The best restaurants serving Italian food in South East

The taste and value of the food was first class. The only issue we have is the price of alcoholic drinks. We would ordinarily have two or three drinks each with a three course meal but at almost £9 for a medium 175ml glass of Pinot Grigio (which they call "large" on their menu), we decided to just have one drink each with a main course then move to a different establishment for dessert and another drink. It's a shame. There is absolutely no need to price their drinks so highly. It put us off for sure. We are unlikely to return because of this. The prices on the drinks menu on the Google page is outdated. Just a warning to those who enjoy a couple of drinks with their food.

Such kind and beautiful staff, the setting is so homely and clearly family-run and the food is amazing! Would recommend to anyone🥰

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 :-)

We were staying in Canterbury for my wife's birthday and decided to visit this restaurant after seeing generally excellent online reviews. It is a little off the beaten track and has a fairly unprepossessing entrance but the upstairs dining room is pleasant and we were well looked after. The menu provided many interesting choices. For example, my seared tuna was presented on a bed of fruit salad, which seemed odd on paper but worked surprisingly well in practice! Both the tuna and my wife's red mullet were perfectly prepared, as were the accompanying vegetables. We would not hesitate to come here again.

Superb all around, even with no steak and no Wine, :) !! (Jokes) 5* service and food and the best nut free Pesto ever made. Super atmosphere, just lovely.

Amazing service, went above and beyond, will definitely return soon.

Great coffee and a cool place to get some work done!

An absolute gem! Wish we’d been sooner as it was the best meal we’ve ever had in Whitstable. The service was faultless. Can’t wait to try the rest of the menu.

My new favourite place for lunch in Lewes. Really great little restaurant with excellent limited set menu at a reasonable price. Nice to have chilled filtered water for free. Fresh bread straight out of the oven and free! Excellent starter of brocolli and stilton soup, (not too hot- which was great) and then a tasty pasta dish.

Cracking pub with great craft beer & pizza

Could cry! So sad to see my favourite pizza place is closed! What happened?! You were so good at what you did?!

I ate the pizza authentic Italian stile . High recommended 👌

Had two toasted panini meatballs was tasty but cheese and ham was very dry and bland- coffee for an Italian 🇮🇹 deli was not great.

Amazing food! Feels like home, definitely recommend and great value. Will come back!

Really nice restraunt. Very pleasant helpfully staff. Had risotto fruit de mer and my wife had mushroom risotto with chicken. Both were really nice and the food was hot. Good potion size. Would recommend. Shame we don't live close enough to come back again soon. 😢