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Quality of the food was 1st class with excellent quality meats in the calzone & on the pizza. Very generous topping and the staff were warm & welcoming. We visited in a Friday night having booked…it’s pretty small/tight & service was pretty slow however wasn’t in a rush…but as noted the food was great!

We’ve been huge fans of SW16 for over 3 years now, we visit regularly and I’m a firm believer you won’t find better pasta than this in the city! The staff are absolutely wonderful - so friendly and attentive, and experts in their menu and wine list. The food is divine; you can just tell the skill and cookery that goes into every plate. The pasta is to die for and it’s what keeps us going back again and again! I love that the menu is seasonal, making use of high quality produce, and means you can always expect something different. What’s more, the setting is beautiful - I love the indoor outdoor feel and the overall aesthetic, from the interior design to the playlist. It feels so classy but also relaxed, and is the perfect spot for a date night or late night cocktail. All of this considered, we had 2 x cocktails, 2 x starters, 2 x mains, 2 x glasses of wine *and* shared a dessert for £80 total. What a steal!!! That’s utilising both their happy hour and their pasta & wine deal. For the quality, the setting, the service and just the overall ambience, it’s an absolute bargain. It feels like high end dining, but we are always surprised by the bill. We will absolutely keep coming back here as lovers of SW16 and urge anyone else who loves pasta as much as I do to pay them a visit!

Great ice cream highly recommend with great views from the various picnic benches outside. Will definitely visit again with the family

I ordered some pizzas from pizza loco 2 years ago and the taste, texture and toppings quality was great. I have been there with my wife and I explained it to the staff and they instantly told me that the chef is different. Well, I would say: even better. The crust is crunchy and soft. The marinara with anchioves spectacular. My friarelly's was incredibly tasty, I don't even know where they found the fennel sausages!! That was unbeliaveble. As starter we went for lardo Crostini, speachless! Price super competitive! You must try it!

The food is incredible, the staff is kind and lovely! Every time I visit I am sure that I cannot go wrong! Highly recommended!!!!!!

The cakes looked amazing and having read previous reviews bought 4 as was having guests , sorry but not real cream some sort of flavourless foam. The taste was awful. Parts were sickly sweet while others tasted like shaving foam or soap. Nobody ate them and ended in bin at2.50 each expensive mistake. And the 1 point is for presentation and service pity the food didn't match

After reading all the excellent reviews for this place I had to check it out especially as I was in the area. First of all the staff are very friendly and let you try all the flavours. They even kindly made me a fresh cannoli ☺️. The gelato was OK nothing special I've definitely had better. Portion size good.

Booked here based on Google reviews and the first few photos of the food online. We have learnt a valuable lesson tonight never to do this again. Pretty dreadful experience right through from the cobwebs on the walls to the haphazard service, long waits and very poor food quality. 20 mins after ordering, we were told my main wasn’t available so had to change. Waited for drinks. Waited for wine. Waited for water. We waited for everything. 45 mins wait from being seated to starters arriving. Mushrooms floating in a watery cream sauce. Failed to pick up the garlic anywhere. Polpette half the size of the photos. Hard and very average according to the Italian I dined with. Asked for bread. Waiter ran to get some and never returned. Mains fared no better. Poor quality carbonara with guanciale not rendered out so just lumps of soft unappealing fat. Egg and pecorino cheese mixture through the pasta and poor effort to make an actual carbonara sauce. Half eaten and left. Likewise the amatriciana was just a tomato sauce without any hint of chili. And again lumps of guaniciale fat not rendered. Extra parmesan requested and arrived with waitress in bowl with teaspoon who proceeded to shake literally half a spoon on the carbonara and ask ‘Enough?’. She wasn’t going to leave it with us. Didn’t realise parmesan cost the same as gold. Both times the waiter came to clear the plates, asking ‘Good?’. We just mumbled words to get rid of him, not wanting to break his spirit. Table across from us got £50 off their bill as they waited so long for food (over an hour just for mains, no starters) and complained also about the quality of the food. So the experience was not just unique to us. We weren’t just unfortunate or unlucky. Amazed places like this stay in business so long. Whoever is giving them great reviews must have very low standards. After paying the £76 (incl 12.5% service), we vowed never to go back.

Bueno en todos los aspectos Alimentos Servicio Valor La comida es excepcional. en calidad y precio de Knowellsl cercano comparación como para similares. También hay clemencia aquí.

This was my third visit to the Beehive. We go because the staff are great and the food is good. However I needed to use the loo and was informed they didn’t have one. Sorry if a cafe is a sit down place for eating then a customer toilet is surely obligatory.

Absolutely amazing experience. We had the private room, The Dramatic, for our daughter's graduation. The team made us feel so special and made our day perfect. Pizzas were just wonderful. Even the French people in the family were blown away and French people are hard to please. Andrea, you are the best. Thank you Keri for making Lily's day even more special. Lewis and Sophie, best service, thank you 😊

Although not in the centre of whetstone , this restaurant / cafe one to to the ESSO petrol station is certainly worth a visit . Thief premises are clean and tidy and uncluttered . The owner was very friendly and personable . The menu offers a good choice whether you want breakfasts, full English , vegetarian and Middle Eastern or a more substantial lunch or evening meal. My wife popped in for a mid afternoon snack prior to meeting our son and daughter for a meal later in the evening . We both plumped for smoked salmon with cream cheese , my wife chose hers with ciabatta bread and I chose baguette. We both had a freshly made coffee that tasted good too. We thought the food was good value as was the more heartier dishes. Certainly worth the extra steps along High Road for good food.

Good quality, beautifully cooked, well presented food and good portion sizes. Reasonably priced wine list, draught and bottled beer, cloth napkins, sparklingly clean glasses and cutlery. Very clean toilets.This high standard restaurant deserves to be popular. I'm looking forward to going again for the tasting menu in a few weeks time.What could be done differently? Everything was very good but plates for hot food could do with being hotter.

Visited with 3 friends to exchange our secret Santa gifts. We was shown to our table straight away & our drinks orders taken as we knew what we wanted. We was given ample time to make our choice for food. We didn’t have a long wait for food & it was well presented. The garlic bread was just the best. One of my friends had a little accident & knocked a plate of the table & this was cleared up quickly with no fuss & even offered replacement food, the manager came over to have a chat & a laugh with us. We all loved the food & the waitress Jasmine was such a joy. 100% will be going back

fabulous ice cream - worth the wait - I used the opportunity of the long queue to ask others about some of the more esoteric flavours.