As I'm currently studying abroad with my group of friends, we wanted to find somewhere that would take all 13 of us. Da Mario took us without question. The waiter sat us in the back area where was quite hot. However, our service was great! My pasta was served to perfection! Plus our waiter easily accommodated for all of us to pay separately. Will go back soon! read more

Da Mario Restaurant - Italian Near Me - London, XGL

GREAT PLACE BUT THEY HAVE TERRIBLE TEMPERATURE CONTROL. That said, I've visited many times and have enjoyed the food and Service. However I cannot give more than theee starts due to continued visits where they have the restaurant almost nauseating with heat. How hard it is to set the temp at 72 degrees - get a Nest Thermostat for gods sake read more

100% favorite place to eat in London. I genuinely can't tell the difference between a meal here and a meal made in Italy, plus the service is always great. read more

Da Mario Restaurant - Italian Near Me - London, XGL

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Food was excellent and very fresh. Service was great, very friendly. Delivery driver was polite and helpful. Will definitely use again!

This restaurant was very close to our hotel on Cromwell Road. We later understood that it was a restaurant frequented by princess Diana. I understand why she would have. It was absolutely excellent. Each dish had a very specific and individual flavor profile. we had fruity D'Mare, Chili tomato sauce and rigatoni, Fussili with sausage and cherry tomato cream sauce. All were absolutely excellent. My personal favorite was our appetizer tomatoes and mozzarella cheese with a balsamic reduction I would highly recommend coming here. it is a wonderful place to eat. read more

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Ok,ok, perhaps a bit on the touristy side, but I have to say, their homemade pasta was truly light and delicious! Had I had the opportunity to return during my trip, I would have. The service was leisurely, but not awful, and the various Staff/Manager and owners were all charming. I will add this to my list of places to return to on my next visit to London. I'm truly interested in trying their pizza as well as the various ones I saw on the table all look fresh and tasty with the perfect amount of crust! read more

We are looking for an intalian restraunt today after whole day tour. Due to the yelp, I had an amazing italian dinner. Good taste with good view. We orded a lot,but finished soon.Hahahahaha.I almost have the feeling of the wall to leave. read more

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Great neighborhood spot with one of the largest Aperol Spritz' I've ever had or seen! Charcuterie was a great starter. Pasta special was fairly good, nothing too crazy. Pizzas looked and smelled great, going to try next time round. read more

We had a lovely dinner here. We sat outside, had an absolutely delicious meal. Garlic bread, gnocchi and squid ink pasta with seafood. Restaurant is very small and they have seating in the basement. I'd recommend outside seating. read more

The manager is horrible and rude to his workers. He yelled at them multiple times in front of us. Even when we approached the situation and said the waiter was amazing, the manager proceeded to yell at him saying he did a horrible job. He didn't. The food was okay. Not as good as I expected. I hope this manager leaves. Every waiter deserves better than him. He is so rude and does not care for the people under him. Disgusted. read more

This was one of the few restaurants we had to wait to be seated while in London. However with that said, the short wait was totally worth it! We started with the Prosciutto Di Parma, it was perfectly aged and tender. I had the Frutti Di Mare pizza and my girlfriend had the Mario Pizza. Both were delicious (better than we've ever had in Boston's North End). We will be back! Cheers! read more

Da Mario Restaurant - Italian Near Me - London, XGL

I came across this restaurant in yelp and decided to give it a try while visiting London. My friend and I loved it! I recommended it to a co-worker of mine who was visiting and she and her husband really enjoyed it. The food was great and the service was very good. read more

Da Mario Restaurant - Italian Near Me - London, XGL

Very authentic Italian food with a delightful atmosphere. My wife and I enjoyed a dinner composed entirely of daily specials, and everything was wonderful. For antipasti we had the caprese salad with buffalo mozzarella, which was delicious. Entrees were veal tortellini, perfectly cooked and seasoned. For dessert we had a special daily chocolate cake and tiramisu. Everything was fantastically prepared, and service was friendly and helpful. Absolutely recommend this fantastic little place. read more

Dear Da Mario, I wanted to let you know that you are really good at getting me interested in coming into your establishment. You provided a bright neon sign promoting DISCO Pizza; and to add to that, it's Princess Diana's "favourite" place for a pie. Once I looked at the menu, I further realized you're the guy that created to pizza for Pizza Express, which fed me and saved me on numerous occasions when I first came to London. You proved your masculinity with the giant establishment, featuring a good sized room on the ground floor and a sprawling downstairs area that was hustling and bustling. However, this is where your epic fail began. Despite you promptly seating our group of six people, you put us in an unoccupied area that was nice for us as we could actually hear each other talking, but no one came to take our orders, ever. For the love of Princess Di, one of the people in our group had her arms waving in the air trying to get the employees walking in and out of our rooms attention. This kept on for twenty minutes. 20 minutes, you ignored us. We were all ready to give you our orders of Diana's Disco Pizza Express Pizza, but no, you snubbed us. So, when our collective patience left, so did we. Right out the door, back past several of your employees that ignored us and we left. I will never come back to you Da Mario, in fact, every time I go to Pizza Express now, I will curse your name and repeat "never again." In all honesty, not even the people at the place that cannot ever be mentioned had better service and a better attitude. Sincerely, Yelper #3 of 5 that you pissed off all at once read more

So, Da Mario promptly seated a party of six downstairs, alone. And promptly forgot them. I was in that party, sat with my arms in the air waving them after fifteen minutes, and the server who walked into the room to get to the bar (no fewer than five times) averted her eyes every. single. time, simply pretending that we did not exist. We left after nearly 20 minutes of sitting at a cramped table with menus and nothing else. And no one said anything to us as we walked out. Princess Diana's favourite pizzeria? The People's Princess must have really enjoyed shit service. Maybe it's where she went to connect with the people. And feel like one of them - a pleb. read more

Well... this place sucks. No I didn't eat here, but I wanted to. With such a promising facade, DISCO PIZZERIA, in neon, we had high hopes. Outside on the steps, it boasts Princess Diana's pizzeria. Err yeah. Inside, the bustling restaurant was full of people enjoying pizza and wine, as you do. We were offered the choice of a table in the path of serious wind chill from the door or downstairs. Downstairs, they seemed to have a few rooms and we were gestured towards an empty one that felt like a train station waiting room. And we waited... and waited. Eventually we got menus and all picked delicious sounding dishes. Broccoli on pizza? I'm in! What was most annoying was that there was a waitress coming in and out of the room with us, totally blanking our attempts to call her over. Wo - ow. Worst service ever. So we left. read more

Given all the other reviews, at first I was a little reluctant to say I really liked this place, went there often, and had great service there when I lived in London for all of 4 months... Then I saw they are mostly from one group, and what restaurant doesn't have an off day here and there? It wasn't the Princess Diana thing that drew my fellow Americans and me there, it was the proximity to our flat, the proximity to our fav pub, and the decent prices that we liked. I also thought the pizza was really tasty and the wine was cheap... I went there with girlfriends for dinner and drinks quite a few times and always had a great time. My friend had her birthday party in the room downstairs and the staff was really attentive and everyone got their food promptly. I like Da Mario's!! read more

Good food and great restaurants. Beautifull place and good location. their food quality definitly good.

This is an outstanding place.Loved this restaurant, as our first dinner in London!so tasty and sweat. food quality was excellent

Finally seated, now the waiter is completely rude, running around and rushing us to order as if he doesn't want us here??? We don't look like everyone else in here so maybe that's the case! The irony is, we waited 3X's longer than we're told and now being rushed . Oh yeah, he told us "NO AMERICAN STUFF" when my partner asked if they had Alfredo!?! Stay tuned... we haven't got the entree yet, but he already messed up our appetizer!!!! Rushing? You think!!! read more

I went here on vacation and it was the BEST Italian food I have ever had! Reasonably priced everything was fresh and delicious. I have a plethora of food allergies and they catered to my every need and made sure I felt safe being able to eat their food! I would go here over and over and over again! You can bet that anytime I'm in London or have friends going there I'm going to be telling them that they need to go to Di Mario's. Everything there is Devine! From their salads, to homemade pasta, to pizza and complimentary bread and don't even get me started on their fresh mozzarella it's heaven on earth! If I could get one over near where I live in the USA I would be beyond thrilled! read more

Not a good move to ignore a bunch of people who spend their free time writing about places they eat on the internet. We were seated in the dungeon, and at first I was excited to have a room to ourselves. But then it stayed just ourselves. Sometimes a server would poke her head in, and we would frantically wave, but no dice. Not even drinks. I offered to get up and go find the server. We decided instead to all get up and go find somewhere else to eat. It's noted out front that this was Princess Di's favorite pizza place, but I bet that Di used to actually get her order taken. I, on the other hand, had to leave without getting to try either their disco or their pizza. read more

Authentic and amazing Italian food. The staff is superb and very enthusiastic. We will definitely come back the next time we're back in London! Much love from Los Angeles, California, USA. read more

This is one of my favourite Italian restaurants in London, but really it depends on the experience you get. If you're lucky and you get to sit upstairs or outside, it's delightful. Aside from the cheesy painting of Mario serving a pizza to Princess Diana (apparently it was her favourite place too), you get really friendly service and excellent quality food. If you're unlucky you'll have to sit downstairs, where it's sometimes more smelly and it feels like a different kind of restaurant, as it's much bigger downstairs and not as cosy. The food is still good though :) read more

Beautiful building and external façade. Nice atmosphere too. Service can be a bit messy, but always good-humoured. Starters and salad are really good. Pizza is nice, but perhaps too small. Oven-cooked pasta is really good, and weel-sized but other pasta portions are rather small, though somewhat good. Tirami-su is the "house dessert", but a bit too fatty to my taste... Overall still a nice lace to share a meal with friends. read more

My wife and I just ate here and it was the best Italian food. She is Italian and knows her food. Thank you for a great authentic experience read more

I am not one to get uppity over restaurant service, or write a review on Yelp, but Da Mario has certainly changed that. In a room with four tables, all with medium sized parties, mine was forgotten about. The table next to me, which sat down 15 minutes after mine did, and ordered after too, not only received their food before us, but also ate everything on their plate, paid, and left before we got our food. No apologies were given, nor anything else. In fact, the one member of staff who wasn't cowering in fear joked about it. If Princess Dianna got the service we did, it would definitely not be her favorite pizzeria. read more

If you are prepared to fight your way to the door , get onto the wait list - and and then hope that a table opens up before closing time - you're in for a treat. Excellent pizza - really superb , unexpectedly good and fast service , wonderful little gems on the menu including superb pasta dishes ...and all at pretty competitive prices. Ps insiders tip : make a reservation. It MAY help speed up your wait. Probably not though read more

Reasonably priced, good location, plus the added tourist appeal for being princess Diana's "favourite pizzeria". The so called "disco" is kind of awkward, with a funny mix of non sequitur songs and music videos playing. With that said, the service was great and my pizza was amazing! I see why Diana liked it so much;) read more

Italian Place rumored to have been one of Princess Diana's favorites. Nothing special - they do have an extensive menu but not the best Italian I've had. read more

Da Mario Restaurant - Bolognese - Italian Near Me - London, XGL

Really good pasta, although the highlight for me was the bruschetta and sparkling rosé. Highly suggest!

This is a must eat at place every time I'm in London. Best Italian I've ever had. I love the veal tortolleni and they have a lot of daily specials. read more

The food was amazing but the service not so much. When we arrived at the restaurant we were seated quickly downstairs. We ordered the cured meat platter, gnocchi, two seafood pasta dishes, and the spinach and ricotta ravioli. Shortly after our meat platter appetizer was cleared and our waiter came over with the desert menu. 5 minutes later, the waiter came back and asked what we would like. I jokingly say "our dinner". The waiter smiled then walked away upset. He came back and explained that the person who clears the table must check on the main courses. (Honestly, it was no big deal.) He went on to talk about his coworker who didn't know what he's doing. As soon as he walked away another waiter came over and commented on our food and waiter not being right. Super uncomfortable. read more

Had a little bit of a wait but totally worth in. The food was amazing and so was the wine selection. I will return the next time I'm in London. read more

AMAZING. Huge menu. All so fresh and delicious it was hard to decide. I went for a friend's birthday dinner. They enjoyed delicious salads and pizzas and just had yummy prawn salad. Nice service. Good prices considering how nice it is. Hope to go back. read more

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Slow service when busy. Definitely worth reserving. Absolutely fantastic Italian food. The spaghetti vongole is my favourite dish. Their pizzas are great too. read more

Da Mario Restaurant - Spaghetti Vongole. - Italian Near Me - London, XGL

We came here after a concert at RAH. The food was decent enough, but the service left us with a horrible taste in our mouths. They started cleaning up during our main course. All we could taste and smell were the cleaning chemicals. They tried taking away half full glasses of wine. After charging our credit cards, they literally threw our cards and receipts onto the table. While we were waiting for our cars outside, they brought out a large container of greasy liquid and dumped it into the storm drain next to us. I've experienced bad service before, but I've never left a bad review. Thank you Da Mario for being my first. read more

I've just come back from this place, and I have to say it was good. Maybe not the best restaurant in my book (I've yet to find one!), but still remarkably good. On the downside, the music is a bit too loud; and the waiter mystified me with the question of whether two plates of pasta, two glasses of red and a plate of garlic bread was all my companion and I required (in the event this proved more than enough!). It's also small, which is a disadvantage when you've got so many guests. And boy was it crowded! I was prescient to book ahead to eat after 7 pm on a Saturday night; later on we saw some people turned away and others queuing outside because there were no tables available. Because it was so busy, in the end it didn't matter that the music was so loud. Anyway, this is a testament to how good their food is. And not too expensive too - the final bill was just under 50 quid including desserts. The small room in a house masquerading as an Italian palazzo is filled with various bric a brac of dubious provenance, some of it apparently celebrating Diana the Princess of Wales who used to be a regular here. But I suspect all these people have a more important reason to flock here; and that's food. Well done. read more

Very good Restaurant!!!! I have to say! I was there three times and the food is very good. They serve a range of Seafood dishes and very good Pizza. Also vergetarians will be convinced. The food is not overseasoned and the ingredients are fresh tasty and well prepared. The Prize is low compared to the quality. So it is more than worth the Money. read more

I live right around the corner from this cute little Neapolitan restaurant. It simply has great food and very friendly waitresses. I've ordered the pappardelle aurora (I always ask to add pancetta) and the melanzane parmigiana and both were great. If the weather is nice, it's lovely to sit outside and order a bottle of wine. I do not like to sit in the downstairs part, the service was slower and it was quite noisy. The waiters and waitresses were always very friendly. A great little spot in South Kensington. read more