La Pizzeria in Southend-on-Sea

I have been coming here for years now. To this day, the best and most authentic Italian I have come across in Essex. It's a hidden gem, you can so easily walk past and not realise how wonderful it is. I was perhaps intrigued/anxious that the food would be basic as the menu is very big, but I can safely say every genre lives up to it's expectation. Just so yum. Lovely wine selection too. (P.S - I took my Dad here who is from Napoli, and he approves)!

Lovely atmospheric Italian.Great looking menu, but went for something from specials board. Delicious and great wine.A definite return.Enjoy.

After a show at the Palace Theatre, we called in for a meal, La Pizzeria to round the evening off, we were not disappointed, it was delicious, Pizzas for the kids,soft drinks canneloni and some delicious looking Pizza for the adults, a perfect end to our day. Spotlessly clean in the restaurant and the toilets, highly recommend

Great service, great food. Small number of tables. A wonderful place to spend the evening. Certainly not to be missed. Top marks

Had a really lovely meal with good service. The food is very good and portions are big. We'll be back!

Lovely authentic Sicilian pizzeria. Excellent service and delicious food. Very quaint and just a lovely meal out especially when you love authentic food. A must to eat at

Very nice meal with authentic flavours. I’m always a bit concerned when I see a menu as large as the one La Pizzeria offer, but everything we had was very good. We started with the Caprese salad with some fresh bread and olives. I then went for the seafood pizza, which was delicious although I feel there was a little too much cheese on it. My partner had a chicken tagliatelle dish which she enjoyed but said it could have been better seasoned during cooking. The restaurant itself is small but cosy and nicely laid out. Everything is spotlessly clean and the service is both friendly and attentive. Would recommend

Was last in La Pizzeria a few years ago, well, before lockdown, and it was really good then. Nice to see a high standard of :Greeting at the doorGreat wineGreat food - We all had steaks, which were very nice, great sauce.Great Irish coffee (my friend is Irish, if he was Italian....)Very nicely pricedPlease phone and book otherwise you will be missing out on a very nice meal.

Absolutely brilliant!! Step out of Southend and step straight into Sicily.The pizza was incredible, calamari picante soup monetary was phenomenal too.Book a table and just enjoy the night.

Reviews are deceptive in this case as we have not found that great sicilian restaurant we were expecting.An Italian restaurant with many British adapted recipes was found instead.Don't get me wrong, food was good, but it could have been better.We trusted our Italian palate and went for some recipes that were closer to our taste, and overall the food was OK, though we had difficulties with digestion.E.g. my pizza aubergines were not fully cooked, and that was a bit disturbing.We had also arancini as a starter, okish but without the traditional water drop shape and a bit of strange filling.A cannolo and a lemon cheesecake completed the lunch, but the latter was deepen in cream and the first made without the right quantity of ricotta Cheese and not following the real recipe, rather than covered with hot chocolate.That said, we couldn't find sicilian wines from the area were the owner comes from. Not really good IMHO.Finally, the cost of water was disproportionate to the rest. A 75ml panna water cost £2.5 each.