The best restaurants serving Italian food in Oxford South East

Best ice cream ever. Beautiful shop and great staff. I live north oxford so go to this shop as often as possible. Also good to buy some gifts.

As the other reviewers have commented this is fantastic ice cream, the best I've had here in the UK. For other comparable ice creams I've had I would mention Fenocchio in Nice, and Messina in Sydney. But if you don't want to fly for your ice cream here it is in Oxford.

An Italian restaurant that takes a while to serve The back seat is beautiful

Excelente ambiente y la comida deliciosa! Un acierto! Pedimos el pollo al limón con verduras grilladas y salsa romesco maravilloso! Además de una hamburguesa con patatas fritas de ensueño! Lo recomiendo para reponer fuerzas y disfrutar la buena cocina italiana.

Great selection of pizzas and beers. 10/10 service!

We had a great time, always great food there, not to miss if you re in Oxford!

The pizza tastes good, but it doesn’t match the advertised size. The website says the large one is 36 cm, and when ordering by phone, I also asked if this 36 cm is the size when raw or cooked. I was assured it was in the cooked state. However, when I received the order, the pizza measured 34 cm in diameter. The area of a circle is calculated using the formula: A = πr², so the area of the cooked pizza should be A = 3.14 * 18² = 1,017 cm². In reality, though, it’s A = 3.14 * 17² = 907 cm². The difference between the advertised and actual sizes is 1,017 - 907 = 110 cm². There are 8 slices in the pizza, which means the area of one slice should be 1,017 ÷ 8 = 127 cm². This means that the difference between the advertised and actual product is almost equivalent to one slice of pizza.

For our family, eating here is like 'coming home'. The home made food, with fresh ingredients, all cooked from scratch, with great cooking happening in front of you, the emphasis in food (those bright colours of the veg in display!) and the service from the staff is hard to find anywhere! Love La Cucina x

Our meal before running the Oxford Half Marathon. Super service friendly and efficient. Cheesy garlic bread awesome, we all had ravioli, mine was delicious with pumpkin and sage. Crispy frittes and affogato to finish. Really recommend this little restaurant. I am a foodie and came away very satisfied

Great local pizza spot. We were looking for a late night snack and happened upon this pizza place just before heading home. There’s just one guy running the whole place. We ordered two mediums and one large. The Quattro forage was good, but not excellent… Although we prefer to have Gorgonzola on our Quattro- and I think they had cheddar or something else. One pizza had almost every topping, and we still added more with mushrooms and garlic. Once we ordered, they said it would be around 15 minutes and in exactly 15 minutes we were back and our pizzas were ready.

Unfortunately, Bacaro got it all wrong for our visit. The place was quiet when we entered with only 2-3 tables occupied by couples. An initial comment was made by one of our party, I am paraphrasing here, "It can't be very good if it's this quiet on a Saturday night!", which was subsequently proven correct. We were seated and a drinks order taken, with some ambiguity surrounding whether or not we could order certain drinks. Nevertheless, the waitress returned with our ordered drinks and took our food order. One member of our party chose to have 2 starters for her main, which we requested be brought with the rest of the meals, they were not. Giving the benefit of the doubt, we waited for the rest of the mains to arrive, all pizzas, which seem to take an inordinate amount of time to prepare and cook, given that there were not many people in the restaurant at the time. As a side note at this point, two further couples had come and gone, before we had received our mains! With all of this set aside, a good meal can make up for the poor service, however, that was not to be the case. The food quality was very poor, making it seem like this was the first time the chef had attempted to make pizzas. Tasteless and doughy! It really was a poor effort all round. The whole experience was compounded by the negative, dismissive and quite frankly rude, response to our complaints, by the owner/head chef. It was amateur at very best and not a experience that I will partake in again. Many better restaurants down the Cowley Road to visit.

Hi so I was invited to my friends birthday on the 7th October was a 18th birthday party. My friend and his twin payed for 50 pizzas which were £400 and and that’s a lot of money to waste and the owner said they will not give a refund because he was adamant that there was 50 and said to my mate we can’t see the cameras. Truth to be told I did not drink and there was definitely not 50 there was no more then 20. Service was bad the staff that were running the bar were 17 and really undertrained and it was a busy capacity I was waiting 20 minutes for a drink. Truth to be told the pizzas were nice but there wasn’t enough. Also another problem why we think that the owner didn’t make all the pizzas my friend had a catering service there that made food at the same time. Sorry this is so long but the last problem was I brought my friend a £76 bottle of champagne and I knew he got a few more bottles to he asked the people behind the bar to look after them and he insisted they would he asked them if they were sure and they really insisted they got took to. So it wasn’t a good night and we are all fuming 😤

The pizzas were disappointing—neither appetising to look at nor enjoyable to eat, and they weren’t even sliced. The tiramisu was essentially all cream, lacking any real texture. While the staff were friendly, it didn’t quite make up for the lacklustre food. Safe to say, I won’t be returning.

Central location. with friendly and efficient staff serving good food from a primarily Italian menu. A good and reliable choice if you want to avoid the more expensive places nearby (e.g. Ivy, Quod) or the many fast food joints and cafes in the area.

Our waitress, Marian, was very friendly and efficient. She has a wonderful smile!