Pizzeria Villaggio — Restaurant in Wales

Happy New Tier Everyone! 😂

So last night I had the absolute pleasure of being invited to try a local Italian restaurant in the heart of Cardiff @pizzeriavillaggio_ which is a an award winning pizzeria who as you can imagine do the most amazing Pizza's.

👉 Starters:

Salsiccia Italiana- This dish is basically a spicy Italian sausage severed with a spicy salsa sauce, this was delicious I honestly could have had this as a main meal and been very happy.

Polpette Della Casa- This is the traditional meatball starter dish you will get in most Italians quite simply meatballs and mozzarella cooked in a very tasty tomato sauce. We both agreed this was the best Meatball starter we've ever had.

... The bar was set very high on those starters so we very excited for mains.😁

👉 Mains: Americana- This was a no brainer of course me and the Mrs both opted for the pizzas. The normal Americana pizza includes quite simply mozzarella and pepperroni which looked great but we got drawn in by their extra toppings. The Mrs just added roast chicken but I added Italian sausage, chorizo and chilli.

Now I've tried alot of pizzas over the years and this I can honestly say is one one of the best pizzas I've ever eaten it was genuinely that good, the tomato passata was super tasty but the meats they use on the pizzas are just packed with flavour.

👉 Desserts: So the Mrs opted for the 'Chocolate Brownie' with ice cream and I had the 'Sticky Toffee Pudding' with again ice cream, now at this point we thought starters were amazing, mains outstanding, could they really get 3 out 3 right? Well yeah they really did both desserts were incredible and you could tell they were homemade, The Sticky toffee pudding though was the winner. Just Wow that's all I can say.

Conclusion: So this was my first visit to this beautiful place and all I can say is I must have been living under a rock all these years as everything about this place is outstanding from the decor, the warm and friendly staff and the food was incredible, I honestly cannot recommend this place enough. 👏

As soon as lockdown is over I will be one of the first people booking a table....

A family run Italian with delicious food

It is great to be reminded that you don't have to travel far in Wales to find an authentic family run Italian restaurant - Pizzeria Villaggio in Whitchurch is a great example of this with its comfortable ambience and delicious food.

We started with an excellent ciabatta bread served with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic, it was a great flavour of balsamic and olive oil with crispy bread with which to start the meal.

For starters I opted for Polpette Della Casa, two large balls of perfectly cooked minced beef in a tomato and cheese sauce – delicious. My partner had Funghi al Rosmarino lovingly chopped mushrooms in a rich and aromatic rosemary sauce.

For mains I had a Calzone from the specials board - Calzone con pollo, chorizo e jalapeno – with a mixed salad. The crunch of the crispy dough was a delight and the chicken, chorizo and jalapeno filling provided peppery and chilli heat to warm the palette. The tomato sauce was great for dipping the calzone dough and it was no time at all before the calzone and the sauce was all gone – delightful.

My partner had a Pizza Americano which now wins his prize as the best pizza he has tasted – and he is a pizza lover. Overall a wonderful meal.

My partner completed the meal with an Italian Cheesecake, Italian Cheesecake, though the origin of the better known New York Cheesecake, is much more like a cake than its American equivalent. The ricotta in the cheesecake provided a rich and creamy texture which gave the dessert a perfect finish to the meal, with lashings of cream on top it was a dessert lovers dream.

We completed the meal with two espressos.

I’d strongly recommend the delicious food at...

We came here for a birthday celebration, experience we had wasnt the best. First of all we were seated by the front door, so eveytime it opened there was a draft of cold air, and constantly people coming in collecting takeaways etc. Service was poor, the first guy who sat us down and took the drinks order was abrupt, sweating profusely and used his hands to wipe the sweat off his head, I then watched him pick up food and serve it to the tables. Calimeri was overcooked, very chewy but presentation was good in fairness. The food I ordered was not correct, it was rectified and in good time, taste was average. I love my pizza and have tried many pizza/Italian restaurants this one that was definitely not high in my list. I'm hoping this was just a one-off as other reviews seem pretty good, which is why we booked it. Service got better towards the end of the night when the waiter was switched to a younger lad (can't remember his name), who provided impeccable service, and dealt with the above mishaps professionally. We did not dispute the service charge due to the waiter at the end of the nights service. Had he not rescued our experience I would have insisted it was removed. Being a small independent business hopefully some lessons to be learnt to improve...