La Pizzica - Italian (Apulian) Restaurant & Pizzeria — Restaurant in London

Pains me to say it, but sadly left this highly rated italian quite disappointed. I frequently have italian food all over London, including several places throughout the Fulham area, and unfortunately this was the first time in my life I have had to complain about the food.

We started with the Arancini (£10). It was OK, although a slightly strange taste, not really what we expected and we ended up leaving over half of it.

For mains we had the Seafood Pasta (£22) and the Grilled pork neck meat & potatoe puree (£20). The pasta was just OK, no problems necessarily but nothing particularly special, a slight disappointment as we came with high expectations. The grilled pork neck & potatoe puree was not up to scratch, in my opinion; it had a strange taste and was very salty. The pork was not up to temperature in the middle and was very pink, I ended up leaving over half of this.

In addition to the above, the mains were brought to us completely out of sync, with the pork arriving quite some time before the pasta. Not a huge deal but worth mentioning.

The staff were generally nice and accomodating, and they did offer to provide me with another main course, however, I declined this as everything I had eaten up to this point was disappointing.

It's worth noting that I only made a comment in regards to the grilled pork main course, and didn't mention our dissatisfaction with the starter to our server.

When the bill came, the staff had charged half price for the pork main, which was appreciated. That said, the bill still came to £83 (including a £25 bottle of wine) and we both left hungry and disappointed. I ended up picking a pizza up from another italian on the way home.

From the sound of the other reviews, this sounds like a one-off and/or the dishes we selected they were having issues with. That said, our server said the grilled pork dish is one of their most popular dishes, so who knows.

I'd consider returning and giving it another shot in the future to see if we just...

I do really want to take my time to write the worst review I can for this place. I booked for a new year eve dinner for 2 people and one child. Let’s start with the number of tables that were over the max number that the room can contain. As consequence it was so loud that it wasn’t possible to talk on the same table. Now the menu. 2 fixed menus (and we didn’t know in advance that was a fixed menu). One lets called it normal and one for vegetarians. I took the vegetarians. On the menu they wrote 3 different starters as 3 different items. To save on the quantity they practically brought those things on a small plate with: a 2x2cm piece of aubergine, a sub-millimetres cut zucchini and some other 1x1cm vegetables. Entree: 2 pieces of 2x1cm fried pizza dough serve on a cup a bit larger than an espresso cup. Pasta: literally 3 ravioli with butter. (This is not a gourmet restaurant but a family run restaurant). Second plate: few pieces of vegetables and half aubergine stuffed with white rice. Then they wrote on the menu: lentils and panettone (which I guess are the unsold items to remove before expiration date from the deli they also have). I hate both of them and left both. How can you serve lentils? They said: tradition (which I don’t care). Price: £200 of which £21 service charge. (basically the customers paid the waitresses salary for the day). I’ve never complained in my life for a price paid on a restaurant, even the rubbish ones. We left as soon as we could and before the midnight. Here the problem is that they wanted just to rip you off and that’s it. They wanted to just get as much money as possible offering the less amount they could. (Welcome to the modern age). I should write a negative review about the quality not the quantity. I felt robbed. Never again I will put a foot in this place. PS in the attached photos £200 pounds...

Worst place ever, terrible pizza 🍕 Dirty glasses on the table with lipstick marks.

entering the pizzeria, a waitress approached me arrogantly, I asked for a table for one person, after which she pointed to empty tables and said that I can choose a table. I chose a comfortable table for myself, the pizzeria was half empty, and I understand why…,😏 However, after 2 minutes, another waiter came up and asked if I would be the only one ordering, Then, in a pointed tone, he said that I should move to a smaller table, And when I said that I would like to stay at this table, since there are no people in the restaurant anyway, he said Ok,and with attitude took my order, the order was taken incorrectly, I ordered pizza,bufula and a glass of white wine. First he did bring the wine in the water glass with lipstick marks,when I asked if I can have a glass for wine,he said that in the restaurant they give the wine from king glasses only,,honestly I got a chocked….,wanted to live but was so starving,so I decided just wait for my Pizza and bufula,, In 10 min i got pizza 🍕 if it can be called Pizza🤔not cooked well but under just burnt,bufula never arrived 😏I tried eat one slice,,,.but no.Than I asked for the bill,the waiter saw that I haven’t even eat the pizza,but still didn’t ask if food was ok,or no,how usually restaurants who take service charge should Follow etiquette,also they put bufula on the bill.😂 Than I just asked her remove Additional service charge, £1.75 and just wanted to live the place soon as possible.don’t think kind places should get No penny for service charge. Even there she did not stop Surprise me🤔she asked me in a rude way,why I don’t want pay the service charge 😏 When I said the Reason she just turned on and left didn’t want even give me a receipt for a bill I paid and food never eat.

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