Mangia Bene Italian Restaurant in Islington

Wonderful all-round! They accommodated our large party with short notice and really looked after us. Every item of food we ordered was delicious and promptly served in a welcoming and cosy environment. Highly recommended.

My sister and I were looking for a place to eat after spending the day travelling and it's safe to say it was one of the best meals I have had dining out. The restaurant was lovely, a homely atmosphere with a welcoming feeling. The waiters were lovely, very professional and food was efficient. The food was truly delicious and I hope to visit again the next time I'm in London. 10/10 recommend dining here

Was a busy Friday when me and my sister went in, but we were seated at the earliest availability, food was amazing and service was fast and efficient. Would definitely recommend its a small restaurant but it felt very homey

I highly recommend this restaurant!! The food is very good and the people are very friendly!!!! It's totally worth it!!!

Amazing place. The best Italian food I have ever had in my life. Fantastic.

There was a choice of gluten-free or normal pasta and pizza. Super nice service. The food was also very tasty! If we go to London again, we will want to go to that restaurant again! Herbert, Marianne, Jelle and Annika from the Netherlands

My third visit to Mangia Bene, and it never has disappointed yet. I normally stay in one of the two Hilton hotels that are close by and this is leagues better than their dining experience by far. A hidden gem definitely. It's everything you want from a local restaurant - simple, understandable, fantastic quality Italian food and not too expensive - it's well away from all the tourist traps and pretentiousness of the West End. The proprietor is a really friendly chap, as are all of the waiting staff. The kitchen is super efficient as you don't have to wait very long for the food to arrive. Nice wine list too. The dining area is very small so the restaurant feels cramped and noisy when it is full, so if you want a quiet "cosy" dining experience it perhaps isn't for you. Also, due to its popularity - reserving a table is an absolute must if you are intending to come on the Friday/Saturday peak.

We came here on the weekend to celebrate a birthday. The food was delicious and the service from everyone that day was incredible. Thank you for accommodating so many of us!!

Authentic Italian restaurant, amazing food for decent prices. Not trying to be anything other than really good Italian food. The service is beyond great, definitely recommend eating here.

Delicious homemade pasta and pizza and great service.

Fantastic meal this evening here at Mangia Bene! Four of us enjoyed every minute of our visit - the staff, the service, the food ... all excellent quality and value. I highly recommend Mangia Bene!

Great everything about this Italian restaurant first came here in 2016 it as never lost it quality way of delivering the food the menu states great service all round

Excellent service and authentic and delicious food at very reasonable prices.

Insanely good. Lots of variety thank you

Great food and great service. We go here every year and it never disappoints.

really good service. Authentic Italian food

Amazingly quick service, excellent food, friendly and hardworking proprietor. Good value, but very noisy when we were there. Hard to hold a conversation. Spaghetti cooked to perfection.

Amazing atmosphere and lovely food, if you are looking for a place to share your experience with your friends or family this is the best place to dine!

After starting the night with disappointing news from steak house, my husband and I made our way to Mangia Bene. The Lord works in mysterious ways and I am so grateful for it! This place is AH-MAZING. Although the dining floor is very small, the food is exceptional. The wait staff is exceptional.

Delicious. Carbonara was a spectacle. I loved it.

Came here for a family get-together while visiting London for the day. Chosen for location and good reviews with a menu to suit all tastes. Was not disappointed! Had a lovely evening and the staff were friendly and engaging. Food was delicious and the evening flew by. Definitely recommended if you’re in the area. Too busy enjoying the evening so no pics of the food! Pasta was excellent. Daughter enjoyed a well made pizza and others had main course chicken and fish - both enjoyed. All well made.

Food was delicious! Pre ordered as going to the ballet and was ready when we arrived saving time. Lovely service, will definitely go again!

No se ve increíble cuando entras, pero como todos los buenos lugares de comida, la calidad de la comida y los ingredientes hablan por sí solos. Visité con mi hijo como parte de un viaje a Londres y este lugar estaba justo al final de la carretera de nuestro hotel. Teníamos una mesa para dos y todo fue excelente de principio a fin. Personal maravillosamente amable y servicial, y las comidas que tuvimos los dos eran excelentes, todo era tan maravillosamente fresco y sabroso. Sin duda recomendaría y volvería a visitar la próxima vez que estemos en Londres, excelente. 👌🏻

Excellent restaurant, a great welcome, the food truly resembles Italian food!!! Thanks for making us feel at home

Lovely food in a welcoming and relaxed setting - good value for money too. The seafood linguine was excellent. We all thoroughly enjoyed our meal

Lovely atmosphere, great staff who give the perfect level of friendly attentiveness and fabulous food. What an absolute gem! We'll be back for sure.

A hidden gem! My son and I were just going for a quick bite to eat but ended up at a hidden gem. Incredibly nice host and the food was excellent. We ordered pizza and garlic bread with cheese. The garlic bread was almost a meal in itself. We will be back to spend another night with food and drinks here!

Delicious Italian food and great value for money! Will definitely be coming back

One of the best Italian restaurants I have been to.

We loved it. Great service. Authentic. Monumental arranacini.

Excellent service good food highly reccomend

A friend and I visited this wonderful restaurant yesterday, having been very impressed by the reviews. We were not disappointed. Incredibly tasty food, well presented. Perfect service - Not too much, not too little, just right. I booked a table for 4.30pm as I was going to Sadlers Wells afterwards and wanted enough time to make the most of the menu - It was a good decision and it was quiet to start with and then full by the time we left and the atmosphere was just right. I think this is a restaurant with lots of regulars, which is always a good sign. I will definitely be back.

Fabulous meals by all in our party. Definitely recommend

Really lovely restaurant - food, service and atmosphere was great. Going to Sadler's Wells and really convenient and lovely place to eat. We had - spaghetti vongole, pizza marinara, pizza fiorentina with salad. Wine. Panna cotta, tirimusui and sorbet. All delicious.

A heavenly experience. This is the sort of food and restaurant I dream about.Simple unpretentious food and service, ample table space and quiet to talk. We had the gorgonzola cream gnocchi which were divine. Accompanied by a luscious fresh side salad with olives. There are plenty of more adventurous traditional Italian dishes and I will surely go back to try them. But this is all we fancied that evening and were not hassled to order more. Service was helpful and discreet. A day later I'm still thinking about the lovely food and ambiance of this my now favourite restaurant in London.

Buen restaurante y buen menú con un montón de opciones, que ofrece más que pizza y pastas! Precios razonables. Gran y amable servicio del personal

A true little gem where food is cooked authenticity and from the heart real home cooking Pasta, Calzone, Pizza, Snitzel or try a home made Gnocchi. I’m visiting From Melbourne Australia and in the past 5 days I have been in London I have eaten here on 3 seperate Occasions and each time trying a new menu item. I can say you won’t find anything better serving this kind of fair.

He estado aquí un par de veces con amigos y nunca decepciona. Lo bueno es fantástico y el servidor hizo frente alegremente a un restaurante muy ocupado.

Food was spot on, staff were friendly, nothing bad to say, it’s somewhere where I look forward to visiting again to try their other dishes.

Great Italian food options. Excellent service and pleasant atmosphere. Fair prices.

Si usted está buscando un restaurante italiano simple, básico, sin pretensiones, barato con un menú fácil de entender que no intimida entonces este es el lugar! Pasé por este pequeño lugar muchas veces al alojarse en Islington, y siempre he querido comprobarlo. Bien vale la pena también - fuimos a media tarde para un almuerzo / cena temprana cuando estaba vacío, el gerente / propietario (supongo) era muy acogedor. La comida fue servida muy rápidamente y era absolutamente excelente. No demasiado querido tampoco - un tazón de digamos Spag Bol o Spag Carbonara cuesta £ 12 , así que en comparación con algunos de los restaurantes más pretenciosos alrededor es una ganga absoluta. Sin duda volvería de nuevo! Sin duda volvería

Excellent Italian food. Home made food, served hot. Hartley service.

Was in London a couple of weeks and loved the food so much that we ended up visiting for dinner 4 times . Fantastic staff and service as well. Will be visiting again very soon.

Excelente restaurante. Cálida bienvenida. Buena comida. Servicio excepcional. Relación calidad-precio absoluta. Sin duda recomendaría

It is one of the best Italian places to eat simply delicious 😋 food. Thank you Alida for your amazing service, which is very efficient and welcoming. Highly recomand 100%

Proper pizza (try the fiorentina, you don't get pizza with egg everywhere!) and the espresso after dinner is good too. They know what they're doing.

The restaurant was really busy when we arrived without a reservation, so we were lucky to get the last available table. Food was excellent. I had risotto which was cooked to perfection and my partner had veal, followed by Tiramisu. The Tiramisu didn’t disappoint, in fact it was one of the best we’ve had in a restaurant. We had a bottle of Chianti which didn’t disappoint. We received an efficient service from very friendly staff. This is an exceptionally priced restaurant in the centre of Islington.

An absolute treat of a local Italian restaurant. Great value, some of the friendliest service I've had in a long time and lovely food. A warm hug of a restaurant.

Great food and fantastic value with super friendly staff who make it extra special.

Been coming here for many many years, it’s such a lovely restaurant owned by a beautiful family, the food is always amazing and the cocktails are excellent! It’s so reasonably priced as well! I love this place, a real hidden gem ❤️ also the tiramisu is to die for!

Very delicious food, great service and atmosphere. I would definitely come back here.

Very nice restaurant. The staff is very friendly. The meat was really good ! I will definitely come back.

My husband and I had dinner here last week. It was a lovely evening. The atmosphere was great, the food was delicious and service was great too. It fills up pretty quickly so get there early. Can’t wait to go back!

Excellent food and service. Added to that we were about to walk to Sadler’s Wells in a rainstorm when the owner offered to get his car and drive us there! Fine food and chauffeured to our destination, 5 stars is barely enough.

Ate here on a warm August evening and I could have been in Italy. The food aroma hits you when you get nearby and you start salivating before you've even gone in.

Were here for dinner. Pizza was big and tasty. Spaghetti carbonara was also delicious. Service was quick and friendly. Prices were ok for London. Conclusion: Once you are here you can go here to eat.

We visited the restaurant on a whim on a Friday night. We were staying in the area and our daughter has a dairy allergy so we always are careful where we eat, we saw this place busy and asked if they catered for a dairy allergy, they assured us it wouldn't be an issue. We decided there and then to give it a go. We were lucky they could fit us in as it was extremely busy for a small place. We were ordered and the food arrived well presented and delicious. The food was extremely reasonable for what we paid, the staff were brilliant and couldn't do enough for us even dealing with a tired 4 year old.

Lovely open front dining with two great host not very busy as it was a Thursday but there were a few families with little children enjoying the lovely food. The lobster and prawns spaghetti was cooked to perfection, cooked fresh and not reheated absolutely loved it, little miss ordered spaghetti bolognese and she ate it all and some of ours. Will visit again and try other stuff on the menu.

Normally need to add chili oil to my pasta dishes but that nduja fresh fettuccine was out of this world. Thanks

An absolute gem! The food was delicious, staff attentive and atmosphere buzzing. We were there early evening and it was full - was glad I had booked! Delighted to have found it and will definitely return.

Nice Italian with very good food. A little tight but not a problem.

This was my second visit to Mangia Bene afyer having raved about it to friends after the first visit. If you want authentic Italian food, reasonably priced and served in a family restaurant, this is the place for you. Really impressed with the simple menu, prompt and polite service and everytjing tasted so so good. Only one suggestion for improvement as far as I'm concerned. The Tagliata is served using ribeye steak which is not a complaint as it has great flavour, but the fat and gristle should be removed after cooking by the chef and then sliced and placed on top of the rocket. It would improve the dish so much. I have given 5 stars as this is a minor complaint but anyone not used to eating Tagliata with rib eye would see plate waste which isn't the result you want. Plate should be licked clean for such a delicious dish.

Had a lovely supper yesterday evening, lovely liver dish, cooked to perfection. First meal but not the last!

Loved the gnocchi. Service was great. There was a group that was very loud for the size of the restaurant. But worth going to

It was a spontaneous decision to walk in with some family for a drink and a little bite. We only had a few starters including arancini and garlic bread. We were very impressed with food and service. Portions are generous and food absolutely brilliant. I'm sure we will be back for a proper meal.

Wonderfully Italian, lively and the food couldn't be better! Friendly staff, absolutely great value for money!

En lite pittoreskt Italiens resturang men mycket bra napolitanska pizzor och underbara pastarätter och väldigt trevlig och familjär personal! Reklameras varmt för ett besök om du bor nära Kings Cross eller Angel station.

Took trip advisor recommendation for this restaurant just 500m from hotel. Exceeded expectations. Two courses and drinks £40 per person, and Limoncella on the house.

Unexpected gem in Chapel Market. Excellent 2 course meal including drinks at approx £40 per person. Great portions, including massive garlic bread “pizza”. Great pasta and exceptional / friendly service.

A very good neighbourhood Italian restaurant, highly recommended

We like coming here when we go to London, as being in Angel, it breaks the journey from North east to south west London. We love the food, especially the seafood linguine. Taste is always fresh and feels like we are on holiday. It is a dog friendly restaurant which is a big bonus for us dog lovers.

Service was great, food was better.

Good Portions, nicely presented plates, Staff super friendly and helpful - price was also right!

We come today to the restaurant to find its closed for a photo shoot u should have updated ur website saying ur closed u are losing customers today we have gone to a rival restaurant just down the road from u

Excellent quality italian food - we had sourdough pizzas (one of them gluten free) after a long and tiring day, and felt comfortably full and content after our meal. Affordable too, and super lovely staff ❤️

Love this little Italian place. Really friendly service and delicious pasta. Pretty cheap and not long wait. Nice, clean and well decorated. Definitely recommend!!!

The food was superb. The staff were wonderful. The food price was ~13-15 per person. I’m guessing the 20+ from other reviews includes beverages. Everyone on my party of six (2, 6, 24, 42, 41, 60+ years old) thought everything was fabulous.

Amazing place; Very typical and traditional, the dishes on the menu are spelled wrong but the dishes are amazing Great service, great wine. Second time me and my partner come around, we love it here and they are very accommodating. Very underrated should be talked about.

I have just come back from Mangia bene and the food was wonderful! I know my Italian food as half my family are Italian and I spent many a month in Pescara years ago. The calamari was so lovely and the chicken Milanese was cooked to perfection. The staff were so friendly and I couldn’t believe how reasonable it was! I will definitely be going back soon and I will take my Italian family members also when they come down. They will love it. 👏👏

Three of us went on Saturday night for a pre-ballet meal at Sadler's Wells which is about a ten minute walk away. We wanted to get to the theatre by around 7:15 so we booked the meal for 5:45. which gave us about an hour and a quarter to eat our meal. Loads of time! We got to the restaurant about 5 minutes early and we were shown to our table and given menus. Then we waited for about 10 minutes before we had to attract the waiter's attention to order some drinks. They were delivered promptly but then we waited another 15 minutes without being seen again. By this time I had finished my drink and got the waiter's attention both to order another drink and our starter and main course. We then waited for ages again until our starters finally arrived so we asked if our mains could be delivered fairly quickly then as time was running short. The result was that our mains came out about 30 seconds later and we ended up eating everything together... The food was very good and reasonably priced, but service was very patchy. What should have been a nice leisurely meal ended up as a bit of a panic. Next time, we will just order one course!

Beautiful food and a lovely friendly service. The Linguine Ai Gamberi E Rucoletta was perfect and the homemade Panna cotta was devine. Thankyou Chef! put a smile on my face for the day.

Amazing food, best calzone I ever had

We recently had the pleasure of dining at Magnia Bene multiple times, and it has consistently exceeded our expectations. The food at Magnia Bene is simply excellent. Each dish is crafted with care and bursting with flavor. Magnia Bene provides a warm and inviting atmosphere, making it a great place to visit with friends and family. The staff is attentive, friendly, and professional, ensuring that every guest feels welcome and well taken care of. Magnia Bene is a restaurant that we will definitely visit again. The combination of excellent food, and outstanding service makes it a standout choice for dining out. Thank you to the team at Magnia Bene for consistently providing such a wonderful experience! We recommand among all fantastic dishes - the Gnocchi, Vitello Milanese and Pollo Alla Fiorentina.

Excellent. Best value for money in a long time.

It is a great Italian restaurant in Islington. We came a couple of years ago and when we repeated, our high expectations were met. Tasty food and good prices. I had grilled meat and all I can say is it was perfect

Delicious starters and The best pizza I’ve had in London . Love this place , authentic Italian food at its best . Great service and the wines were fantastic . Highly recommended when in London , definitely the best option in the area

Nothing fancy but a solid feed for a decent price. Been here multiple times and would always have it in the back of my mind as somewhere reliable to visit. Great handmade pastas in their “pasta fatta in casa” menu section. Atmosphere a little lacking but at this value, who cares!

I recently had the most delightful experience at MANGIA BENE! The risotto I ordered was absolutely phenomenal. Not only was it cooked to perfection, but the flavors were so rich and satisfying. What truly impressed me was when the chef himself came to our table to ensure everything was to our liking. That personal touch made the meal even more memorable. The aroma wafting from the kitchen was intoxicating, setting the perfect ambiance for a delightful dining experience. And to top it off, I requested to add crispy pancetta on top of my risotto, and the chef agreed immediately, further enhancing the dish. The combination of incredible food, attentive service, and inviting atmosphere made for an unforgettable evening. I can't wait to return!

Veal Milanese was delicious!! Risotto pretty decent too!

Always a warm welcome with a mouth watering menu of authentic Italian dishes, all cooked fresh. Wine list offers perfect accompaniment to the food and the service is spot on. We have eaten here twice now and look forward to our next meal. 👌

Tino was our lovely server and he was amazing throughout our dinner here ! We had come here for a birthday dinner with our friend and he has accomodated us very well by helping us with the birthday cake and even plying a birthday song - he was a real sport! He even offered us limoncello shots on the house after being such a nice worker taking care of our cakes! The food portions were plentiful and we were so full after our dinner! The food also tasted amazing - I would recommend the mussel starter, the sauce was great! I would definitely come back to try the tiramisu for dessert ! Amazing friendly staff, amazing service and definitely will be back for more :)

Cannot fault this place. Turned up half an hour before closing and we're very welcomed. Food is absolutely out of this world you can definitely taste the passion. Such a welcoming friendly atmosphere would 100% recommend to anyone in the area.

Very average Italian food. The pizzas look like frozen oven pizzas, I had the penne arrabbiata which was decent but it’s hard to get wrong. Nothing very exciting in the menu.

I love the fish and other seafood but you shouldn't miss their specials either

Wonderful food, service and atmosphere. Dog friendly too! A lovely place :)

Great food reasonable prices lovely staff

This restaurant is part of the Tastecard discount scheme (25% off the total bill) but you don't get the discount if you're a solo diner. Nothing in the T&Cs to highlight this. Why discriminate against solo diners?

Nice local Italian with a wide menu choice of Pasta, Pizza, Fish and Meat.

You have to really search for places that have the right balance of authenticity, good food and wonderful service and Mangia Bene has all of that. I visited with a friend during a week night recently, and had the loveliest time. Though there were a steady stream of people taking tables all evening, we were never once made to feel rushed, and the food was delicious. Will definitely be making it a regular haunt.

Best Italian food in Islington without a doubt, great food and amazing service