ristorante vecchiomondo in Kensington and Chelsea

Spent a weekend in London’s with my family and wanted to get something quick. From the outside the restaurant look nice enough but once you enter you are hit with the smell of old food and a$$. The owner/hostess/bartender/cook/barker/server is rude and adds costs to the bill out of thin air. If you enjoy terrible food, god awful service and expensive prices this is your place!!!!!

Don't know where the bad reviews came from. Place could use a good update. There were Christmas decos out in August, but I have no complaints on the food or service. Pizza was excellent, cheese and crust, superior...Server had been working there for 41 years!! Would go back.

Would not recommend this place at all.Like a previous comment. "Canned food "Very expensive for what was served. Not able to finish the meal.Fresh seafood it said. Rubber mussels!!!!Don't ask for the toilet either.Better still go to a different restaurant.It certainly wouldn't be worse.Think you get the gist of what I'm saying.

STAY AWAY... Came here with my brothers after a Chelsea match looking for a pizza. Disaster stroke when we entered this place. Food, Wine, service, smell of this place is so bad that one can wonder how this place can stay in business. We made the mistake by not checking reviews before entering and not leaving when the food was served... Amazing that a pizza place can have a rating of 1,4 when thinking of 1 being the lowest possible.I can only support another reviewer that would rather give the money to a homeless and stay hungry than eat here...AVOID AT ALL COST!

This was a disaster. Avoid at all costs. When we first went in, the place smelt offputting and we knew from the start that it was going to be bad. The owner was a scary old woman, and the only staff member. We were the only customers in there when other restaurants were completely full. The food was totally overpriced. The woman cooked all of the meals in a small kitchen next door by herself. When the food arrived it looked very unappetizing and tasted just as bad. When paying, the woman charged a compulsory 15% service charge which was ridiculous, and she overcharged us by £20. The restaurant had no italian feel to it and an overall bad experience. Avoid at all costs

From the outside the restaurant looks great, but as soon as you step in and is "greeted" by the owner/hostess/waitress it becomes clear that the experience will be awful. She was between being rude and ignoring us. We ordered the food since we didn't want to be fooled by first impressions... Big mistake. The food was terrible, my boyfriendeft his plate untouched and mine was ok but I had better food buying frozen at the supermarket. Not sure how after all these reviews this place is still open.

DO NOT go to this restaurant. I walked in alone tonight during the height of dinner (there were only 3 parties of 2 each at the time with all the other tables empty) and the hostess/owner says very rudely, "Sorry, there's no space." There were two tables for one person directly in front of me. I said excuse me and she repeated herself and walked away. This place clearly does not value its customers or making money. If this restaurant only has 6 people at 8 PM on a Tuesday then they better take all the business they can get. Please spend your money/tell your friends to spend their money elsewhere when in Kensington since you very well might be turned away for no reason. If you will be dining alone, it is especially not worth it. Absolutely no excuse to be treated in such a way. The place smelled bizarre anyway, which is probably a good indicator of the food quality. If they don't care about having customers then they probably don't care about how their food tastes either. If you read a few of the reviews below, you'll find the same thing happening to other people. Let's see how many reviews it takes for this place to get the picture.

There was only one woman in the restaurant who cooked and delivered the food to the tables. Therefore it took about 40 minutes until we got our meal.The drinks we received in cans so we had to fill it into our glasses on our own.The three pizzas we ordered were a way too thick (about 2 cm or 1 inch).All in all (3 pizzas and 5 cokes) costed 52 pounds as we had to pay 8 pounds for the service which did not really exist.PS: One of our neighbortables ate fish - unfortunately it smelled auwful thus we would not recommend to order it.

I should have read the reviews first! Went in hoping for a reasonably priced meal, came out dissapointed and much poorer. While ordering we were informed by our waitress that we were not allowed to share plates. We tried to order 2 or 3 pizzas to split amongst 4 people so we ordered individual pizzas. When were unable to finish the portions we asked for a box to take away our remaining slices if pizza. The waitress then pointed to a hand written note on the wall indicating that 'We do not do takeaways this includes left over dishes!'

Went here while on vacation in London. Not only was the food bad and way over priced, the napkin I had was filthy. Totally disgusting. Lastly, the service was horrible. The waitress/hostess (she was the only on in the place) acted insulted when we asked her to recommend gluten free options on the menu. Will never go there again.