 🥩.

Absolutely delicious food! Fantastic service and such friendly. Could not recommend enough, very impressed 😊

Both the pizza and the garlic pizza were damaged in the box and looked awful. The pizza was inedible due to this and the spices used were far too strong. Had to order a pizza elsewhere.

The best italian in town!!! Great service as well!

Was really disappointed. I ordered all these pizzas and chips for my hard working colleges to find them all cold when arrived at the office. The pizza all had a funny smell like off cheese

Arrived early, delivery driver was lovely and the food was amazing (with enough left for tomorrow!).

Pizza was like cardboard. All toppings cooked off the edge of the pizza.

I have ordered from here multiple times and the food is lovely as always, and good portion sizes.

Looks ordinary but the quality of the food is excellent. Very friendly service. Not fast service like chains where you get average pre-prepared food but worth the time to get a delicious meal cooked to order. Excellent value and flexibility with BYO drinks

Paid extra for cheddar cheese to get 2 cheese slices slapped on top! Luke warm when arrived. Ordered roast potatoes and got part boiled. Safe to say was disappointed

Food was very delicious and hot when arrived, everything was cool.

Amazing restaurant, fast and efficient service, delicious food. If you are searching for a nice Italian restaurant in Leeds, I would 100% recommend this place.

Always enjoy the food from here

The food is very tasty and I thank the driver for the speed.The best driver.

Excellent as always. Delivery driver so polite and friendly! Food wasn’t as warm as it normally is but overall still very happy.