La Bottega Della Pizza

Excellent pizza. Fresh ingredients, good spices and proper crust. This is a REAL Italian pizzeria! Service was quick. We sat at one of the outdoor tables, which was simple, but pleasant. We ordered an extra pizza to take home at the end of our meal.

Really great pizza here! Personally I think the sauce needed more salt and flavor. Service was only ok, but could have been because our French isn't very strong.

Most probably one of the most tasty pizzas in town. Oven baked pizzas, big portioned pizzas. A bit disappointed by the music (lady Gaga), and the lack of drinks variety. It is a small place, more appropriate for a quick pizza "snack", rather than a dinner experience.

First impressions of the place is that it must be good when half of the tables are full of Italian people.

I am very disappointed by the fact that they forgot our order twice and we waited more than one hour for our pizzas while we saw the tables after us being served first.

Despite the poor service, the pizzas are the best I have ever tried in Belgium and has made me decide to hopefully come back soon.

Best pizza I have ever had! Cash only, menu on big board, small restaurant and limited menu. Service was slow and kept forgetting what we asked for. But...this is the one place I did not mind poor service. I had a 1/4 carafe of their house red and a pizza with salami, garlic and smoked mozzarella cheese. BEST EVER! They also put some red chilli paste on it that wasnt too spicy.

Despite the slow service we could have kept on bugging them to get what we wanted, but opted not to. I got to talking to them after my meal and they were great people to get to know. Very friendly.

This place is popular so make reservations!

Came here in April and the pizza really was great. Our server was slammed but she hustled a lot and provided efficient, friendly service. I enjoyed both pizzas (the mozzarella and the anchovy olive), really outstanding food. Nice house wine, cold beers, excellent pizza. The place was packed and it was clear that everyone really enjoyed the food as much as we did. Five-star experience.

So, with that tasty April experience in mind, we decided to come for lunch on Saturday. We called ahead, at around 12:45PM, to ask about lunchtime hours and to ensure that they weren't closed for summer holiday. The employee who answered the phone said that they were open until 3:30 (and closed from about 3:30PM to 6:30PM). Imagine my dismay when we arrived at 1:45PM and were told that the kitchen had closed only five minutes earlier! Apparently they only stay open until 3:30 for the people who have already ordered. An honest mistake, perhaps, but why did he think we were calling? Isn't that something you'd tell someone who was clearly about to head over to your restaurant? "We're open until 3:30, but if you come at 1:45, you're boned." Why not tell us that the kitchen closes nearly two hours before the restaurant closes?

We were pretty annoyed, and honestly it left such a bad taste that I don't think I'll return. We had planned to bring guests when they visit Brussels, but if the service is so unpredictable, it would be better to give it a miss.

bad food and worse service. we waited thirty minutes for the check after asking for it three times and they argued it was a ten minute wait. and the so called ham was more like lunch meat

Came here again as a party of 5 with visiting US folks and once again while the food was excellent (which is why it is 5-star) the service really veered from fantastic to bad during the course of the evening! Hence am keeping my rating of 4 stars as before even though the food totally is 5-star worthy!

So to start with, it took like 45 minutes to order (and even with 2 diners running late) when our table was complete it still took a loooonnng while to get the attention of the waiter. Plus the folks left on the table weren't given any olives to nibble on, although those were provided to other diners. The good news is that when we did get the waiter, he said he could make our own pizzas, if we told him what we liked and so 1 person got the mushroom pizza, another got fish eggs (yes, really! because they were out of all other seafood); 3rd person said he liked pepperoni, 4th person wanted mushrooms and the wild boar bacon, and I wanted something spicy as well as the wild boar bacon.

I must say the diner who requested a pizza similar to pepperoni, his pizza was just out of the ball park and ranked #1 for all of us! We later found out this was because he had both smoked mozzarella cheese and something called 'Nduja - which is a spicy pork paste from Calabria, and I would totally recommend getting any pizza that has this as a topping! (As a side note - the fish eggs pizza was too salty for me, but the diner who ordered said he didnt feel the salt levels as much).

We had drinks as well and bill was around 80 euros. So I will be back, but only because the food is so good!

Best pizza in Brussels I have ever eaten! (and staff was super friendly)
Be sure you book in advance if you want to get a table

ps: cash-only

I went here on a late Saturday night. There were no tables available but the owner found me a spot at the end of a table where a large group were eating.

I had the ham and mushroom pizza which was delicious. I was actually on the way to another place when I walked past this one. So glad i stopped and ate here.

Really cool neighborhood as well. Lots of places to walk around here and get a feel for a different part of the city