La Locanda Del Duca in Eastbourne

Had a great dinner last Saturday night for my wife's birthday with a couple of friends. The whole ambiance of the restaurant is classy where the food was top notch in my view. The staff were extremely efficient and friendly but not intrusive a ready great place.

Food was great, younger staff were great, older male waiter wouldn't crack a smile, actually felt quite uncomfortable. Seating squeezed in, so so close to other tables. Would I go back, probs not.

Fabulous food and great service. Good atmosphere.

Excellent food, very good service. The restaurant was full and clearly very popular.

Delightful ambience, excellent service, delicious food. The standard is high and just as good as it was over a decade or so ago. Highly recommended.

My wife and I visited on a busy Saturday night. We were really impressed with the service from the start. All the staff were brilliant throughout our visit. The food was lovely and very reasonable especially for the quality of each dish. The restaurant has a really great atmosphere as well. Will definitely return.

This place never fails to impress! Proper old fashioned Italian, done and served excellently. The added bonus was it was Elvis night! Great fun had by all.

Fabulous Valentine's evening, lovely atmosphere, great food, superb staff could not be better. Although very busy, never felt rushed.

Old school Italian with a slightly worryingly large menu. You don’t see that nowadays but presumably they have been doing the same thing for years and know how to make it work. It was very busy on Saturday night and although the service was good we did feel slightly hurried through the meal. Definitely a good place to go if you’re not looking for a leisurely meal or anything too modern.

Excellent service and Amazing food .From starters to Main . All delicious . Never rushed . Staff very helpful and can't fault a thing .

Went for a celebratory lunch and had one of the nicest meals ever. Lovely food (best asparagus ever!), attentive but not overly hovering service in a relaxed atmosphere. Enjoyed it so much I almost forgot the pouring rain outside! Will definitely be going back 😁

We had excellent customer service and nothing was too much trouble and the food was fabulous. I would highly recommend this restaurant.

We were here to celebrate a special birthday and everything was top quality. Excellent service and great food. Very good wine and overall it was a lovely evening and fantastic value. Nice to enjoy a traditional Italian restaurant.

Fantastic food and service can't recommend it enough

Amazing food and staff. Cosy atmosphere

Great service, delicious food, pretty decor ,attractive ambiance and warm welcome. Staff gave attentive service whilst not hovering around. Would go again for definite!

Another gem of a restaurant! Food and service was impeccable. Highly recommended

Absolut great steak. Fantastic taste and done to the spot!

Wonderful true Italian restaurant! If there was 10 stars, I could give that🤩 Everything was excellent, just right. I cannot describe the taste of food, it is very authentic at the same time open to new tastes. I just had a ravioli with duck meat, brandy and orange sauce. This could be the best ravioli I ate. Service, attention, atmosphere were just so good, it really made my day👌

Great evening last night with entertainment, excellent food, service and atmosphere.

Great restaurant serving equally great food. Staff are on the ball and very friendly. Good wine list too. We’ll be back again in the spring.

The food was delicious and a full vegan menu is on offer as well.

We think LLDD is one of the best restaurants in Eastbourne and the surrounding area. We have eaten many times in this popular place. The staff and very professional, make everyone feel special and the food is excellent and varied.

Delicious food and good service.

This restaurant is superb. The food is amazing. I'm exceptionally fussy when sourcing places to eat. Most of their food is sourced locally and the standard is impeccable. Above and beyond. Because it can get busy, always best to pre book. You won't be disappointed. Ben the owner and his partner Michaela run the place brilliantly. Their attention to detail is superb. Nothing is too much trouble. So if your visiting Eastbourne pay them a visit.

Excellent Italian Food . I like it very much

Food was good and so was the service, popular place, perhaps a little too speedy but it suits pre-theatre eaters which we were.

A lovely restaurant, superb menu, wonderful staff, and ambience.

Had lunch here today with friends and as always, and we have been many times, everything was amazing. It was really busy but didn't affect the service at all. Don't know how they serve so many people so well. Food was fabulous and hot and staff were brilliant. Always a fantastic experience.

Visited for our anniversary, and we both absolutely loved this place. Everything was just perfect from the food, service, to the ambience. 100% recommend, will definitely return when we are next in Eastbourne

Every time I visit Eastbourne on a business trip I make sure to have supper at this welcoming and generous restaurant. The food is delicious - I always have the veal in cream sauce, which comes with a huge array of beautifully cooked veg including masses of crispy sauté potatoes, and the crepe with summer fruits, stuffed with fresh cream and topped with amaretto crumbs. But not only is the food to die for, the staff are attentive and offer a complementary digestif and chocolates at the end of your meal. Try it - you won’t regret it!

Fantastic service and food as always

First time in Eastbourne visiting an old friend. She insisted on taking me here for a meal and I can see why. The place was full on a Wednesday night which says it all. The service was great and the food amazing, especially the carpaccio. Highly recommend

We celebrated my birthday at La Locanda Del Duca last summer and enjoyed fantastic food and great customer service there. Highly recommend this restaurant.

We had a wonderful meal and then went to the Congress the staff are so lovely and the food is very delicious,highly recommend this restaurant thank you very much

Great food at a very reasonable price. Comprehensive menu with the option of a money saving 3 course set menu.

All round perfect place & waiting staff! Food is great!

I've been a few times before but this was the busiest night. And the food was disappointing considering the price. It was so packed it was hard to get in and out of the tables. Which I understand you need to get as much business as possible. But the food was very average. And not cheap!

My husband ordered lasagne which he very much enjoyed and I ordered chicken breast with asparagus and a beautiful dressing saute potatoes and vegs. I thoroughly enjoyed the meal drinks and the dessert tirimisu with vanilla topped with nuts was exceptionally good to eat. The service was very attentive also. We do not live in Eastbourne but if we return we will definitely visit this Italian restaurant again. Lastly the cost of everything was not prohibitive.

This is a truly authentic Italian restaurant, hence no plastic pizzas! Just superb home cooked Italian delights. The menu allows a huge choice of pastas all cooked to perfection. The staff were incredibly nice, not just attentive but funny and personal. We loved it and will certainly return again.

We had our wedding reception here. The service was fantastic and the food was even better. Highly recommended.

Great restaurant and first class food. Service is amazing and we love the atmosphere, especially the Sunday evenings once a month when we can enjoy Singer Tom Fitzpatrick, he gets the whole restaurant involved and even dancing at the end of the evening. Check him out!

1 of Best Restaurants in Eastbourne. Ben and Michaela make this place do lovely to enjoy a relaxing quality meal. Highly recommened

Easily the best Italian restaurant in Eastbourne. The food is excellent with a wide range of dishes available. We went as a group of 7 and went when they were very busy, but the quality and service remained exceptional. They do a lovely goats cheese with figs starter that I would recommend.

If you love Italian food, then this place is a must the food is fantastic good price and a really good clean restaurant and the staff a really great nice family run restaurant 😀

Booked in advance, glad I did, it was busy! Smiling cheerful staff, very good food and service, good value for money.

Very good quality food, amazing service, where I constantly felt looked after, I cannot mention this enough as all staff members were fantastic. Complimentary bread and olives (weird to say but the best bread I have had in a while!), and digestif. On top of this the interior was very nicely set up, clean and cosy, bathroom was spotless and in very high standard. Will be returning here for sure as this has become one of the favourites in town, along with its neighbour restaurant next door to this one (although that one I would say is more family oriented, whereas this one is more for an experience without children).

Excellent meal, great wine and friendly service. Good to see an authentic Italian menu. We will be back!

Excellent, food, wine, service and ambiance. Recently moved to Eastbourne and ate here tonight, will certainly be regulars. Faultless

A gem of a restaurant. Small enough to be personal and big enough to provide a top class service. Terrific food. Wonderful service with lovely people who do not mind sharing a joke! A lovely experience and one that I would not hesitate to recommend to anybody.

Everything about this restaurant is fabulous one of the most reliable for great food and great service.

Great menu very well executed, highly attentive staff, beautifully appointed restaurant. We went one evening and immediately booked to go back the next. It doesn't get any better than this.

Our first visit to Eastbourne and so fortunate to find this gem of a restaurant. Everything about it was perfect, the decor which we found was calm and restful, the serving staff were very attentive and helpful and friendly. The food was delicious and good...

Always use this restaurant when we come down to Eastbourne for a break and it’s the best. The food is excellent the staff amazing the atmosphere great. What mote would you want. ps. Menu half the price of London.

I had been daydreaming about one of my favourite Italian dishes all day and I just had to find it. I found it in Locanda and it didn't disappoint. Cooked to perfection.

Great service and brilliant food! Michal was a star host for us! Because of him we had a 10/10 service!

Definitely The Best restaurant in Eastbourne. I think we have tried everything on the menu by now and honestly, it’s hard to pick our favourite as everything is delicious; cooked and served to perfection. Management and staff are very welcoming and accommodating to every need. Looking forward to our next visit.

Visited with work colleagues, service and food was excellent! 👏🙌

Unruly children and parents destroying calm environment in the restaurant at 9 pm is unacceptable. Child running around and shouting is unacceptable behaviour. You know who you are! We shall not be back for dinner. Thank you to the staff who understood and acted upon...

We were a party of Four tonight at the Restaurant. My wife ordered a medium cooked fillet with pepper sauce. The steak was so hard and looked as frozen and the cut was far from what we used to get as it did not look like a cut of fillette migion .. it was dark grey from inside Not pink.I tried a bit but had to spit it out… We are customers for the last 30+ years and were never dissatisfied with Meats as this time. 🍴

We came to La Locanda for my friend's 70th birthday treat, and we were so impressed with the service, food and atmosphere. It was so lovely to be treated so respectfully and having never been before we would definitely go again based on this visit! Very well done to all the staff, keep up the good work, and if anyone is in the area and has time to go, you will have a great time! Thank you!

Great Restaurant - Busy, Buzzy and great Food and Service Lucky to get a table as a walk-in on a Thursday night it was so busy

Great food, excellent service. Would definitely go back and recommend this restaurant to friends. Good location for theatre visits.

Fabulous service, great food and fair prices. Between us, we had the risotto with prawns and asparagus, sea bass, monkfish and lamb cutlets - everyone loved their choices and the food was perfectly cooked. Desserts such as the vanilla ice cream with meringue, amarena cherry...

Wonderful service, absolutely delicious food. Oysters, mussels and prawn linguine were amazing. Can't believe it's taken us so long to try here! We will most definitely be back

Good value set dinner and Italian wine list. Always busy and service can be a little slow sometimes.

Really excellent Italian restaurant. Food and service are excellent. Recommend you make a booking, as its very popular.

This has always been a great restaurant - and nothing has changed. Very good and attentive staff. Great menu and fantastic food. Well worth a visit.

Well we went purely on ratings as a choice of where to go for food tonight , we love Italian food , we were studying the menus greeted really lovely on entry , the setting is gorgeous very classy , we were given water for...

I can’t thank everyone at La Locanda Del Duca enough for an amazing birthday meal! The food as always was excellent and I was surprised with an amazing birthday cake made by the incredible chef!! I can’t recommend this restaurant more highly. Look forward to...

I can’t thank everyone at La Locanda Del Duca enough for an amazing birthday meal! The food as always was excellent and I was surprised with an amazing birthday cake made by the incredible chef!! I can’t recommend this restaurant more highly. Look forward to coming back soon.

Use this place regularly, Lovely consistent quality food and service

I would go as far as to say, this is one of the best Italian restaurants I have eaten in. I would hugely recommend it. The food is exquisite & the staff were very friendly,pleasant & helpful. I would recommend the spaghetti allo scoglio if...

Lovely Italian near to seafront and Town Centre. Staff very welcoming and helpful. Good choice of very tasty food. Good portion size, set menu options and vegan options. Very pleasant atmosphere and good availability of parking nearby. Very reasonable prices 👍🏻

What an excellent restaurant, food was lovely, the restaurant was very good but service was exceptional. The staff were friendly, attentive and so welcoming. Definitely going back. Thank you

Superb food served by cheerful servers and great atmosphere. This must be the best restaurant in Eastbourne and that includes the Grand eateries. Try the liver and prosciutto with melon. Delicious. Reasonable prices too

We could not recall the restaurant we had booked and they failed to send a conformation. We called into this restaurant at lunch time to see if they had a table free that evening. they were very accomodating and we booked for 18.30Hrs. The restaurant...

Fabulous evening, Great Food Never Disappointed. Highly recommend.

Fabulous evening. We muddled up our dates meeting friends, La Locanda managed to squeeze us in. Food delicious and staff delightful. We had the asparagus to start with the penne, garlic, chicken and artichoke, hubby the goats cheese, then tornedos rossini, which was sublime. Thank you so much.

Superb Italian Reasterant. Great authentic food presented superbly. Super staff and good service. Highley recommended to visit.

Visited before our theatre trip and opted for the 3 course set menu.Top quality food and very friendly and welcoming staff. Very popular so best to book in advance, we will be back.

A truly awful experience , food is terrible... microwaved frozen seafood. I've worked under a chef from Sicily in an authentic Italian resturaunt and I can tell you this place is a fraud.. not Italian at all Don't waste your time

Omg what a little gem. Me and my partner went on Saturday night. The food was fantastic. So much flavour and the presentation was wonderful. Waiters were very attentive and it was a delight to be there. Will definitely be back. Thank you guys x

Went on Elvis night Maybe that is why the food was very very average. Small portions Nice staff Sorry extremely flat atmosphere. Definitely needs to be modernised. So dated and not in an attractive way Won't go again Elvis was great though

5 of us had a meal here and for all 3 settings the food was delicious and plates left empty. 2 pasta dishes 1 gnocchi and 2 fish dishes for mains and served hot and in a timely manner after the starters. Restaurant was about half full, but for midweek was promising.

Excellent as always...one of my favourite Italian restaurants maybe the favourite .so good on so many levels

First class our 3rd visit in the last 2 months, always reserve a table, always a warm welcome when arriving staff all very talkative, food excellent can't fault on anyway, certainly top of our list 100% recommend.

Arrived at 5.45 for dinner with friends and not until we had our starter were we told we had to vacant table by 7.30. why weren't we told that when we booked. We were looking forward to an evening there. Plus they overcharged me on...

This is, without doubt, the BEST food, service and atmosphere anywhere on this earth!!!! We have just had mussels to start, carbonara as mains, and are having a rest before the cheeseboard!!!!! Yesterday I had the veal escalope and my wife the salmon…..TRULY OUT OF...

The food was great. We got there quite late in the evening and they were kind enough to let us in for dinner. The staff was very friendly. Our dishes did not disappoint. The frozen limoncello after dinner was the perfect touch. I will definitely recommend and we will be back again.

Went here on a weekend away. Food is clearly pre-cooked and microwaved. Mussels and scallops as a starter was very over cooked and tasteless, scallops tasted like rubber. Main course, had linguini with prawns, both pasta and prawns over cooked and tasted microwaved and not...

Went for my mother in law's birthday 🎂 The staff were super friendly and the bread basket was to die for I would have been happy with just that. A little on the expensive side. Good food large portions and flexible on diet if you need to add or change things. Recommend having a starter sized portion Good set menu which is more budget friendly.

Very pleasant evening. Main course very good, starters felt like frozen prawns deep fried. Friendly, attentive staff, would go there again. Not traditional old Italian fare bit best we have experienced locally.

On a short stay in Eastbourne, and based on our experience of eating at their sister restaurant (Pomodoro e Mozzarella) next door the night before, we decided to eat here. The menu was very similar to the previous night but a little more adult and...

Nicely decorated, friendly welcome, good attentive service and excellent food. I’ve eaten here a few times now and have enjoyed it every time

Lovely romantic dinner with attentive service!

What can I say ? Only that it is by far the best Restaurant in Eastbourne. Quality of food and service is fantastic.

Lovely family run business, friendly staff and very helpful. The attention to detail and service puts most English restaurants to shame. A great little find xx

Wonderful Italian food, on a hot day it feels just like Italy! Efficient and friendly service. Thin slices of calves liver cooked with butter and saffron was a fantastic main, tremendous flavour and it almost melts in the mouth. Served with a selection of fresh...

Fantastic service. Brilliant food. Well worth the visit