The best restaurants serving Italian food in South East

Lovely little café resto with friendly staff

I love Italian food and visit Italy at least once a year every year. The food at this restaurant is the closest I have found to actually eating Italian food in Italy. Fantastic food, lovely staff and not spitefully expensive. When we went it was full and so do phone and reserve a table in advance.

Nice food, nice atmosphere, nice staff. An enjoyable visit, thank you.

Absolutely delicious coffee, a nice calm atmosphere and friendly service.

Visited with friends and ordered a pesto and olive Pizza, it was lovely, but also had sundried tomatoes and capers on it which I was not expecting! Would be great if all the ingredients that are going to be on the pizza were listed? Could do with some salads on the menu and a bit mire variety, otyerwise a lovely and friendly place to visit.

We had a brilliant lunch here today. The food was all delicious - far better than a lot of meals we’ve had in Italy. The namesake Poco pasta was particularly good. Some lovely local Sussex sparkling wine. The staff were really friendly and welcoming too. We had our 5 month baby with us which doesn’t usually get you the warmest reception but they were very hospitable. Would highly recommend!

I popped in there tonight and have to say how impressed I was with the quality of the food. For a starter, I had calamari fritti which was made with fresh calamari (none of the ‘elastic bands’ that you so often come across). For the main course I had seafood linguine, which had mussels, prawns, tiger prawn and squid. The pasta was cooked to perfection and Stefany, who is front of house, explained that it was cooked to order so does not sit around waiting to be served. The menu is limited but I think the quality is superb and I’ll certainly be back but next time take a group of friends!

It was excellent, The service was friendly, quick and efficient ,great food portions are really generous! The place is welcoming, Many thanks

Amazing coffee and Banbury cakes, service with a smile sold out of an amazing van! Well worth a visit!

fantastic pizzeria/restaurant, friendly waiters who know how to do their job excellent food

Lovely little place. The food was fresh and tasty. The service top notch. I would fully recommend it to anyone in the area

The restaurant was busy with a nice vibe. The service was OK - probably not enough staff but they were pleasant. The food was pretty good. Not quite sure why it gets rave reviews but certainly worth a visit and would return.

We visited for my father-in-laws birthday and thoroughly enjoyed our meal. While we were looking at the menu I saw another table order a Moroccan dish that looked delicious. After asking if the chef was in fact Moroccan, which she is, I decided she’ll probably cook those dishes the best so I had the tajine and wow! I’ve never actually had a dish where the meat is so tender it falls from the bone. This was exactly how you see food online and it tasted exceptional! I could have eaten twice as much. My family all went for the Italian options - I actually thought it was an Italian restaurant but in fact it’s a Mediterranean, hence the different options. All of my family members are vegetarian and it was lovely to have the waitress tell us you can order almost anything and they will make it vege appropriate for you. All in all we all loved the meal and will definitely visit again. Oh, and be sure to save space for the banoffee pie - it’s homemade and absolutely stunning.

I had the prawn salad as a starter and spagetti mariana as a mains. Both nice. My friend had bruschetta as a starter and salmon tagliatelle as a main which again h e liked. He was not a fan of the house wine. I asked for a sparkling water and was given a 750 ml bottle which i asked to be changed for a 500 ml bottle. I was charged for the 750 ml bottle when the bill came. Paid as did not want to cause a fuss as the place was very busy and noisy. One wonders if this is deliberate ? So for me it was Food 5/5 Service 0/5 Value 2/5 Atmosphere 2/5 TOTAL 9/20

The food here is incredible, the service great and the prices very good! Never disappoints! Highly recommend the banoffee pie!