The best restaurants serving Italian food in Southern NI

A most wonderful afternoon tea today served by Johnny and Rachel. Great quality food and first class service. The team excelled in their catering for a dietary requirement of gluten and dairy intolerance and no meat requirement. They sought feedback and were eager to know if everything was ok. It was first class at ever level. I would highly recommend The Garden room for afternoon tea. Well done to Johnny and all the team. You definitely raise the bar in your customer service, your wonderful interaction with us and the provision of an afternoon tea that more than satisfied all four of us. Your strawberries wrapped in chocolate were yum yum yum!!! Oh so delicious!!! Thank you. Doreen

Amazing takeaway meals really nicely presented and at a great price. All safely given to us during restrictions and portion sizes excellent. Will be back!

Service is top class , Chris is the most kindest owner I’ve ever met , the food is top class , and I wouldn’t recommend any other place , come and you will not be disappointed 💯

Very disappointed the wait was 1/2 hour from ordering and that was just pizza , said to a member of staff who said ill be right back still waiting for her to get back 24 hours later . I was sick after eating the pizza just a horrible experience . Would definitely not recommend this place at all

Peppered steak on fries was so so tasty & piping hot! The lady delivering was friendly n chatty too. Thank you so much 🩵

Good food quick friendly service 👌

The Sapori is an Italian restaurant on The Mall in the centre of Newry. This business is a well loved local icon which has been here for over 20 years! Having said this, the interior is very modern with a strong Italian theme. As always we had a fantastic meal with them and I was pleased to see a vegan risotto being clearly added to the menu. We started with the Focaccia to share which comes with some condiments and a lovely garlic oil drizzle. For my main I had to try the risotto and was not disappointed, the flavour was great and the fried aubergine was delicious. I will add, I have had a vegan pizza here before (pre-roasted veg and no cheese) and it was delicious! I can't speak for all vegans but I think this was perfect and deserves a place on the menu too 😁 Overall this is a family run business with a great service and delicious food, I would definitely recommend giving it a try!

Wonderful place, very nice stuff and the food gorgeous.

Went here recently to meet some friends for food, drinks and watching a rugby game. The occasion was a casual affair and we all had pizza. I have to say that the pizza was one of the best pizza's that I have ever had and it was a joyous surprise. Very well done to the Vecchia Roma - would recommend all to try it!

Great pizza. Great staff. But 70p for a spoonful of BBQ sauce. Come on. !!! That's extortionate by any standard.!!!!!!!!

This establishment has a kids menu,.. I have no idea why as it in my view does not welcome the presence of children… The request is to have kids who sit in silence and eat their meal.. obviously my parenting skills are inferior to the helicopter waitresses… who’s judgmental over burdening attitude resulted in a rushed meal with the only aim being to leave as soon as possible… I will never be back… basic food anyway, attempting to wrap itself with a fine dining… more diner/basic B meal.

This takeaway is let down by the horrifically ill mannered staff. 2 weeks on a row, the apparent 'manager' has taken the order incorrectly and when we phoned, politely to ask that they correct their mistake, the answer was, 'I don't know what you want me to do, it's with you.' There were no apologies, no offer to correct their mistake but instead, she was heard to snigger about our complaint. I genuinely never complain about anything but when people are rude when you are paying for a service, I think the very least that should be offered is an apology. If the actual owner of 'Twice the Spice' reads this, please please re-think you management structure. Your current manager 'who refused to provide her name' is nothing shy of hostile, rude, and not someone you should have representing your business.