Berberè Clapham Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "One of the best pizzas I’ve had in my life. Totally recommend you check out this restaurant."
• "The pizzas are fantastic. The dough is something special there."
• "The food was delicious, best Tiramisu ever."
• "The pizza was delicious and the service was quick, with professionals waitress."
• "Pizzas were very tasty, I didn't think I would enjoy a pizza without a tomato base but I was pleasantly surprised."
• "The pizza was the best I have had in London and the homemade tiramisu was delicious."
• "Pizza dough well baked, complements to the chef 👏👏. Pesto tastes like a homemade."

Cons:

• "However, Tiramisu wasn't to my liking. Maybe because I am more used to having one from Sainsburys too often or the ladyfingers weren't soft enough."
• "Had pizza and starter. It was okay, maybe we chose wrongly as the pizza had smoked cheese which wasn’t very nice."
• "The vanilla gelato was really grainy! it tasted like there was sand mixed into it."
• "The pizza base itself was hard and tasted almost stale."
• "The dough used and taste of the pizza is very poor. There is little to no flavour and I was disappointed at how much had changed as it was my second visit."
• "Honestly the worst pizza I've ever had, this includes the cheapest frozen supermarket pizza. Appalling on all fronts."
• "Awful service, staff not friendly at all, not dressed properly, I don’t really want to be served by a waitress on shorts and touching his hair before he serves me."

Service

Pros:

• "The manager, Valeria was so lovely. Made the experience 5 star."
• "Many thanks for the hospitality guys, keep up the good servicing as well!"
• "Our waitress Andrea, made the dining experience exceptional."
• "The staff are great. Would recommend to either dine in or take away."
• "The staff is really lovely and they absolutely do their best to make you feel home."
• "We had a lovely meal here today. Great service and the chef also recommended some dips for our pizza crusts that were very tasty and were offered FOC."
• "Friendly and helpful staff who are very knowledgeable about the menu (not always the case in some restaurants)."

Cons:

• "Service is Awful 😔 - Took over 30 mins to bring food followed another 20mins to bring drinks."
• "The service was kind but I think they were a bit under staff as the waiter were keeping running from one side of the restaurant to the other."
• "We ordered tap water 3 times, including twice to the same waiter. 3 times they told us they would bring it. We never got it..."
• "But waiting 1 hour for pizza that isn’t even good is ridiculous, we could see delivery pizzas being shipped off all the time so they clearly prioritise that over their physical customers."
• "Waited 30 mins to order and only got served then by desperately trying to catch someone’s eye.."
• "We had to go looking for staff a few times to order etc. Though this was probably due to us being the only table on the other side of the restaurant."
• "Service couldn’t make up for a decent meal. Food was really good, but the wait staff were so lazy."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Lovely pizza, lovely wine and great atmosphere in general."
• "The interiors and vibe though are so lovely! Would come back."
• "Great place and atmosphere, will be back soon"
• "Went to Berbere for the first time yesterday after I kept seeing posts about it. And boy I was impressed. Beautiful setting too, felt like a holiday."
• "Great atmosphere and of course, the pizza was delicious. Steven and the chefs did a great job!"
• "We had a lovely evening and absolutely delicious dinner here last night. Mega kudos to Conor, Callum, Laura, the pizza chef and Steve for the warm welcome, friendly service and fabulous food!"
• "We visited here on a Saturday evening and were hugely impressed. The quality of the pizza was fantastic, and we'd definitely return again and recommend this restaurant to people who want a great pizzeria near Clapham."

Cons:

• "We were seated at a table right at the back which felt like we were pretty much sat in the kitchen, it was very chaotic and made it hard to hold a conversation."
• "The kitchen staff were constantly in and out to smoke by the second door to Venn St, which meant that side of the restaurant filled with the stink of cigarette smoke."
• "I was there on a Friday night. The place was crowded and loud, the pizza good, the service great, and the music fantastic. Definitely will visit again! If I had to find a complaint, perhaps some tables were a bit too close to each other."
• "Was really looking forward to trying this place but was disappointed. I’ve sampled many pizzas and this one was very average (I had the aubergine) - it was lukewarm, had almost stale crust and the toppings were minimal. The service wasn’t particularly great either (aside from the person who greeted us, I think the Manager, who was lovely)."
• "Walked past today, noticed a red neon sign in the window blinking "open" and walked in through unlocked doors. Settled down at the nearest table and got told a bit off handedly that the place is actually closed and was waved to the door. Genuinely confused, I pointed out the red neon sign in the shop window is blinking "open". Was explained to me that the "Open" sign turns on automatically 15 minutes before the place actually opens. Right... If this was my place I'd offer an apology and for the person to wait it out inside for a couple of minutes (was about 10 min to open apparently), instead I was chased out like a 5 year old out of a candy shop 😂 The manager apparently thinks they are running a lidl😜"