This is my second time here, even though I grew up around Chadwell Heath for years. The service is…read morea bit slow and understaffed, however when the food arrives, it's all worth the wait. The atmosphere is very relaxed and it feels like your in Italy in a small terrace on the hills. As I am a huge prawn fan, I always order the butterfly buttered prawns with the garlic sauce. The stove baked pizzas are very homemade and crisp. Price is reasonable, your looking at about £15 exaggerate per head for a stater, shared pizza and wine, and they even give you free olives in garlic and lemon sauce for free as soon as you sit down. Will be coming back more and more.

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Great Italian food, lovely decor and brilliant service. Highly recommended. A good selection of…read morewine.

With a name meaning Song of the Raven and its twinkling, beckoning lights, Canto Corvino should be…read morea stand out in the little gastro nook that is Spitalfields. It's also basically on my street and one of the few sit downs open on weekends! However, each of my visits yielded a variable experience, meaning the quality consistency is lacking which means I wouldn't recommend it to a good friend. Not a good thing when it comes to lesser known restaurants. My first time, I was drawn in by the golden lights radiating from the bar and the warehouse lighting which looks almost chic when paired with the exposed brick and glass embellishments. Although my boss and I were the only ones here, the staff paid little to no attention to us - no greeting or any mind paid to us until we physically walked over the bar, distracting the group chatting away in their huddle. The wine was on the pricier side. The second time I came, the place was brimming with city brokers having Thirsty Thursday. The prosecco was decent and we had a nice time. Until we got the bill for the 3 shots of tequila we had which totalled £48. So that's over 15 pounds for each shot...when we queried the bill, the staff explained that the quality of the tequila he poured us explained the cost, exasperated with our stupidity. We said we were not going to pay for that just because when asked what kind, we had probably said "whatever" or "doesn't matter". Doesn't that usually mean house stuff? The third time I had post-birthday party brunch here where I opted for the Italian breakfast which means eggs, soppresetta, sour dough with pate?, tomato, and tuscan sausage. My tastebuds were (to be fair) taking a beating due to the hangover but it was just mediocre at best. Plus the stuff on the sour dough was strange and unpleasant. Canto and I are neighbours and I don't give up on my neighbours.

Best Italian for miles. We only found it a week ago and have already eaten there twice. I think…read morethey make their own bread and pasta and their tagliolini cacao e pepe is to die for! The chef is Sardinian so you can also order delicious Sard pasta and wine. We have two young children so were glad to find two high chairs available and the two ladies who served us were delightful with our little ones. Can't wait until our next meal there!

From the owner: Off the beaten track, on the south side of Leytonstone High Road, not far from Stratford & the…read moreOlympic Park, in a location easily reachable from Leyton, Forest Gate and Wansted, you can find Mora, a cosy, relaxed and welcoming restaurant serving hearty Italian food. We specialise in fresh pasta, handmade in small quantities in our kitchen: we make tagliatelle, pappardelle & tagliolini every day, ravioli, gnocchi & tortelloni as part of our weekly specials. Using seasonal and carefully selected ingredients sourced from small, artisan producers our chef Carlo created a menu offering mouth-watering traditional Italian dishes like tagliolini cacio e pepe, melanzane alla parmigiana and tiramisu, typical Sardinian specialities like fregola with prawns & bottarga and seadas, as well as some original creations like our delicious pannacotta with mirto liqueur. When in season, a truffle special menu is also available, featuring beef carpaccio, risotto, tagliolini and ribeye, all seasoned with generous shavings of truffle. Get your taste buds ready for your foodie experience at Mora with an aperitif - spritz and negroni are on the menu! Choose one from our natural, organic, biodynamic wines from Italy or local craft beers to match with your food, and Buon Appetito! You can end your meal in style with a glass of dessert wine, classic Italian liqueur like mirto, limoncello or amaro, or artisan spirit crafted in East London. Welcome to our independent restaurant in Leytonstone -E11!

Luigi's italian restaurant is a warm friendly eatrie with a great service…read more My wife and i have eaten there regular and have entertained friends there. Its a restaurant that you always feel comfortable and although the menu dosnt change you will find the specials board is always updated. wether a family meal or intimate you will always find the right seating. The food is never over or under cook and portions are good. Benjisfones

Originally, I was a little sceptical about going to Luigi's; how would it compare to the food that…read moreI had in Italy? You know sometimes you can be disappointed when you taste the authentic food from the country and then come back to your own, go to a restaurant claiming to serve traditional cuisine from the country you visited and they're nowhere close! I'm happy to say that Luigi's has beautiful and delicious Italian food! The staff are good humoured, courteous, service was good and they are authentic Italian too. We found that Luigi's have a lower priced lunch menu, we had three courses and a drink each and paid around £25 in total! I had minestrone soup, chicken with winter vegetables, and then tiramisu for dessert everything was delicious....especially the tiramisu! Elle had Buffalo mozzarella salad, venison with vegetables, and then tiramisu for dessert. Elle's salad was a little bland and unseasoned, then venison which was beautifully cooked and tender and for dessert tiramisu. Overall we thought the food was very good, and would recommend their lunch menu to anyone. However a word of caution! I am lactose intolerant and Elle is Gluten/Wheat intolerant and the tiramisu though delicious has both gluten and milk in it. Fortunately I have pills to eat dairy, however Elle faced the consequences later on! (although said the tiramisu was worth it!) The atmosphere was overall Italian; with Italian music playing in the background, various pickles, wine, paintings and other Italian décor. A warm and friendly glimpse of a little piece of Italy.

I really really love this small Italian restaurant! The owner is friendly and the food is quite…read moregood. I always feel quite welcomed and really enjoy going there. The number of items on the menu is quite few but if you ask them they will make your favourite Italian dish for you as well!

The food was delicious, the service was very friendly and staff were more than willing to help with…read moregluten free options

Gotto Trattoria is a very new Italian restaurant opened by the same people who run Mele e Pere in…read moreSoho. It's in a beautiful location of Here East, in the new development along the Canal side near Hackney Wick where several other new restaurants have opened up too. The restaurant seems like a perfect place to dine in the Summer with it's al fresco dining, open front and the beautiful view of the Canalside. Inside was very warm and cosy with its low ceiling of exposed pipes and open kitchen allowing you to see the food being prepared Broad beans Complimentary fried broad beans to start us off. Simple seasoning but very moreish being crunchy and light. Sea bream carpaccio, fennel and chilli Quite a disappointing start. I couldn't taste any of the promised flavours here. It was quite lacklustre. I'm guessing the fennel came as a purée, smudged a long the bottom of the plate that barely attached to the sea bream. The chilli were too mild and didn't work well without a base to contain it in to allow it to release its flavours. Capers were too sharp for the delicate flavours of the carpaccio. At least the carpaccio was fresh so I did appreciate it's beautiful textures and silkiness. Burrata from Locorotondo This was delicious.The burrata was incredibly creamy, gentle in its milky flavours and light and elastic in texture. It was almost sweet in taste too. Simple seasoning of olive oil and black pepper just to add some flavour Pork and smoked pancetta bombette, cacio cheese sauce A must order! A lovely succulent piece of pork topped with a rich cacio cheese slice before rolled around pancetta and then grilled. The flavours were incredibly, rich in flavour with umami from the melted cheese. The texture was very satisfying, bouncy with each bite releasing its beautiful juices. A dip of of cacio cheese sauce just to give it an extra boost of cheesiness and creaminess Agnolotti with nettles, cimbro cheese, sage and rosemary I was almost shocked at how this dish came out. With Italy being the home to pasta I did not expect the pasta to be so hard and brittle. It was almost like they made these parcels and just left them out to dry so all the moisture evaporated from the dough. So instead of being soft and al dente, they were rough on the tongue. The filling was nice and creamy, with gentle earthy flavours from the nettle. However the buttery cheese sauce which was there to aid it with moisture was way too salty, overpowering all the flavours and herbs. Better to have without and eat it dry Rump of lamb, globe artichokes and seirass piemontese Nothing was wrong with this dish. The lamb was tender and sweet, served pink and juicy. Artichoke was creamy and buttery, carrots sweet and the seirass piemontese is referring to gentle milky grainy cow's milk cheese that resembled much like ricotta. However the dish lacked creativity. If I wanted a good lamb steak I would go to a steakhouse and not a speciality Italian restaurant. It lacked complexity and depth. Presentation didn't exactly made me mouth water, vegetables turned brown making it all seem quite dull Chips These were nicely done and came generously but a little creativity wouldn't hurt even if they just seasoned it with some salt and Italian herbs . Still I managed to demolish them with a bit of ketchup and mayo on the side as they were still pretty good quality. Tart of the day with custard pine nut pie This was okay and I very much enjoyed the thick consistency of the custard that was not overly sweet. However these qualities could not be enjoyed to its fullest due to the dry flakey crust that wrapped the whole tart creating a far greater ratio than the filling. It masked a lot of the custard flavour and made it dry. Pine nuts however were a nice addition added a subtle nuttiness and crunch to the dish Goat milk ice cream, blackberries, 25 years old balsamic vinegar This was probably the highlight of the whole meal. It was wonderfully creamy and smooth, rich in its milkiness without that sickly aftertaste. It was much thicker in consistency compared to ice cream, almost like gelato. Paired with lovely zesty blackberries and a light drizzle of balsamic vinegar just to balance out the sweetness and creaminess. The perfect ending to our meal I expected a lot more from Gotto but at the very most it was just an average Italian restaurant. Their only advantage is that they source high quality ingredients so even if nothing much is done to them (which is what it is like here), it is still very nice. Their starters definitely outdid their mains. Still some dishes were poorly executed and some over seasoned. The rest were not all that memorable leaving me not many reasons to return other than for their goat's milk ice cream.

Absolutely fabulous place to enjoy a meal. I spent three hours here today enjoying a delicious…read moremeal in a very friendly atmosphere. We order several appetizers - burrata cheese, shrimp, and meatballs. All were spot on. I had the paccheri all'amatriciana for my main - it was perfect! Finally, I finished with a vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries. So good!!

The food is very nice especially the Cabonara and the BBQ pizza. The pizza you'd have to cut it…read moreyourself unless you request them to cut it for you. The staff their really friendly and it's very nice to eat in there. For those ordering via uber eats the food is not nice at all. I guess being in the restaurant itself you get he food being perfect but not when you order a takeaway

This place is a great venue for some authentic Italian fayre. Very reasonable prices and food is…read moregreat. I went there a couple of weeks ago and had the pasta and meatballs. Superb. Very courteous staff too. Highly recommended for either a light lunch or dinner. Very reasonably priced pizzas and calzones too and can order to go. I must try the breakfasts.

We chose to order the Everest pizza. It was delicious and we ended up sharing it between the three…read moreof us, which was plenty. We also ordered garlic bread, which was equally as yummy!

Very nice food, good atmosphere and friendly staff. Pricing is reasonable for the quality too! Nice…read moreto see an italian restaurant thats actually italian!

I am quite confused on how this restaurant is receiving such good reviews and so many stars for…read moreapparently having such "freshly made pasta" when really this is not the case. I had the unfortunate luck to work for Simone Remoli for a sort period of time, he loves to take employees from other jobs to try them out and then fire them after he finds someone better (basically playing with peoples lives). Just to enlighten everyone his pasta is NOT freshly made everyday and neither is the sea food that some people order with their pasta dishes, the proper name for it is like my favourite chef Gordan Ramsey likes to say it's all FRESH FROZEN. Simone Remoli could have been an inspiration to the italian food but unfortunately he is a gluttonous and egotistic person that will serve you food that has been sitting in his fridges for 5 days and freezes for months, with prices that are sky high. If any food inspectors see this review please be my guest and go forth to inspect his food. Make sure you go unexpectedly that is the best time.

A small pasta place within Westfield Shopping Centre in the Eastern Market section. There are only…read morea couple of tables and they are in the walkway of the mall pretty much. However, they do their pasta to cook at home or to take away as well as to eat in. It was a nice evening so we decided to take it out and sat in the Olympic Park. The pasta was really good and they crammed a lot into the take away tubs. You choose the pasta, the sauce, the cheese and any sides and drinks you want. I had the bolognaise and whilst it was tasty, it could have done with a few more herbs and a bit more meatiness. For the price I would go there again though.