L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The pizzas are thin and large. They have a good range and you can make your own."
• "The pizza is really good and very flavourful."
• "The food (especially the pizza!) is authentic and delicious 😋."
• "The crust is thin and crispy, and the toppings are fresh and flavorful."
• "The quality of the cheese and tomato was incredible, and the crust/pizza dough was lovely - crispy and a gorgeous flavour."
• "The pizza was hot, fresh and the most similar to their namesake in Naples of all the Michele branded restaurants."
• "If you want to eat the original neapolitan pizza, you must visit Da Michele."
• "The pizza is very aithentic italian pizza which was exactly what we were looking for."

Cons:

• "The pizza in general is not that tasty as I thought."
• "The pizza was dry and not juicy as always. Simply disappointing."
• "The truffle mushroom pizza was pretty steep considering it’s truffle oil and no visible truffle on the pizza."
• "The Pizza was huge, the staff didn't tell us that we should share it instead of have one each."
• "The pizza dough wasn't cooked properly & needed lots of chewing."
• "The pizza crust was too chewy and base was very soggy and barely even baked."
• "Pizza was cold, and a friend of mine ordered raw fish that was not very fresh."
• "Unfortunately, the Calzone pizza we ordered had a badly burnt bottom side."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff are really professional and experienced. They know what they’re doing."
• "We were quickly and politely attended to and put our orders in."
• "Service was in attentive despite the restaurant being half empty."
• "The service is good and staff friendly."
• "The service at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele is also noteworthy, with friendly and attentive staff."
• "Service = amazing. Gluten free pizza (red pizza) = to die for."
• "The waiters are quinessentially Italian, polite and direct."
• "Emanuele, Gino and the team were friendly and lovely as always."

Cons:

• "Service is shocking here! A restaurant that doesn’t have slimline tonic for gin?!?"
• "Waiters are useless and the service is very bad!"
• "We had to ask for table water, one had gone to get it and then the second one says they don’t have any tap water?!?"
• "Service was terrible. No instructions / information on the lines or how to order."
• "Service was abit rubbish, food was meh and tables are utterly cramped."
• "I am Italian and i had great expectations about this place...Waiters are rude, non professional and have a 'do not give a s***t attitude'."
• "They even turned the lights off! Total rip off on the wine for a side street pizza place."
• "Awful customer service: Reservation at 20:00. Forced to stand outside in the cold waiting until 21:00."

Atmosphere and Environment

Pros:

• "The atmosphere is great! Very clean, spacious and fancy."
• "The restaurant has a classic and traditional feel, with a warm and welcoming atmosphere."
• "We were lucky to therefore get a table by the door, where it was much lighter and not as stuffy hot."
• "The restaurant is filled with truffle smell so we tried the signature truffle mushroom pizza."
• "The atmosphere is not amazing, the pizzeria is extremely cramped and there are too many tables inside."
• "The place is beautiful with a nice decoration and the food is good (you can share the pizzas)."
• "The atmosphere is great, the food was incredible and the service was fast and friendly."
• "We were a group of 10 celebrating a birthday on a Saturday night. The place is beautiful with a nice decoration."

Cons:

• "I wasn't taken away. The atmosphere besides the big pizza oven was standard, the service was okay."
• "The overall experience may have been quite different if we had to sit back here! We were seated at the back of the restaurant, thankfully it wasn't that hot of a day as it was stuffy."
• "The atmosphere was not very good. We were there pretty late in the evening, and it felt more like a bar that serves food."
• "Atmosphere is lacking, and the restaurant is VERY cramped, not in a cosy Italian way, but you’re sitting at the same table as strangers kind of way."
• "We were pretty disapointed to have all our bank cards checked because of a staff mistake despite having paid everything that was ordered."
• "Pizza was good, almost like the one in Naples! However, it was definitely overpriced. Me and my friend decided to get one pizza to share and paid £17 (we were a bit tipsy, so we realised after how crazy the price was) for a pizza with salami and chilli."
• "We went without booking but we were lucky since we only waited around 10 min to be seated. Pizzas are huge and tasty, overpriced tho. The place in general is small and looks like they tried to fit tables everywhere, the worst thing is having to go to the toilets because there is no space to go through between tables."
• "Ambience is lacking, and the restaurant is VERY cramped, not in a cosy Italian way, but you’re sitting at the same table as strangers kind of way, and make sure you tuck your chair in all the way, or else you’d get bashed by the waiters elbows."