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Pesantissimo

Pesantissimo

57 Regent's Park Road, London, NW18XD, NW1 8XD, United Kingdom

Meat • Pizza • Pasta • Italian


"Me and my 16 year old friend purchased a pizza yesterday evening after sitting up on Primrose Hill. Whilst waiting for the takeaway box (as we didn’t want to eat in), my friend accidentally knocked a pepper shaker off the table. As I was in the toilet at the time of the event, I had no idea it had even occurred. As i returned to the table, i was preparing to pay the bill and a male waiter starts aggressively asking me if I was also going to pay for the broken shaker. Stunned into silence at the fact this grown man was shouting at two clearly young girls in the middle of the restaurant, as well as the fact I hadn’t known what had happened, I couldn’t answer him. He proceeds to say ‘are you stupid? Am I speaking Chinese? Answer the damn question’ still shouting. A very kind female waitress proceeds to tell him I wasn’t present and it was my friend that broke the shaker. My friend apologised profusely as well as me, yet he continued to berate us until we left. If I had been at dinner with my parents and I accidentally knocked over a shaker, I am almost certain quite a scene would’ve never happened. It disgusts me that this restaurant believes they could treat two teenage girls as less than human, showing no compassion whilst we showed mountains of remorse. I actually really enjoyed the pizza but will never EVER be returning because of this treatment."

Osteria del Portico

Osteria del Portico

7A, The Green, High St, London, W55DA, W5 5DA, United Kingdom

Pasta • Seafood • Italian • European


"I don’t know how it has the stars that it has and how it gathers the reviews that it does, but it’s all unmerited. Frozen fish, cheap wines, frozen babà with nowhere near the classic level of rum required. A friend ordered spaghetti al ragù which showed up like a plate of leftover pasta overcooked, thrown together in the manner a teenager would present it and some of the spaghetti looked broken, I suspect recycled from someone else’s leftovers. I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given a taste of wine before deciding and it came in an overly refrigerated bottled with almost spit level at the end and needless to say, it tasted burned from the cold and acidic. As a southern Italian, this place is a gimmick for British people who have zero taste in food and who are quite happy to spend their money for the sake of saying they went to an Italian restaurant. Nothing authentic about this place whatsoever, in fact a tragedy to state that it represents our cuisine, as it does not. No Italian restaurant delivers fritto misto or any fried fish dish with tar tar sauce, which you actually need in this instance to disguise the chewy, frozen calamari and the prawn that burst frozen water in the mouth. I’m sure they can recycle my leftovers. What an insult. Disgraceful on all fronts. Never again. Scappate è andatevi a mangiare un McDonalds che almeno sapete già di rimanerci delusi."