The best restaurants serving Italian food in St Mary's Bexley London

I can’t rate the food or atmosphere as we were turned away from the restaurant despite having booked a table 3 weeks earlier. The restaurant messed up and gave our table away. Now mistakes can happen but it was the lack of accountability and the attempt to make it our problem. They offered us one table for just an hour (not enough for a party of 6 out for a birthday celebration). They refused to try anything else. So we went next door to the lovely Greek taverna where the food, atmosphere and service were excellent. This Italian could have ruined our evening where we were celebrating 2 birthdays and 2 significant achievements. The table was given away because another party claimed they were us. The restaurant did not fully check. If you are attempted to book I suggest you triple check, arrive very early (note we did arrive before our time). If you don’t want to book, looks like you can just pretend to be someone else and the poor people who did book will be asked to leave.

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!

Came here for lunch. Came to the place quite a few times few years back and it was v good. Today, we wanted to leave after 5mins of being there. There were only few tables on the front (all in one area). The service was just embarrassing, non attentive and staff was staying behind bar.l, not making themselves visible. We had to get up twice to go to bar to get their attention. When at our table, they looked unhappy and rude. Also, the vegetable in our place (we both got same main course) was extremely salty and mentioned to waiter when they cleaned table, food was left on place and they said absolutely nothing. We decided not to pay the discretionary service charge that was included in the bill. We told the manager to exclude the service charge as service was not good and he just said ‘ok’ as if saying whatever. Did not ask why we were unhappy or say sorry. He just didnt care! Shame foe this restaurant to fall under hands of these people. Disgusting place with disgusting staff. They feel entitled to service charge that is included in bill, and give a crap service. We’d be embarrassed to come to this place ever again.