Pizzeria 1926 — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

Food - very interesting choice of pizzas. I tried the pizza with pistachio on it, it was absolutely delicious. However the pizzas do not come with any base sauce, just cheese directly onto the bread. The pizza was very large and rich with the mascarpone cheese. The bread is very good. Authentic Italian ingredients. If you cannot finish you can request a takeaway box to take home. The chips are wonderful, really nice potatoes, crisp on the outside and soft inside - perfect! One portion is enough to share on the table. We also tried starters, the traditional rice parcels with filling inside, see board to today's flavours. Unfortunately the inside was cold as it wasn't heated up for long enough, but still very delicious.

Drinks - Italian beer! Tap water for the table.

Prices - very reasonable. For a pizza and beer, it came to about £15-20 per person. You can pay cash or card and you can split the bill.

Atmosphere - open pizza kitchen, so you can see the chef's at work. There's also another kitchen in the back where they prepare the other food. Theme is football, with lots of t-shirts and scarfs and all the pizzas are named after football places. I am not a fan of football so this didn't appeal to me much. But besides that the decor is interesting, it's bright and a friendly space. There are not many tables and it's quite small and intimate.

Service - recommend booking in advance as even on a weekday evening this place is full! The staff are fine but could do with being a bit friendlier and smiling more. As soon as we left they were also so quick to clear the table. Complimentary chocolates with the bill (but I forgot...

The food was amazing, we ordered a vegetarian pizza and one with meat. The portion size was huge, it can be easily shared with someone. They have many vegetarian options. The tiramisu was average. The only thing that I didn’t like was the service, as soon as we sat down the server asked is if we wanted something to drink, I had not even got the chance to look at the menu. I asked for more time and they dropped by again to take food orders after 5 minutes or so while I was still looking at the menu, I felt rushed. Mind you we had made reservations for this place, before we were even seated at our table we were told we had the table for 1.5 hours. All this kind of ruined the experience, we went there for our anniversary dinner, we had mentioned that on our reservation. When you are going out to eat you don’t want to be rushed, rather you want to enjoy the food. Although, I do appreciate that while paying the bill they didn’t automatically add the 10% service charge which many other restaurants are doing these days, instead they asked us if we wanted to pay with the service charge but we declined as it was not good at all. I would probably get...

I believe this place used to be so much better in the past. So, the chicken wings we got were below average. The pizza was good and well baked, close to the authentic Italian taste, but still not the best you can have. The biggest problem was the service: we paid separately and we all added a tip to what we paid. The waiter came back saying we owe £18 so we started counting the bill again, and even if our calculations proved that we only owed £1 she kept insisted they were right. In the end, instead of apologising for their mistake and their attitude, they told us off because one of us made a joke in the end to finish the incident nicely and without hard feelings. I still can't believe they told customers off after THEM doing a mistake and not trying to fix it apart from asking for a wrong (and much higher) amount of money that was supposedly owed by us. I have been a waiter I Edinburgh in the past and we never treated customers like this. People go out to have fun, restaurants are supposed to facilitate this not make it hard.

Overall, 3 stars for the food, 1 star for customer service. 2...