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. 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. Rather, they just have all imaginable toppings and you tell them which ones you’d like. There isn’t really a menu of standard toppings like, for example, mushroom and proscuitto, red pepper and goats cheese, Hawaiian, Four Seasons, etc. The pizza comes as slices (really squares) or three other standard sizes, starting at 10 inch and is cheese and tomato by default. 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. They do pizza and pasta mostly, with a few other Italian favourites. Somehow though, whenever I’ve wanted to sit in, they have managed to find a space for me. 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. I’m sure most people would at least put it in their top 3. 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.

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

Going to Little Italy is in many ways like going home.

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