Mangia Bene Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is delicious and plentiful and the prices are so reasonable."
• "Food tastes so good here."
• "Every meal was SO good and very much worth the money!!!"
• "The homemade pasta with Ragu was incredible, the best part of the meal, their pizzas are very good too."
• "The pizzas are incredible! Best pizza in London, I would go as far to say."
• "Amazing pasta, outstanding taste!"
• "The food was amazing, fresh."

Cons:

• "The food was so so so poor. Substandard ingredients and undercooked pasta."
• "Ham on pizza very poor quality. Not real ham, it is the cheep reformed type with added water and no flavour."
• "Food poor: I've had much better main courses from Tescos ready meals."
• "Mains were a disgrace. Over cooked and over seasoned."
• "Tasted like all was microwaved."
• "The tomatoes seafood risotto was too salty, carbonara don’t feel the taste of egg and bacon, pizza margarita was too cheesy which covers the taste of tomato sauce."
• "Fake calzone, they just put cheap cheese and liddls sausage on a piece of flat bread."

Service

Pros:

• "Always a cheerful greeting, helpful staff."
• "The service was quick and attentive."
• "The staff are very friendly which is a great thing."
• "The staff are outstanding."
• "They were staffed a bit short but they made it work and despite how busy it was, the quality and kindness did not falter."
• "Great, friendly service from Giovani!"
• "The staff were so friendly, helpful and accommodated our large family of 7!"

Cons:

• "I would never visit this restaurant again."
• "I would recommend the manager/owner of this place to teach the employees how to treat customers adequately."
• "GLASS IN FOOD - RUDE MANAGER... AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE"
• "Had a booking for 7:45 and arrived and there was a queue of 20 plus people all with reservations before my group."
• "Over worked staff."
• "The service was slow."
• "Terrible experience, we had a reservation and when we arrived (on time) there was not a table available."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "This place had a warm and friendly vibe."
• "The place is full of positive energy."
• "One of my favourite places to go spontaneously during the week. Great cozy family vibe place."
• "Amazing service and such a relaxing atmosphere with authentic home-cooked food."
• "It's a small restaurant but cosy friendly staff no rushing very calm and relaxed love it."
• "The restaurant has a cosy atmosphere and is just a short walk from Angel station."
• "The astomphere of the restaurant is very relaxed and friendly."

Cons:

• "The only fly in the ointment was the lack of air conditioning on a hot, humid day."
• "Our table was right next to the entrance so we were disturbed by people coming in and out and squeezing past our chairs during our 40 minute stay."
• "This restaurant is so fake."

Value

Pros:

• "The house red wine tasting was a multipulciano and at £14 was incredible value for money."
• "The food is so reasonably priced."
• "Surprisingly reasonable prices for London."
• "Prices were really good for the food!!"
• "For the location it is very reasonably priced."
• "Price was also below average for London which was a nice surprise."
• "By the way, not expensive. The money goes to the plate."

Cons:

• "Price wasn't cheap but that part of London isn't so not bad value."