The best restaurants in United Kingdom serving Italian food

Ho cenato in questo posto durante il mio viaggio a Londra con la mia amica celiaca. La cucina italiana e gluten free non ha deluso le aspettative della clientela italiana. Abbiamo preso dei piatti di pasta fresca, ed era assolutamente tutto squisito. Le ricette sono particolari e non banali, il locale accogliente e lo staff super gentile e professionale come si confà a dei professionisti italiani del settore. Ci tornerò

Have been to this restaurant over many years, last night was very disappointing. How can an Italian restaurant get pasta wrong?

me and my dad are regular visitors (pretty much every week) and yet to have made a review about how awesome this place is truly lovely food and great staff. all and all i recommend highly!!

Siamo ritornati in questo ristorante italiano perché qui si mangia bene ! Abbiamo iniziato con una buona bruschetta, poi una carbonara e tortelloni paradiso molto gustosi. Prima di ripartire sono tornato, questa volta linguine alla calabrese e ravioli agli asparagi.Locale pulito, piatti in ceramica dipinti ( dalla Sicilia ), personale gentile. Servizio rapido, consiglio comunque di prenotare. Si arriva facilmente, il ristorante è a pochi passi dalla fermata della metropolitana di Southwark ( Jubilee line).

Great food at a great price and impecabile served by Maria. Prompt service and great atmosphere. Not sure about the robot tho…I hope it’s useful for waiters cause it looks a bit creepy for me..

Awful wait time. Waited over an hour for just dough balls and garlic bread to be brought out, kids meals and adults took another 30 minutes to come out although it was all supposed to come out at the same time! Restaurant wasn’t even busy. Will not be recommending or coming here again. Takeaway uber eats and just eat took priority over customers seated in the restaurant!

Delicious food (big shout out to Abdul) and brilliant service, so massive credit to my waitress Georgia and the rest of the team - Bushra and Lezchec!

DO NOT EAT OR ORDER TAKEOUT FROM THIS ESTABLISHMENT! The food and wine were acceptable but the facilities (ladies toilets) were utterly disgraceful and disgusting to the extent where I have reported this to the relevant authorities. THIS IS POTENTIALLY INDICATIVE OF OTHER BEHIND THE SCENES AREAS. Glad I had lasagne which is microwaved at a high temperature, I am concerned about the green salad I ate which is handled and stored in their kitchen. If I had used the faciklities before dining I would have left immediately. I would be very concerned about taking children or elderly guests to this restaurant. I beleive it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously ill or contracts something nasty!

Very nice restaurant, great staff and lovely pizza.

The manager and waitress were excellent and service was very good. everyone was very friendly, efficient and professional.

After initial confusion both on the website and on the phone as to whether Giovanni’s was open for lunch, or dinner, or indeed open at all, I succeeded in booking a birthday lunch for two. Arriving first, through a door quite literally hidden away from the busiest streets in London, I ordered a glass of champagne. I would not be having that, my host Count Ragona informed me, his is an Italian restaurant and I would drink Prosecco. And Prosecco I drank. I also shared an excellent Sicilian red, and a couple of grappas, it was a birthday after all. We ate swordfish ceviche and pasta casa nostra - actually carbonara but called such he told us to stop certain nations asking for it with cream. With two coffees and a cocktail the bill came to less than £400 but the entertainment was worth that alone. Evidence that everyone eats at Giovanni’s abounds, signed photos cover every inch of the walls. I was seated before two astronauts and all the members of Queen. And although her signed photo was missing, the other Queen, Her Late Majesty had also dined at Giovanni’s four times, and dear Diana had also been a friend. Indeed it is hard to imagine who might not be a friend of Count Ragona’s such is his vivacity. And to prove it, on mentioning that the birthday boy was a fan of Italian cycling, an Italian champion was summoned by phone to wish him buon compleanno! Quite unforgettable!!

Lovely clean restaurant staff very nice, polite and approachable food was excellent and dessert out of this world ... definitely new favourite Italian restaurant

He reservado una mesa para mi familia y tengo que decir que estaba tan impresionado, la comida era increíble, un gran servicio y el personal era tan amable, no puedo recomendar lo suficiente.

Went here for lunch was overpriced and food was basic. For 3 lunches and 3 drinks (soft) was almost £80. My starter was very poor size (mushrooms) lasgna had one sheet of pasta with a ragu sauce. Very poor

First time trying. Friendly staff. Nice food….. did take a while to come but it was a Sunday. Overall very nice time visiting until the bill arrived. We had gone for the Sunday dinner offer of 2 courses for £25.95, however they did not put the offer through and we had to highlight when we received the bill. They rectified the bill but no apology for the error. This would have easily been an extra £30 on to of what we should have paid. It has made us think twice about going back again.