Spaghetti House

Very good Italian cuisine and convenient to my hotel. A fair number of vegan choices which made me happy. The Penn Aribiata was very good.

Nice Italian place we happened upon our first night in London. We were surprised at how busy the place was at 7pm on a Friday. They managed to find us a table and we looked at the menu. It took a long time to get service but once we did everything was good. We had kids spaghetti (£5), half chicken (£11.50 for 2 courses) and chicken with asparagus & mashed. The server, although slow, was extremely kind to our daughter, so she loved it. Food was good but the night took 2 hours.

Excellent Italian food at this iconic restaurant on Sicilian Avenue. Recommend the tagliatelle with salmon. Good service about £25 pp inc service, without alcohol.

After seeing a show at the Globe Theater, a friend and I were ravenous, having not eaten dinner beforehand, and Spaghetti House was luckily open until 11 and could accommodate us.
My friend had been eager to try this place for a while, so we were excited to finally go. We both ordered the 2-​dish special, which comes with an appetizer and a meal for £15. I got the pumpkin soup and the potato gnocchi with cashews, and both were superb. I paired the two with a Merlot, which was sweet and light. The pumpkin soup was less creamy than I had imagined, but still enjoyable. I left with leftovers for lunch the next day and a full stomach. I would love to come back and try the risotto!

We enjoyed the Share for two any pasta. it was lovely and very delicious! :) I’ve always walked passed this place and on the day i was starving haha, I was so angry of myself as to why only now I decided to dine here. The staff were friendly and attentive. Very helpful too.

Busy and homely ambiance. Food always tasty and not badly priced. Slow overall service. Good menu choices. Manager strutting about and acting like a cock! Not what I want to see or experience as a customer, I seemed to be more a pain in his backside as he brought me my main course and forgive me for asking for parmesan, you would have thought I was in an Italian! Worth the experience if you want Italian just let down by the service and how busy it was…
DONT BE IN A RUSH! (Oh yes when he served me, my lil waiter was friendly)

Great choice for a family lunch. Food was good, service was prompt and attentive. Flavors were good. Advertised house made lemonade but brought San pelligrino. Prices were not too bad. Salmon salad was under seasoned but otherwise a nice combination. I would go back as a family again.

menu was quite standard for a chain italian restaurant. service was mediocre. really busy for lunch so make reservations if you’re staunch on going there…

We had pizza and dessert here one night. We chose it because it had outdoor seating on a quiet courtyard-​like area. The goat cheese and ham pizza was good. The desserts were also good though my Nutella pizza was the worst of the four desserts we ordered. It was just pizza crust with Nutella to spread on top.
Our 2 pizzas, 2 glasses of wine, and 4 desserts cost 62.90 GBP or $ 103.

Ich esse hier von Zeit zu Zeit und genieße es draußen sitzen. Das Essen ist immer befriedigend, und ich habe immer das Personal freundlich, wenn auch gelegentlich ein wenig idiosynkratisch gefunden.

Spaghetti Houses are as common in London as Starbucks is in the US. There is literally one every few blocks in London. Because of their alarming frequency, I was expecting a generic chain Italian food place. But fortunately I was very mistaken. My girl friends and I went to the location on Sicilian Avenue near Bloomsbury Gardens. It was a lovely location and the food was equally as good. We all got house wines, which were very tasty. We started of with the calamari, which was very good. Perfectly fried and served with a tarter sauce rather than the normal cocktail sauce. For our entrees I got the Puttenesca and my friends got the Margarita pizza and the clam linguini. Of course we all sampled each others’ entrees and enjoyed them all. The portions were perfect, not overwhelmingly large like most American chains. For dessert we shared the apple tart, which was subtly sweet and served with a sweet milky sauce. We stayed at the restaurant for a while enjoying our second glass of wine while the rain fell softly outside but we stayed nice in dry in the covered patio. It was delightful. I will definitely be back to Spaghetti House, maybe trying a different location. Only I doubt that I will be able to find one as beautiful as the Sicilian Avenue one.

A friend and I were wandering around after lecture and decided to try a new place for dinner. We came across Spaghetti House and took a look at the menu posted outside. We ended up coming back to it since other restaurants in the area didn’t seem as appetizing, not to mention she’s vegetarian, making finding a restaurant that suits her a bit difficult.
We were greeted and seated rather quickly inside; there was no more room outside on the patio. While looking at the menu, I heard music outside and sure enough there was a small band playing on the patio! I went back in and after looking at the menu items, we decided to split an appetizer and a pasta dish. We ordered the Bruchetta al Pomodoro and Pesto Genovese. The bruchetta was fresh and we hungrily wolfed it down. The pasta came a few minutes later. I’ve never had Trofie pasta before, but it was prepared well (not over-​cooked). The pesto was fresh; I thoroughly enjoyed my dinner. Split among the two of us, dinner was about £7 each, so not bad on a student’s budget I suppose.

I was close to the Sicilian avenue and ate there yesterday and I can’t say I’ll come back. With the consequent number of Italian restaurant in London, there’s no reason whatsoever to stop in this one save starving enough to not being able to get out of the Sicilian Avenue.
The Italian atmosphere is simply nowhere to be seen without that much to look at and only a few italian songs, the same one can hear in any Italian to remind us we are in an Italian restaurant. The waitress just showed us a table and threw the menu on it. Italian restaurant are not usually reputed for there hospitality but one should always expect a proper service when eating out. It was a busy saturday but there were enough waiters around to cope with it so no reason for the rush.
And after a while, we were finally served. I basically put two stars because my sea food risotto wasn’t that bad. The rice was undercooked but beside that, flavours were present. However my girlfriend’s pasta were also undercooked and the plate was quite small considering the price and the relative simplicity of the food. The rest of the menu was without any surprise.
Mind you, you can have a main course and a drink for 2 for less than £30 so no harms done but a lot of Italian restaurant in London have much better quality/​prices.
Probably they should have stopped at the 50years milestone.

Blech! Yuck! My first experience at a Spaghetti House was my last.
We arrived in the pouring rain, and asked for a table for two. The waiter wandered off assuming that we were behind him before we had managed to tuck our umbrellas away. When we turned around, he was gone. He did return for us eventually and gestured impatiently to follow him. Oookay. A little rude, but at least after that, the wait staff was relatively friendly.
We ordered our drinks, and later ordered our food before the drinks arrived. I fancied something with meat in it, but the meat dishes seemed overly pricey and given that it was my first time there, I went for the old pesto standby.
Our food and drinks managed to come at about the same time. Boo. The food itself… uh. I didn’t like it. My pasta was tough, the pesto seemed old and processed and not at all fresh. The grated cheese was likely straight out of a can. While the portions were plentiful, what was the point? The food was simply not good.
We kept making eye contact with the waiter to get his attention for the bill, but he seemed to be intentionally avoiding us. We nearly tackled him down, finally paid and headed out. Overall, it was a shame given that the space had some character.
Boo.

One of the original if not the original of the group.
All I can say is they have all been consistently bad since 1955.

If you are craving Spaghetti and you are in central Londres then this may be the place for you. It is a part of a chain around London, but I like this one because it is pretty tiny, gets really crammed and rowdy, and also has nice outdoor seating areas for rare good weather days! So bring them on and head to the Spaghetti House. The all-​Italian staff are very friendly and boisterous, as would be expected, and welcome you with open arms.
I always go for bolognese here because I just can’t get over it. And if you fancy some wine they have a good selection for those on a budget, and a few for those not on a budget. The food is good, staple pasta, nothing frilly, but when you are really hungry (and as I mentioned craving spaghetti) this place will more than suffice. The street it is on is really cute too, with some interesting shops to take a browse in.

Am sorry to say that I would not recommend this restaurant (although initial it had been recommended to me).
I went following a night at the theatre and wanted quicky, relatively reasonable priced food. What I got was not very good customer service, the gentleman who showed us to our table mubbled everything and we constantly had to ask him to repeat what he said or we just guessed it. Service was very slow and we had to wait quite lengthy periods of time between ordering and being served drinks and food.
Food was very average. Our ‘Pane rustico e aceto balsamico’ or rustic bread and balsamic vinegar arrived stone cold, rock hard and very salty and my calamari was overcooked and very chewing.
There website states 50 years of italian passion. Unfortunately I did not encounter any passion whats so ever.

Meine britischen Kollegen haben mir verraten, dass sie sich als Kinder immer gewünscht haben, mal wieder ins Spaghetti House zu gehen. Ich bin jetzt 30 und mir schmeckt es da auch als Erwachsene. Zudem finde ich die Filiale in der Nähe der U-​Bahnstation Holborn auch noch richtig gemütlich. Man sitzt an 2er– oder 4er-​Tischen, teilweise in eigenen kleinen Ecken am Fenster. Die Kellner versprühen einen Hauch Italienurlaub und sind wirklich sehr nett.
Aber am wichtigsten ist natürlich das Essen: Es gibt eine große Auswahl an Nudeln, eine kleinere Auswahl an Pizzen. Bislang war alles ganz hervorragend, was ich bestellte. Besonders die Spaghetti Carbonara fand ich sehr lecker. Als Vorspeise kann ich Bruschetta mit Tomaten empfehlen.
Die Preise sind für Londoner Verhältnisse okay. Ich habe für zwei Gänge und Getränke rund 16 Pfund bezahlt. Das Restaurant ist barrierefrei und die Kellner wirklich sehr hilfsbereit.