The best restaurants serving Italian food in Waverley South East

Perfect! Caffe Piccolo in Esher was a family favourite growing up, and having recently moved to Guildford and discovered there is one in Farnham I couldn’t wait to visit. It certainly didn’t disappoint. The service was amazing- everyone was so welcoming, friendly and super efficient and you can really tell it’s an independent- the staff care and go over and above. The food was every bit as good as I remember. I had the Mozzarella in Carozza and Spaghetti meatballs for a trip down memory lane- and both were superb! As was my fiancés pizza. Portions are huge- you won’t leave hungry!!!! We can’t wait to come back and work our way through the menu! Thanks for a great evening!

Sadly, this restaurant seems to have gone downhill. The service was excruciatingly slow and when the food did arrive the calzone was cold, my wifes pasta didn't have any mushrooms on and the other two pizzas were mediocre at best. The staff are lovely but clearly they need more of them to speed up service and improve the quality of the food. To cap it all they tried to charge a service charge which added insult to injury. Having been a number of times we won't be going back.

My friend & I had the 3-course Christmas lunch menu & it was excellent. Plenty of very good quality food. The service was very good too... making sure everything was OK but without being intrusive. We were not rushed to finish our meals & were asked if we were ready for our desserts or whether we wanted to wait a little longer. I have eaten here several times previously & the food has always been good but this was the first time I'd had the Christmas menu. Definitely recommend.

Delicious, authentic Italian food, very reasonably priced. Friendly atmosphere, great service.

Lovely Italian cafe / bistro. Food is fabulous & the service is very friendly yet professional… I would recommend for dinner or lunch or even a coffee

Really lovely Italian restaurant. The food was fresh, tasty and well-presented. And the staff were all very friendly and attentive. To start, we ordered the calamari, Caprese salad, bruschetta and the aubergine Parmigiana. Then for mains, we had the tagliatelle funghi, spaghetti milanese and the Diavola pizza. All of the dishes were really good. We would definitely come back here to enjoy the food and try some new dishes!

From the moment we walked in we were welcomed warmly and shown to our clean table service was very quick food with piping hot and delicious highly recommended wonderful place to eat

We were served by lovely waiting staff and wish to thank in particular a lady named Nicole who was very attentive and helpful, thank you!

Was looking forward to listening to the carols waiting at the bar when was abruptly told we had to leave because we hadn’t booked a table - plenty of space, wouldn’t have minded if we hadn’t been spoken to in such a rude manner.

Melinda was amazing! Such a lovely meal and great atmosphere 🥰

Zizzi's was fairly quiet when we visited at 7:30pm. There were a couple of lively birthday parties at the other end of the restaurant, but we were seated well away from them, which was a relief! The first minor shock were the menu prices - my calibration point used to be Pizza Express, where a "classic" pizza was between GBP10 and GBP13, whereas Zizzi only offer 3 types of "classic" pizza, and prices start at GBP13 going upwards. Pasta main courses are all GBP17 to GBP19, which genuinely did make me do a double-take. I appreciate costs for hospitality businesses have increased, but that's quite steep for a modestly-sized bowl of pasta and a minimalist portion of sauce. If I'm honest, it seems a depressing part of the "Farnhamization" of prices in the town, kick-started by Megan's charging £18 for a kebab, which seemed to start a kind of "arms race" in the town's restaurants. £18 is the new normal. It reminded me of the old "How To Be Middle Class" TV sketch - "Avocado on toast? One pound fifty? You're looking at eight pounds fifty, at least!". I had the slow-cooked beef and chiant ragu "pasta superiore", which arrived looking nothing like the picture on the menu - it was 95% pasta with a hint of sauce (although what sauce there was was delicious) and rather less generously piled-up than the photo. Yours for only GBP18.25, sir. My wife had a salmon and avocado salad (GBP17.25) which was better; decent chunk of salmon and a nicely-balanced avocado salad. The service was laughably poor; and I genuinely mean that. We ended up laughing privately at the Chuckle Brothers type mayhem! A young lady with a serious face arrived with our main courses and attempted to serve them to the people on the next table who were busy eating dessert - easy mistake to make, I know. She then approached our table and asked "Beef ragu?", so I said "Yes" - and she gave it to my wife, presenting me with my wife's salmon salad. I said (politely), "It's the other way round, actually" and the girl just walked away, still wearing the serious face. We decided to skip dessert and have coffees, whereupon the same thing happened. Despite us indicating who had ordered which type of coffee, serious-faced girl plonked each down in front of the wrong person and said "Enjoy" before turning her back and walking away. My wife whispered, "She does NOT want to be here!". We started musing over whether we should answer the wrong way round to the next dish and see if she put them in the right places! But we'd had enough, and asked for the bill. When we went to settle the bill, we asked if we could use a Zizzi gift card, to which the waitress (a different one to the backwards-dishes-serving girl) said, "How much is on it?". We replied that we didn't know, as it had been a gift to us, and could she check? No she couldn't, she said, and pointed us to a website address on the gift card, which we had to access before we could use it to pay part of the bill. Fishing out my phone, typing in the website address and then the 17-digit number from the card, the site responded "Success!" with a green tick, but didn't tell us the value on the card. Eventually the manager came over and said that he could check the card balance at the till, and that there are "two kinds of card - she thought it was the other kind". So that's that cleared up, then! Final laugh - there was a card with a QR code along with the bill, asking "How did we do? Scan the QR code to leave a Google review.". When I did that, a website asked me to log in to my Google account, then went straight to "404. That's an error. We don't know any more than that.". I tried again, this time logging into my Google account before trying the QR code - but it was 404sville again. So that was all a bit of an expensive comedy show. Add in a constantly-beeping fire alarm or security alarm in the foyer behind us, and it wasn't exactly the 'dining ambience' one would expect to go with one's £18+ bowl of pasta and £17+ salad.

All I can say is I’m awaiting the meal. I’ve been waiting A LONG TIME. Uber Eats just give no answer. A £19 meal and I feel 2 fingers. Don’t order. If I receive LATE I will update. It’s 0134 on a Monday evening and no answers and they don’t answer phone despite my £19 50 minutes ago