The best restaurants serving Italian food in Hertsmere East of England

This café was across from previous my work place and I used to go there quite frequently. The food is decent, fresh and very cheap and when it comes to pasta, it definitely beats several of high end Italian restaurants in London. Prefect bite, nice sauces, great flavour and super homey.

I knew the meal was going to be rubbish when we managed to park right outside the restaurant.We arrived at 8 pm and the large restaurant was only a third full ,not great for a Saturday night .The veg soup to start with was taseless with no seasoning as was most of the food offering . To follow was the veal in a mushroom sauce , I have had this dish all over the world and I have never had the veal cut up in to small little pieces.Again no seasoning and tough, I left most of it , and on top of all this you have to order the vegetables separately, the sauteed potatos (cut up roast potatoes) could have been flavoured with some onion or rosemary to give them some flavour and the zucchini fritta was the worst I have ever seen or tasted, great thick slices with the fried covering falling off. No way is the chef Italian, my Nonna must be turning in her grave what is passed off today as genuine Italian cuisine. The local area is pretty and genteel and it deserves an authentic Italian restaurant, this is not it

We went here as a large group and left feeling a bit disappointed. The service was not great, firstly it appeared they forgot about our booking as the table was not ready when we arrived, they then had to move some people around, they then also forgot about 1 persons main meal even though we had pre ordered. We were there for about 3 hours and only got asked for drinks once. We were then overcharged for the meal and we had to question it, which was not a smooth process and they didn't want to give the recipt straight away. On the plus side, the food was nice, just a shame about the service.

Good food and service in their small restaurant next to South Mimms services. Nice to have a table service rather than rush about in the services. Clean and tidy and good quick service.