La Pizzica - Italian (Apulian) Restaurant 764-766 Fulham Road, London SW6 5SJ

"Very good food and gluten-free options Excellent service. Friendly atmosphere, the owners are just great and friendly you will feel you are at home . To the brothers GO LECCE"

"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 worth of food."

"Local and family friendly trattoria with a nice atmosphere and some amazing local dishes. Definitely a few gems in the menu. Update after a few months: unfortunately it looks like the place has taken a downward trajectory. Must be inflation, Brexit, etc. But the last two times spaghetti were smaller, burrata was hard, pasta served a bit cold and the size of all portions has gotten smaller. Too bad."