Luna Rossa

A personal favourite in the Notting hill area. Great tasting Tuscan/​Sicilian wines accompanied by some amazing homemade pizzas — personal favourite being the calzone pizza.
The food is really outstanding considering the comparably low price. Very authentic Italian food in an already competitive market in the Notting Hill /​Holland park area.
No need to book unless your going at 8pm — 12 on Friday or Saturday.

Friends of mine recommended me Luna Rossa — so when I came here with my boyfriend we expected to have an amazing time and great authentic Italian food.
The atmosphere in this restaurant was vibrant and easy going but the staff experience was quite disappointing. However, my boyfriend and I ordered the «one meter pizza» and I must say it was good but I wasn’t blown away by the pizza. (FYI: it was definitely not an one meter pizza but anyway… per person costs roughly around £11)
All in all, a just an OK experience.

Luna Rossa is a traditional Italian restaurant and pizzeria in Notting Hill and we had a very lovely evening there. The place had a great buzz and from the second we stepped in it almost felt like we were transported straight to Italy. We were welcomed immediately and the whole evening was just one win after another. There was no trouble getting a table but there was still a nice amount of people in the restaurant — perfect!
For starters I had the mussels and they were absolutely delicious. Only thing is that they don’t bring you bread automatically so next time we will be sure to order some to dip with the mussel dish as the sauce was to die for. It had a nice little chili kick to it too which I loved. For the main course I had the Gnocchi in a simple tomato sauce with homemade fresh Burrata (oh my god) and it was amazing! I also had a nice glass of Pinot Grigio with my dinner. For dessert I went for the classic Tiramisu and even though it was good, it was definitely the low point of the dinner unfortunately. The dish was quite cold as they seem to freeze the desserts — I don’t like that at all. Also the portion was so huge I couldn’t finish it. My friend ordered Gelato for dessert and she requested some chocolate sauce on top. When she got her dessert there was no sauce because it had ran out — and instead of only apologising to us, the staff brought us both complimentary Limoncello shots :) This is how you get people to come again, which we will surely do!
And as a cherry on top, as we were leaving the restaurant the owner came to us and introduced himself and asked our names followed by giving us both big hugs and kisses on the cheeks and welcomed us back again. It was totally awesome! We will definitely make this a regular thing! :)

Great neighbourhood Italian — nothing fancy but everything is really solid and very good price to quality ratio. My favourites include arancini, pomodoro spaghetti, and simple pizza. Really a great option in the Italian corner of notting hill. I usually get 4 small dishes and one main to share for table if 2.

Strolled over here for some comfort foodpasta!
We tried the spaghetti vongole and rigatoni. The food came out fast which was great because we were starving and in a hurry! The spaghetti had a nice spicy kick and the cherry tomatoes added a nice bright pop to the dish. The rigatoni were nice big cylinders that caught all of the yummy sauce.
I just noticed on their site they deliveryipeee
Spaghetti VongoleSpaghetti with sautéed clams, garlic, olive oil, parsley and a touch of cherry tomato
Rigatoni Mamma Mia Rigatoni with home-​made beef meatballs, aubergines, cherry tomatoes & parmesan

The pasta and pizza here is delish! We ordered pizza, sea bass, and lobster ravioli all of which were really tasty. I gave it only 4 stars because I found that they put a little too much olive oil on their pizza. Overall, good food though.

I went to Luna Rossa recently on a Saturday afternoon for lunch, tempted inside by the sight of a family tearing apart what looked like an amazing wood-​oven cooked pizza from a wooden trestle which straddled the tabletop.
The two of us were seated, nay, jammed into the one busy part of the restaurant with hardly room to squeeze into our chairs. If it weren’t for the presence of a large Neapolitan-​style wood fired oven, then we would have left. The interior of the restaurant is somewhat tacky — fibreglass ‘bricks’ and bucolic artefacts adorning nooks, trying to be outside, inside, but failing. A little tacky.
So this review is about the pizza really. My wife and I both thought that we’d have something simple — a margherita pizza (our pizza benchmark). Since we both wanted the same, we could order half a metre as opposed to smaller round pizzas. When it came out, it looked amazing. We also got the sharp knives and wooden trestle on our table. And it was amazing. We’ve both had pizza in Naples, and from some more traditional places in Sorrento and Rome, and this did not disappoint.
Beautiful blistered dough, just the right thickness, and a simple but tasty topping. Perhaps the only improvement could have been the base sauce, which was really good, but could have been a tiny bit better.
It was undoubtedly the best pizza I’ve had in the UK, but what a shame about the restaurant itself. I’ll definitely go back for the pizza alone, but will try out a few of the other places on Kensington Park Rd too.
If you like ‘proper’ pizza, it’s definitely worth checking out.

I have been eating here on and off for the past five years, since I used to live in Notting Hill. All I can say is that i went to Luna Rossa recently and it was a shrivled shadow of it former self.
It must have been taken over by new owners, as the service was poor, the food was burned in parts and I have never had a salty pizza base until i went here.
all this adds up to it being overpriced for what it is.
it was fairly busy when i went last week, but i can see that changing in the future.
Shame, this place used to be the best pizza place in London.
RB

Went here recently with a larger crowd — and no advance booking. We ended up in the basement where the décor was even less imaginative than upstairs.
Kensington Park Road is becoming a bit of a pizza high street. The food is great — but the atmosphere lags far behind the original Made in Italy in Kings Road.
Next time I fancy a pizza I’ll probably head back to my old favourite Osteria Basilico across the road.

Went to Luna Rossa on a last minute decision last evening, as we wanted to take a friend from Dublin out for dinner as he was leaving today. Waiters were friendly and all spoke Italian, ‘Buona Sera’ and all that. The décor is typical faux Italianate, with exposed brick arches, check table cloths and semi-​rustic props, all very nice.
Foodwise, the pizza menu was very good, all pizzas are square, 25 cm square to be exact and are served up on a wooden palette on legs. They are of the thin crust variety which is what I like. Prices for pizzas are in the £8 — £10 per slice range and I ordered Rucola and Parma Ham which I thought was great and filling but a little salty. The others in my party ordered :
Spaghetti Carbonara: verdict: «Fine»
Calzone: verdict: «Tasteless with insufficient filling»
Spaghetti Vongole: verdict «very good»
Veal scaloppina with lemon sauce: verdict «tough meat, starchy lemon sauce, potatoes were tasty»
Wine: Trebianno Sicilia £15:00: very good
All in all, it was fair. By 9:30pm the restaurant was pretty full for a Tuesday evening, so kudos to them. One couple that came in and sat next to us was unnoticed by the waiters despite given their menus, and after about 15 minutes, they just stormed out! Customer service, where are you?
Will I go back? Probably not as there are many others to try and to Unilocal about!

Great Pizza and tasty ingredients.
Took a Sicilian friend and all he complains about is the London has no good Pizza places and he was surprised how the good the pizza is.
Four of us ate here and three were Sicilian and all agreed the Pizza was very good.
I have been here many times and enjoy it. The Pizza can be made in several sizes if you are hungry enough.
Good place to eat Pizza and watch the world go by.
It can be busy and you may need to wait for a table during peak dining hours.

I really enjoyed my dinner here on Saturday. But a word of warning:
The restaurant is a twenty minute walk from Notting Hill Gate.
Why is that important? Well the Jubillee line was down. I live in South East London. I got to dinner twnety minutes late, and had to leave before coffee and dessert because they didn’t take our dessert order for ages.
But the rest of the food was yummy :-) I had sea bass and pasta and everyone had all sorts of yummy things. There was a point where we were silent for ten minutes because we were all eating such tasty food.
My Sea Bass? £12.50. Very tasty indeed.
I like it here, but you’ve either got to get here early at the weekend, or come when they’re less busy. If you don’t live in the area it’s a bit of a trek. Great food, but I would have liked to have been able to stick around for dessert.

Luna Rossa is a solid neighbourhood choice. It’s part of the Made in Italy chain, and has a bit of that family-​friendly look with the mock Italian décor (and also because families are often there), but still… I do like it for a casual lunch or dinner. I recently had an underwhelming salad there for lunch but the excellent bread (homemade on the premises, yum) and reasonably priced wine more than made up for it. The long pizzas are really good too.

Situated near to the busy Portobello Road Luna Rossa is a cosy Italian which I have often walked past. Last Monday feeling very hungry I decided to give it a go. The restaurant was dotted with other couples enjoying an early dinner and we were greeted warmly by a waiter who led us to a corner table.
However we were a bit annoyed while we waited for our drinks and could clearly see our waiter (holding our drinks!) talking to someone at the bar. All was forgiven when our food arrived– my pizza was HUGE and my boyfriend described his calzone (stuffed with roasted ham, peppers, mushrooms, mozzarella and ricotta) as a good ‘man sized’ portion! Despite our hunger we still struggled to finish our feast.
Italian is not my favourite type of food always piped to the post by Caribbean and Chinese but Luna Rossa could easily change my mind.
In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘I’ll be back’ and next time I’ll be ordering the calzone.

On the site of the former cult 90s Notting Hill restaurant (called 192, its number on Kensington Park Road), Luna Rossa is another Italian restaurant targetting the local crowd as well as the toursists from their weekend tour of Portobello Market. First the bad news: the deco. So bad that it is almost a complete turn-​off. They turned this place into a kind of fake Italian Trattoria with visible bricks, fake doors on the wall and a patchwork of Mediterranean colors on the wall. Combined with the cheap metallic chairs in silver and blue it’s pretty horrible. And the good news: the food and the service. We had pasta and pizza and both were very good, really tasty. The pizza felt for real and the pasta wwas perfectly cooked. We were with our 2 little girls (aged 4 and 2) and the team was particularly friendly and attentive with them. So in summary a good local Italian at a decent price (we ate for £10 a head) but next time I think that we will stick with Osteria Basilico which is just oppsite 192 (just as good and with a nice deco and plenty of light if you are upstairs).