L'artista Ristorante Pizzeria Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "If you want good, wholesome, Italian food, always freshly prepared, (especially the pizzas), with excellent portion size, reasonably priced and served in a friendly atmosphere, you will not do better than here."
• "Amazing homemade food which doesn’t break your wallet."
• "Great pizza for family dinner at home."
• "This is the best Italian restaurant I've ever been to."
• "The food is absolutely amazing."
• "Delicious food, made in the proper Italian way."
• "Both the fish were delicious."

Cons:

• "The food has no soul."
• "They forgot one of our mains for 10 mins and it arrived overcooked."
• "Ordered a carbonara, it had nothing to do with a carbonara, made with HAM 😵 and cream."
• "The Calamari was stodgy and the salmon pasta lacked any real flavour."
• "The pizzas were horrible."
• "The food was half cold and was obvious that some of them being precooked and warmed up in the microwave."
• "Massive pasta portion but was flavourless."

Service

Pros:

• "Fantastic service, both me and my fiancee were in today."
• "Service was amazing and the staff were very attentive."
• "Such friendly and attentive service (thanks to the lovely Vanessa) at great value prices."
• "The staff seem to love their job making the experience more enjoyable."
• "Very attentive staff without being imposing."
• "Food is excellent, waiters are entertaining with small banter between them - very fun to watch."
• "The staff are very friendly and welcoming."

Cons:

• "Things seemed to be out of control, like if there was no management at all."
• "The service was atrocious, I had to ask multiple times for a glass of water."
• "Service was absolutely horrendous. We were swept to a table without a 'good afternoon', our plates were taken without so much as a word."
• "The gentlemen (dressed in black) who welcomed us seemed annoyed by us."
• "The gentlemen serving us was also super unfriendly."
• "The manager keeps shouting to waiters... we didn't feel comfortable."
• "Waitress practically chucked the menus at us once seated."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Ignore the restaurant's unfortunate location tucked under a railway bridge on a busy junction, this is one of London's gems."
• "The atmosphere is super: fun and friendly. Typical Italian."
• "It always has a great atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere was electric and quirky."
• "Very nice place... Absolutely a restaurant to try!"
• "Food is stunning and the portions are huge."
• "Always good food! A bit noisy but in a happy way."

Cons:

• "The restaurant is placed directly under the train station and you can hear each time a train passes by."
• "The restaurant can be quite busy and noisy."
• "The restaurant can be quite busy and noisy, even on a weekday evening, which makes conversation difficult."
• "Usually completely heaving, it's big, it's noisy, not a romantic place!"
• "In such a small space, the horrible live extremely loud marching drum they play followed by extremely loud music when bring the cake for birthdays is total torture and could damage your ear drum."
• "The music was ridiculously loud."
• "Very noisy place, hard to have a conversation."