Little Italy - Allawah

Very disappointed. Firstly, the waitress seemed confused when we came in and told her that we had called to book a table for 2. We ordered a glass of wine, a pasta and a pizza. The waitress returned to tell me that they we out of 2 of the 3 Australian red wines. We waited over half an hour for our flavourless pesto fettuccine, had to ask for some pepper, Parmesan and a serving spoon. We had finished the pasta and the pizza had still not arrived! I went up to the counter to ask the waitress about our pizza, she was busy with another customer, so I asked the pizza chef if he had put our pizza in the oven yet, was completely ignored. Looking into the pizza oven I could see there was no pizza in there, so when the waitress was free, I asked her if she could cancel the pizza and we would just pay for what we had eaten, to which the pizza chef rudely interjected "I ran out of chicken, that's why I didn't make your pizza" when I responded that you need to tell your customers he angrily said "not my job". The manager came out at this point, meekly apologised, told his pizza chef to stop talking and processed our bill. Ended up going to another pizzeria to finish our dinner. Will definitely not be returning to "Little Italy"!

Very disappointed. Firstly, the waitress seemed confused when we came in and told her that we had called to book a table for 2. We ordered a glass of wine, a pasta and a pizza. The waitress returned to tell me that they we out of 2 of the 3 Australian red wines. We waited over half an hour for our flavourless pesto fettuccine, had to ask for some pepper, Parmesan and a serving spoon. We had finished the pasta and the pizza had still not arrived! I went up to the counter to ask the waitress about our pizza, she was busy with another customer, so I asked the pizza chef if he had put our pizza in the oven yet, was completely ignored. Looking into the pizza oven I could see there was no pizza in there, so when the waitress was free, I asked her if she could cancel the pizza and we would just pay for what we had eaten, to which the pizza chef rudely interjected "I ran out of chicken, that's why I didn't make your pizza" when I responded that you need to tell... read more

Food is tasteless. Empty restaurant and still took forever for food to arrive. It was too dark in there and i cant believe how rude the staff were. They ignored and avoided us and made rude comments and jokes. Pathetic excuse for a restaurant would never go back and would tell others to not even bother

We had previously had a poor experience at this restaurant. After the original owner returned we gave it another go. It wasn't any better, but it was obvious that they were still settling in. So we gave it another chance this year, and were yet again disappointed. The restaurant is loud, and seating is packed in like sardines. Our order seemed to take a long time to come out, and part of it was missing. The "manager" was very snide in helping us but we got it eventually. Even though it wasn't very busy, the staff seemed more interested in joking around behind the counter. Overpriced, with bad service. We won't be back.

Little Italy's decor is a paradox. The large televisions on the wall scream 'I'm fast food, I'm a distracting subtraction from any attempt at ambience', whereas the large woodfired pizza oven emanates a striving for culture and authenticity. This paradox put me off, the disjunctive divide between what I perceived as an anachronism and the overt efforts for unadulterated pizza, coloured (or should I say flavoured) my meal. The pizza was really top quality and the lasagna was smooth and demonstrated a perfect understanding of cheese ratios, however sadly I couldn't overcome the confused atmosphere. Too pricey as well may I add.