The best restaurants serving Italian food in South East

Excellent pizzas at Freshwater Bay, eaten by the Travelling Tavern on a sunny evening. Difficult to beat! Great price too. Highly recommended.

I am new to the area and trying out all the local places and this did definitely not disappoint. Attended with friends for a warm welcome, good food, and a good happy atmosphere. What more can you want!

I was very pleased with my meal at pitchers on the 25/09/2018. I had Ribeye steak cooked medium rare, it was tender with lots of flavour. I had a side portion of chips and salad with Mayo and ketchup. The food is very well priced and would recommend for anyone wanting to try out something new try pitchers. The staff are welcoming.

I spent hundreds of pounds in this overpriced cafe and then I got baited into an autism meltdown by the bullies from the mental health place next door who I had argued with over politics, then a Certain Person influenced his mate the cafe manager to ban me and of course I was never told I was banned and the next day I got the police called on me like a criminal. Lovely. If my friend hadn't been there to defuse things with the unpleasantly aggressive policeman it would have been very nasty indeed. I never swore like That Person said on the cafe property. The said person who has a grudge against me for standing up to his bullying got me banned on purpose as he is mates with the manager. My only crime is being very upset and hurt by being bullied and being autistic and very vulnerable. Did you guys not hear how I was sobbing in the toilet that day? Sorry to be a vulnerable bullied traumatised autist but you ban me like a criminal by all means. Would have appreciated being actually told so I didn't get the police called on me I mean wtf I now am even more isolated from my friends. Stupid cafe is horribly overpriced anyway. I have been in the park loads of time and sat near the cafe and I've caused no trouble nor would I ever! I am not a bad person and I didn't deserve to be banned! I was coming in for nearly two years and I never got upset until those bullies provoked me to try and defend myself in my incomptent kak handed autistic way. You and they have done me a very great injustice.

Great pizza served quickly and hot..very helpful and friendly staff..Been 3 times now and always perfect..would like a few more mushrooms maybe..😉

We have visited Roots on a regular basis since we moved to Horsell three and a half years ago. We have always had excellent food and service, so we were sorry to discover that they are closing due to a huge increase in rates. We shall miss our visits and the delicious food.

Having not been well for a while we remembered what great food we had at Galeleos So after an absence of 2 years we revisited for my first evening outing in a long time and it was great, food great, atmosphere and service. Hopefully this will again be a regular destination really is a hidden gem

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.

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 good food and really nice staff who work very well. I really enjoyed my experience and I would definitely recommend it.

Me and husband had the dragon burger and spicy chicken burger with chips Was so yummy and the oreo milkshake is amazing 😁😁🔥🔥

Personal muy atento e informativo, buena selección de tapas y platos. Elegimos la oferta de seis por 32 libras y fue ideal para dos de nosotros

I came in here while charging my car next door. Excellent choice of sandwiches, jacket potato and salad bar. I chose a lovely salad topped with tuna.Very tasty and great value for money. I would definitely recommend coming here to eat, especially if using the charging station next door. Staff are very friendly.

We stayed at the Travel Lodge in the centre of Ashford, just to go to this place. Friendly staff brilliant food. 25 chicken wings, 2 pittas, salad,chips and a bottle of Pepsi for £19.99. Gone up £4 since last year,but hey everything is going up. No complaints with the medium peri peri on the wings, they were just on the line between hot and Ouch. We ❤️ them. Maybe the size has gone down a bit,but the flavour was super! We will return once more!

Visited this restaurant for the first time but it will definitely be my last. Was advised when we walked in that there had been a problem with booking and we would have to vacate the table by 8pm. (Allowing an hour and a half for the meal.) We agreed but soon wish we hadn’t and had gone elsewhere. The tables were so close together and the place so overcrowded and very noisy. My friend had to keep standing up and moving to let others by. I have a gluten allergy and was advised that every thing on the menu could be made gluten free. Unfortunately when we ordered I was advised that potatoes were not gluten free. I asked if they could replace the potatoes with gluten free pasta and they agreed for an ADDITIONAL price of £8.50. This was totally unacceptable so I asked for the potatoes to be replaced with a portion of plain white rice. No additional charge was mentioned except they added £2 extra on the bill. Unbelievable .To supplement an expensive meal we had to order a side of roasted vegetables. The prawns had not been cleaned with very little meat in them. I gave it 2 stars as we did enjoy the starters. To top it all they added a service charge to the bill - which we didn’t pay. Apparently this restaurant had been classed as one of the top ten to visit in Rochester. Unfortunately the problems we encountered ruined our experience there.