La Gondola Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in Vientiane Capital

Absolutely delicious! I was a little hesitant ordering Italian food in Laos, especially growing but up in an italian household, but my golly did it hit the spot. The best word to describe everything is super balanced. The tomato sauce on the pizza was perfectly sweet and salty, and the garlic pasta was so flavourful without being overpowering. The food was really really good, not a single crumb left on our plates. Thank you for the wonderful food! (Tons of vegetarian options for my veggie friends as well) Apparently they have Lao food during lunch as well but we came for a scrumptious...

The food is amazing at this restaurant, we both really enjoyed our pasta dishes (truffle and tomato with sundries tomato, capers and chilli). The owner also gave us some complimentary bread, olive oil and balsamic :) The molten lava chocolate dessert was also heaven! Really enjoyed the house red wine (cab-sav).. have not had any wine travelling for 3 months and it was sooo nice! Definitely recommend visiting here if you fancy a change from local food.. you have to walk down a small side alley...

OK pizza and OK pumpkin soup. The owner is italian and has lived here for 11 years- super friendly dude and easy to chat with. However the pizza was nothing special (Margarita for 100 000kip) and the pumpkin soup was lacking salt, pepper and the special kick. Also, the bread served with the soup was very simple white bread and other than expected nothing like crusty european baguette or ciabatta. Water is...