Best ITALIAN in Brighton and Hove

[MissGull]

Has it? I'm sure it was open only the other week when I went past? No?

 

[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....

... probably made with Cambozola, which (as everyone should know) is a German cheese, invented in the 1970s by Hofmeister GmbH & Co.

 

[MissGull]

But it's okay as they'll just come and smother it in pepper and parmagiano, so you'll lose whatever flavour was underneath.

 

[FlowersBrighton]

Has it? I'm sure it was open only the other week when I went past? No?

Early September I think. Not sure why. Shame.

 

[MissGull]

Wow. Maybe I haven't been past since then. That is a shame. Can't believe they were ever short of custom and the trip advisor ratings were brilliant.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Si Signore in Sydney Street is great.

 

[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

Sorry Pieros closed down now due to Pietro deciding to retire

 

[Questions]

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.

Is about right. Have you tried the lampredotto roll in Florence. Not bad as long as you can face tripe.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

I'm being told La Tana in Patcham is very good by a few people

 

[wilko1]

Nothing special inside...but for quality food at a very good price....Topolino in Church Road Hove
Love the place

 

[DanielT]

Leonardo's for me. Italian owned, great food

 

[The Large One]

Si Signore in Sydney Street is great.

It took until post 46 to mention this. Tut, tut.

Even if the owner is an Egyptian Florentine.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Another vote for La Cappanina just off St James' Street. And I went to Otello on the corner of Church Street and Medina Villas the other day and it was great. The one up Woodland Drive was Gus Poyet's restaurant of choice, which might put some of you off.

There were some good Italian places a few years ago - Mama Mia, which had a large Italian clientelle, Latin In The Lane and Ciao Bella. They made Jamie's look even more of a joke ...

 

[timco]

Only ever tried one Zafferelli in New RD/North St it was ok

 

[Pevenseagull]

Casalingo on Preston Street always used to be the best

 

[dragonred]

this with bells on it - the best in town and a hidden gem

 

[Guinness Boy]

Another vote for La Cappanina just off St James' Street. And I went to Otello on the corner of Church Street and Medina Villas the other day and it was great. The one up Woodland Drive was Gus Poyet's restaurant of choice, which might put some of you off.

There were some good Italian places a few years ago - Mama Mia, which had a large Italian clientelle, Latin In The Lane and Ciao Bella. They made Jamie's look even more of a joke ...

Latin In The Lane was great. Shame it closed as that probably would have been the answer.

 

[Triggaaar]

If I was asked the best Chinese, Indian, Spanish, Thai, Japanese, French or Modern British in Brighton I could answer easily.

OT, but could you name those please.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

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

Another vote for this one - fantastic little place !

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

It took until post 46 to mention this. Tut, tut.

Even if the owner is an Egyptian Florentine.

it really is a hidden gem