Pulcinella Pizzeria Napoletana — Restaurant in Saint Paul's Bay

I have real mixed feelings about this place. The positives are, the pizza is absolutely epic… perhaps one of the best on the island, however the venue is let down by many other factors…

The person who served us wearing Adidas sports wear, looked very dishevelled, whilst other staff had branded smart clothing, this person just looked like a scruffy tourist serving us.

The venue is split into two halves, the main counter and cooking area in one shop/retail unit, which looks really welcoming with its tv, led sign. However, it looks like they expanded into another vacant retail unit a couple of doors down (with a mini supermarket separating them) and this other area is stark and uninviting, cold atmosphere with a weird mint green wall paint and high gloss marble tiled walls and a mis-match of temporary plastic pop-up furniture was a disappointment. In fact, during our time we saw 4 groups of people be shown to their table and decide to move on, likely based on this rooms aesthetics.

Elsewhere, personally, I’m not a fan of storing food in public accessible areas such as right next to the toilet (despite it being in seemed containers) and the toilet area had cleaning product and random items left around. The bathroom itself was very clean with a good supply of soap, paper and towels.

Talking about the food, the chips/fries, well, they’re awful. They tasted like they’d been re-dunked in hot oil or reheated several times over. How hard is it to make fresh fries for each order.. 3 minutes in hot oil for perfect fries!

The soft drinks are reasonably priced, €2.50 for a 330ml can, and they’re chilled too No glass or ice provided though.

Rating this place on pizza alone, I would give it 10 out of 5 stars! (I only rated the food overall as a 4 out of 5 as the fries were just awful) but it really was the best pizza and the chef should be very proud. Just a shame that pride doesn’t extend to other areas of the venue. I would say, no pizza needs that much rocket salad on it.

Not sure we’d return when there are so many other places to eat...

1 pm on a monday and st. paul’s bay looked pretty deserted. first place we wanted to go? closed. second one? also closed. just when we started to accept our fate of starving until dinner, we stumbled upon this pizza spot. and to our surprise, it was actually open.

the place was quite small, with only a couple of tables free, but we decided to give it a shot. as soon as we sat down and ordered water, our waiter poured it for us with the kind of professionalism you don’t really expect on a sleepy monday afternoon. nice touch.

above our table was a huge canvas proudly stating that the pizza maker had trained at the international pizza academy. 80 hours total, 40 of which were advanced dough-specialization. naturally, my expectations skyrocketed.

the pizza took a little while, but we weren’t in a rush. and honestly? those 80 hours were not wasted. the dough was pillowy, soft, and light. not dry or heavy. the ingredients were top quality and everything tasted just right.

i’d absolutely recommend this place, both for the genuinely good service and the...

Based on Google reviews, we visited the restaurant. Not a big place, with only 5-6 tables total. We were lucky, cause the waiter helped us immediately to have us seated among the already dining guests. Though he managed all by himself, we waited 10-12 min max for 5 pizzas and beverage. The waiter was super friendly, also gave a little present (chocolate 😀) to our little daughter. The food is in it's own league. I can't really add anything else that haven't been written before me. We ate here first two days ago, and already ordered through Bolt for tonight. 😉 You can eat pizza everywhere, but if you want to eat A PIZZA, come here. 👌🏻 The only downside could be that is in the center of a very busy street with a lot of cars, pedestrians, so it cpuld be quite noisy, but still...