Lisa's in Kensington and Chelsea

A great Italian restaurant in the bustling Portbello Road district. The food was exceptional and the restaurant really vibrant. The pizzas and pastas were great. Perhaps I went on a busy day, but they struggled to manage the orders and people were complaining about waiting a long time for simple drink and food orders. I guess this happens when a place is bustling. I will definitely go back but on a quieter mid week day.

Had really amazing experience, quality food, and beautiful location amongst the colourful Notting Hill houses!

Neat, tasty and such a delicious meal 😍👍🏻

Great place, fresh food and perfect customer service 👌🏻

Sea bass was amazing but calamari not top notch.Service was not attentive.

Amazing food and service. Love and music. The owner and manager is so down to earth, kind, and the only thing she wants to do is to make sure her clients are happy. God bless this place. Highly recommend.❤️

Great starters, really authentic und please try the parmigiana :))

Alora) That's another the Real Italian restaurant to enjoy in London. The staff was so professional, friendly, and kind. And the food was amazing as well. Real taste of Italy 😋🫠🤗

Salty pizza terrible service I order drinks and they told me I need to leave in 15 mins!

I been impressive for the atmosphere The food was unbelievable and the service as well For sure I will come again I recommend this restaurant I think one of the best Italian restaurant in portobello road

I'm writing this review as the whole experience of booking a table is a joke! It took several phone calls and several emails which went unanswered for almost 3 weeks to book a table for a group of 9. After finally receiving confirmation, the restaurant called me a month later to cancel my booking as they 'forgot' they had already reserved the whole restaurant for a private booking. When I challenged the manager about the process and asked if it was standard practice to answer customers after 2 1/2 weeks she simply said 'we get a lot of emails'. We are now having to find somewhere fun to eat just before Christmas which is proving a challenge!

Nice bar for a good aperitif. Possibility of having gluten-free options

Excellent pizza and proper strong Aperol Spritz (always a sign of a true Italian restaurant!)

Over priced for a very basic Italian restaurant. Food acceptable but the restaurant lacks any atmosphere. We had bread and olive starters and no alcohol, no dessert and bill still came to £125 for 4 every ordinary pasta dishes. I came here before when it was a Swedish restaurant (was better then). It feels like they just stuck the "Italian" on the end of the name as the demand for Swedish food clearly less than Italian but the food needs to be better and cheaper or I don't see this place hanging around very long. So much rubbish food on Portobello nowadays. trying to attract the tourists, can't believe I fell for it being a local.

Location is perfect and the hostess and security guard were a delight. They owner or manager was so personable and helpful. Our server brought the wrong meal, and then fixed it. No problem. But at the end we waited 30 minutes for one dessert and watched as the restaurant morphed from a restaurant to a club. I think she forgot we were there? As people were lining up to get in we were subjected to them standing all around our table and smoking, which quickly switched the vibe from a romantic dinner to hurrying to leave. Food: bread was not fresh, pasta was! Ceviche was perfect. Never got that dessert :(

Clean, decent and friendly team

Amazing food, compliments to the chef, we both loved everything, starters, mains and desserts. We’ll definitely come back

Siamo stati lì qualche sera fa e entrando ci siamo sentiti subito a casa, locale molto accogliente. Abbiamo ordinato la tartare di salmone che era ottima e poi carbonara e tagliatelle con pomodorini e burrata. Tutto molto saporito, ottimo veramente. Torneremo sicuramente!!

Such a great experience, food was incredible, amazing energy and if you’re lucky enough to get Danielle as your waiter you’re in for a treat!

Underwhelming describes our experience of Lisa’s food and service. Neither were awful but likewise neither were anything special. A busy Saturday lunchtime in Ladbroke Grove saw our adult family venture into Lisa’s Italian restaurant. Given a high-table by the window, the first challenge was to scale the banquet seating… could have done with a leg up … and I’m average height! The restaurant filled around us and the atmosphere was nice. Our waiters were attentive, drinks arrived promptly (although the carafe of table water needed a quick reminder). Not a complicated order - gnocchi, 3 pizzas and a quinoa salad but for some bizarre reason every table around us, all of whom came in after us, received their order before we did - normally we wouldn’t notice but we were irrationally hungry. And to add to our despair, the hangriest of our party didn’t received his pizza until we had all finished our food! Pizzas - okay but I’m not going to write home about them. Gnocchi ditto. And here is where this review takes the tumble from an average 3 to an underwhelming 2 - weighing in at £14 the quinoa salad was at best paltry and I would even go so far as describing as pathetic in size and content. I only wish I’d taken a picture of the side-salad sized offering … preferably next to a pound coin for scale!!! You’ll have to make do with this close up and take my word for it! I think the recipe went like this… Take one small bowl Add 1) a teacup of quinoa 2) a piccola misura of rocket 3) ditto cherry tomatoes, olives & cucumber 4) and finally a suggestion of cubed feta. 5) and a sneeze of balsamic dressing! Having inhaled the salad in a few mouthful, it was decided that the food stalls outside would be our next port of call! So all in all, pizzas were… okay. Gnocchi was … okay. Quinoa salad was pathetic. Service was efficient. Timing was not great. £120 for 5 people including a bottle of house white (including a charge for service which is a pet hate of mine but I didn’t have the energy to ask them to take it off!) would have been fine if the food had been value for money - which in this day and age is key. Will we return…. No but it’s a tourist trap so I’m sure they won’t go out of business

Very nice place ,waiter very attentive, good Italian food, good drink and in the week end live music

Employés peu accueillants , salade cesar reduite a sa plus simple expression mais les autres plats bons , cadre sympathique.

Lisa’s is one of those inconspicuous slightly hidden restaurant gems where nothing on the menu seems over the top, yet every dish is done with love, care and attention to finshing details. And if you’re lucky enough to come in the live music evenings, you’re in for a treat. Probably the most endearing place in Portobello Road.

Food was OK, pasta and fish were good, meat wasn't good. Service was average. Shop seemed closed from the outside with a black closed curtain at the door. Music was very good. Very expensive for the experience.

Proper Italian, starter+main menu for a tenner! And they served gluten free pasta, too. I found this place by searching for gluten free restaurants and thanks to other reviews I found the perfect one.

Was really looking forward to this place as it's one of my friend's favourites - but was ultimately disappointed by the very loud live music which was overpowering as soon as I walked in and throughout our time there. My friend and I had to lean forward and shout to each other, and repeatedly ask what the other said as it made it so hard to have a conversation! For a small, intimate space the volume should be adjusted accordingly...it was distracting rather than enjoyable or relaxing. Quite dark, could've benefited from candles on tables perhaps. Lacked warmth. Moving onto the food, I was just disappointed. When we ordered the bread I assumed it would arrive hot/toasted or at least a little warm, but it was cold (I should've asked, in hindsight) and when my pasta came out it was cold on the outside and lukewarm towards the middle, and quite chewy, as if it'd been sitting for a while. I didn't want to raise an issue and wait for a replacement as I was so very hungry. However the service was lovely and the drinks were well made. Had high standards as a few other restaurants I've been to in the area were amazing. Would like to come back and try something else as maybe it was a one off, but will not be rushing to.

Delicious and great atmosphere.

Disappointing experience. Service could have been better managed. Preferred when it was a Swedish restaurant. Only highlight is the live band who is always a delight.

Great food. I really cannot recommend this highly enough. Menu had some solid options. You will not be disappointed

Amazing food, just need to pay attention to the portion size as it is comparatively less than the others. Overall the taste is classic and awesome. Recommended.

מנות טעימות, אבל קטנות מדי, שירות לוקה בחסר.

Lovely little restaurant cafe, great Italian atmosphere.

Nipped in for a bite to eat whilst looking around the market on Saturday afternoon. Great pizza and lovely atmosphere. Good attentive service and very friendly.

Food was amazing but portion sizes were a bit ridiculous. £16 for 3 pieces of ravioli - delicious ravioli but definitely not filling. Ended up needing to buy a tesco sandwich after.

Delicious home cooked Italian food, thank you always

Excellent petit restaurant. Nous avons mangé des clams délicieuses et le propriétaire est au petit soin. Merci

First class service and a superb calzone. Will definitely go back.

Excellent food, good service what more could you want. Possibly the best Italian on portobello road. Perfect Sunday lunch

A very rude waiter, who obviously thought he was the greatest person since sliced bread, furthermore had the personality of a cardboard box. After having our refreshments he pranced up and down waiting for payment, looked us up and down and was generally a very unpleasant waiter.

Great service, extensive and quality wine list, quick to bring food, excellent tasting pasta and friendly ambience

Three words: Pretty awesome dude 😎👌

Ate here at tables outside;during the week they do a set lunch for £10 Monday to Friday. It’s a simple set lunch of salad or bruschetta followed by chicken or pasta of the day which was gnocchi with tomato and cheese sauce and was the best gnocchi I’d eaten ever. Friendly service -very relaxed -would highly recommend.

Fantastic authentic Italian food.

Such a nice place to go around my local area. Drinks, so great ! Service great and the DJ super talented and nice.

We visited Lisa's on Portobello Road for a Friday lunch. Very friendly staff team and the service was excellent. We chose seating outside under the canopy. We ordered dishes from the antipasto and mains menu - and the food was amazing. Will definitely be returning soon! Highly recommended.

Amazing pizzas, authentic tastes and obviously quality ingredients.

Lisa’s Italian restaurant is the best....

Loved their buffalina pizza!! Amaizing staff

Excellent option for traditional Italian. Thumbs up for Vicenzo and Adi.

THE place for exceptional food and great atmosphere in Portobello.

Eating pizza and pasta for lunch now. Had to write a review- the pasta is good, but the pizza is superb. Dough is both crisp on the outside and soft in the middle. Really excellent. Friendly staff too

The pizza and pasta was delicious. I had the tortellini and it was divine. Staff was very friendly and helpful. The only reason I'm knocking off one star is because the tables inside were very close together, not socially distanced, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable. In non covid times this would be 5 stars!

I paid nearly £50 for 2 pizza and cold chips, then my drinks "were forgotten by driver" meal ruined pizza average, left whole, not cut into pieces, no cares given we speaking to the staff. Strongly advise against

Great homemade pasta and great service

Great location, in a quiet corner of portobello rd. Great friendly customer service. Food is superb, we had trofie and bigolo

Best gluten free pizza in London! Really lovely staff. Grazie mille x

Amazing, as always. The restaurant is always buzzing. Love the food, the staff and the relaxed atmosphere. Looking forward to next time!

We needed shelter from the rain and found this fab little Italian on the Portobello road. They had a lunch offer so thought.. why not! We ended up staying and having an amazing lunch finished off with Tiramisu and coffee's, service excellent food excellent great little find!

The best food and funny place in London.

This place is fantastic. We booked for 8pm and had an amazing dinner. We ordered the Burrata cheese, Rocket and Pomodorini to start, along with a margherita pizza. For mains we had the Tagliatelle Pesto & Burrata cheese, and Linguine Vongole Veraci. Dessert was Italian cheesecake. The food is flavourful and cooked perfectly, i highly recommend this restaurant. The menu is generous, varied and has something to suit most tastes. Our waiter was energetic and attentive and was full of character, the service we were given was excellent and the staff are friendly. I will definitely be coming back here with family members and friends. Many thanks to all at Lisa's for a great experience.

Super! Se had pizza, squid, provola, grilled vegetables and a super cheesecake. We will surely come again, everything was spot on

Ottima pizza. Ottima pasta. Ottima Cheesecake. Prezzo buono (ottimo con lo sconto governativo). Simpatici, gentili e amichevoli i ragazzi. Se...

I believe it's very difficult to find an Italian place, outside Italy, which does very well: starters, Pizza, pasta and dessert. There's always 1 thing that shouldn't be there. Well, Lisa's manages to do this, we ate very very well and, for the quality, the...

Best Calzone I’ve had in London. If you’re looking for quality authentic Italian food look no food no further. Italian owners and chefs have created the best Italian in West London.

Good authentic Italian food and the staff is really nice

Lovely restaurant in Notting Hill with delicious Swedish food, The “Toast Skagen” is amazing. The best Swedish food menu in London which i have tried.

Cosy restaurant with great food and great costumer service. Would definitely go there again!

Cozy and comfortable place. Life music makes the difference. Food is good and cocktails (the ones made by Marco) are superb. Highly recommended place, we'll go back again for sure!

Service was very poor. Also there was super loud music in the dinner area - great place if you want to scream at your friends..

Posto molto carino, Servizio veloce e adeguato, molto simpataci e competenti. Anche musica dal vivo.

WE HAD EGGS BENEDICT AND A COFFEE, it looked Delicious and tasted Delicous, we sat outside watching the world go by

Didn't serve after placing us outside ... We left after 25 minutes

Starters were very good (herring especially) for Scandinavian taste. The dishes were mainly from Denmark and Sweden, and the main courses were not as good as I let myself expect after starters. Crab linguini was murdered with chili, and even though I consider myself quite...

Super disappointing service!! Unfortunately we had the worst service, constantly looking for staff who forgot to order our sides, only got them after reminding. When we asked if they forgot, the staff member just said ‘yeah’ then walked away. No apology! Sad because the food...

I've been coming to Lisas since 2016 and it still remains my favourite Scandi spot in town. Being from Sweden myself it's a super cosy place to find some home comforts such as meatballs and toast skagen. There's always a fab atmosphere with good food,...

Love this place, what service and yummy meat balls!

Great little spot, nicely rustic and from time to time, a 3 piece band. Excellent for a light brunch.

Gran bel posto, ottima cucina, personale pronto e gradevole. 👍👍👏👏👌👌

Probably one of the most terrible experiences I had in my six years in London. Me and my friend were in busy Notting Hill and we found this place where people were having food or just coffee. We said that we expected another two friends...

Beautiful aesthetic, great service, yummy food.

Endroit plutôt calme, reposant, lumineux et cocooning. On peut aussi bien manger, goûter, boire un thé ou un café et autres boissons Personnels accueillants et professionnels A recommander et arrêtez vous si vous passez devant

The little Scandinavian restaurant is located on Portobello Road in the Notting Hill area of London. We popped in for dinner. Around 9pm they had live music that was so good we did not leave until near midnight. It is a great place to eat,...

Good live music, but the food is mediocre at best. Awful customer service which really left a sour taste in my mouth. I will definitely not be returning.

Bastante económico para estar en Londres dos cocacolas 3 libras

Great food and drinks. Relaxed athmosphere and friendly staff

Really disappointing . Rude staff and poor service

Leave cocktails to your man at the bar... you're in good hands.

Very accommodating and they make sure the customer is satisfied 👍very clean and service is excellent 😜Egg Florentine partner had the smoked salmon with poached eggs well presented well cooked 👍

We had a stop at this Scandinavian (Swedish) restaurant for a coffee break. We sat outside and enjoyed the sun and the life on portobello Rd. Good coffee and we can recommend the avocado on bread - it’s very nice.

We had a fantastic meal and enjoyed the live music. The two ladies who served our table were lovely and their service was fantastic. We had the table until 9.15 pm and one of the ladies reminded us of that at 9pm. A minute later...

Not great, too loud, got one order wrong and forgot one.

Good live music, fine drinks, decent crowd. All ingredients for a nice bar. However... very dim lighting, a cramped space, and music volume louder than most clubs do not allow for anything that even resembles a restaurant experience, as you cannot even hear the person...

Very noisy, quite pricey. Here’s a couple of quotes from people in the restaurant:

Locale molto cool in zona tipica di Londra. La cucina svedese/italiana e' veramente interessante (ottimi i piatti di pesce e...

Lovely little place. Staff are superb. Great cocktails too

Everything that's great about the Swedes.

We stopped for coffee and hot chocolate - both, the best in a long time. The menu looked very interesting but we were just not hungry! Fabulous decor and the staff were super friendly - well worth stopping at, even if it's only a coffee!

Live music, great food, excellent drinks and the service is brilliant. It’s not a quiet restaurant but rather a vibrant jazzed up blend of live music and excellent food. I recommend the herring starter and the bar will make any cocktail you can think of! The choice of wines suits the food and you will find everyone friendly and very knowledgeable about the food.

This is like a hidden gem in the heart of notting hill a bit far from central London but SO BE IT! the bartender is a show of his own (sorry can't remember your name, Italian) the Jonny Depp looking Italian again guy who is running the restaurant is so original. the people are having fun, they are relaxed and Britney Spears is playing in the saxophone in a soul jazzy version with Scandi food all over. we absolutely loved it and I love even more that its not for everyone, I rebooked the restaurant while I was still eating.

I don’t normally write bad reviews but I feel that this one is justified. We had booked a table at Lisa’s 2 weeks prior to coming here. On the day (a Saturday at 4pm), when we arrived, a rude and unapologetic waitress greeted us and said ‘we tried calling you a number of times, we have a private function today and close at 5pm’. Considering we had travelled from out of London to come here, and the fact that we had booked two weeks ago, you’d think that Lisa’s would have checked this prior to our booking. It’s really poor form to try and ring us on the day of our booking, especially as it wasn’t easy for us to get to Portobello (plus my fiancé said he only had one missed call on his phone). We felt that we had no choice but to stay as we’d made a lot of effort to get here. Our waiter just seemed unfriendly and uninterested the whole time we were there (which was barely 40 mins). The food was fine but nothing special, and for the price (£60 for 2 drinks, a bottle of water, and 2 mains, plus gratuity which was automatically added), we left feeling uncomfortable and unwelcome. We won’t return to Lisa’s. It’s a shame, as my fiancé is Swedish and was looking forward to enjoying a home away from home experience.