La Bufala

We quite enjoyed our experience here as we found the food to be nice and the service to be friendly. The food comes out quick and the waitress we had memorized our order without writing it down but she did forget one of our orders. Besides the pasta being a little too salty, everything else was fine. Would come back again to order other pizzas and pastas.

~Food~ I am hesitant to write anything critical about the food due to the responses of the owner on the other reviews. However, I will say that I share view of some of the other reviewers here that some of the pizzas were soggy. This seemed to apply more so to the tomato based pizzas than the white based ones. In saying that, you could tell the ingredients were high quality. The gnocchi was reasonably good. The lamb ragu was very well executed and flavourful. This really elevated the dish. On balance, I would rate the food 4/5. ~Atmosphere~ This is not the place you’d go for a quiet, romantic dinner. It is loud and energetic. Our experience was unpleasant due to a flock of ~15 obnoxious individuals who insisted on standing up in the middle of the restaurant drinking. This meant my family were frequently knocked or touched on the back while eating. I saw another girl knocked by someone’s backpack while she was trying to eat. The wall people standing in the middle of the restaurant made it difficult/impossible for the wait staff to effectively wait on our table. We ended up saying something, and the waitstaff after immediately (to their credit). Presumably they told them to sit down because they did …for a moment. They were back up just minutes later. My brother (who’s 21st we were there celebrating) and his girlfriend ended up leaving early as a consequence. They boxed up his birthday dinner and the two of them went home. As such, I’d rate this aspect of the experience at 1/5. ~ Service ~ We changed our booking to make it later in the evening and the staff were incredibly accomodating. When waitstaff could actually reach us they were polite, helpful and professional. There was some difficulty getting service at times. For instance, when we first arrived we thought we had to order at the bar when it was actually table service. Given what’s happening in the world at the moment (covid, staff shortages) and the issues I touched on above, I understand why this may be the case. On balance, I’d rate this aspect of the experience a strong 4/5.

Came here for dinner with a group of friends. Overall, ambience was nice and staff were friendly. The pizzas were ok - we ordered a vegan pizza and calzone and this took quite a long time to come out. In terms of taste, the pizza Bianca lacked flavour. The calzone was ok but I've had better vegan ones.

Wanted to visit a woodfire restaurant (rated 4.9) but it was closed, so came here instead (rated 4.2). Ordered gnocchi and pizza. Surprisingly the pizza is better than the other place we didnt get to go. Big portion. Only ordered 2 and it is more than enough for both of us. The restaurant looks pretty busy but fortunately it didnt take long to serve the food.