Zizzi - St Albans

We stopped here for lunch during a recent visit to St Albans and we had a great time. The food was good and my girlfriend especially enjoyed her salami and truffle mushroom pizza. I got the spaghetti pomodoro and even though it initially looked like a small serving I soon found out it was very filling and I wasn't able to actually finish it.

Fantastic food and great service. Good portion sizes and stuffed after starter and main. Shame there’s no draught beers but you can’t have everything! I had the calamari and prawn linguine and could hardly walk afterward. My brothers in law ordered the calzone and egg and bacon pizza and it was the size of the surfboard! Top marks. Please see photos

My husband and I visited Zizzi in St Albans yesterday evening. Straight away as we felt the warm and welcoming atmosphere. It was a rather busy night so we had to we had to wait a few minutes but it wasn't too long. We loved the 'speedy order' app, it meant that we could order the food we wanted without any pressure, and we were able to use the app to pay quickly at the end. However there was also the option to order the traditional way for those who prefer to. Firstly for starters, I ordered the calamari and my husband chose the Beef brisket & mozzarella arancini. Both tasted delicious at first but after a few bites of the calamari the salty taste became overwhelming so I couldn't finish mine, I feel like it was over seasoned with salt. At this point we asked for a glass of water as our wine wouldn't wash the salty taste. We were told that it would be a minute so we waited. Next for the mains we ordered the calzone carne piccante and the casareccia pollo piccante. Both were very delicious and were full of flavour. Again we ask for a glass of water. Lastly we ordered the salted honey, raspberry and pistachio cheesecake, one each for the both of us. It was very yummy, but I was already getting full so I unfortunately couldn't finish it all. I really could have used a glass of water here but it didn't come. So we paid and left. Overall it was a lovely experience, and would have been 5 stars however I feel like the fact that our water didn't arrive at all after asking twice had let them down. So it's a 4 stars from me!