Little Italy

Going to Little Italy is in many ways like going home. There are always new places on Byres Road but Little Italy is always there and it’s always very good. My most recent visit was on a way to going off to working.
Little Italy is a pretty small place, but I was able to get a seat after I made my order. In this particular visit I skipped over the coffee, but it was due to other plans rather than the quality (it is very good). I ordered my pizza, obtained the buzzer and waited for my pizza. It’s honestly never a very long wait for the pizza but when I’m hungry it feels like it is.
The buzzer went off and I picked up my pizza, with the added bonus of freshly ground black pepper. After many times being here, the pizza is always beautiful. This particular visit’s pizza was a 10″ pizza with fresh goat’s cheese. Everything is just the way it should be in a pizza. The cheese was beautifully melty without being oily. The crust is just as always is.
It was a nicely motivating pizza for my upcoming rough day of work. Still some of the best pizza available on Byres Road.

In my opinion, this is one the best pizzas in Glasgow. I’m Italian and I know a thing or two about pizzas. The restaurant is very authentic and makes you feel as if you are in Italy. The best thing is the pizza. I recommend Little Italy to anyone who loves Italian cuisine.

This place was an absolute staple for me during exam time a few years ago, almost daily appearances were made! Little italy is probably the best place to head to on Byres Road if you’re wanting a coffee or a quick bite to eat. Seating is on the short side, but turnaround is very quick so you won’t be waiting for long.
Little Italy sells various items like pasta (carbonara is a personal favourite), coffee and cakes, but the main item on show is the pizza. All the pizzas are prepared freshly in front of you, with a variety of toppings. A standard 10″ with a few toppings and a drink comes to around £8−9 so the value is very good. When you order you recieve a buzzer which will go off when your pizza is ready, adding to the quick turnaround. The pizzas themself are one of the best in the area, with a nice tasty choice of toppings. My only complaint is the cheese used isn’t the greatest.
Another plus to Little Italy is that it’s also takeaway. Ideal when you’re studying across the road!

I love Little Italy! This casual little Italian café on Byres Road is a west end institution and a great place to go for pizza (they do pasta too but I’ve never tried it as I always go back for the pizza!). Lots of delicious toppings to choose from (I usually go for mushrooms, black olives and hot hot hot jalapenos — nom!) and you can order your pizza by the (square) slice or full pizza of varying sizes depending on how hungry you are. I usually prefer thin and crispy style bases but the base here is a little bit more substantial, crisp and with a good bite to it. I’d recommend a San Pellegrino Limonata to wash it down with — great combo! It’s a small place and is often packed though so you might struggle to find a seat at busy times. Takeaway available too.

The best pizza place in the West End? It’s a difficult choice to make but there’s a good chance that it’s Little Italy. I’m sure most people would at least put it in their top 3.
It’s not an enormous restaurant. A large bar/​service area takes up a lot of space, as does the pizza oven at the back and as suck the seats are kind of arranged all the way around the edges. Somehow though, whenever I’ve wanted to sit in, they have managed to find a space for me.
They do pizza and pasta mostly, with a few other Italian favourites. The coffee is really good and the cake is the ideal thing to bring as a surprise in a take away box to a friend who needs cheering up. Trust me, it never fails. The pizza comes as slices (really squares) or three other standard sizes, starting at 10 inch and is cheese and tomato by default. There isn’t really a menu of standard toppings like, for example, mushroom and proscuitto, red pepper and goats cheese, Hawaiian, Four Seasons, etc. Rather, they just have all imaginable toppings and you tell them which ones you’d like. This way you pay for the toppings you want based on the size of pizza you order, and every pizza is, in that sense, personalised.
Once you’ve placed your order you’re given a buzzer (regardless of whether you’re sitting in or taking out) and when it goes off you head over to that pizza oven and the chef will hand it to you with or without freshly ground black pepper, according to your preference.
The pizza is always good too. Always. The base is great and the toppings are reliably fresh and delicious. Sadly, the days are gone when a snapfax and £4 could get you a pizza and a can of soda but their still very fairly priced for the quality you can expect.

I can admire a place that has simplicity at its heart while being delicious.
Add a dash of authenticity and sniff of wood fired oven pizzazz and you have an immediate happy place.
The place is on the smaller side but always bustling with satisfied regulars. It’s scrumptious pizza, tending to be on the doughy side rather than the paper thin NY sort. Nevertheless, it balances the scale for good pizza places in the West end to the ones available in city centre. A range of fresh toppings with various Italian meats offered, makes it hard to tire of their pies. All the while taking their orders and executing them with methodical urgency, its no wonder this place will not fail to attract customers.
A piece of Little Italy goes a long way.