Best ITALIAN in Brighton and Hove

[MissGull]

Thanks for the tip on Galileo's. Been driving past it for decades and never thought to try it.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

None of the above has the number 1 requirement for a decent Italian : a wood fired oven. La Capannina does in Kemp Town & has great Sardinian fare

 

[Guinness Boy]

Jamie's is better than all the others by a country mile IMHO.

Edit: and I didn't see who the OP was. Didn't say it just to wind you up. Jamie's has a more interesting menu and tastier food than elsewhere.

That's ok, I was waiting for it deliberately tbh. I actually think my friends would like it but the last time I checked you couldn't book (anther thing that annoys me massively but not others). Has this changed?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Thanks for the tip on Galileo's. Been driving past it for decades and never thought to try it.

Very friendly as well. Particularly the chap knee high to a grasshopper!

If it's good enough for Vicente (he was enjoying his pasta), then it is good enough for all of us.

 

[Husty]

Jamie's [sic]

 

[TopCat]

I work with quite a few Italians and they all insist Como in the Lanes is the best.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

None of the chains. Fellini in Hove is good, however most Italian restaurants cater to English tastes. I've never found an authentic Italian restaurant, that caters for an authentic Italian taste. The menus I had in Italy, where I've been to a fair few cities were nothing like what you get here. I have an Italian who works for me, and he says there is very little authentic Italian outside of London.

There's no such thing as an "Italian restaurant".

What you get in Italy is usually a family-run restaurant that cooks locally sourced food for local people and, possibly, visitors to the locality. Each region, each town, each locality is different. That is reflected in the way food is prepared.

Chain "Italian" restaurants in Britain seem to imagine that all "Italian" meat courses come smothered with something like "wild mushrooms, peppery endives, a truffle cream sauce and shaved Tuscan black truffles".

Not in my experience.

 

[GoingUp]

'Gailieo' in Hove/Woodland Drive, its a brilliant restaurant.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Donatello's??

 

[Notters]

That's ok, I was waiting for it deliberately tbh. I actually think my friends would like it but the last time I checked you couldn't book (anther thing that annoys me massively but not others). Has this changed?

You can book online now.

 

[fat old seagull]

HE'S NOT ITALIAN

Why do people think this? He was born in barca, and has Catalan parents.

Does it matter...? It was funny even if he'd been Mongolian.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Jamie's [sic]

Later than a Sunderland left back.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Donatello's??

You can book online now.

Does it matter...? It was funny even if he'd been Mongolian.

This

 

[jessiejames]

Pieros if it is still there in Spring street off Western road Brighton
Husband and wife run restaurant he's the Chef and from Italy, its been there for over 30 years real authentic Italian LPP

 

[MissGull]

There's no such thing as an "Italian restaurant".

What you get in Italy is usually a family-run restaurant that cooks locally sourced food for local people and, possibly, visitors to the locality. Each region, each town, each locality is different. That is reflected in the way food is prepared.

Chain "Italian" restaurants in Britain seem to imagine that all "Italian" meat courses come smothered with something like "wild mushrooms, peppery endives, a truffle cream sauce and shaved Tuscan black truffles".

Not in my experience.

In England there is. Anything with a pasta and sauce/thin crust pizza is considered 'Italian'.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Marrocco's by king Alfred.

IMHO best fish restaurant in sussex

 

[Lord Bracknell]

In England there is. Anything with a pasta and sauce/thin crust pizza is considered 'Italian'.

But you are REQUIRED to conform. I remember once being told (in a chain restaurant with an Italian-sounding name) that I couldn't order gnocchi, with an aglio e olio finish, because gnocchi ONLY came with a "rich creamy sauce". Both items were on the menu.

 

[FlowersBrighton]

None of the chains. Fellini in Hove is good, however most Italian restaurants cater to English tastes. I've never found an authentic Italian restaurant, that caters for an authentic Italian taste. The menus I had in Italy, where I've been to a fair few cities were nothing like what you get here. I have an Italian who works for me, and he says there is very little authentic Italian outside of London.

Hasn't Felljni closed?

 

[MissGull]

Lord Bracknell -if most Italian chains were anything to go by, I obviously wouldn't dream of eating gnocchi without a creamy blue cheese sauce and walnuts....

 

[FlowersBrighton]

Should say Fellini of course! iPhone and no glasses!