Piccola Italia — Restaurant in Arun

Don't know where to start. We tried this restaurant few days ago as I heard good feedbacks as 'amazing food' etc. Let's see the positives: friendly lady answered the phone and served me later on when collected the food. Place meant to look traditional but it looks rather dusty and aged. It needs a good shake up! Now the dishes: my wife ordered chicken in tarragon and wine sauce which was alright or at least gave my a new inspiration of making tarragon sauce at home. So sauce and overall her food was OK but nothing amazing. My pizza: I'm a keen pizza lover often make it home from scratch (dough, cooked tomato sauce, etc.) you know make it as authentic as possible. And that is what I expected from this traditional Italian restaurant too. To be honest I was really excited and looked forward my pizza experience in there. So I ordered my all time favorit Quattro stagione (fore seasons). Well it was everything but 'seasons'. The toppings were right but were all mixed up and just randomly scattered on the pizza base. On fore seasons pizza the toppings meant to have their own sections (quaters) as you know the seasons.. The only positive thing about it was the tomato sauce that was nice with the hint of garlic. The pizza dough was my deepest disappointment. I expected a light, rustic, dough with air bubbles around but it more looked like the one from opposite supermarket Iceland.. Tasted alright and it wasn't oily and greasy so that's also something positive. But I guess I keep looking for the authentic pizza in the area but untill that I'll make it my own. Overall we are disappointed and don't think we're going to order from...

Fantastic authentic Italian food. Went there for a birthday meal this evening but have been a few times.The feel of the restaurant is very relaxing and if you don't look out the window, you could imagine you were sat some place in Italy. Nice background music and the lady that owns it and does front of house does a fantastic job! Very friendly and gives enough time to look at menus and in between courses but not too long. I had the garlic mushrooms to start and you can tell it has been made to order and not just reheated like you get in some restaurants. I followed this with a Fillet Rossini, which was cooked perfectly, sauce very tasty and can tell it was made to order. Other people in my party had prawns and said they were the best they have ever had. Very much worth the money and will return....

Amazing! proper little authentic Italian place, with the sounds of the Italian music and everything just screams Italy!.

No joke if u were to pick up this place and plonk it anywhere it would make money guaranteed and here's why I say this:

The staff are so friendly and worth a tip every time I go there.

The food is just outstanding and if I'm correct there's only one chef there and how he handles the rains back there is amazing and all the food coming out in such a timely manner as well as piping hot, hats off to him.

You get a far bigger portion then other places I've been in the area.

Shame I forgot not to get any pics of the food but it all looked great.

Will see you...