Pizzeria La Luna — Restaurant in Berlin

This has clearly become my favorite Italian place recently.

The salad you can see in my photos costs five euros - including delivery. It's even cheaper if you eat at the restaurant or pick it up yourself. But frankly - five bucks for this salad is a steal!

I'm a pretty heavy guy who really eats a lot, and usually a salad isn't much more than a starter or a side dish for me. However, on more than one occasion the La Luna "Insalata Primavera" was basically all I needed for a meal.

Dish sizes are more than appropriate for their prices. All Italian dishes I've had so far were not only good but also had a much more authentic Italian taste than what many other places deliver.

After all these positive words you're certainly wondering if there's anything to say about La Luna that's not so great - and there is. Their beef burgers are not recommended as they use an industrialized factory patty to make them. But quite frankly, why would you go to an Italian restaurant to order a burger in the first place, especially since there are way better options available for burgers, even within very short walking distance from La Luna? You would certainly not go to a sushi restaurant to order their spaghetti just because they might have them on the menu either.

Also, I would recommend not getting the mini pizza. Not because there's anything wrong with it - it's perfectly fine actually. But since full-size dishes at La Luna cost so little more than the mini pizza and they are really very tasty I'd highly advise you to go for one of those instead - unless, of course, you really aren't all that hungry and only want a little snack.

My recommendations apart from the above mentioned salad are the lasagna, which has just the right amount of meat, sauce, and pasta in it, and the grill platter, if you fancy something "meatier". The risottos are also very nice, and so are the spaghetti dishes.

Honorable mention: A couple of times when I was out of drinks at home I ordered a bottle of orange and apple juice together with my meal. I was quite surprised when the delivery guy handed me "Hohes C" (= brand) bottles of juice. I was expecting cheap juice from ALDI, LIDL or Metro, but certainly not one of the more expensive brands.

Honorable mention II: The bread which is served alongside pasta and rice dishes looks pretty homemade to me. It certainly is very tasty and...

Ordered for 4 people via Lieferando, ETA 44min. A bit long, but acceptable. 1h passed, no signs of delivery, I called them and they said the driver was "on the way". So we waited and after another 20min of nothing, I called them again. My call was ignored. My friend called from another number and they took the call. After a lot of weird clattering and shouting in the background, they told us the driver would be there in 3min. In the end, it took them another 10min to get there, for a total of 100min delivery time. Driver didn't wear a mask either, even though 7-day incidence is 1000 at the time of writing.

As if the delivery wasn't bad enough, the food was terrible. Immediately after getting handed a pizza carton, I noticed it looked beaten up and felt mushy and a bit soggy. The pizza dough felt and tasted like soggy carton, the tagliatelle tasted like bland, reheated instant food and the broccoli cream soup was just cut up chunks of broccoli thrown into over-salted, quickly heated-up cream.

All four of us were famished, having waited so long for our food, and yet all of us had leftovers because it was worse than frozen pizza.

Will never ever order...

La Luna ist eine kleine aber sehr feine Pizzeria, die ich wirklich von Herzen empfehlen kann. Ich, lernte die Pizzaria vor 14 Jahren durch einen Freund kennen und fragte damals nach einer Lassange ohne Fleisch. Ich, hatte die Frage noch nicht ganz ausgesprochen und bekam nach gefühlten wenigen Minuten die frischeste und leckereste Lassange von ganz Berlin. Die Preise sind im Vergleich zu anderen Restaurants preisgünstig und man kann ( trotz der Inflation oder einem geringen Arbeitslohn) es sich, für den Mittag oder einen Romantischen Abend mit dem Partner richtig gut gehen lassen. Da La Luna auch Außer Haus einen Lieferservice anbietet ist ein unvergesslicher Abend, zu zweit, auch für Zuhause mit Kerzenschein und einem der vielen Gerichte auf jeden Fall garantiert. Wenn ich Hunger auf ein Italienisches Gericht habe und mir die Zutaten Zuhause fehlen, greife ich gerne zum Telefonhörer ( oder fahre kurz, selbst zu La Luna) und gebe meine Bestellung auf. Da die Pizzaria in der Reihnstr. ( Verlängerte Schloss Str.) liegt lohnt es sich an den ganzen Restaurants der Schloss Str. vorbei zu gehen und seinen Hunger erst im La Luna zu stillen. Allein das betreten von La Luna macht schon Süchtig nach Italien denn der Duft nach Bella Italia s Küche von Mama ist unvergleichlichen. Ein dickes Lob an den Chef, den Koch und das gesamte Team muss ich einfach an dieser Stelle noch loswerden. Hoffentlich bleibt uns allen diese kleine aber sehr feine Pizzeria noch ganz ganz lange erhalten. P.S. bevor ich zu einer tiefgefroren Lassange von EDEKA greife ( die a) teuerer ist und b) niemals so lecker ist wie die von La Luna und c)ich obendrein noch den Herd anwerfen muss) unterstützte ich gerne La Luna. Probiert es selber aus, wundert euch aber nicht über eine eventuelle...