Luigia

Always love this place and I’m never disappointed. Be ready to wait a bit in line, they don’t take reservations and it’s packed but totally worth the wait (with an aperol spritz). Try the spagetthis ai frutti di mare, a petal of Luigia, fried calamari or foccacia casertana!
Feels like being in a super busy and noisy cantina in Italy!

The most expensive piece of shit 30 dollar to 40 dollar pizza in the world. Combined with surly service and it’s the perfect microcosm of Geneva.
Don’t go!

I’m giving it 4 stars because the pizza is amazing!!!
Lots of delicious options for you to choose from!
I went there in a group of 4 on a Saturday night and we waited for 40min at the bar to be seated, since they don’t take reservations.
I’d advise to arrive early if you want to be seated soon.
Good wine selection and friendly staff.
If you are like me (I don’t eat a lot) share your pizza with someone, I found it to be a very generous portion!

Well, this restaurant is a member of VERA, I can say, it’s the best Pizza you can eat in Geneva, but the price is to high, so that I’ll give this restaurant four-​stars.

Went thrice, still didn’t get the soul of it, Maybe its just me. The portions are minute. Pizza is excellent though.

Excellent spot, maybe the best Pizza in Switzerland ! No reservation accepted.

Excellent spot. Pizza s great, so is pasta. Service impeccable! Last but not least child friendly.

Amazing food! This is the first restaurant I visited in Geneva. The ingredients are amazing and you get a pretty large pizza. I had the margarita classico and I highly recommend it! It’s a simple and very flavorful dish. Also had my first Swiss beer here!

Pas mal mais sans +
Les plats sont bon sans être exceptionnel, sauf peut être leur tiramisu qui est pas mal du tout!
Sympa de temps en temps mais voilà…
En gros c’est plus un fastfood italien!

Après avoir lu tous les commentaires négatifs, j’avoue que j’ai quand même été surprise en bien… Nous y sommes allés pour l’anniversaire d’une amie qui né jure que par cette pizzeria !
Le lieu est vraiment sympa même si effectivement les tables sont très petites et un peu serrées et la deso est plutôt sympa. L’endroit est lumineux en plus, ce à quoi on né s’attend pas quand on voit l’entrée…
Pour le service, rien a redire. Le serveur était sympa, sans plus et nous avons eu droit à la bougie sur le gâteau que nous avions demandé donc c’était bien.
Concernant la nourriture, ce qui est sans doute le plus important: le choix des pizzas est vraiment important: il doit y en avoir une bonne 40aine (voir plus) pour tous les goûts (et toutes les bourses).
Les prix varient entrent 25.- pour une pizza simple à 40.- pour les plus chères (qui n’en valent pas toutes la peine) donc c’est quand même plus cher que la normale pour une pizza de taille standard (ni plus grande)…
J’ai pris une pizza végétale avec mozza et tomate cerise (sans sauce tomate) pour 25.-, elle était bonne mais pas extraordinaire… La pâte est épaisse pour ceux qui aiment, moi je préfère la fine…
Nous avons par contre dégusté un «pétale» de pizza comme ils l’appellent avec des champignons, du jambon, de l’huile de truffe et je né sais plus quoi qui était vraiment exquise (à s’en relever la nuit). Seul bémol: le prix ! 15.- pour un pétale, rond de 5 cm de diamètre sur 5 cm de hauteur (petit quoi ! En 2 bouchées c’est fini)…
Pour les desserts par contre, ça vaut la peine (d’ailleurs c’est la seule raison qui me fera revenir), la pizza au Nutella est pas mal mais surtout les chiachere au Nutella (boules de pâte à pizza frite) sont délicieuses… Les portions sont vraiment grandes, c’est donc à partager !
Finalement il faut noter que les carafes d’eau (du robinet) la bas n’existent pas, l’eau est tjs amenée dans leur propre carafe (ils n’ont pas de bouteille d’eau minérale) et il faut donc la payer…

I really recommend this restaurant. Very good food and nice place. The special pizzas are too expensive for my taste.

Bön restaurant, cependant je comprends mal l’engouement que les gens peuvent avoir pour cet établissement. Je cherchais un bon restaurant italien pour une sortie entre amis et j’ai regardé ce que je trouvais sur le net. «Le meilleur italien de Genève», «Un endroit à né pas louper!» Je né suis pas vraiment d’accord avec ces avis tranchés. Certes, le restaurant est chaleureux, surtout la nuit venue avec les petites lumières qui éclairent la salle mais je pense que si nous n’avions pas mangé dans l’îlot central, je n’aurais vraiment pas apprécié mon expérience là-​bas.
Les tables sont très proches les unes des autres et il n’y a aucune intimité ou romantisme. La nourriture est bonne mais malheureusement, je n’ai pas trouvé les plats très généreux. Je mets quand même un ⁴⁄₅ car nous avons passé un bon moment et le lieu est assez atypique.

Voilà un des plus grand désaccord d’avis que j’ai pu expérimenter concernant un lieu genevois. Tous le monde adore le Luigia. Et je né dis pas que je né l’aime pas. C’est un lieu sympa, pour un repas de temps à autre. Mais ça s’arrête là. Et je né comprend donc pas l’adoration générale pour ce lieu,
Le spot est sympa, je l’accorde. Du moins de l’extérieur. Grande porte qui trôné au fond d’un couloir extérieur, perpendiculaire à la rue Adrien-​Lachenal. La porte en jette. Une fois à l’intérieur vous né pourrez sûrement pas voir tous les recoins immédiatement car il va vous falloir patienter. On né peut pas réserver chez Luigia et, succès oblige, c’est jamais très dispo!
Une fois à l’intérieur, vous ressentirez peut être comme moi ce qui m’a immédiatement fait savoir que ça né deviendra pas mon QG: j’avais l’impression d’être dans une cafétéria. Ou une cantine. Bref, vous m’avez compris. Bruit, stress, tables à la chaine. Wahhh ça tourne ici. J’aurais pas dû passer par leur site internet avant de venir enfait. Allez voir. L’image sur la page d’accueil (authentique nonna italienne aux fourneaux) né représente pas du tout l’ambiance de Luigia. Paf, la claque!
Donc oui, le restaurant est de bonne qualité mais pour moi ça s’arrête là. Je sais qu’ils font des pizzas au chocolat qui font leur renommée… Et elles sont effectivement bonne. Mais c’est pas transcendant non plus.
Un big up par contre pour leur horaires d’ouverture: 7/​7, 365 jours par an, ça c’est classe!
Donc Luigia, je n’aime clairement pas autant que la majorité de genevois mais testez au moins une fois! RIen que pour une pizza chocolat ;-)

Excellent restaurant Italien ! Très discret de l’extérieur, une ambiance chaleureuse se cache à l’intérieur.
Les pizzas sont délicieuses et les tiramisus incroyables :)
Service rapide et prix correct.

Oh wow. Genuine neopolitan pizza in geneva! Fantastic place. The pizza is perfect. Perfect crust, perfect sauce, perfect ingredient ratios. It’s not easy to get neopolitan pizza exactly right. I can’t find a single thing wrong with Luigia’ s.
Oh, and get the Nutella pizza for dessert.

This place looks like a casino from the 80s from the outside, but inside it’s huge family restaurant. It was busy, packed full, when we arrived for lunch on a Sunday, but the service was super fast, impeccable. The pizza was great, and the grilled mixed fish was good. Impressed first and foremost with the tempo they manage to keep up, and still not mess up your order.

I was really impressed with this place. I am visiting family in Geneve for a week, and stopped by here. The pizza was better than most places I’ve been to in the United States that serve Neopolitan style pizzas.
I like the atmosphere, hidden off the street. Lights hanging, sort of feels like a place you would find in New York. Started with some fried calamari that was good. I liked how the breading wasn’t super thick, it was mostly calamari. Served with some lemon and tartar sauce. I got the Mediterraneo pizza. Awesome pizza. The crust was super soft and tasty. Ricotta cheese, small cerise tomatoes, oregano, basil, oil, and some other type of cheese. I was very impressed. I sampled some of my sister’s spaghetti bolognese and that was also good, the meat had good flavor.
Overall this place delivered with the food. Seems like an up and coming trendy spot in Geneva. I would recommend it to anyone, whether they live here or are just visiting.

Came here on a visit with friends and had a great dinner. It is quite the popular spot as we had to wait to get seated. It does not have much space for waiting and was a bit hot with so many people waiting (which is why I have them 4 stars)
Service was good and dinner was great. I had tagliatelle alla bolognese and it was fantastic!!! My husband had the special truffle pizza petals (I forget what it was called) and he really enjoyed his as well. He got the five petals and was not able to finish it.
The group finished with the Nutella pizza desert. Yummy!!!
I would recommend this place to others. Just go early so you don’t have as long of a wait.

Les pizzas sont excellentes. La mozzarella di bufala me fait rêver et rien que d’en parler j’en ai l’eau à la bouche!
Si on est plusieurs, on partage un dessert! Né passez pas à côté des «chiacchere» au nutella… Mmmh trop gourmand!
Le seul inconvénient c’est le bruit. Un loft complètement ouvert, vaste et toujours noir de monde c’est forcément bruyant.

The pizza was great… For Europe. Honestly (in general) the best pizzerias in Europe do not live up to the B+ pizzerias in NYC. Still it was a high quality ‘za with a nice (but not showstopping) crust. Definitely very expensive (but this is in the center of Geneva, after all).
The tiramisu, however, was to die for. So light and fluffy I afterwards dreamed that heaven was a giant bed of Luigia’s tiramisu.

The pizzas are amazing and I don’t think I can get pasta there considering that the pizzas are so incredible! But I did try the pastas and they were very good too!
The Luigia in this address is my favorite than the one in Chemin de la Tourelle 2. The quality of the food or service does not change and the quality is excellent in both. It’s more about the place itself and this one is more trendy I feel. But the other address is defintiely easier to get a table as they DON’T RESERVE.
Their beer is excellent too and if you like truflles don’t miss out the PETALE, but I’d rather get it as appetizer than as a meal because it’s really copious.
I also find it very affordable for its quality, it’s the price of normal Italian restaurants in town, but Luigia’s ingredients are very much superior than others.

I heard great things about this place and I regret that it was so hot outside I could not eat pasta but opted for a sald instead. It was a grilled chicken caeser salad and it was perfect, no dressing on it, I used the oil and vinegar from the table. The chicken was melt in your mouth and everything else was great. We also ate a rosemary foccacia that was outstanding. The pizzas around me looked fabulous so I can’t wait to come back. Its a bit tucked away on the street so when walking there make sure you look down the corridors so you dont pass it up. The waiter was super friendly. I have heard that they take no reservations and there is usually a wait. Lunch time right at noon and the place is yours. You are eating as the place starts to fill up. My daughter ate pasta here and told me it was like tha pasta we ate in Italy so I will be back for sure.

The pizza and pasta are superb though the specialty pizzas, which are best, our double the price of the basic pizzas and therefore very expensive. The service is in line with Swiss — you have to ask to be served. They are open on Sunday which is rare for many Geneva restaurants so it is always a good option for dinner. I’d recommend this place for a group or come and share a pizza with a few people to make the price more reasonable.

Excellent Italian food, especially the pizze. All my Italian friends agreed on the fact that it is very close from what they actually eat in Italy … The tiramisu is also delicious !
The only negative point is that sometimes you have to wait for a very long time before getting a table … Otherwise this is a great restaurant !

Toujours aussi rapide et bon… Vraies pizza napolitaines, généreuses et délicieuses, ambiance très sympa!

My favorite pizza place in Geneva. I love to have the italica pizza. And dont miss out on the nutella desert.
No reservations, just show up and wait (which can be 30+minutes sometimes)
The service is not top notch, but honest, i dont care, i go to luigia’s for the food, which never disappoints.

3.5 stars for the food, 0 stars for the service. And that 0 star for the service is a culmination of –2 stars for the maitre d’ and 2 stars for our waiter. I’m generally non-​confrontational but the attitude we received here was unacceptable, and I ended up storming out of the restaurant after arguing with the maitre d’.

SERVICE
Our buzzer device notifying us when our table was ready seemed to be a little bit glitchy, so I went up to make sure that we hadn’t missed our turn. The maitre d’ stared me down, and told me curtly that «if it didn’t buzz, it’s not your turn.» I explained that I knew how the buzzers work, but wasn’t sure if ours was working properly, and if she couldn’t just check our place in the queue for us. With a thoroughly annoyed expression, she snatched the buzzer, and condescendingly demonstrate how the buzzer system works as if I was a naughty five year old that refused to learn. Whatever, we eventually got our table.
Upon receiving our check at the end of the meal, we realized that they had charged us CHF8 for mineral water. First of all, CHF8 for water? I don’t care where it’s from, that’s a scam. Second, we had specfically asked our waiter for tap water, which he had acknowledged. Understanding that there could be mistakes, we pointed it out to the maitre d’ (you have to pay at the front, not at your table).
She refused to take it off our tab, saying that even if they did make a mistake we drank it and therefore would have to pay for it. She went on to lecture us that mineral water was better for you anyway (who is she to tell me I shouldn’t be filling my own body with industrial water?!). Her attitude was absolutely deplorable, with her demanding «what do you want me to do about it?» and trying to dismiss our presence by turning away from us. We eventually called our waiter over and got our CHF8 back, but not without leaving a really bad taste in our mouths.
FOOD
It’s really unfortunate that the food review has to be relegated to the end, but by the end of the evening, I barely remembered what the food tasted like. Which is all the more unfortunate, because when I dig past the horrible lady, I recall the food being really quite good.
We had two pizzas (a margherita pizza and a strombolli), and the dough was actually really good. the margherita had mozzerella cheese slices that looked really fresh, but in order for the cheese to keep it’s shape, they had waited until the pizza had cooled, and it came out a bit lukewarm. The sausage on the strombolli was very flavorful, and I particularly liked that, despite the wetness of the ingredients, the dough didn’t turn out to be overly soggy. My dish was the house-​made gnocchi, which had a wonderful texture, but was otherwise simply good hearty pasta in tomato sauce and cheese that probably didn’t warrant the CHF21.50 price tag.
The desserts were also wonderful, and absolutely huge. They’re a bit pricey at around CHF10−15, but definitely big enough to share. I don’t know what their policies are on number of orders per table, but as long as it’s allowed, I would probably share a pizza/​entrée and go for dessert. But then again, service-​wise, my experience at Luigia isn’t something I’m looking forward to repeating anytime soon.