The best restaurants in United Kingdom serving Italian food

I loved this place, always visited when we stayed at the Cresta Court airport hotel down the road. Always a friendly welcome, fabulous food, incredible cocktails. We were so sad to turn up and find it closed. I've recommended this to lots of my friends. I hope it will re-open one day as it was really missed on our last visit

Incredible food. Amazing service. The monthly special of tortellini with chicken and chorizo was great. But the best dish by far is the Risotto Gamberoni. 10 out of 10. Could not recommended enough.

Friendly staff. Best Italian food I've had. Will visit again when next down in Ayrshire. Had lunch there today.

Excelente pizza y pasta. Personal muy amable que es muy acogedor y cómodo con mi hijo salvaje ASD. Realmente aprecio un lugar donde el personal no muestra miedo a las necesidades especiales y este es uno de los lugares más acogedores en los que he estado. Una ventaja adicional es que sus pizzas Margarita y Quattro Formaggi son increíbles - fabulosas bases italianas y sabor. ¡Me lleva directamente a Italia!

You might think from this review I'm the owners dad, but when a restaurant goes the extra 50 miles, they are worth gushing over. The food delicious 😋 The staff, genuinly delightful! The atmosphere - exemplary! The chef is a brilliant example of a human being. Eat here, you will not regret it at all.

Vegan options available, thank you.

Take away treat for football. Exceptional from ordering online, delivery & value for money. Highly recommend & we eat in too. Bannoffe is the best...

Excellent food and service - delicious pizzas (incl several vegetarian options) and great sides!

Vine a Paulos el sábado por la noche con un par de amigos. El restaurante estaba muy ocupado y el personal era increíble y muy atento. Tuvimos una botella de bonacchi chianti 2021 entre 3 de nosotros. La carta de vinos era excepcional y había mucha variedad. Para empezar pedimos jamón y melón de Parma, calabacín y sardinas. Todo estaba muy fresco y sabroso. Para nuestras comidas principales, pedimos lasaña, lingüine de pescatore y salti en bocca alla romana (ternera), luego un par de lados de espinacas y puré cremoso para acompañar la ternera. El lasanga fue el mejor que he probado. Vino servido caliente y el camarero me ofreció parmesano y pimienta negra después de recibir mi plato. En general tuve una gran experiencia cenando en Paola. Recomiendo encarecidamente este restaurante y volveré de nuevo muy pronto. Gracias de nuevo por la increíble experiencia!

BRAVO BRAVISIMO! I came here with family of 11 people. We all had pizza we enjoyed, tasty drinks and wonderfull wine. Everything was satisfaction from service to food. #1 place to eat in whole Sicilia.

So very sad to hear that Massimos has closed. We have spent many happy times there, with lovely food. We are left with our memories, and offer our good wishes to all the family in any future endeavours. Tim and Janet.

Really disappointing meal, when we arrived we were asked if we had booked we had but it wasn't there don't think it mattered though. We were sat by the window which was a little cold and we felt a bit forgotten about. I think we waited about 20 minutes to ask what drink we wanted they then came fairly quickly. Menu looked promising with lots of choice. Had garlic bread with cheese to start, didn't really taste of garlic and the base tasted cheap and premade. This came about 40 minutes into the meal This wasn't a good omen for the pizza we had a four cheese and a picante, the cheese tasted good on the four cheese but the tomato sauce was lacking in flavour and it had the same nasty base. The picante and a spicy chilli next to it on the menu but had some tiny flecks of chilli in it and a pathetic amount of pepperoni. Our friends had pasta and didn't enjoy that either. It took about an hour to get to the point when the mains came out and the restaurant was hardly full. When the owner took the plates we asked for the bill but 20 minutes later that hadn't come so we walked up ourselves and paid. Didn't tip which is the first time in ages. Would not return, felt abandoned in the conservatory area poor service and below average food.

Friday pm. Around 8ish. Called to order a couple of pizzas for collection. First call rang, and rang, and rang and eventually rang out. Tried again, call finally answered, I was asked to hold the line, could hear a separate conversation going on within the restaurant, waited for a further minute, no one had come back, put the phone down and ended up eating at home and saved £25. They must be inundated with custom that they can lose business…

Fantastic day at Nonna said for Abba mamma Mia brunch. Thanks to Donna and her team for everything. Donna was great making sure we knew where to sit and kept us drinking. 🤣🤣🤣

Delicious orange lemonade and ham and cheese pediona (I’m probably misspelling it- but it was a lovely flat Italian bread). Affordable and a good pit stop.