The best restaurants serving Italian food in Central Hove Brighton and Hove South East

Very friendly waitress with a big smile.And the Vesuvio pizza was so yummy cook from a authentic Italian chef . It was saturdy lunch and the restaurant was pretty busy inside and out, but i didn't wait long before my pizza arrived.

As I was planning a weekend in Brighton, I did some research on Tripadvisor and drew up a shortlist of five outstanding Italian restaurants. Some of them offered high-end Italian cuisine which is fine but there are always certain dishes I look for when considering an Italian restaurant and they didn't offer them as menu options. Given this criteria, I decided upon Cibo and was not disappointed in the least. I decided to book a table well in advance and it's just as well I did as it was very busy upon arrival. The greeting was friendly; the service attentive and we were shown to a table near the kitchen. We both elected to start with tricolore which was exactly as it should be: each constituent ingredient being superb. My wife then went for the pollo al funghi which she absolutely devoured: had she have had the nerve, it's possible she would have licked the plate! I chose the canelloni which was spot-on: not too tomatoey, very tasty and seasoned to perfection. We rounded-off our meals with my eternal Italian dessert choice tiramisu and bannofee: both were great examples. Even the chilled-to-perfection limoncello was just right. Washed down with a fine vegan Ombrellino pinot grigio, Cibo played its coup-de-grace and we left well-satisfied, even pleased that the high standard of food, drink and service had come in just over the £100 mark. That may sound expensive but it proved to be excellent value for our meals and the overall experience.

Good morning to everyone this place is nice small Nice English people s. Running the place good breakfast and nice coffe clean

Very nice spot super kind staff and very delicious food the food also came in record time and the price is very good

Had a really nice meal here - calamari starter and Gorgonzola gnocchi. Very happy to support a good local business like this.

A real Osteria. You just show up ....and get fed really great food. It's a delight not to have to " choose from the menu" . Just enjoy what comes along. Which ,in our experience, is always delicious. Negroni's are good too! There are lots of places to eat "Italian food" . This is an honest and authentic restaurant that I would always rather go to. Recommended for the food and the experience.

A great selection of freshly made Italian food. Highly recommended 👌

So I got hooked in by the all-day breakfast! I had a very enjoyable but somewhat guilty and non dietary brunch, which was very tasty. My motivation in writing this review is more about the warm service and greeting I received. If this was my local, I'd be in there all the time. There is a wider menu too for lunch/evenings. Please do support them.

I had a meal at Marrocco's (on Hove Seafront). The staff looked miserable and didn’t smile. After the main course I asked the waiter were the toilet was. Then when I went to go to the toilet, I saw it was up 4 really steep, narrow, winding and slippery steps. I went back and said to the 2 staff behind the counter that the toilet was inaccessible to me. They didn’t apologise or say anything. They didn’t make eye-contact and completely ignored me. The food isn’t much to write about either. Won’t be going back again.

When I was a teenager,my little sister and I came here for lunch. We ended up having dinner there. We stayed so long that our parents reported us missing. That's how great it was.

Came for lunch, the food was poor quality and we had to wait a long time as it was given to another table mistakenly first and had to be remade. Would not recommend.