The best restaurants serving Italian food in South East

Had lovely pizzas tonight. Freshly made & a generous size. The coconut ice cream was lovely. It was our first visit & we will return. Thank you

The pizza here is consistently good and always delivered on time. Beautiful dough base and always hot! Highly recommend.

Cold plates make for food going cold quickly. Cappuccino weak - virtually no taste. Not all staff are equally welcoming.

The food was amazing no doubt but the service was awful! The waitress took the drinks order and came back twice and still needed to check. I waited a further 15 minutes for my drink. We then waited almost 30 minutes for the staff to come back and take our order. We were told that there was no pita bread, my frown ordered a diet lemonade only to be told later it wasn’t diet after drinking. The margarita had something fizzy in and didn’t taste like a margarita, but having waited ages for. Like I said the food was lovely. We were still eating our starters when they bright the mains out but the table hadn’t been cleared so had to fumble around to make room. Then had to wait for new cutlery. We wanted to order coffees at the end it to be told that there was none. The waiter brought over Tequila shots as an apology for the coffee but there was no lime or salt to go with the shots. Again the food in general was amazing but there was a huge lack of organisation.No loo roll in the loo and it wasn’t busy so we didn’t really get why the service was long it was.

Hi so I was invited to my friends birthday on the 7th October was a 18th birthday party. My friend and his twin payed for 50 pizzas which were £400 and and that’s a lot of money to waste and the owner said they will not give a refund because he was adamant that there was 50 and said to my mate we can’t see the cameras. Truth to be told I did not drink and there was definitely not 50 there was no more then 20. Service was bad the staff that were running the bar were 17 and really undertrained and it was a busy capacity I was waiting 20 minutes for a drink. Truth to be told the pizzas were nice but there wasn’t enough. Also another problem why we think that the owner didn’t make all the pizzas my friend had a catering service there that made food at the same time. Sorry this is so long but the last problem was I brought my friend a £76 bottle of champagne and I knew he got a few more bottles to he asked the people behind the bar to look after them and he insisted they would he asked them if they were sure and they really insisted they got took to. So it wasn’t a good night and we are all fuming 😤

Absolutely brilliant - when Boris and COVID put pay to our wedding reception, in stepped Danny and his team. Not only was the food super, nothing was too much trouble and Danny himself made sure we were made to feel special. I can’t praise these guys high enough - a massive thank you and we look forward to using you again.

Chill environment with delicious food🫶🇭🇰 Strongly recommend the seafood pasta and pizza 🍝

The delivery driver was on his way home but they called him back to deliver for me at the last minute. He was super quick too and very helpful. The staff at Rustico were also and always are lovely and helpful. The food is incredible too!

Worst pizza ive ever had! Save your money and go to one of the many very good pizzerias in Brighton.

What a pleasant dining experience - dealt really well with my allergies and super friendly and helpful all round, and delicious food.

Amazing food, excellent staff. Need I say more!!!!!

We had high expectations for this Restaraunt/hotel with respect to Angela Hartnett as a chef and personality. However, sadly there were a number of issues which tainted our view and will not be returning. Arriving for our 7pm mid week booking, welcoming staff seated us at a table in the bar area, shown the drinks menu and asked if we would like any nibbles. We ordered some drinks and olives whilst admiring the decor and eventually after 30 minutes, a member of staff returned to ask if we would like another drink. Feeling quite peckish, we decided to wait until our meal and the waitress said she would fetch someone to show us to our table. Another 15 minutes later (7:45) someone eventually walked us to our table which was booked for 7pm. It must have been another 30 minutes before a pre starter arrived and literally 30 ‘seconds’ later when the starter arrived! We hadn’t even had time to finish the pre starter and you could see the staff wondering where to position the starters! I commented about being a fast eater and wasn’t expecting the starter so soon after a pre starter! They offered to take the starter away but we were concerned about time so they attempted to rearrange the small table and squeeze plates around us! We opted for the asparagus and crab which was tasty with exception to munching on crab shell! We politely complained and left some evidence on my plate. Hoping the main would be something special, we waited until 8:45pm for the £140 beef sharing plate to arrive! This was extremely pricey but intrigued as we do not usually eat beef and this was a special occasion. The beef was quite fatty but tasty. This included a tiny sharing bowl of chips, some dry rocket leaves with shavings of Parmesan, a sauce and roasted garlic! Not really a £140 quality meal for two! I mentioned to staff that we had to ration the chips between us and we asked them to pack the remaining beef for us to eat in sandwiches the following day. Moving to desert, the only gluten free options were cheese, ice cream or sorbet! When booking the meal, we were informed there was plenty of gluten free options! I commented that the local pubs have a wider range of gluten free options and the chef said he would offer a baked Alaska for me. I was grateful for the extra effort and the desert was edible! I lost track of what time we finally left but was saddened by our dampened expectations and feel whilst staff were polite and friendly, Limewood need to up their game. I’m just pleased we decided not to stay the night at £800 room rate!

Loved this place! The food was really lovely (I had pasta) and the service was brilliant. I have dietary requirements which they went out of their way to cater for - this is quite uncommon these days, so I was really impressed! They were friendly too and made sure to check that the food order was correct. Definitely recommend :)

Really good Italian food. Authentic traditional tasty cucina italiana

I am so happy we stumbled across this little gem of a place, whilst searching for dinner one evening. Having a Italian family myself, I could not fault the food, it was absolutely delicious. The service was superb and atmosphere, brought back so many memories of being in Italy. The resturant was clean and authentically decorated. They also have a large range of Gelato to choose from too. I would definately recommend this place. 10/10 delizioso!