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Restaurant: Prezzo on Verulam Road

Submitted by Robin Hamman on March 7, 2008 – 21:356 Comments

Prezzo (we’re going to have to check that spelling!) is located between Carluccio’s and the Sushi place on Verulam Road, across from Pizza Express. Basically, it’s like Zizzi used to be. Or Strada. Or Pizza Express with a bit more pasta. Can you tell we’re less than enthusiastic?

We went on a packed Friday night. It was noisy. Service was friendly but slow and they kept forgetting to bring things we’d ordered. The final beer, ordered midway through eating the pizza fiorentina you see here, was actually delivered after the table had been cleared. I’d actually canceled it, and asked for the bill, and the waitress arrived with both in hand. Maybe it’s just because it was really really busy.

The food was, well, mediocre. Like Strada (which we don’t have in St. Albans). Like Pizza Express. You know, samey samey Italian fare that’s not challenging or interesting. I do wish someone would open something other than yet another Italian in St. Albans…

Disappointed but more with the genre than with the actual place.


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  • Hannah says:
    April 20, 2008 at 17:51

    I have to agree with your comment. Extremely boring food in an entirely impersonal setting. We had today our first lunch (and most likely last) at Prezzo. I had a rather bland risotto and my husband did his best to finish a very ordinary pizza. Moreover, we heart brokenly discovered that their premises replace old good Buon Amichi, the oldest Italian restaurant in the city. Really, places like Prezzo add very little to the culinary scene of our city.

  • pauline beever says:
    May 9, 2008 at 16:06

    tried ringing you at 4pm today fri 9/5/08 .we have had lots of complaints about your extract system /lots of smoke.since it is likely to catch fire before I can visit please deal with same/switch it off and change the filters /clean it or call in the engineers as a matter of urgency.
    thank you
    pauline beever
    environmental health officer
    01727 819432

  • William Voyce says:
    June 16, 2008 at 13:26

    Prezzo’s was poor. Not only was the service slow, the food was luke warm and average. We spent nearly two and a half hours in the restaurant and left hungry and with a headache.
    It was loud and we waited and waited and waited and……
    My starter of squid was so over cooked it looked like Hula Hoops with a side salad. The Pizza arrived five minutes after everything else as did the vegetables. The Pizza was still undercoked having been 45 minutes in the waiting.
    Never again

  • Caroline says:
    January 18, 2009 at 21:13

    Arrogant awful service – waited hours for our food and were shouted at for asking when we would get our food. Very average food. Would never darken their doors again – unlike Harpenden Prezzos which is much better.

  • LGratte says:
    February 27, 2009 at 22:04

    Agree completely, food rubbish service worse so many more reasonable places to go!!!!

  • Smita says:
    April 27, 2009 at 16:03

    Absolutely agree, service, food, atmosphere, all really awful. Should close it down. Starters and mains were so bad we left it all uneaten and went next door