I'm still coming to terms with how cheap the Marchmont restaurants are! Ofcourse such a statement is always made comparatively, and it's unfathomable that one could have a (relatively fancy) meal out in New Town for less than a tenner. It'd be easier to understand if Marchmont was run down, and rats came as a side dish to the food, but this is thankfully not the case! Marchmont is lovelyyyyyy. So this Italian restaurant, yeah, is well good. They serve the typical menu of starters, pizzas, pasta, fish, meat and chicken dishes. I especially like that the pizzas come in two sizes (and more importantly two prices!) depending on the belly satisfaction and pocket ofcourse. read more

Delicious Italian - Italian Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

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My favourite local Italian take away! Kamelo knows what I want before I do and when I was diagnosed wi coeliac he even started buying gluten free pasta especially for me! (cant get better customer service than that!) Great food and fantastic service! I enjoy practising my Italian banter... His new shop over the road looks fab n will be opening in a couple of weeks so plenty room for new customers!! Bellissimo! read more

Delicious Italian - Front of the new restaurant/take away! - Italian Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

Although the last few times I've been here the pizzas have been a tad burnt and the prices have gone up, it's still my favourite pizza / pasta takeaway. It looks unassuming from the outside and is tiny one you step inside, but don't let this put you off, the food is excellent. In Scotland it is hard to find a takeaway that is not covered in grease, or has been repeatedly deep fat fried (yes pizzas included), but Delicious Italian thankfully avoids this. Cooking genuine thin based Italian style pizzas, you wont find that the pizzas are too stodgy. They taste amazing as well, with my particular favourite being the parma ham, parmesan and rocket, but I have a horrible feeling this may have been taken off the menu recently. You can also create your own from the ingredients sitting in the deli style counter. They also do pasta dishes, and whilst I know the carbonara is great, I have yet to sample the others. Going up to about £7 (ish) for a pizza is a bit more than it was before, but if you want Delicious Italian food instead of grease then this is the place for you. read more

Delicious Italian - Italian Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

Great food and always a friendly welcome. I remember when this place first appeared and I eyed it with suspicion for whatever reason then one evening we fancied trying somewhere new, so in we went and I havent looked back. If you want amazing Italian food in Marchmont this is where to come. The pizzas are great, but I havent managed to get past the Vegetarian. My friends have ordered all sorts and everytime they come away with a big smile saying its the best pizza they have had in ages. We decided to eat in one night the missus opted for Melanzana (Aubergine, basil, tomato sauce & Parmesan cheese) followed by Spaghetti Napolitana this was very well recieved. I went for Coutci Marinara (Mussels cooked with chilli & tomato sauce), garlic bread and a giant Vegetarian pizza. Yep eyes bigger than my belly. The pizza was put in a take away box for breakfast. Eat in or takeaway both are excellent. Bear in mind this is a pizza shop with seating if you are planning on sitting in. If you are expecting La favourita style seating and decor this probably isnt the place, but for what it is it is very well turned out. My first choice for italien food in the local area. read more

This place is an amazing hole in the wall! The food is great and so cheap too!! The owner is very nice and welcoming. All in all, great place to good fast food!! read more

The Best Pizza in the City Ok, so I stumbled across here on one of those fuzzy semi drunk evenings when hunger dictated choice. Stumbling through Marchmont with a hankering for Pizza, this was one of the last places before home, and I couldn't be bothered waiting for home delivery. I loved this pizza so much that I go back time and time again. So that was well over a year ago, and I have been many times since, and they have crossed the road to larger premises. One of the benefits of this place is it is on my way home and I can call them from work and collect it as I drive past 20 minutes later, a very convenient situation. This is, however, only a tertiary benefit to the quality and value of their food. They have a large menu which includes Pasta and Pizzas and Entrees, I always go for Pizza as I figure I can always make good Pasta at home. Unsurprisingly everything is fresh, Pizza spun in front of your face, and a huge display fridge where you can pick your toppings, at the moment I like to go for spicy chicken , artichokes, sundried tomato and spinach, its the bomb! Last night I got a 16" wiht the above toppings for £12 - yes ONLY £12 - and it was more than enough for 2. Now I have been a fan of La Favorita for some time, but they just can't compete with this value for money, and I honestly belive the Pizza is better here. Service is very pleasant, they are efficient and genuine, I don't know if the main guy remembers me or if he just greets everyone with the same Mediterranean love, regardless, it makes me smile every time. They have a good range of cooking supplies also, including large quantities of preserved and dried goods, and Olive Oil - let's not forget the freezer full of ice cream (Vermont's finest!) read more

Cheap pizzeria in the heart of marchmont. It's real authentic Italian grub! What more can u ask for really! There's nothing fancy or over the top about this place. With just 4 tables inside it's normally pretty busy, but you can normally get a table. You would be hard pushed to spend more than £10 a head- and the portions are massive! So if you are in the area then it's worth a visit. X read more

Proper great italian grub! Incredible menu choice, even for a veg head like myself ( ; I've ordered a delivery many a time and have noticed it's slower at the weekend than it is through the week. So ideally another driver at the weekend, would be my only suggestion. Other than that it's a big thumbs up from me! read more

WARNING; it is entirely probable you will order to much food from this place. A tiny hole in the wall with 4 tables is an unlikely setting for the best Italian food I've ever had. The proprietor cooks , serves and cashes you out. Tucked away from the madness of the tourists part of town, this place couldn't even found without Yelp and a google walking map. Don't expect avant garde or noveu but if your in the mood for scratch , homemade Italian with huge portions at a good price this is it. Best restaurant on our trip so far. read more

Let's just say I can pretty much walk in and ask for my regular when I go to Delicious Italian. I don't. Because I get real embarrassed at how often I end up resorting to eating from this mouth-watering takeaway. At first I obsessed vigorously over the tagliatelle salmone. When I stopped eating meat, it was the gnocchi quattro formaggio's turn. Then it was the rigatoni normali (tomato sauce, ricotta and roasted aubergine) and then a rigatoni with sun-dried tomatoes and artichokes. Now it's the pizza. Every single time I go there I order the same thing: artichoke with red onion and sweet corn. I swear they recognise my voice on the phone now. My dignity is way gone. Oh well. I'd rather continue eating their amazing food than keep my dignity. I'm certain I never had much to begin with. So, I've gone through the vegetarian options, but never you worry: there's plenty of meat to bite into. But what really makes my heart flutter about this place is that their proportion of pasta to sauce is spot on, i.e. there's LOADS of sauce to mop up with their garlic bread (which is free with every pasta dish), though, to be frank, their garlic bread is just not buttery or garlicky enough for me. Strangely, I find, there's also a couple of tables so that you can actually sit in. I'd say stick to taking food out, though. It's not particularly romantic and doesn't really have an atmosphere at all. I walked in once and this couple were eating their own separate pizzas while people walked in and out. They weren't even talking to each other. It seemed really painfully awkward. Delicious (as we lazy locals call it) used to be cheaper than it is now, but it's still kinda reasonable because you can easily stuff yourself and keep some extra for the next day. Especially when it comes to the gnocchi, which is really really filling. And SO cheesy! read more

Many a time I've been accused of being a little too fancy for my own pants when suggesting me and my flat mates order a Parma-ham and Rocket pizza from Delicious Italian. Alas, I managed to dampen their mocking by presenting a freshly prepared Pizza liberally covered with the best ingredients which blows the usual 'Papa John's' or 'Dominoes' generic crappy Pizza away. Having used to live just across the road to Delicious Italian I became a frequent customer and loved watching the friendly staff cook/assemble my pizza in front of me. read more

Delicious Italian - Italian Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

DO NOT use this takeaway. It is an Italian takeaway and they will try to short change you for your money if they can. Very smart and cunning so be careful if using CASH. On the 8/8/2018, I asked for a 12" Margherita pizza costing £5.80 and a can of 330ml coca cola. I handed over a £20 and was given £8 in change rather than £13. I was shafted £5. Disgraceful, I only realised this later that evening. read more

Finally... takeaway pizza that's not at least 10 inches thick with a disgusting stodgy base and hardly anything else! Don't get me wrong, it's still fast food and it's still greasy, but if you're going to get a takeaway pizza from anywhere you could do a lot worse than get one from here. It's slap bang in the middle of student-ville, so prices are really reasonable as you'd probably expect: when I lived in Marchmont my flatmates and I would share one pizza between the four of us and not only would we be absolutely stuffed at the end, we'd each have spent less than £5. If you really want to, they do have one or two tables for ou to eat at, but to be honest the only reason I can think of for anyone to do that would be out of sheer hunger and impatience preventing them from getting home before they start tucking in. If only all those other pizza delivery chains were half as good as this place. read more

This is a dangerous pizza place to have in your neighbourhood. Proper yummy Italian pizzas. Yum, yum, yum! Maybe a bit on the greasy side, but hey ho. Apparently their pasta is fab too, although I have not tried it. The staff are friendly. Student discount is also available. Great value for a takeaway anyway. read more

I don't order takeaway very often. I'm a bit of a diet conscious health freak and most takeaways, no matter the variety, tend to be very high in salt and sugar, glazed with grease and fat. Now I'm not going to pretend Delicious Italian is the healthiest restaurant. Huge portions of white pasta covered in cheese sauce? But the quality here is such a cut above the average takeaway that it makes the occasional treat worth it. Really the takeaway from Delicious Italian is no worse, indeed sometimes a lot better, than many other well established Italian restaurants. It's interesting to see another reviewer recommend the rigatoni normali (with aubergine and ricotta). I quite agree about this delicious dish! I've tried some of there other vegetarian pasta dishes and all have tasty, but I still come back to this dish. A great place, not badly priced, with quality food above most takeaways. read more

The worst takeaway service I've ever had! I ordered yesterday, it literally took them 2.30 hours to deliver! The food was cold as stone, even my dog wouldn't eat it! When I asked them for a refund or come to take it back they were all like 'you got your food all fine'. If I could rate this with 0 stars I would! read more

I am slightly biased as I have come to know and love this place very well. Where else in Edinburgh are you going to get a 16" pizza, chips and garlic bread for £10.99..nowhere that I know of. The staff are friendly and welcoming. The menu is vast and very purse, Everything is made to order but that doesn't mean you're waiting an age, service is very quick. You can have a pasta made fresh for the same price (or less) it would cost you to buy the ingredients yourself without the hassle of actually cooking it!! I cant recommend this place enough. read more

As always it was simply delicious! Too tired to cook after a long day in Glasgow so rang up for our favorites (we get takeaways or go there at least once a month) and it NEVER disappoints. The gambas della case are delicious (spicy, my husband adores them), and the calamari pomodori are incredible. Tried fore the first time tonight the spagetti pescatora (fishy) - and it was divine. Thank you so much! Alison of Marchmont read more