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Franco Manca

3.5 (13 reviews)
Closed 11:30 am - 10:00 pm

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Veronica J.

Great pizza for a casual, chilled dining. Despite being busy, staff are friendly. The menu is limited, but that allow them to focus on quality: tasty, fresh ingredients properly done dough are something that ace pizza! Drink selection is small, all are packed in unbranded bottles. I quite liked both lemonade and green coke made with stevia! They also have beer and red/white wines. Good value as well!

Shruti J.

Beautifully done fresh sourdough pizza with perfect crust and toppings! I had the basic margarita with mozrella and basil and boy! was I surprised!! We all know that margaritas are the safest pizzas but try it with the Franco Mancas sourdough base and it's just next level! So fresh, I could see the hot mozrella bubbles when the pizza was served. Unexpectedly a great find and apparently this is a chain! Service was great and our waitress was super friendly. All in all, cheap pizza place with amazing pizzas!!

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Yi H.

Best pizza in oxford for sure. The only reason it would have less than five stars is due to their service. During peak dinner hours, I can imagine that service would be very very slow. However, we went pretty early, at around 5. There was no line and we were seated immediately next to the window. We ordered an entree salad (roasted squash) and the number one pizza (marinara no cheese). Food came out in about 15 minutes. Servers were very attentive in getting us water. Now let's talk about the food: the salad was very good. I usually find restaurant salads to be a bit boring but this one really flavorful even though it had simple ingredients! Would recommend. However, the star of the show is the pizza. It reminds me of the true fire oven pizza I had in Italy. The crust is soooo fluffy, not greasy at all, perfect amount of marinara sauce. It does not feel heavy at all. and it was only five euros for the pizza!!! Highly recommend their food, but maybe don't go during peak dinner hours.

Meat special £8.75 Only meat on was scarcely spread "Yorkshire fennel sausage"
Daniel Elkan A.

Underwhelmed! Extremely noisy, even though there wasn't that many people. The server took the order from two tables, that arrived after us, before us, leaving us with no service for 45 minutes. When the food finally came, the server had forgotten our drinks order, she hurried back with the sparkling water, but yet again forgot our wine. The pizza was ok, but again, underwhelming, the crust was rubbery like Chewing gum. Definitely not somewhere I need to revisit.

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Buongiorno E Buonasera - Italian Breakfast & not only

Buongiorno E Buonasera

(12 reviews)

Review for summer 2019:…read more You know that feeling of exhaustion from heat, endless walking, dodging too many tourists and you just want a piece of heaven... well, you can find it here! We had our sites on another eatery, however thankfully for us we found this gem instead! Do not expect aircon inside, however you will be greeted with friendly staff, pleasant tasting food and plenty of tables inside and out to dine. Cuisine took me back to some places I visited in Italy, and the staff's Italian between one another I think also influenced my experience! Their pizza is FAN-tis-tico!

Summer in Oxford feels like summer at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco -- tourist-ridden. While…read morerestaurants on the high street offered refuge from the crowds (and the unusual UK heat wave), I was craving something a bit more unique to Oxford. Alas, there's a location in London as well. But this cozy, homey pizza restaurant certainly stood out from the dozens of chain restaurants that we had walked past earlier. The restaurant's interior, with tasteful splashes of color, feels a bit like an Italian grandmother's kitchen -- imagine shelves full of pasta boxes. After an early morning visit to the Ashmolean Museum, we got there shortly after 12:30 p.m., which means that we had just missed the lunch rush. I doubt it would have been a problem had we decided to dine earlier, as there are plenty of tables in the restaurant. The pizzas are rectangular and come in both whole and half versions. (Buongiorno E Buonasera encourages you to order the latter so you can share.) There's a sign somewhere in the restaurant that derides untraditional pizza -- I can't remember what pizza blasphemy it cites, but pineapple on pizza, chicken on pizza... you know the drill. As I don't eat red meat (part of me wished that they served a pizza with chicken, but c'est la vie...), I mentally prepared myself to order a margherita pizza. Which, you know, is delicious in its own right, but I wanted something a bit more daring. I shouldn't have worried. Still authentic, the vivace pizza checked all of my boxes: tomato sauce, mozzarella, peppers, chili, and basil. An extremely filling lunch for less than £10!

Gino’s Spaghetti House

Gino’s Spaghetti House

(20 reviews)

We stopped in with a large crew, and they were friendly and accommodating. We didn't see any other…read morekiddos dining, but our little was welcomed with smiles. Thank you, Europe, for lovin' the kids. They readily accommodated her creamy tomato sauce spaghetti request (wasn't on the menu). I wasn't super impressed with the pastas or pizzas, but the salads damn near broke my mauf. Fresh and simple, and quite honestly BANGIN'. Italians make the best salads. Don't you ever forget it. I enjoyed a slice of tiramisu for dessert and let me tell you, someone stole grandma's recipe. It was packed with espresso, cocoa, creamy whipped cream, just all things EPIC to put it simply. I'd recommend dropping in for vino, the salads, and tiramisu or the chocolate cake, which my husband enjoyed.

One of the best Italian food I've had since my trip to Italy. They have a lot of vegetarian…read moreoptions, which was another upside of us choosing this restaurant. We got (forgot the actual names) - garlic cheese bread: gooey stringy cheese on top the softest chewiest bread! - baked penne: my hubby said it was amazing - spicy mushroom spaghetti in cream sauce: never had spaghetti that tasted like this before! Sauce was made fresh with chili peppers in it. Creamy with lots of flavors. So yummy! Service was warm and friendly. We were hosted like friends. Decor was nice: traditional and humble. The coloring and decor basically says: you are here for some delicious hearty and traditional food our family has to share with you in our most sincerest way!

Pizzeria Trattoria Mario & Mario - Ravioli with aubergine and scamorza

Pizzeria Trattoria Mario & Mario

(21 reviews)

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Ticks all the boxes. Price, taste, value for money. Generous portions for the pasta dishes (Can…read moreeasily feed two if you've got a small stomach like me). Pizza dough is a little under salted for my taste but have a nice bready chew if you're not into the cracker-thin ones that are impossible to fold. Definitely one of the top 5 near-ish the City Centre.

My sister-in-law loves this place, and after our dinner there, it was clear why…read more The decor is nothing fancy, but the food is solidly delicious. You pass by the pizza ovens in the front, so you can see the work going into your food. We were seated in the upstairs portion (not sure if there's seating downstairs since now that I think about it, it was only staff heading down the stairs at the back). We'd been visiting a few pubs before our 7:30 booking, so we immediately ordered our main dishes. I got the spaghetti alla puttanesca, Jimmy got the Pizza de Mario (has to be good if it has the business name in it, right?), and Jane got the tortelloni alla calabrese. J and J also had the house wine, a montepulciano, that much improved with breathing. The food arrived fairly quickly, and all was delicious. The puttanesca, with olives, capers, and anchovies had a nice briny taste. The cream sauce on the tortelloni was divine - balanced between the cream and the tang of the tomato, very comforting. The pizza with bacon and sausage, artichokes, olives, was nicely crisp on the bottom and not too sweet on the sauce. We left all the plates clean! Prices seem quite reasonable for the quality of the food and the portion size.

Pizza Express

Pizza Express

(15 reviews)

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I was pleasently suprised as to how nice this place was! They offer alot of great super thin rust…read morepizzas packed with flavor. To start we got the "dough" balls wich came with three dipping sauces, butter, spicy causage and pesto. They were really fresh and delicious. As a main i got the Giardiniera pizza wich came with anchovies, mushrooms, olives. Since the pizza was very thin crust it tasted like a refreshing salad and you leave really full at the end of the meal. The pizzas are served in large plates and everyone gets a pizza cutter which i thought was unique and fun! They have alot of glutten free and healthy options for everyone! The restaurant is pretty big and accomodation to large parties. Also, the staff was very friendly

I had never felt compelled to visit a Pizza Express before last night: I now regret that I was made…read moreto go there even once. To sum it up, this place neither gets Pizza nor Express right. Don't go unless you have a sudden and unbearable surplus of joie de vivre that you feel must be forced out of you. Pizza Express seems to be an interesting business concept that manages to fall squarely between two concepts: that of the the cheap-and-efficient fastfood joint and that of the slightly more upscale chain restaurant. While it seeks to cover both needs, at my visit, it managed neither. I was visiting in a party that had preordered our menu and choices so there would be no confusion. Still, it took around an hour for our pre-ordered drinks to arrive, even though they consisted of nothing more than bottles of beer or glasses of cheap, sweet prosecco. The staff didn't supply water for more than maybe a quarter of the guests, maybe in an attempt to make people order more drinks. Meanwhile, people were starting to look at their watches, wondering what the kitchen was up to. Down in the cookhouse, they must have taken a nap or decided that matters other than cooking were more important to tend to, as it took almost 2 hours (!) for just some bread and spreads to arrive - and then, in pitifully small quantities and of a quality that made you wonder whether the kitchen had run out and had had to go to the local Tesco to resupply before being able to carry on. When, after still more waiting, our (again, pre-ordered) pizzas arrived, they looked small and sad. There was little difference in their presentation, with unknown meats scattered across a too thick, non-crispy, low-protein dough. I understand that some people have come to be of the opinion that somehow Pizza Express are serving good or 'upscale' pizza. Surely, this must be based on a comparison with no-holds-barred gastronomic atrocities. If compared to places that add silicone-based chemicals to their fake mozzarella, Pizza Express might stand out favorably, but if compared to the supermarket version of PE's own pizzas, there seems to be no difference; and if compared to eateries with just a basic knowledge of the actual Italian dish, what Pizza Express is pure misery. Their diminutive size was thus only a problem upon arrival and when everyone was starving: even after waiting several hours for food, I was rather looking forward to shaking the food experience off me than having to cope with larger amounts of this affront to pizza. The desserts were puzzlingly served as samplers of three desserts to be shared between four people - a rather surprising choice, given that we were simply given four spoons to split: an overly sweet chocolate brownie; a lemon cheesecake (the best of bad bunch of choices this night); and a raspberry sorbet. If it is not some odd social experiment - which the franchise might well turn out to be - who asks groups of guests who share no intimate ties to share a melting raspberry sorbet? The decor, of course, was industrial and uninspiring - but that was expected. That the acoustics of the room were also so poor that normal conversation turned into a brisk game of lip-reading was the straw that broke the camel's back, as it denied us our last chance to mentally retreat from the combination of terribly late, terribly cooked, and terrible served 'food' - all served at a price that would have bought a decent steak frites at local French outlets, or actually great pizza at local alternatives such as the White Rabbit.

Franco Manca - pizza - Updated May 2026

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