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.

We ate here tonight and my boyfriend js coeliac. This restaurant is owned by a mother & daughter and the daughter is coeliac, so there is a completely separate area of preparation with different ingredients so food anxiety was an absolute minimum. Charming staff, and wonderfully homely atmosphere. Simply delightful. No pretence, just fantastic Italian food & charisma. Thank you!!

Food was lovely, brilliant deserts/starters, although service was disappointing. Waitresses seemed preoccupied and forgot about requests. We were charged for drinks that they never brought out and when requested to have this drink removed we did not receive an apology and was instead met with attitude. It was also a pain to use a voucher we had received as a gift. Having finished our meal, we were surprised to find out that the voucher was single use, which was not mentioned at all. We were told we had to use it or lose it, despite there being a significant amount left on the voucher- which is obviously not ideal. The food was nice but the experience was tainted by the poor quality of service. If you are looking for an Italian in Oxford head to Gusto on the high street.

Amazing place in Oxford! Lovely pizza, staff and Italian products.

One of the best pizzas I have tried in a long time. Large pizza and reasonably priced, they also let you take away any remaining pizza

A genuinely delicious pizza, quick service, and friendly staff - highly recommend!

Gran comida, servicio y ambiente. Dado que éramos 17 para el almuerzo, no habría sido una empresa pequeña, pero el personal y la cocina hicieron un gran trabajo. Todos tuvimos un almuerzo muy tranquilo que se prolongó hasta bien entrada la tarde. Excelente relación calidad-precio también. Gracias a todos en La Cucina.

Excelente pizza, sabrosos platos de pasta y buena ensalada como acompañamiento. Tarta de manzana ligeramente decepcionante. Muy buen servicio. Sin embargo, definitivamente vale la pena buscar este restaurante. No es una cadena, la comida es auténticamente italiana y a un precio muy razonable. Sin duda recomiendo. Gracias Gino.

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 😤

We have been ordering for a while from here, and I must say the chef you have is excellent. The food is always delicious and beautifully done. Excellent quality and delivery. Keep it up. Thank you. Its hard these days to find a stable good quality take away. Definitely recommend. 10 out of 10

The food was absolutely wonderful The staff was very polite and friendly There are plenty vegetarian options Decent

Not a bad restaurant but asked if wanted extra prawns to my meal there was a cost of an extra £2. When meal came only 4 prawns was disappointed. Not brilliant Italian food and was a 12.5% service charge which was discretionary and I refused to pay this. If I think it deserved a tip I would have. They did take the service charge off the bill eventually! Didn’t go out of their way to make me feel that I wanted to pay this. Had a lot better in Italy. This is not what I would go back too for a meal.

was tasty, and they had a £5 pizza promo for Jan 2025 which made it even better!