Franco Manca Brixton Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "This has got to be one of the best pizzas anywhere."
• "Every pizza is made to order so will arrive at your table piping hot with bubbling mozzarella!"
• "The charred edges were the best pizza crust I've had."
• "The best pizza in London. I only can eat that one."
• "Authentic Neapolitan sourdough pizza at prices anyone will love."
• "The dough is light and fluffy and the cheese is fresh and tasty."
• "These sourdough pizzas are really great."

Cons:

• "Our Pizza came with very little toppings and our starters were brought 15 mins after the pizza."
• "The other one with ham and something else was simply insipid: no taste=no fun."
• "They're cold and raw. Raw dough. Unacceptable and inedible."
• "The pizza was soggy in the middle and lacking flavor."
• "Pizza's were pretty much terrible. Sour dough base was not cooked, it was just warm, there is hardly any toppings on the pizzas, you're just eating soggy bread."
• "The pizza was NOT. It was as flat as a flat bread."
• "Our pizzas were rubbery, almost no cheese, an awful ham on top."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff is highly professional and friendly, the service is prompt and punctual always and the hygiene is optimal always."
• "The staffs were very proactive, friendly and attentive."
• "The staff is super-friendly!!"
• "Thank you for taking care of us, we really appreciated it."
• "The staff are all very friendly and welcoming and the service is five star."
• "Had a lovely late lunch here today. Special mention goes to the server, I think his name was Kuba."
• "The staffs are very sweet and they are very helpful."

Cons:

• "Waited over 30 mins for the bill after our plates had been cleared."
• "Waitress staff and supervisor need service training."
• "The service was terrible. Asked the server for more water but never got it."
• "The service is not particularly curated."
• "Service can be slow as things get hectic."
• "The waitresses were extremely slow.. I asked four times for paper towels and they brought black pepper..."
• "Service was very slow, we didn't get everything we ordered and we were a bit ignored."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "It was bustling, bold and oh so busy."
• "Ambience: Lively and Italian."
• "The atmosphere at the Brixton one is great, really busy and chaotic (but in a good way)."
• "The atmosphere is very nice and cosy."
• "Really cosy restaurant inside Brixton market."
• "Brilliant pizza in such a quirky location and part of London."
• "It reminded us of Italy because of how there are two parts of the restaurant on either side through an alleyway it’s very magical."

Cons:

• "Place is not cosy at all."
• "Very crowded spot thought and did not like the funny odour much."
• "The place looks grubby and is a little smelly in places, no longer in that signature authentic and self-unaware way..."
• "Also being sat inside next door to a fishmonger, well, you can imagine the smell :D"
• "We felt like outcasts."
• "This does not belong here, local businesses have been pushed out of here."
• "Strange set up across the market, next door to the fish stall so the smell isn't ideal."

Value

Pros:

• "Prices are decent, just under 7 quid for each pie."
• "With around £10 you can have pizza and beer."
• "Very reasonable pricing for the amazing quality of food - 10/10 !!!!!!!!"
• "All at incredibly reasonable prices. A pizza will set you back approximately £7, not bad at all."
• "?5.20 for a regular pie (cheaper than pizzaexpress!) makes this probably the best value food in london."
• "Very good prices (around 7-8 pounds per pizza, with very thin dough, Italian style)."
• "The price of the dinner was very good at around £30 for 4 of us."

Cons:

• "The ‘normal sized’ pizza was smaller than the kids pizza."
• "The dough was not cooked properly, too chewy, poor ingredients and too expensive."
• "A bottle of 'organic' white Italian wine for £18: poor quality wine that should not cost more than 5/6 quid in Tesco or Morrisons."
• "The little diddy glass of procesco cost £6 and it wasnt even in a wine glass."
• "We ordered three pizzas and they didn’t arrive at the same time, which seems a bit inappropriate. Secondly, there was barely any ingredients on them."
• "We ordered a bottle of red wine and it was like drinking vinegar."
• "After we paid the waitress came back and then we weren't allowed to leave without paying the optional service charge even though they forgot items."