Lardo - London Borough of Hackney

I have become a bit regular in lardo in the last months, usually for lunch at a weekend, but also for occasional weekday dinner. there are a few main reasons for this excellent eating and the warm, attentive team....The annoying thing about lardo is that her pizza is so damn good (I would say the best in london) that it is hard to try something else. the test of a good pizza compound is always the margherita and lardo’s is only exceptionally perfect teig, a rich and generous tomato base and moreish cheese to finish with a hauch basilikum. perfection in simpleness. also their more experimental pizzas (including one with a pumpkin base) are characterized by their taste and their performance. they are brave, but and try to get over the pizzas because their main thing and antipasti are just lovely. I still think of the lemon and ricotta ravioli I had here in february. the personal is just a blessing that is always friendly and very welcoming by young children. the waitress at the weekend was quick to move and put a umbrella when she saw that we had a young one with us. the manager is a wonderfully friendly guy the ultimate host. Whenever we have friends to stay, we go here because we think that hackney represents so well. buon appetito!

We had the vegetarian and meat-Lasagne specialties that were both disappointing. for lasagnen they had a serious lack of melted cheese and the vegetarian lasagne could hardly taste the filling and both taste poor and not fill. for the quality it was quite expensive and the service was abit slow, with a few dings from the menu. two lasagna and a bottle of their cheaper red wine came to it is a more cozy, beautiful it area, so we might see the wrong items and the pizzas looked better.

I really loved this place. they warned that we had a baby and a table was organized with a place for the children's car. really compact menu that is always a good sign. full open kitchen . a cool, no industrial pizza chain feel. the half of the group. was vegetarian and the half has no pizza, but we found all something delicious to eat. book with absolute trust. not cheap, but excellent.

Lardo is out of the beaten, so that the thing that it is so busy on a Mon night in the fairy says much for its ambiente and eat. both are spectacular. the people know about this place and want to come here. the menu is...easily Italian, with pizzas and pastas as well as beautiful starters. the quality of eating is very good and cured, the friendly and congenial host, recommended a negroamaro wein from apulia, which was excellent. Top stars from eating and service.

I took my best friend here for her birthday lunch. I ignored past reviews that mention dodgy service as I'm never really bothered about speediness etc. I like to think I'm an easygoing customer, but I must say that, given the prices at LARDO, I...was really disappointed by our experience. I liked the food, and the setting/aesthetic of the place was nice. But it took a really long time for us to flag down a waiter every time we wanted to order something, despite it not being busy. We waited a very long time for our drinks, which we eventually learnt had been forgotten. I had also asked for a dessert to be brought to my friend, as it was her birthday, but that was forgotten too. I didn't even bother chasing that one, as we were just ready to move on by that point. There was one man who, each time we eventually got his attention, always looked frustrated — as though our food/drink orders were inconveniencing him. He didn't seem to want to make the journey over to the table to ask us what we wanted, so on one occasion he just guessed and brought us the bill (when we were actually trying to order more drinks). All in all it was a pretty jarring experience. I totally get that hospitality jobs are tiring, and mistakes happen, but when you're paying for a main and per drink – and you've chosen the place for a birthday celebration – you just want to feel a little bit more looked after. Especially since the tip is automatically added to your bill. We still paid said tip, as we didn't want to turn it into a big thing. But it's not somewhere I'd choose to go back to.