The best restaurants serving Italian food in Bishop's Stortford Meads East Hertfordshire East of England

Pasticceria Alessandro Di Leo is our place to go for a proper breakfast ‘the Italian way’- amazing coffee and croissant- a tea and cake with friends and much more, in such a simple and elegant location. It is our first port of call for every family celebration, thank you Alessandro and Martina for always making our birthdays so special! This team can accomodate your every single request, sweet and savoury dreams do become true.

Best pizza outside of Naples. And maybe even the best pizza anywhere actually.

We have been here before and thought it was great. However, this time we got there to find the restaurant was shut? We had pre-booked our table via their website?? Google said open. Their website opening hours said open. Completely threw us and wasted our time walking there. No signs saying it was shut or anything lights completely off, no one inside and couldn't open the door. This was on 19/07/2024.

Pizza not very good, arrived cold and cheese very hard and chewy. Original delivery estimate was 15-30 minutes but took nearly an hour

I only give 1 star because I cannot give 0. Very rude staff. I was there to pick up an order, one of the girl was chatting with other person about privet things and the girl behind the counter was very slow and unprofessional. Never again.

My partner and I visited the restaurant for the first time on New Years Eve, the restaurant is decorated amazingly and the bar staff were very friendly welcoming us. We were showed to our table and after 5 minutes or so our order was taken, within not even 10 minutes our drinks and starters came out. Our starters were amazing and shortly followed our mains, I am vegetarian and when I ordered my main I asked for the dish without chicken, the waitress said she would make sure with the kitchen if that’s ok, she never came back so we assumed it was fine, when my main came out it had chicken in, a different waiter kindly took the food back to the kitchen and a few minutes later it was replaced. The waitress that originally took my order came to see where my food was and I explained it came with chicken she said ‘Oh’ and walked away - that was the first rude encounter. The whole time during our meal there was 4 screaming young children running through the restaurant they knocked into my partner three times and were disturbing the other diners too, the children were family to the waitress and there was a table with a few adults on again family of hers so they were getting her full attention and the rest of us were left waiting, there was many other things that happened during our visit and we were absolutely appalled. The service was shocking but from that one waitress in particular she was so rude to us and the other diners, a group of 8 were sitting next to us and when they tried to ask her a question she simply said ‘HANG ON’ and walked away they all looked shocked. We were never offered more drinks and wasn’t even offered a dessert menu. When we eventually got someone’s attention to ask for the bill we then waited over 20 minutes to receive it. As we were leaving the someone on a different table asked for the dish I had but without mushrooms, the waitress started laughing and said ‘I’m only laughing as someone just ordered it with no chicken’ and started joking about my order very loudly next to us.

Picked up for collection soon as it notified me - the pizza was cold and dry - absolutely disgusting for what they charge