This pizzeria does great takeaway and is very fast. The pizzas themselves are wood fired and the ingredients both fresh and delicious, although I feel offering deep pan and thick crusts is pandering a little to larger, corporate chains - not naming any names! Or perhaps that's because I'm too much of a purist. The pizza arrived within 30 minutes, and the delivery boy was polite and had change. I shared the Vizietto (Mozzarella, wood roast courgettes, goat's cheese, red onion, cherry tomatoes, garlic and olives) with a friend and a parma ham salad which was delicious and great value for money. Comes highly recommended. read more

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I'd really recommend the pizza at Hana Maria. They serve good wood fire pizza on a yummy sourdough (if sourdough is your bag, it is mine). The toppings tasted fresh and delicious. I like my pizza's simple so I shared a 1/2 metre, half and half with my husband. That's a quarter of a metre of 'Bufalina Regina' with gorgeous buffalo mozzarella, basil leaves, and cherry tomatoes, and another quarter of the 'Ortolana' pizza, which was a very tasty wood roasted aubergine and sun dried tomato option. We ate in as my other half can't stand cold pizza takeaway. I wouldn't say Hana Maria had the finest dining in atmosphere, but it had a chilled back dive pizza bar vibe. I could hear kids TV in the background every time the music quieted down between songs. The walls are decorated with someone's 1980s record collection- Billy Idol, 10cc, B52s, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, Adam Ant, Ian Dury. I could keep going on, it was fun to spot all the sleeve art. You can get boring circular pizzas too (12" etc), and as I mentioned pizzas by the half meter. The pizzas were so good, I didn't want to stop. Now if only you could get pizza by the metre too. read more

Hana Maria - Delicious base - Italian Near Me - London, XGL

I do NOT recommend delivery from Venezia. It was quite possibly the worst bunch of delivery food ever dropped to my doorstep! So sad.... We were craving Italian, and wiped out from a long week...so we quickly did a search and located Venezia. Great. Order placed and 1 hour later...our food arrives. I first notice the "KING" Prawns. These cost 8 quid. I was expecting that it would be a few of them, maybe some nice dipping sauce. Nothing too fancy. What I got? A tin with TWO SHRIMP. Two. Sad little shrimpies. Floating in some type of super greasy red sauce, with cut up sausage that looked like hot dog chunks. TWO SHRIMP. I was baffled. It was bad. And cold. I threw the whole thing in the trash. 8 QUID IN THE TRASH! The salads were also quite small for their price, but fresh at the very least and containing the right allotment of items. No complaints there. The pizza was good looking, if not a bit dry. But the King Prawns...awful. Really, not acceptable. So for about 50....I ate a salad, and we groaned that we should've just run out and gotten kebabs around the corner. Perhaps Venezia is great for takeaway or dine-in (the other reviews seem to think so!) and their web site is quite easy to order from...but I would never order again. KING PRAWN FAIL! read more

I have no idea what's going on with the management of this place at the moment but it has gone drastically downhill and unfortunately I will never order from here again. I ordered 3 pizzas and was delivered 3 entirely different pizzas. I rang the shop to let them know. They said they would resend the new pizzas and they would be here in 25 minutes. He said he would leave the original 3 pizzas but as I told him they weren't vegetarian so wouldn't be eaten. We received our new pizzas 55 minutes later to find them squashed and all of the toppings on the lid of the box. I called back with a "oh, sorry, it's me again". When I told him the issue his response was a sigh and "what do you want me to do about it?" In a very rude tone. I said a partial refund would be acceptable. he went off into a rant about us already having 3 free pizzas off him. I reminding him that they were meat and we couldn't eat then. In the end I just said I didn't want to argue and I would just not eat there anymore. It's a shame as the pizzas are decent when not squashed and cold. read more

Finsbury Park? is the response I inevitably get when I tell someone about the best place to have a pizza in town - better even than Soho's Spaccanapoli, my previous favourite. This place also scores highly for wine at £10 per bottle - you can eat like a king (share the risotto, it's vast) for less than £20 per head inclusive. Owner and staff are charming and friendly; committed to quality and a nice atmosphere. They deliver as far as the City; you won't find better quality there so find a park bench if you're in the square mile and get a delivery to that. read more

Well nice pizzas. They have a proper oven, and you order by the meter (so imperial martyrs won't be happy heh!). They also have normal pizzas in inches and all, but you can basically get enough for 3 people with a metre, and they'll chuck in two "flavours". They do deliveries, but you can also stay there, they have a handful of tables. It's quite cozy (maybe a bit too much! It's really tiny!). They have salads and other things, but we only had pizza. Pizza is thin and crispy, and generally, very good. read more

Best pizza I've had in London. The local isn't great but the food more than makes up for that.

We have ordered from Hana Maria previously and been happy with their pizza. After our experience this evening, however -- and the mistreatment I personally received from the Hana Maria management --, we will never order from Hana Maria again. In summary: Hana Maria staff lied to us when we questioned our already late order; our delivery arrived nearly a full hour past due (and was at best lukewarm); our order was delivered incomplete; and after an initial expectation was raised on delivery that Hana Maria, in compensation for the inconvenience, were not going to ask for payment on our order, the restaurant manager then did an about face and demanded payment in full. He lied to me about how he had already discounted our order 'because of this' (which he had not), insisted that the most token of discounts was 'all he could offer', and told me brusquely that 'if I never wanted to order from them again, that was up to me.' Full details follow: We were text-messaged directly by Hana Maria with a special 15%-off offer. We placed a delivery order at 7.50 pm Sunday evening for a 'Hana Family Feast' (1/2-metre pizza, 1.5L Coca-Cola, small side salad, order of 6 chicken wings) to which we added a £1.50 basil dip. Our order total came to £25.92 (cash on delivery). We were told our pizza would arrive in 45 minutes. At 9pm (already 25 minutes past due), we phoned Hana Maria to query our order-status, and my partner was told 'your order has left the restaurant'. When he asked for confirmation of that, he was then bizarrely told, 'your order is leaving the restaurant in a couple of minutes'. He asked which was the truth and was told 'yes, it's just leaving for delivery now'. We live 5 minutes from the restaurant, but our delivery driver did not in fact arrive with the order until 9.25pm (50 minutes past due). At that time, he gave me the food and I tipped him; he then thanked me, wished me a good evening, and walked back to his motorbike. My immediate assumption was that it was very kind of Hana Maria to give us our dinner gratis in recognition of the fact that they were unacceptably late in delivering it. This seemed to be a perfectly reasonable and generous gesture in the circumstances. Two minutes later however, our (blameless) delivery driver again rang our doorbell. 'Sorry, did you pay by card when you placed your order?' I paused, then responded by explaining that we had not, but that I was surprised to see him back: my assumption had been that Hana Maria were not asking for payment on this extremely late order. The driver handed me over his phone, and the person on the other end eventually passed me on to the Hana Maria manager. I explained our position: that we had waited an hour and forty minutes for a 45-minute delivery order; that we had been extremely dissatisfied; but that I had been under the impression Hana Maria were (generously) making good on their mistake by offering us our food at no charge. He informed me that that was 'just impossible', and explained that they expected full payment on our order. I told him that, in the circumstances, that expectation was ridiculous: we had previously ordered from them and been very happy, but on this occasion we were not at all pleased and expected them to make good on having so obviously inconvenienced us. He told me 'we've already discounted your order by £10 because of this, and I'm sorry, we can't do better'. This gave me pause, and caused some confusion: 'I'm sorry', I said, 'I hadn't realized that. So what total is your driver expecting from us, then?' '£25.92,' he told me. 'But that's no discount at all,' I replied, quite surprised. 'That is, in fact, our original order price.' 'That's right', he explained. 'Your order was already a discounted order for the family feast, so we can't discount it any more.' I was absolutely gobsmacked: 'The fact of your having made a special offer is not our concern,' I said. 'I'm asking you to make good on having kept us waiting nearly two hours for our dinner. And, for that matter, for having lied to us on the phone half an hour ago about our order status.' He told me, 'Listen, I can do £22, no less.' I told him all this was pretty outrageous, and mystifying. If this was the tack they were going to take, we would never be ordering from them again. I was then told that 'Whether or not you order from us is up to you, but we expect our money'. So I paid the (blameless) delivery driver £22. He apologized profusely, and I told him it certainly wasn't his fault. To top this all off, our pizza was at best lukewarm, and our (extra charged) basil dip was never delivered. This has been a singularly unpleasant, alarming, and completely off-putting experience. This is a real shame: decent pizza, but absolutely APPALLING service. read more

Just really damned fine pizza. I like Firezza well enough, but Venezia do thinner and crispier bases and equally top-notch fresh ingredients, so they win. Always v friendly too... read more

Great to find this place on Qype! Delicious wood fired pizzas (some of the best in London in my book). Nearest tube is Finsbury Park, but if you are travelling by train you can also go to Crouch Hill. Try the Quattro Gusti. Delicious! read more

Not bad pizzas, average prices and now they have this monday deal 1/2 metre pizza is at price for 13" so you can save 7 gbp which is really neat. read more

Stroud Green Road can you believe it, has 3 great pizza places. This is, or rather I should say, was the best kept secret. 'Wood fired oven' and 'authentic' seem to be the two phrases best loved by pizza restaurants. Lord knows, if you don't have a wood oven you're no one in this business. Do your pizza by the metre and maybe you have something that others don't have. Offer parma ham bread, or squash, pesto and cherry tomato bread or goats cheese and aubergine bread as starters and you definitely have one up on the competition in my book. Venezia has it all and more. The variety on their menu is extraordinary, salivating and so very very exciting. Pizza porn. What could be better. I first tried their pizza when searching for an alternative to my beloved Il Bacio who'd deliver to Tufnell Park (just out of reach for Il Bacio who won't deliver here 'cos the pizza would get cold -respect). Up popped Venezia from a legubrious list of Papa Johns and Dominoes. Keeping it simple we ordered regular garlic bread and a nepolitana. We weren't hugely impressed by this daliance truth be told. Their magic thermal pizza carry transport bag things seem not to do the job as well as they'd like to claim. But undeterred and naturally adventurous we decided on paying them a visit. Opinion revived by putting a foot in the door and eating in house. This is where their strenghts lie. Great food, great place, lovely staff and now a drinks licence. What more could you want? read more

Really unimpressed. I ordered well before closing time but got a call from their driver to say it was too far to come. We're in the catchment area and the order was accepted by the manager when I called. Thoroughly unacceptable service and I won't be trying again. read more

please do not use them. i placed an order with them via just eat more than 2 hours ago, they did not bother to contact me and tell me that they were going to be late the delivery came just now at 20:25 and it was wrong i got 10" pizza instead of half meter 4x33 cl bottles beer instead of 2x66 they told me that at £7.50 it was not possible i ordered half a meter pizza though this is what my receipt says i have sent everything back as i am not accepting it. i got a phone call from someone who said he was the manager: he was swearing being very rude they told me they are not going to send me anything and that i have to get a refund from just eat if i want to have my money back since it is just eat fault that the menu is priced wrongly. so basically i am the customer and i have to resolve something wrong between two "providers": the pizza place and just eat! this is unbelievable. read more