Farina Pizzeria Napoletana Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The pizza is amazing, fantastic dough and ingredients."
• "I felt like I was in Naples again. The starters were perfect to share."
• "Pizzas are really good and quite large but have a really thin base. Great quality ingredients."
• "Proper pizza and the side salads and ingredient quality was excellent."
• "The pizza was very light and the ingredients tasted fresh."
• "This place has my heart. Real napolitana pizzas. And the variety caters for veggies, meat eaters etc."
• "The pizza comes out hot, fresh, and fast. Crust is prepared daily and the cheese is top shelf."
• "The pizza is at the same level of other pizzerias with the difference that there is an average £5 higher price for a pizza."

Cons:

• "Ignored for 6 minutes by the host and the pizza had a handful of tinned mushrooms and shop bought ham."
• "The pizza was way too doughy and bready for our liking."
• "Ordered 3 pizzas, 2 were burnt to a crisp and arrived cold, also they were not cut, none of them."
• "The pizza in particular was slightly undercooked as the crust was missing some color and the cheese not fully melted."
• "Unfortunately the pizza was incredibly soggy and tasteless. I left half of it - and I NEVER leave food!"
• "Ordered through deliveroo, based on their great review. It was nothing but disappointing."
• "The pizza was not well-cooked and we made a request to reheat."
• "The pizzas didn't taste of original napoletana pizza. I was disappointed as the pizzas unfortunately lacked flavour."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff is lovely, humoristic and energetic; best pizza we've had in a while."
• "The owner and the team super friendly and great service!"
• "The service was good and relatively quick, and the facilities clean."
• "Considering the number of people, the pizzas arrived pretty swiftly and simultaneously."
• "The service was fine. Although I want to try other places, I'll come back with my friends."
• "The staff make you feel welcome as soon as step inside, and the pizza chef had a big smile on his face."
• "The staff is so friendly and helpful, the prices are very reasonable and the service was quick."
• "The staff is friendly and when I go to take away the pizza is ready very quickly!"

Cons:

• "The service was kind of bad unsure if the server was in a bad mood. She would not talk and just walk off very quickly."
• "Service left a lot to be desired though, the staff kept hovering over us telling us to leave."
• "Our waiter was not taking notes. Out of our 4 orders they got 2 wrong, including one twice!!!"
• "The service is just terrible. We waited for almost 1 hour for our pizza because they forgot our order."
• "We called to book and they said “just come early”. We were there early and they made us wait with available tables to finally say half an hour later they didn’t have availability."
• "On the phone they told us they don’t take reservations. That we needed to be there early and wait. We did so, and after waiting for more than half an hour because they told us we were next, they said we were not going to get a table."
• "Ordered through deliveroo, based on their great review. It was nothing but disappointing."
• "Food was good, went there on my lunch break had a choice of tables. Food came out relatively quickly, imposed service charge on the receipt so tipping is optional."

Atmosphere & Location

Pros:

• "Well located in Notting Hill, just by the Notting Hill Gate tube station."
• "The atmosphere was super pleasant and Mauro was the best host!"
• "I would recommend it for a relaxing pizza night out in Notting Hill area."
• "A real family feel in the restaurant. The starters were perfect and the cocktails were so yummy!!"
• "The ambiance is cosy and friendly and can be very busy."
• "The place looks cool. I just wish I lived closer to make it my local 😉"
• "The place is very beautiful but pizza and pasta is not for Greeks. It has different tastes of pizza and it not like Italy or Greece."
• "The pizza is amazing and they have even multiple types of mozzarella on top of their pizzas."

Cons:

• "The lighting wasn’t the best."
• "I would welcome a bit more seasoning on the burratina pizza but all in all we liked it a lot."
• "The interior could greatly profit from more comfortable chairs and decorations."
• "Casual pizzeria with a few outdoor tables."
• "The atmosphere here is very light and airy for a relatively small venue."
• "I had some problem in digesting pizza and garlic bread dough. In my opinion, and judging by the quantity of water I had to drink after, the dough was not cooked properly."
• "For people that prefer a quiet atmosphere, this might not be a place to have dinner."
• "Disappointed. Arrived with my bf to get a quick pizza and had a man say “we cannot give you that table for 4” ... “we need that table”."