La Dolce Vita Pizzeria in Newcastle upon Tyne

strong smell of vinegar on the pizza almost masked by the bbq sauce after 1 bit my stomach started turning, pretty sure id have the worst case of food poisoning in my life if i where to eat it all

Absolutley discusting my son placed a order for when it came it was still clucking absolutely discusting stay clear of this place it needs closing down before they poison someone 🤮

Changing the review as this place has gone down the past year, it's hit and miss at best getting orders wrong and inconsistencies in quality. I've been using this place for over 20 years and when it changed hands it was still a good pizza shop. So unfortunately we will not be using La Dolce Vita ever again.

My fav pizza place in Sunderland. Best pizzas in Sunderland. Always perfect service, helpful staff, hot food, on time, has what you want and need, open hours are perfect for when you have a craving any time of day.

Got a chicken wrap with chips. Was stone cold. There excuse was the garlic made food cold

Fine, if you're happy waiting 35mins for service. I'd suggest ordering from someone else ...

ordered and it didnt come but it says on just eat that its been delivered

Food cold when it was delivered. Got two tiny bits of chicken in a mixed wrap. The garlic bread was stone cold and had no taste of garlic, will not be ordering again from here.

Vile over cooked chips, bland overcooked dry chicken, rude staff. Seriously nobody should use these unfriended staff passing some of this to Sunderland public health.

Best piza and service in the area. Update. These guys are as always are great. Great food and service

Orderd a mixed kebab it cost £18.20 when it arrived it had 4 pieces of chicken all of which were burnt and about 7 pieces of kebab meat absolute disgrace for what I payed will never order from this place again

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Foods rotten, ordered spaghetti bolognaise. Asked for no cheese and they had put it on but it was mixed in with the spaghetti

our food came on time and warm not greasy staff were nice on phone

Ordered too crispy chicken burgers nice chicken burger the buns fell apart shocking cheese cakes still frozen must got them from tesco's🤣🤣🤣

Go elsewhere if you can, food was cold and waited ages for delivery and service was awful

A while back it went downhill but think new owners now. Back to its best. Pizza's are unreal

Do not order. Food arrived cold after waiting for almost two hours. Offered a free pizza next time. No offer for refund. Will not order again.

Great pizza, open late and card payment

Check out this peperoni pizza and tell me if they deserve a good score. Not much else to say

Sent the wrong food. When I called, they offered to send me another order. Its been 1hour 20 minutes and still no food.

Absolutely horrendous, order a burger and apart from the fact it arrived 2 hours late, one of the burgers was missing and when I called the staff said it was my fault! They then said just eat got it wrong. What a sham, please do not waste your money or time.

Don’t order I’ve never had bother of them before now leave notes and THEY DONT BOTHER LOOKING AT THE NOTES WHEN U LEAVE NOTE ABOUT FOOD They don’t check so waste bloody time

Food cold some of lamb was chewy. Food wasn't wrapped properly so disappointed after waiting for 1 hr for delivery

Avoid, I have never written bad a review on a takeaway but they get the order wrong and when I called they are rude on the phone even though they can't speak English properly. I ask them how long for them to change the order and he hangs up on me. Do not go here unless you want to be disappointed. AVOID

Ordered from here on and off for year's now. Just a bit hit and miss lately 😕 but still mostly nice food and quick delivery 😋

Decent place to have a nice meal...pizza is always spot on.

3 times in a row my food was cold. The 4th time they took my order then didn’t turn up.. Why???)

Great place for takeaway been going for years

Pinch money off you when you order then say you haven't trading standards needs to know about these absolutely disgusting service food dripping in oil freezing cold and disgusting rude customer service I wouldn't buy from here unless you want to pay over the odds for things that don't turn up

Very first time ordering and was spot on delivery driver had a face like a cows rear end but pizza was nice and the guy on the phone was brillv

Service is rude on the telephone.

Chicken Wraps are so tasty. They are very generous with the cheese they put on, unlike other takeaways. Delivery was fast and cooked to perfection. They are even open late. Brilliant takeaway I have no complaints. I highly recommend!!! 😄👍

Ordered kebab pizza with extras Bolognese and onions wat I got was a pizza with some Bolognese n few onions on no bebab meat

Abysmal service. Took my money. Called once and I missed the call (I take responsibility for that) so I ran to the door any they were gone. Must have waited one minute. Con men.

Ordered at 320 am and sed wud be here at 4 then 4.20 to 4.40 never came cnt get refund thieving b——-d but everyone stop ordering from there

Scammers avoid this place they took my money and no food recieved

My best friend ordered food for her and her partner at 3.20am and got told it would be they ,at 4pm ,then she rang them up again and lied and said will be deliverd at 4.40 they didn't turn up she can't get a refund it's not fair scamming her out of money when she has got kids to feed this place is very unreliable/ food has gone down hill neeeds to be closed and very rude behaviour when spoke to them on phone poor customer service AVOID THIS PLACE

My chips had hair in it like not even one hair a lot of hair, my pizza was wet don’t know what that’s about must’ve tried to clean it or summit, the person on the phone was the best part of the delivery we had a good conversation about how much of a virgin he is thanks bro xx

Pizza soaked in oil that it’s seeping through the actual box it’s self delivery charge £3.50 and services charges and fees totalling over £5 for just postcode sr6 which is just round the corner is shocking

Ordered for a collection, got home to find out an item was missing, I telephoned their line and they advised it would be sent out within the next 5 minutes as I suggested I would drive back. It took them nearly an hour to deliver the missing item despite 3 further calls progress chasing and one call being lied to about road conditions! I do not recommend

The calzone pizza I ordered was so dry I couldn't eat it as they put cheese on top but not inside! Very disappointed would not recommend!

Ordered food and was promised 50 minutes to an hour and took 1 hour and a half so rang up and they told me that it was in the way but on the phone was the same person who rang me 10 minutes later who was the bosses voice thinking I was stupid enough to think he was an insured driver for business vehicle so told him to keep the food and didn’t want it possibly the worst experience I’ve ever had with a food take away terrible service full of lies.

They don't seem to know what thin crust base is, sent me deep pan, rang to complain resent another deep pan. Has happened on two occasions now, pizza is good but not if you prefer thin crust. P.s on second occasion was told had no dough ready for thin crust,would be longer to deliver so just sent deep pan base instead!

La Dolce Vita has gone downhill in my estimation. Order took over an hour & a half to arrive which is very disappointing as I live more or less around the corner. Delivery charge for SR6 has gone up to £3.20 which is very expensive considering how close I am to the restaurant. Food was not worth the wait. Arrived cold & of poor quality. Binned best part. Mine came with salad (if that's what you can call it). Mouldy old lettuce & dried up tomato. They shouldn't have bothered. See picture below. I've been a frequent customer of La Dolce Vita over the years and food was always great. I'm afraid you have lost a customer.

Decided I would make an update to my review, because honestly the quality has improved into 2022. Not exceptionally, but still a lot better than what I'd said before. The food here is 50/50. I don't mean that half of the menu is good, and half is bad. I mean, no matter what you order, you have about a 50% chance it's going to taste awful. I can order one thing one day and the pizza is beautiful and the chips are golden and crispy, and order the same thing literally a day later, and the pizza tastes chewy and metallic, and the chips are undercooked and way too greasy. It's a bit of a dice roll. The prices are standard for this sort of takeaway, you could probably feed 2 people here for £10, or maybe £15-£20 if you're really having a fat day! They have some good offers, which I didn't notice until ages after. I usually order a 12" pizza, chips, and garlic sauce which will be about £13, and it took me months to realise the have all that AND a can of pop as an offer for £11. Check the special offers and such! In store is usually relatively tidy, and the staff are nice. You can probably tell based on the place that you're gonna get some chavs in here, and they can be loud or rude, but that's no fault of the takeaway. The reason I order from here is honestly the convenience rather than the quality. Some days they stay open past 3am, which is great for night owl like myself. The downside is, on the days the food hasn't tasted so great, I've been very ill the following day. The kitchen staff don't seem to wear hairnets or gloves, or follow other health and safety related things. So watch out for that. Overall, this place is just meh. I'd give it 2.5 stars if I could, because it's so 50/50, but I'll give it 3 because I've honestly probably spend £200 here in the last few month out of convenience

Never actually recieved the food they said they delivered.

delivery driver came to the door in high vis jacket and was before time he was very polite and friendly he was also exceptional at his job always gave a smile went above and beyond to what a delivery driver normally does and will recommend to anyone, great friendly service tipped driver always very friendly and very helpful and shop always gets order correct no complaints from me.

Hour late freezing cold chicken tikka looked like dogmeat

After it going off the rails and been absolutely S**t I'm happy to say one ordered tonight and the Dolce Vita is back. Pizza was dripping with cheese and full of flavour. Kebab meat was perfect. Keep it up.

Trying to ring them and I have rang them 10 times and no reply very shocking behavior.

Appalling their got no respect for their customers and lie over the phone. Said they would send my bottle of pop out but they didn't.How can you forget that when I literally only order that and a wrap. And because I refused to pay for missing item until it showed up they refused to send it out. Even though I had already paid for my wrap and the deliverly fee. Absolutely disgusting when I place an order I expect everything to show up. I won't be ordering from here again. You's have lost a really good customer!!!!!!

Ordered food using uber eats. Got 2 wraps, garlic bread and pop as a deal. You would think with the food would be a 2l bottle and not a 500ml one. One of us ended up with no drink. One wrap was ice cold, I mean as if it was kept in the fridge. Tomatoes with a funky taste, bitter cabbage. Donner kebab didnt seem fully cooked yet crispy. Tortilla had a burnt taste despite cold. Other wrap - chips over cooked, not wrapped very well and ended up using a plate for it. Garlic bread really cold and crusts really hard. Even pop, even the thing that is manufactured elsewhere was flat. Really bad experience and will not order here again. Avoid if possible.

Order never arrived and was never contacted

Worst kebab ive ever had chips freezing and like rubber and over an hour delivery for an address 4 mins away delivery driver threw the food at me liie he was passing the ball in a rugby match oh and the chicken was burnt

Food was freezing put the order in waited nearly 2 hours asked for salad got chips, the chips were like rubber, pitta bread were stale. Burger tastes like was microwaved. Save your money don't order from here

Absolutely S***! BURNT FOOD rank. Defo avoid

Ordered off just eat says food has arrived but it hasn’t called up and said driver had just set off have been waiting 1 hour 44 minutes do not order from here 1 hour and 59 minutes later food is finally here food is cold driver tried driving off and Donna kabab wrap is a mess

If u could put a minus score i would of, absolute disgrace, i was waiting a hour for my takeaway and when i rang to see where the delivery was, the woman who answered had a right bad attitude and said my order had left ten mins ago, where i live is only around 12 minutes drive from the shop and so by the time i rang, the food should arrived but still we waited a further 25 minutes for our food, we will never use this place again and recommend others don't either.

We had the chicken kebab " buy 1 get 1 free " Well worth the money and plenty left for another meal the next day . Defo be back .

Save your money and order elsewhere. Tasteless pizza, extremely greasy and slow delivery.

Driver was lovely and food was nice but pepparoni pizza came with 1 slice of pepparoni on it

Getting worst day by day, taste and quality not good 50p service fee is definitely a rip off, what service are you giving for 50p extra ????????? I have seen couple of times, when the food items (bread, peta, chicken etc.) falls down on the floor, the staff pick and use same items to make food stuffs, rather than to bin them, this is really unexpectable Always missing items in the order Poor quality, taste and hygiene 50p extra for what???

Ordered a delivery for £16.90 driver didn't have a clue were he was, I gave him basic directions, Just not getting through...I tried phoning shop no answer...I phoned driver, his reply "AW GANNA AWAY" I wonder if I get my money back......................MINUS STARS, STEER AWAY.....

Delicious food, pizza and burger 🍔 slug excellent 😋

Never again ordered kebab which was bone dry and tasted like rubber went in the bin also thin based pizza which was thick and burnt on the top first time using these will never go back

The food was delicious and the staff were really lovely however, I've marked them down a star as they weren't wearing masks

Food ordered off just eat, 43 mins late, food was cold, £21 for a pizza and 2 chocolate cakes. Do not recommend, tried calling and all you get in number busy.

Late ordering it's great but certainly not the dolce vita of old

Had a delivery from these , mixed wrap , only had 2 pieces of chicken in and kebab meat was dry ,so won’t be using these again

Great prices great, great pizza and pretty much open all night long what more can you ask for? Would 100% recommend

Not good enough. Second time we have ordered from here in four weeks and both times soft drinks ordered have been six months out of date. Normally the food here has been good; that's why we use it. However, tonight was half an hour late. These things can happen, but a bit of communication would go a long way. Just a text, it's not hard. Also, when you pay extras for food, the standard arrangement is that you get them. We didn't. Also, a polite nature on the phone instead of being rude to my wife goes a long way. When spoke to the manager, he was polite, but the damage was done. Not using them again. That is a shame as like to support local business. Up your game.

Ordered food at 11.45pm (27.05.2020) Was due to arrive at 1am 28.05.2020 Rang 3 times (1.18am/1.33am/1.46am) Each call person said give it 1 minute and it will be there. Food did not arrive until 1.54am (2h9m after ordering and 54 minutes after its expected time) When food was opened food was barely warm. Very VERY disappointed.

Absolutely Beautiful pizza one of the best I've had

For me the best pizza takeaway in Sunderland Cannot go wrong with Meal Deal 1. Great value and beautiful food!☺️

Shop looked un clean thay was grease on the mettle counter the waiting airear very poor crums of food all over and ripped seats food I ordered was an pizza which was thin crust over not seen a pizza. It was thick and very well done the chips was like frozen chips not any taste service was not good lady was on the phone long time and 2 men in the back shouting in an language which was not English not good impression of shop this is my 2nd visit this was an 3 star review the first time but now after this I give 0.5 star I hope these improve in the future but these is not the best pizza shop in Sunderland like it says on the menu well not on thease 2 visits which has been 6 months apart

Ordered from here as was recommended by a friend. Was the most disgusting food I've ever tasted. Pizza was freezing cold and the chicken was awful my dog wouldnt even touch it. Manager had a bad attitude. Food arrived nearly an hour late. Wont be returning.

Used to be good a few years ago..awful now like.

Took over an hour to be delivered! Then we were missing sauces which they said they would resent straight away I live a short way from the shop and it’s been 30 mins but still not arrived

Pizza's are tasty, but they are stingy on the meat when it comes to kebabs. Overall tastes good 👍

Absolutely dripping in grease, found a hair in the food, delivery driver went to wrong street, tasted like A4 paper now my teeth feel like a country road with loads of pot holes in not only that took 1 hour and 40 minutes to come disgraceful😤

Foods good but at £27.90 for 2 mixed kebabs and a 12 inch garlic bread it's a bit much.

Best pizza in Sunderland. Really quick on deliveries as well :)

Absolutely appalling food kebab wrap with chips actually had a hint of poo taste food not eaten never again !!

Nice tasting food, didn't have to wait too long. Bit cold inside waiting though.

Wrong order delivered. Cheesy chips just a big lump of chips. When ordering no customer care very abrupt .overall food poor.

Prices are getting ridiculously high!

Absolutely appalling!! Chips not cooked through and prices jaw dropping charged me £4.00 for a portion on uncooked chips

Rip off prices and disgusting greasy food, ordered from here by mistake "Got someone else to order for me online" they somehow managed to order from here instead of the place I wanted to order from. £29 for two 12 inch pizzas and a 10 inch pizzas, nearly fell through the floor when I found out the price. You can get a dominoes cheaper with the online 50% off deal that runs all year. Anyway as far as food goes pizza was like a loaf of bread with cheese and tomato on and the grease was ridiculous dripping everywhere I ate two slices and couldn't face any more, I felt ill. This is definitely one to avoid.

Garlic nice chicken nice and bit but asked for chicken tikka wrap only got a chicken wrap

Always great food and very friendly staff

Really nice food the kabab box is a bargain and the little driver with the glasses on is Steve gonezarles the fastest delivery man in the west

Nearly always good food and delivered on time.

Filthy... Food was burnt too... Won't be going back...

An hour and forty minutes later and I'm still waiting for the food to arrive. Don't think I've ever ordered from here and it's taken under an hour. Food always turns up cold by the time it gets here as well. If anyone wants to order from here I suggest you do it a week in advance. Maybe then it will turn up on time. Just rang and they said they haven't got my order even though they've taken payment from my card and sent me a confirmation email. Get this one wait another half an hour for food or I'll have to ring back tomorrow for a refund because there's no manager there. What a joke.

My favourite takeaway by far in Sunderland absolutely beautiful chicken kebabs are the best good range of food always fresh cooked hot and portion size is good value for money never any left overs

Only something small but they had forgotten to put my Fanta in with order so had to ring up and the woman on the phone never apologised and when I asked if I'll get it next time she just said yes and hung up.. Never asked who I was so how can they know!

We went as a group, the service was excellent, food arrived quickly and meals came out together, the meals were all hot, tasty and well presented, and the service was great (staff were attentive, warm and pleasant). We will definitely be back. (The Pasta Arribita was the best we had tasted, and the wine was excellent too)

Ordered a pizza last night...was delivered quickly enough but the pizza base was so soggy it was inedible & had was that wet it had soaked through the pizza box it was in which was also wet. Used to be the best takeaway in Sunderland but has gone right down hill recently.

phoaw class kebabs n chicken parmos, got wor bairn i sunday special she scranded it liek nee tommora . what a belter place for a belter man! 🎉