La Marina

C’est notre pizzeria du quartier. On l’a essayé et on né cesse d’y retourner car c’est un très bon rapport qualité-​prix et surtout l’accueil est très agréable.
Chaque table reçoit une petite assiette de bruschetta et olives, déjà ça commence bien, joli petit geste !
Il y a toujours de magnifiques spécialités du jour: pizza, pates ou même steak ou plats italiens tels gnocchis ou osso bucco.
Très bon choix de pizza et de pates et les prix sont corrects, surtout pour les pizzas qui sont copieuses.
Les ingrédients sont frais et les plats sont faits maison, Merci !
Bonne liste de vins également et digestifs italiens, mmmhhh Limoncello.
Entre la gare de l’Est et la gare du Nord, pratique si vous avez un train.

I was sooo hoping to make this a new local staple. While the food at this neighborhood pizzaria/​italian restaurant was actually quite delicious, the service was terrible and concluded in the bizarre sensation of not only feeling neglected, but under siege at the same time. I’ll explain.
We walk it, spot a lot of empty tables, ask if we can sit at the 4 person booth and are told no, that they’d like to save it in case 6 people come since it’s next to a two-​seater table. Fine, we take the awkward table in the center of the room only to see a lone diner seated at the two person table 5 minutes later. Grrrr!
Then as we go to place our order, the waitress proceeds to tell us not to get the pizzas (you can find them anywhere in Paris, she says) but instead get the freshmade daily pastas. She tells us about only two recommendations. I order one, but it’s not available in the end, and get the other (a gambas/​linguine in cream sauce dish). She does confess there is a great daily pizza, a chicken kebab with taziki sauce and caramelized onions. My husband gets that. We order a children’s size portion of pasta for my 3-​year old son. We see the big plates around us and decide to forgo any appetizers, though the waitress asks us a million times if we want something to start with.
At the end of the meal, we check out the bill. The pasta was 19E and the pizza 17E, both close to double the regular priced dishes on the menu! Sure, we’re idiots and should have double checked, but what makes me believe she deliberately encouraged us to order the high priced items was that I saw that there was a chalkboard with daily specials that she never showed us, on which those dishes (with the prices) as well as many others were written.
Needless to say, we felt used and abused. Plus the 8E plate of plain pasta for my kid was ridiculously overpriced too.
If you do go here for the food which was actually lovely, be super vigilant about the ordering tactics to get you to overspend and ask for the daily specials to be shown to you on the board!
Plus another big downer: the giant TV playing sports and then freaky videos. The owner really needs to clean up the act a bit as the place has potential.