The best restaurants serving Italian food in Southampton South East

Dinner with friends before a visit to the theatre! What a lovely find……great food…..service and friendly welcoming service! Food was absolutely delicious! Can’t wait to return

After just moving into the area, we landed up living very close to Spitfire. We have had a few pizzas since and cannot recommend this place enough. Incredible, fresh pizza and amazing price. Thank you so much! 🍕💛

Lovely little spot, sat out in the sun for breakfast and it was a delight. Staff were very welcoming and attentive. Food was first class, would love to come back.

Good atmosphere and friendly service. The food was ok.

Ok its 4yrs since i was last here and the food remains excellent it just Disadvantaged by the parking arrangement, ie parking watch you know the company £60 pound fines etc etc Totally unnecessary in my opinion and just makes the evening difficult. My only other gripe would be how they serve the food ie as it gets cooked so as in our case say 3 of us were on our second dish before one of us got their first again it doesn't really work and makes it awkward and is not good manners is it! Staff are excellent though and the general ambience is good. My advise Bacaro would be find a better spot :-)

An unlikely spot for a top restaurant but don’t be fooled please give it a go because inside it’s warm and friendly service and authentic Italian food

Visited on a Friday for an evening meal. Authentic food cooked well. The staff.were welcoming and friendly. I would certainly recommend La Tavenetta.

It was our anniversary, and Ennios made it so perfect for us from great service to fantastic food and wine , All the staff took time out of there busy shift to come and talk to us which makes you feel special. Can not wait to come back

Visited this bar on our last night in shanklin! Shame as what a great place! Cocktails were wonderful especially the Caramel Saltini so good!! Nice staff happy to chat about what went into the Cocktails & great to watch them being made up. On leaving asked for bill charged for one Amstel 😲 pointed out that a good deal more than Amstel was drunk! 10% discount for my honesty! Great place try it especially the Caramel Saltini!!! Loved the toilets aswell 😂

Tiene un almuerzo encantador con mi esposo y un amigo aquí hoy. Espere un poco más después de ordenar, pero eso se debió a que la comida estaba recién hecha a pedido. Las albóndigas, las tortitas de pescado y el sándwich eran muy sabrosos y agradables. Precio muy razonable. Buena copa de vino blanco para acompañar nuestras elecciones. Buen servicio pero tristemente tranquilo. Espero que el negocio se recupere pronto. Gracias.

They serve amazing sourdough pizza. The quality is excellent, and the prices are very reasonable for such delicious food. Highly recommend it for anyone craving great italian pizza!

We met friends, that we hadn't seen for ages and had a wonderful lunch We all enjoyed it tremulously. We enjoyed the singer, but wished our table had been a little bit further away.

I visited with my sister last Friday. The food was very overpriced for the execution. Mushrooms on a wedge of bread, mushrooms has no seasoning at all. I then had the ribeye steak which was saturated in salt, I tried to continue eating this but physically felt sick after 1/4. This came with a mushroom which was rubbery and unseasoned undercooked fries. I ordered 2 oysters and 3 arrived at the table. We were sat right next to the kitchen window and the chef then creepily said the extra one is from me…… when asked how my meal was I didn’t feel comfortable being honest with the chef right there. As we were leaving a table behind us then started to complain about their steak too!

Some of the food was cold and service was so slow. We had asked for the two course pre-theatre menu but ended up having one course because they didn’t bring dessert in time. We weren’t the only people who had to leave before dessert arrived. I would not recommend this restaurant at all.

We went in got sat at a table then got moved as a bigger table came in. Then I got my drink and the glass had a lipstick stain on the side of it. When I asked the lady for a new glass she looked at me funny and inspected the glass. Our server was quite blunt and rude. With the food the pasta with the meatballs was very cold and rubbery, also the fudge cake was cold even though it’s meant to be a warm pudding.