Best pizza!! Super friendly owner and staff
Really really good food and pocket friendly
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 3
A nice to enjoy authentic Italian and European food on Diani beach. Positives: food is good, servers are polite and well trained. Negatives: seating can become quite hot due to the overhead tarp and general heat in Mombasa. Needs to install good fans and ventilation. Open throughout the day. Owner is always hanging around the place with his pals. A nice experience.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
KES 2,000–2,500
Food: 5
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 3
Recommended dishes
Caprese
The welcome by Mr Aniello makes you feel at home. The staff are great too.
The food is great, always yummy 😋
At Aniello you always have candle lit dinner great ambience.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
KES 2,000–2,500
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 4
Recommended dishes
Hawaiian Pizza
Best Italian on Diani Beach. Go for their authentic thin style pizzas and fresh raviolis!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
KES 1,000–1,500
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Pizza Quattro Stagioni
Ok food, no credit card option, no airflow in the outside seating area.
Positives: polite servers and it seems like as authentic an Italian restaurant as you’d expect to find in Diani, with the owner sitting at his permanent table sharing a drink with one of his buddies from the old country.
Negatives: no airflow through the seating area, cannot pay by credit card - maybe not any cards because the reason given was ‘no machine’, lots of noise from the road, holes in the table cloths. Average food.
Going in it felt like we were entering an Italian oven. The yellowish semi-transparent tarps which serve as the roof bathe the dining area in a sweat inducing ambient warm orange light. Combined with the fact that only half the fans were working, it made for a rather tiring experience. The side facing the road is all open while the more quiet ends of the seating area were covered by a very tight lattice with small holes which didn’t let much air pass.
We also learned that pepperoni in Italian means green pepper - not the typical slightly spicy sliced sausage which normally adorns a classic pepperoni pizza 🍕. When they brought the green pepper pizza there was some confusing discussion about what the problem was before then took it way and added the pepperonis we expected to see. (I’ve since read up on this and this must be a problem at every Italian restaurant around the world. Probably worth a note in the menu to avoid further confusion.
I was surprised to find out I couldn’t pay by credit card. Just had enough cash and mPesa to cover the bill 😬
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Grill fish must try. Beef with potato smash is good. Lasagna is average. Spaghetti was ok.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
KES 1,500–2,000
Food: 4
Service: 3
Atmosphere: 3
Very tasty pizza and raviolli, the owner is always on the places and puts the arms on the pulse controlling the processes, the result of his work tastes in an amazing food.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Loved the sea food platter it was worth it definitely coming back for more with my friends 🤤❣️❣️ and the owner made it even more pleasant 👏👏👏
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
We ate in this restaurant three out of four nights here, in Diani, and regret skipping one night here and choosing one of the overrated neighbouring restaurants. If we came back to Diani, we would definitely eat here again and again.
The atmosphere is very authentic and the owner is very welcoming. The meals come quite fast and the staff is very friendly.
Out of quite a few meals here (over 20), we didn’t like just one to two which is just our taste and don’t blame it on the restaurant.
The reasons for the star off are two. First of all, there is no card payment option which is not good considering the fact that most of our payments are online and by card. That was a big problem for us in the first night here since we had an intention to pay virtually and had barely any cash with us.
Secondly, there is no Wi-Fi here which, if you are a tourist like us and have no cellular internet, is a little inconvenient but is bearable.
Overall, this is a great Italian restaurant to go to with friends or and family for the night (or three;) and will definitely come back here if we ever come back to Diani (which will probably not happen because is very very far away) :)
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
KES 3,000–3,500
Food: 4
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 4
