The best restaurants serving Italian food in England

I ordered some pizzas from pizza loco 2 years ago and the taste, texture and toppings quality was great. I have been there with my wife and I explained it to the staff and they instantly told me that the chef is different. Well, I would say: even better. The crust is crunchy and soft. The marinara with anchioves spectacular. My friarelly's was incredibly tasty, I don't even know where they found the fennel sausages!! That was unbeliaveble. As starter we went for lardo Crostini, speachless! Price super competitive! You must try it!

Absolutely amazing experience. We had the private room, The Dramatic, for our daughter's graduation. The team made us feel so special and made our day perfect. Pizzas were just wonderful. Even the French people in the family were blown away and French people are hard to please. Andrea, you are the best. Thank you Keri for making Lily's day even more special. Lewis and Sophie, best service, thank you 😊

The food is incredible, the staff is kind and lovely! Every time I visit I am sure that I cannot go wrong! Highly recommended!!!!!!

Booked here based on Google reviews and the first few photos of the food online. We have learnt a valuable lesson tonight never to do this again. Pretty dreadful experience right through from the cobwebs on the walls to the haphazard service, long waits and very poor food quality. 20 mins after ordering, we were told my main wasn’t available so had to change. Waited for drinks. Waited for wine. Waited for water. We waited for everything. 45 mins wait from being seated to starters arriving. Mushrooms floating in a watery cream sauce. Failed to pick up the garlic anywhere. Polpette half the size of the photos. Hard and very average according to the Italian I dined with. Asked for bread. Waiter ran to get some and never returned. Mains fared no better. Poor quality carbonara with guanciale not rendered out so just lumps of soft unappealing fat. Egg and pecorino cheese mixture through the pasta and poor effort to make an actual carbonara sauce. Half eaten and left. Likewise the amatriciana was just a tomato sauce without any hint of chili. And again lumps of guaniciale fat not rendered. Extra parmesan requested and arrived with waitress in bowl with teaspoon who proceeded to shake literally half a spoon on the carbonara and ask ‘Enough?’. She wasn’t going to leave it with us. Didn’t realise parmesan cost the same as gold. Both times the waiter came to clear the plates, asking ‘Good?’. We just mumbled words to get rid of him, not wanting to break his spirit. Table across from us got £50 off their bill as they waited so long for food (over an hour just for mains, no starters) and complained also about the quality of the food. So the experience was not just unique to us. We weren’t just unfortunate or unlucky. Amazed places like this stay in business so long. Whoever is giving them great reviews must have very low standards. After paying the £76 (incl 12.5% service), we vowed never to go back.

This was my third visit to the Beehive. We go because the staff are great and the food is good. However I needed to use the loo and was informed they didn’t have one. Sorry if a cafe is a sit down place for eating then a customer toilet is surely obligatory.

After reading all the excellent reviews for this place I had to check it out especially as I was in the area. First of all the staff are very friendly and let you try all the flavours. They even kindly made me a fresh cannoli ☺️. The gelato was OK nothing special I've definitely had better. Portion size good.

The food was great, freshly made, very tasty indeed. Staff were very friendly and the place has a really nice atmosphere

fabulous ice cream - worth the wait - I used the opportunity of the long queue to ask others about some of the more esoteric flavours.

Visited with 3 friends to exchange our secret Santa gifts. We was shown to our table straight away & our drinks orders taken as we knew what we wanted. We was given ample time to make our choice for food. We didn’t have a long wait for food & it was well presented. The garlic bread was just the best. One of my friends had a little accident & knocked a plate of the table & this was cleared up quickly with no fuss & even offered replacement food, the manager came over to have a chat & a laugh with us. We all loved the food & the waitress Jasmine was such a joy. 100% will be going back

Good quality, beautifully cooked, well presented food and good portion sizes. Reasonably priced wine list, draught and bottled beer, cloth napkins, sparklingly clean glasses and cutlery. Very clean toilets.This high standard restaurant deserves to be popular. I'm looking forward to going again for the tasting menu in a few weeks time.What could be done differently? Everything was very good but plates for hot food could do with being hotter.

We went for my birthday on Sunday. There were 4 of us and we all decided to have a carvery and we were all disappointed with the meal The meats and potatoes were excellent Yprkshire pudding cold and rubbery The carrots were hard and the cabbage had not been prepared properly (stems left on and cooked making it difficult to eat) On a positive note-the staff were excellent and couldnt do enough for us A few changes and the meal will be alot better

Comida fenomenal, servicio atento y un ambiente encantador. Los platos eran auténticos y súper sabrosos. Si quieres comida italiana increíble, cocinada perfectamente con sabores encantadores, este es el lugar. ¡Volveré!

Disgusting. £37 for a margarita and calzone. The margarita's mozzarella was gelatinous and disgusting. The passata on the base was awful. The meat in the calzone tasted like it was frozen. Just all in all an awful meal. If you want a delicious pizza that is actually worth the cost, try Pizzarium in Epsom. Actual Neapolitan pizza instead of this god awful mess. Truly disgusting for the price. £37 down the drain but at least now I know, and hopeful can warn others. You'd be better off buying from Dominos than from these cowboys. Charging people out the rear end for this garbage, they should be ashamed of themselves.

We visited for the first time this evening and it was a lovely experience. We had giant prawns 🍤 as a starter and shared the halibut as our main meal, finished off with some lovely lemon and raspberry sorbet. This is a truly authentic, family run Italian restaurant, with a great chef and lovely, friendly staff. You must give it a try, you won’t regret it!

top[ quality home made pizza and pasta with freindly effecient service .We look forward to visiting again next time in london