La Porchetta Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was great. Excellent menu - plenty of vegetarian options too."
• "The food is absolutely delicious and I quite regularly end up taking half my pasta home because the portions are so big."
• "The most delicious pasta we've ever had."
• "Service was excellent and professional and the food was incredible."
• "Real pizza served by friendly staff."
• "The pizza was excellent and the tortellini Aurora was out of this world!"
• "You can’t get pizza that tastes this good anywhere else."

Cons:

• "Doughy pizzas, bad attitude and, best of all, I got given old flavourless shellfish on a pizza frutti di mare that must have been in the freezer for months."
• "Prosciutto pizza, to go, close to closing time.... Bland, ham added after cutting, no care taken, and certainly nothing special."
• "Revisited this place after many months. Not the same as it used to be at all. Ordered a Carbonara and got what looked like scrambled eggs."
• "Margherita pizza was soggy and inedible."
• "The worst seafood ever where I got poisoned and a bland massive portion of pasta in your plate!!!"
• "Pizza arrived and was fairly bland with a slop of sauce on top."
• "Had the veg pizza and it gave me food poisoning."

Service

Pros:

• "Taste Naples in North London, nice place to go to get the Italian feeling, loud in a nice way for how the staff communicates between them, makes you feel very welcome, very clean."
• "Easy going, family restaurant with delicious food! The staff are friendly and it is cheap too!"
• "Warm and friendly."
• "Service is super friendly and very comfortable and relaxing atmosphere."
• "Staff very friendly, food is excellent, Davide is a very special person and is very friendly with everyone."
• "Service is excellent and the atmosphere is lovely, one of the best Italians I've visited."
• "Staff is amazing! Most of them are Italians, very kind, smiley and professional!"

Cons:

• "Don't - it is just awful. Last time we went the manager managed to take payment with chip and pin without speaking to, or facing me!"
• "They wanted to charge another 10 pounds for the cake, plates and forks that I brought!"
• "Awful dance music played during our meal - we couldn't wait to get out!"
• "Bad service. Mannerless and uncouth servers with not even a spec of apology even when their poor service was pointed out to them."
• "New management was dopey when I complained shrugging his shoulders!"
• "An atrocious manner coupled with arrogance when treating their customers, specially tonight."
• "No waiter can speak English. It's so bad that we waited for 50 mins and it arrived wrong."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "A Muswell Hill tradition -- always a bit too noisy, a bit too crowded, a bit too friendly... but it's just what an Italian pizzeria should be."
• "I'm happy to put it down to teething problems and keep supporting them."
• "A great traditional and fun Italian restaurant, where not only you are guaranteed to have great food but also a good time, feeling as you were abroad."
• "Love this place! Warm inviting atmosphere, nothing pretentious about it at all, what you see is what you get."
• "The fresh authentic taste of real Italian pizza is something that not every Italian restaurant and pizzeria in the capital can offer."
• "Great atmosphere, cosy, busy and lively."
• "It's a nice and relaxed atmopshere with nice & friendly staff."

Cons:

• "Atmosphere is empty."
• "Ridiculously loud; pray you don't go when there's a birthday."
• "Not great value and the food does not taste great."
• "The pizzas definitely look smaller and they simply don’t taste the same."
• "Seems like the new management knows nothing about hospitality."
• "Go here if you fancy a rave not a nice relaxing meal!"
• "The restaurant is far too bright and very noisy."

Value

Pros:

• "Prices very reasonable and the portions are quite good. Highly recommend."
• "Unbelievable value and definitely worth a visit."
• "Five stars because the value is amazing for Muswell Hill. Good pizza and pasta."
• "Quality/price ratio is excellent for London and indeed it would be quite good in Italy too."
• "Affordable delicious Italian food, good vibes and friendly service."
• "Affordable prices too! It's always a good time each time we go."
• "Fair price and lovely food. What's not to like?"

Cons:

• "They charged me the orange juice as much as the pizzas."
• "They wanted to charge another 10 pounds for the cake, plates and forks that I brought!"
• "The pizzas definitely look smaller and they simply don’t taste the same."
• "The decor needs updating in my opinion."
• "Smaller portions, not great value and the food does not taste great."
• "The prices have increased albeit only slightly."
• "Plastic coverings over bench seats were broken and owners are too cheap to spend any money to improve the place."