We hadn't eaten dinner yet after a day trip out to Antwerp so we walked over to Happy Italy after…read moregetting dropped off at the station. They have 18 locations in the Netherlands.
We dropped in on a Monday evening (around 9:00pm) and it was still busy. The inside is huge with a plethora of seating. Service was normal for Dutch standards.
The menu consists of pizza, pasta, antipasti, insalate (salad), dolce (dessert) and panini (only till 5:00pm).
- Lemon radler (€3,75) - tasted like a carbonated lemon drink. They don't offer tap water so we ordered this instead. Meh.
- Norma pizza (€5,75) - tomato sauce, ricotta salata cheese, grilled eggplant, mozzarella and basil. There was exactly one sprig of basil on our pizza. Barely any eggplant. Overall, the pizza was passable but the ricotta was very salty.
- Salame e capra (€6,95) - rocket and mixed salad, spicy salami, goat cheese, balsamic dressing and pine nuts. Oddest salad I've had; completely overdressed (ask for it on the side), whole slices of salami (you do get a lot) and two whole chunks of goat cheese thrown in. Would not get this again.
Big portions and cheap prices but HI is all about the quantity over quality spot. 2.5 stars.