Great italian in a great location. The bacon and goat cheese salad is not to be missed!

Good value and very good food. The Rocca near the Victoria and Albert Museum was popular and fun. The Pasta Bolognese was terrific.

Love this place, brilliant pasta, nice quite environment, wonderful service. Highly recommend

Went to Rocca on the Old Brompton Road this week. We had starters, main courses and deserts with a bottle of wine and the bill came to £52 for two people, very reasonable given the location food was very good, as was the service. And they dont automatically add on service charge to the bill (one of my pet hates) Will definitely go back read more

The pizza at this place is fantastic, and the service was also some of the best of Britain. The pasta was very good but a tad over cooked and a little under seasoned. What was amazing though was the price. This was probably the best value restaurant in the south Kensington area and if you don't put it on your list you're a fool. Dress for the heat though because if you're in the back that kitchen is HOT! read more

Everything was delicious and waiters were very friendly. My husband is from Italy and upon eating the pizza he said it's the best he's had since the last time he was in Italy! We will definitely be back here. read more

Fantastic Italian restaurant! Accidentally found it after visiting the museums on Exhibition road. Tasty pasta, wide range of wine and authentic Italian staff. Really enjoyed having dinner there. read more

Rocca is really close to The Kensington Hotel and the South Kensington tube stop. The food is really good and the ambiance is casual. I had the prosciutto pizza and a Pino Grigio. I would highly recommend it. The service is a little slow, but the waitress was very friendly. read more

I ordered the prosciutto pizza and my husband the bolognese. Both were quite delicious. Our hotel recommended we take the 2 minute walk to Rocca and it was a great choice after a busy day traveling . it was casual and inviting. Fantastic wine and great food. I noticed many other comments about the service being bad but ours was excellent! read more

We greatly enjoyed our dinner. We found the restaurant on Yelp and it was within easy walking distance from our hotel on Cromwell St. We had Linguine Carbonese and Ravioli with Calamari starter. We were extremely pleased with all dishes. We had the D'Abuzzo wine with it and that was a great suggestion from the server. Service was excellent and provided by several servers. Very reasonably.priced and a very pleasant evening. Started getting very busy as we were leaving but we had no trouble getting seated or served properly. We may even dine here again before our 2 week holiday is finished! Highly recommend! read more

A friend of mine lives just off Old Brompton Rd and suggested we head to this place to satisfy my pizza cravings and it did the job nicely, decent atmosphere, food and drink... All in all a very pleasurable experience. read more

Truly surprised to see some positive ratings for this place! Me and my partner went to here after passing by. It does look very pleasant outside and in with an authentic feeling. The menu also appears very reasonable. However do not be fooled the food was truly horrible! After waiting for a very long for our order to be taken we ordered bruschetta to start with and my partner a pizza and me gnocchi for mains. literally bruschetta arrived 1 minute after ordering which should have been the giveaway this was not freshly prepared food. The said "bruschetta" consisted of cold tinned plum tomatoes on toast. Not recognisable as bruschetta at all. The Gnocchi was essentially a dish of mashed potato. I was unable to distinguish between each individual piece of gnocchi and again resembled no gnocchi i have ever been served before. More closely resembled SMASH instant potato!!! My partners Pizza looked nice enough, but the bottom was burned and the whole thing tasted plain and boring. We disappointed and wishing we had gone across the road to Bella Italia. read more

hmmmm this felt more like a diner and def not a proud italian one.... the food was just ok, but noting special.

Very good pizza. We got take away twice in our 10 day stay in South Kensington. Both times, the place was packed.

I wandered in while visiting London, and I was really impressed. Food is excellent (had ravioli and my daughter had a pizza), and the prices are very reasonable. It's a nice place to sit, and the staff is running around in a friendly way. We also split a salad and some type of fried appetizer, both of which were excellent. read more

Tired of traditional Pub food, we hit up Yelp for some suggestions. After a long day in Bath and as visitors from Chicago, we decided to look for some Italian food options. Rocca came up in the top 10 and was close to our flat in the Chelsea Embankment area. Without a reservation, our party of six ventured into the packed Tuesday night dinner crowd. No idea if we could even get a table. The manager smiled, welcomed us, and told us it would be a ten minute wait, a very pleasant surprise...Yelp reviews payoff. Great service, good food, and very well priced. Would recommend. read more

Outstanding Italian restaurant. Great food, lively atmosphere, and reasonable menu prices. Tagliatelle Bolognese was a perfect meal after a long travel day. Pizzas are personal size but big on taste. Went on consecutive nights. Highly recommend in the South Kensington area. read more

My friend and I wandered in here for a late dinner on Saturday night around 9:30 PM, looking for a quick bite and after seeing that Franco Manca down the road still had a long queue waiting outside. By comparison, we walked into Rocca and a table was prepared for us immediately, and we placed our order within minutes. We asked our server if a pizza was big enough to share between 2 people; she said that it was 4 slices, so we ordered two, but in hindsight, one would really have been enough. They are the size of an extremely large dinner plate, and I'm not sure what size slices she was referring to, but it was many more than 4 in my mind. I got the funghi, which had many different types of mushrooms and was exceptionally tasty, and my friend got the ventricina, which also looked good. We also shared the bruschetta al pomodoro and a bottle of the barbera red wine. The food was great and the service also excellent. I would definitely drop by again. read more

Delicious and so reasonable! I had the spinach & ricotta tortellini, which was super fresh, as well as a caprese salad, some rosemary cheesy bread, and a delicious blood orange tart of some kind. Our server was super friendly, the atmosphere was great, and I would go back in a second. read more

This is one of the worse italian restaurants I have ever been. The service and the atmosphere were OK, but the food was simply very low quality. The beef of the carpaccio was one of the worst quality dishes I have had. The pizza was too humid and mushy and the quality of the olive oil was very low. read more

The food is very good here, at good prices. The staff all speak Italian, and it makes the atmosphere more fun.

This place was fantastic; excellent wine selection with very reasonable prices on the bottle. Food was the best I've had outside of Italy; the pasta tasted homemade and the pesto sent me back to Genoa. Highly recommend! read more

Great all rounded restaurant, better to book otherwise you will probably have to wait. The food, especially the pizza is very good, thing crust pizza with tasty toppings, perfect balance between soft and crisp. The wine is decent too, as is the desert menu. Service has always been on top form. The price is something else, probably one of the best deals in town! read more

Always great food and service is excellent. Prices really reasonable for the quality and never had a bad meal. Sometimes it is very loud, hence the not 5 stars - but this is because it is so popular and always full of people :) read more

My wife and I went to dine for the second time at la Rocca (Di Papa) in South Kensington as we had a lovely experience in the first place. This time was extremely disappointed and the customer service was miserable. We had mussels for starters that were grey and chewy. Then my wife ordered lasagna and I went for the tagliolini with crabmeat that, unluckily, were served in dirty plates. We asked the waitress if it was possible to clean my plate and when it arrived, the sauce had gone but, more importantly, the pasta was tasteless! We do not usually complain in restaurants as hate being painful customers but we felt that the food was not as good as the first time, and asked if I could choose something else on the menu. I took the pasta of the day served with pork, green peas and mushrooms. Ten minutes later we were given the desserts menu! The waitress apologised for the misunderstanding and we had to wait another ten minutes before I was served, when obviously my wife had finished her dish... Eventually my pasta arrived: the pork was barely noticeable and the pasta was hard! We asked for the bill and politely requested a gesture of goodwill for the wait and the poor quality of the food. But the manager became extremely rude arguing that I had to pay for all the food and that he never had any complaints from his clients except me (sorry but we found many bad critics online about this place). He later grabbed the bill angrily and shouted that this was "on the house" but that we could never come back again and had to leave the table!!! We were literally kicked out in front all the customer and staff and felt like we had been unfairly abused by someone who clearly doesn't know how to handle clients complaints!! read more

During our visit here, we had the absolute WORST experience ever. Starting with our rude waitress to just okay Italian food. To start with the ending of story, I spent most of the late night and earlier AM sick from the lasagna I ate from here. When we arrived to Rocca for dinner, I approached the waitress outside about obtaining a table for two. She told me that she will look inside to see if any tables opened up; however, she quickly disregarded looking for any available tables and I watched her just stand at the front of the restaurant doing nothing. It was about 5 minutes later that a nicer gentlemen came out to help us with a table. After he looked throughout the restaurant and noted no available tables for two, we waited about 10 minutes for a table. Once seated we waited over 15 minutes until the waitress first came to us. This would not have normally bothered me, but I saw the three parties seated after us all place their orders before we were even acknowledged. The only positive thing was we did receive our meals extremely fast. Like mentioned above, I ordered the lasagna and the other person I was with ordered the spaghetti. The spaghetti was very chewy and mushy, definitely not al dente. We also ordered a small salad with the meal, but we never received the salad. After already eating a portion of the meal, the waitress came back to the table. I told her we didn't receive the salad and her response was "why?". I was caught off guard to her response because clearly the reason why is that they never brought it out with our entrees. When we told her not to worry about it and just take it off the bill since we had been almost half way through eating, she got in my face arguing with me over it! She was extremely rude the whole time. After asking nicely to take it off and it was no big deal, she never came back once to our table, and we had to ask the nice gentlemen for the check and we just paid with him. As for the food, like I said I got sick (definitely food poisoning) from my lasagna. This was the only thing I ate all day that could have gotten me sick like this! At the table next to us, one of the men sent his pizza back 3 times due to it being undercooked. Finally on the last try, they provided him with a cooked pizza. This was my first time to Rocca and will be my last. I read all these great reviews about the restaurant and was excited to try it. It is a shame, but South Kensington has other great restaurants that I will be dining at from now on. read more