The best restaurants serving Italian food in South West

Great food, excellent service, and lively atmosphere. A great place for a family meal. The portions are huge so bring your appetite!

We visited La Lupa tonight as a family of three for some pizza, and we absolutely loved it! From start to finish, the service was impeccable—friendly, attentive, and welcoming. The pizzas were delicious, made with fresh, high-quality ingredients, and cooked to perfection. What really made the experience extra special were the thoughtful little touches—high-quality branded mixers with our drinks and a complimentary amaretto shot at the end of the meal, which was a lovely surprise. It’s clear that La Lupa goes the extra mile to create a warm and authentic Italian dining experience. We’ll definitely be back! Highly recommend.

I have been there today (Monday) ~45 mins after opening time but no one was there. Just wasted my time. Can't comment the food for obvious reasons.

One of the best in Padstow and let’s face it, there’s some great places in this small town. Amazing food, fabulous staff at a great price. What’s not to love? We had two meals there during our stay. Highly recommended, we’ll be back!

Just absolutely outstanding!! Came tonight with my family for my sisters birthday The service was incredible The staff are so happy and friendly and extremely welcoming Every bit of food was so nice and fresh 😋 They even went out their way to make up a proper plate for my son who is autistic and doesn't like certain foods. Every single course was piping hot and so worth the money. Will definitely be returing for future birthdays and meal nights out

Fantastic dinner, very tasty food. They even helped with parking as you run the risk of getting a ticket. He jumped in the car with me and took me to the car park. What a legend.

This place has improved so much! Couldn’t have had a more pleasant waiter (Kai). Nothing was too much trouble. Warm welcome and very tasty food. Happy for us to take our time chatting and catching up with each other. We spent a few hours there and will definitely be back soon.

A wonderful find in a village on the first night of a stay.

Great place, very friendly staff, food was great. See you next year.

Visited earlier in the week and booked an 8.30pm table a couple of days in advance, on the day we received a call from the restaurant asking if we could move the time to an earlier slot so the chefs can clean the ovens... though thinking it was a strange ask we agreed to the ask. When we got there we had a decent enough meal, where we were served by the same lady who called us earlier in the day. We ordered a bottle of wine with the meal which arrived corked and was told I would need to open it myself. OK, again strange but we did it without complaint. Once we finished the meal we moved to the bar area for a couple of drinks (before 9pm), we sat and watched the same waitress start to close all of the blinds in the place and hovering over people's tables for anything she could see was finished with. By the time we got to 9.30 she came over to all the tables being used and asked 'are you finishing up?' we said not yet as we had only got some new drinks. People obviously felt uncomfortable as other tables did finish up and leave after that, leaving us as the last table. As soon as that was the case the waitress then came back to our table to tell us 'just to let you know that we are the last ones at the bar now'. So we basically were hounded out of the place by 9.45pm! We finished our drinks and started walking out, guess who followed us with the keys... yes the same super waitress who locked up as soon as we were through the doors. Lovely send off! What was supposed to be a nice meal out ended up being a pretty unpleasant experience. Shame as people have said good things about this place but if that is how the staff act then I wouldn't waste your cash there. There was obviously a plan to get people out as early as possible so the staff could finish up and go home, starting with the phone call. Shocking experience all round.

Second visit after such nice meals the first time, I chose the carbonara as I had this on the first visit and really enjoyed . This time it was completely tasteless. My wife and daughters meals were very salty and my granddaughter’s spaghetti bolognaise was nothing like a bolognaise with hard carrots and crunchy celery! My granddaughter has a severe food allergy and we are always worried about eating out but as we had eaten here before, and she hadn’t been poorly we were happy that she would be safe. There was nothing suitable for her in the starters section so she chose to have a dessert instead as part of the set meal. Half way through she alerted me to the fact that she had a small piece of plastic in her sorbet. I was a little bit horrified but didn’t say anything and thought,,, these things can happen. After a couple more spoonfuls and a larger piece of plastic I told the waiter and he took it off me and apologised saying it must have been from the sorbet container. No gesture of goodwill offered, not that we would necessarily have accepted but not good service and certainly WONT be going back!

Not the fastest service, but a clean comfortable well laid out restaurant. The liked the atmosphere and choice of background music which presented well the Italian theme. Pity the staff don't have a uniform to match. The food was absolutely fine.

We had such a lovely evening.Some of the best pasta I have had!Front of house looked after us very well.We would love to visit again,thankyou ☺️

Started with a cold beer. Refreshing. They made me a pepperoni pizza even though it wasn't on the menu . Very tasty. Finished with a flat white coffee. Excellent . Recommended.

We had a wonderful family meal at the Bridge to celebrate my parents 45th wedding anniversary. There was nothing that was too much trouble for our fantastic host, Fabio, who looked after us throughout. The food was excellent from starter to desert, the wine was superb too. Everything was reshly prepared, full of flavour and of the highest quality. I noted that some other reviews have complained about the pace or attentiveness of service; but for us the whole evening was a delight in winding back, relaxing, talking to each other and soaking in the experience. The night was capped off with some complimentary limoncello to celebrate the family celebration. We will certainly be back for more.