DI LORO Edgware

My family and I just had dinner at this lovely restaurant and I had to leave a review. Why? 1. Lovely food- more on this below 2. Good customer service- more on this below 3. Easy to miss. We live a 5 minute drive away and we've gone past this restaurant a million times and never noticed it. A needle in the haystack! A bit of perspective before I review. Yes, this is probably one of the longest reviews you will ever read. Make sure you have some popcorn! My husband's family love food! Ask their BMI (only kidding ;)) but really, very well travelled, not just worldwide but the cuisines in the UK too. Mu husband in particular, loves pizza. How much? When we got married and the veil parts and he see's me for the first time, his true love for the rest of his life, I had a pizza cushion in front of my face. Can't be kidding myself. I am not his first love. At least I'm not salad, his arch nemesis Onto the actual part of this review. Don't you wish you had the 'jump to recipe' function?! The popcorn's probably over now. Sorry! What we liked: 1. Pizza. Pizza. Pizza. My pizza loving husband is gluten intolerant so it's tough to get decent pizza base. Maybe this is why he is such a critic? But he loved this pizza! Fluffy and not soggy like some pizzas can get. The rest of us had the regular pizza and the base was crispy to perfection. If God didn't take the 7th day to rest, he would have spent it making this pizza! So those Indians in particular who run to Mescalzone in Edgware- try running a few more miles to this place! The pasta and lasagna were really yum too. We have a mixture of vegetarian and non-vegetarian but went for everything vegetarian. The meat eaters are the fussier ones but they enjoyed the veggie dishes too! I woild recommend the creamy mushroom tortellini we had! 2. My mother in law particularly fell in love with the homemade chilli oil. Her tastebuds had a jalapeano vibe. 3. The tricolore salad. Mostly for my father in law and I but we had to order another as it was soo good! Tomatoes, avo and mozarella marinated in God's tears of happiness. 4. Nothing goes better with Italian than wine, red in particular. Now I am a bit of a wine glass critic and must say that I loved drinking out of the massive wine glass! Imagine the joy of my husband holding onto those double Ds! Unfortunately I'm not blessed with these. Probably why I'm not my husband's first love. 5. Service. Really well taken care of. From everything to one million extra condiments to a soft tissue for my mother in law to blow her nose. No request was a big one. Extra points for making a new dish when we found one too salty. Things like this happen. What's important is how its dealt with! We weren't made to feel guilty at all and this does happen. A hostess told me off once! Check my other reviews out if you have more popcorn! 6. Price. Quality and a wallet friendly price plus leftovers for tomorrow's lunch! 7. Decent portion sizes especially with the pizza, garlic bread and salad. The rest of the dishes were one person dishes. We like eggplant parm so we automatically went for 2, and these did not disappoint! The 2 pasta dishes were perfect to share. What we think could have been done better: 1. A bit more attention to the ordering. We ordered garlic bread without tomato. Just garlic. But it came with tomato marinara. We still did enjoy it but this felt like a pizza starter for us. Some of you may like it as it still tasted great! 2. The veggie lasagna was really nice. It had broccoli, potato and spinach. I think if they went for some quorn mince filling, it would be different and delish! 3. Use this point to read what we liked above. Having experienced a business in the food industry, I really want to emphasise supporting small businesses like this. Imagine all those restaurants you once knew and love going to, disappearing. Now repeat point 3 above of things we think could have been done better and try this place! Quite a few couples and families were dining here so bring your next Hinge date here!

First time trying this restaurant and wow what a nice Italian place! As a family of one vegan, one gluten free vegetarian and two vegetarians, we weren’t sure if this restaurant would be able to accommodate us (and our dog), but Francesco was patient with our order and assured us he will deliver a dish for everyone. We all loved the combo of pizza, pasta and sides that the chefs made for us. The wood fired pizzas are awesome here, as are the staff. We will be returning here again.