IL LOCALE in Hamburg

At IL Locale they want to do a lot of things differently. This is how you want to prove that a good open wine doesn't have to cost the earth. Make the pizza dough yourself and let it sit for at least 24 hours, preferably 48. The rustic ambience also has its coziness but the modern one doesn't have to be neglected either. That the kitchen can do more than just pasta and pizza, but can also score points with good dishes.

Very tasty food and good drinks. The carbonara and pizza are highly recommended.

Excellent food, friendly and professional place, located in a quiet neighborhood, satisfied, I recommend it to everyone, especially to Italians who are looking for home flavors.

Best pizza and very, very nice boss

It's rare to get such delicious pizzas. Staff, very friendly and attentive. Highly recommended!!!

Based on the previous reviews: we got a table without any problems and the bill was also correct. It's nice to sit outside, but right on the street. The starter came at the same time as the main course - we had ordered it differently. The service can be better here. The food was very tasty.

Excellent and REAL Italian restaurant. Pizza, pasta and desserts according to the best traditions. The staff at the service are very kind and helpful. We'll be back soon!🫶🏻

Finally not a hipster thing in Ottensen but simply a very, very, VERY good restaurant. Great! (2 years later) ... unfortunately no longer as it was. Food rather mediocre. Service has deteriorated. Order delivered incorrectly and waited in vain for dessert and coffee, we were ignored as guests for the last half hour... What a shame

Great - we'll come back soon!!!

Erik who made my pizza was very sweet

The food is amazing and the service is super nice and funny Highly recommended, especially the pizzas and the dessert

Super delicious food and really nice service Highly recommended, especially the pizzas

Erik, the pizza maker and Davide are awesome. Great people, it was a very nice evening

Best pizza of my life - come almost every week now 🤣🫶❤️ really great

Real, very good Italian cuisine and ambience. Starters, pizza, pasta and desserts - all delicious.

Wow! A really authentic Italian with ultra-delicious food, from the starter to the main course to the dessert. Absolutely recommended.

Very tasty pizza, as always :) Nice wine selection. We got a table on Friday evening without a reservation and with a short wait.

We ordered pizza online. The pizzas arrived warm and we thought they tasted exceptionally good. You could also see visually that this was not your usual run-of-the-mill pizza. The base was delicious, nice and thin and crispy at the corners!

Very disappointing. We waited 1.2 hours for our pizza and we weren't the only ones who were hungry. Everyone around us waited forever, only one older couple was given preferential treatment (presumably friends of the house?). We are used to better things from other Italian restaurants; we weren't even served bread or olives. The pizza was okay, but it is disproportionate to the poor organization. We won't be coming back.

A tiny Italian gem in Ottensen. The owner is very friendly and caters to all your needs. Highly recommend the pizzas and the Suppli!

A very good starter with fried rice balls with ragu and mozzarella filling! The pizza was very large and tasty. Approximately €40-50 per person for three courses plus an aperitif and espresso is very, very fair. Great atmosphere. A very small deduction for the dessert – it tasted a bit unloving (tartufo). The espresso was very good. It wasn't possible to pay the bill at the table – at least not when we were there. Also so-so. But we'd be happy to come back👍🏻

Il Locale simply has a relaxed, hospitable atmosphere, you immediately feel like you are in Italy. Everyone speaks Italian among themselves, the food is super delicious, whether it's starters, pasta, pizza or dessert. My favorites are pizza zucchini, bavette al mare and the white mousse with berries panna cotta. This time I tried the salad with goat cheese and what can I say... delicious 😊

My absolute favorite Italian in Ottensen! The food is delicious and the service is great, highly recommended :)

Very tasty food and great service! Always my pleasure :)

Very nice atmosphere, very nice staff and very tasty again and again

Cozy atmosphere, great service and super delicious food. Always my pleasure!

A really great Italian 🙏 definitely deserves the five ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Service, food, value for money really great Thank you 👌👌👌 Highly recommended

Nice atmosphere and friendly service

Great unusual pizzas. Unfortunately you always need a reservation and it is very noisy.

The best pizza in Hamburg! Everything very tasty! Nice atmosphere! Nice Italian staff! Thank you 🙏

Hier kann man sehr gut italienisch essen! Leckere Pasta, superlecker Pizza und fantastische Desserts! Gemütliche Atmosphäre!

Super delicious pizza! 🍕 Nice staff!! Simply great 👍🏽🤩😎🥳😋

Super welcoming and very clean place. Friendly and pleasant staff. Excellent dishes (the best carbonara I have ever eaten). The panzerotto with turnip greens that immediately takes you home. If you pass through Hamburg it must be an obligatory stop. Vincenzo reserves an unparalleled welcome. See you next time.

Cozy restaurant in the Ottensen district. Tasty pizza, but because most of the toppings were spread cold on the pizza after baking, the pizza got cold very quickly.

Unfortunately it was hard to cut through the pizza, maybe we would have needed a steak knife... what a shame🤨

On en sort et ce fut un délice, macaroni épinard sauce à la truffe juste une tuerie, un délice....trop bon ça sent bon l italie....

Good pizza, really good pasta. We'll definitely come back again.

I haven't eaten so well in a long time. It was really tasty, if not one of the best I could eat in Germany and the service was very friendly.

Great place to eat pizza, the tomato sauce, the crunchiness of the dough and the choice of cheese as well as the toppings, everything was well balanced. The lasagne was delicious, too. Thanks a lot for a nice evening!

It was all super tasty! Thank you, see you soon!

After we placed our order, the waitress came to us and told us that the pasta we had ordered was unfortunately out. Of course, this can happen - but the range of alternatives on offer was not comparable to the desired dish. Disappointingly, the two pasta dishes we received didn't look anything like the photos and were inedible. The sauces were tasteless and the carbonara had cream and a lot of it. Poorly seasoned and very oily too. The parmesan and the truffle were also not fresh but industrial. I don't know if the actual chef was sick or we just had a bad day but at €62 for two dishes and two cokes we definitely won't be eating here again. The quality of the food is definitely much better at other Italian restaurants in the area!

Very nice restaurant and a “real” Italian! We ate the best pizza here in a very, very long time. Even though the prices have increased, the quality is really good! Oh and there's Peroni on tap! So refreshing! 😋

Really nice little Italian restaurant in the heart of Altona Must recommend

Very pleasant place, delicious pizza, wine a bit too expensive…

Pizza didn't quite meet expectations, a bit more expensive

Fantastic food, great ambience, again and again!

Erstklassig ! Die Pizzen waren bei uns dreien ein Genuss ! Sehr zu empfehlen! Super freundliches Personal und toller Wein Gerne wieder !

Where else can you get pizza with half a carrot on it? 🥕❤️

Went there for dinner around 6 p.m. without a table reservation. GOOD: very tasty food, special children's pizza, nice atmosphere, very nice staff, clean toilets NOT GOOD: Tables are too small for 2 pizzas. The plates look beyond the table. Service doesn't come and ask if you want any more drinks.

Very good, authentic pizza and pasta. Price performance completely okay. Very nice staff. Reservation recommended.

Very very beautiful 🐞❤️👍👍 Loving decorations. Great Italian atmosphere (like on my holidays in Sicily) super delicious food. Pre-order makes sense. Unfortunately, chairs are uncomfortable

Food was incredible and nice service. The atmosphere in the restaurant was relaxed. Definitely worth stopping by!

Had very tasty, authentic Italian pizza and fresh salad in a chic restaurant! Great value for money!

Super typical Italian cozy restaurant - best pizza ever - delicious bruscetta and the rosè house wine made everything even more perfect - absolute recommendation - the price-performance ratio is also right👌

Beste italienische Küche! Wir waren seit langem richtig begeistert von einem Restaurant! Hier wird mit Liebe gekocht, innovative Tageskarte, Weg vom oft leider italienischem Einerlei. Unbedingt zu empfehlen!

Super authentic Italian with great food and drinks! The waiter Riccardo was very accommodating and made the evening perfect with his service. Thanks Riccardo, we'll come back when you're there too ;)

Pizzas themselves are very tasty, but unfortunately the vegan cheese maker doesn't taste good at all. Food is relatively expensive, drinks prices are fair. Service was friendly.

Unfortunately we had to wait a long time for our food. Guests who came after us had almost finished their dishes when our food arrived. We had a lot of pizza and pasta, starters and desserts in the group. Everything is very tasty and individually prepared! There is also a day ticket. Update a year later: Went there again at the invitation of a guest. After the starter we waited almost an hour for the main courses. Although our group was still eating, the dishes of the other guests at our table were already being cleared away. This is a service no go!!! And it's very loud there. Appropriate decoration would help!

Everything as it should be! ! If I could give it, I would even give it 10 stars

Excellent food, friendly and helpful staff, it feels like home. Super recommended

I'm Italian, I've been living in Hamburg for a year... I'll tell you... a very Italian restaurant, you eat like we do in Italy, it cooks with real Italian flavours. This is because... the owner of the restaurant has a great passion for Italian cuisine with fresh products imported from our country. Then the pizza... I am a pizza enthusiast and I can say that the pizza dough is fantastic, very good just like I eat it here in Italy. Passion, this is the real secret of a successful restaurant and the place absolutely is so with an excellent, friendly and professional staff... I absolutely recommend it to you Italians and non-Italians. See you soon guys... definitely!!

Sehr schönes Restaurant nur zum empfehlen

Super leckeres Essen, sehr sympathisch Bedienung und sehr liebe Inhaber. Wir kommen wieder ❤️ Viel liebe die 44QM Café Crew

Die Pizzen waren sehr lecker, der Service war sehr freundlich und Ambiente eben so. Wir kommen gerne wieder

Ich bin sehr froh darüber, dass ich dieses Restaurant gefunden habe. Sehr schöne Location, nettes Personal und das Essen einfach nur amazing, man fühlt sich wie in Italien 🤩 Es ist für jeden was dabei, kann man nur empfehlen. Ich komme auf jeden Fall wieder

Pizza war mega. Musste nur etwas Uf die Bedienungen warten

Das Essen, das Ambiente und der Service sind hervorragend. Selten haben wir so gut gegessen und wenn wir uns zukünftig in Hamburg aufhalten und Zeit und Hunger haben, werden wir definitiv zurück kommen.

Lecker Essen, nette Bedienung und nette, unterschiedliche Gäste.

Ristorante e pizzeria degna di definirsi italiana. Aperti solo per cena al momento, aperitivi, pizza , primi ottimi ma soprattutto Fritti, per quelli che amano supplì, crocchette come me! Spazio sia all’interno che all’esterno, ambiente accogliente, perfetto sia per amici che coppia! Provare per credere!

Wunderbarer Italiener. Preis/Leistung TOP, Essen wie auch Service war ebenfalls toll. Das Tiramisu kann ich wärmstens empfehlen. Einfach, gemütlich, fein & angenehm. Wir waren das 1. aber definitiv nicht das letzte Mal da 👍

Leute, wir waren am Samstag Abends aufgrund einer Empfehlung essen und es hat von A bis Z alles gestimmt. Die Speisen waren authentisch und doch modern. Pastagerichte waren ein Traum! Der Service dazu sehr höflich und aufmerksam. Eine Bereicherung für Altona!

Tutto fantastico dal personale al mangiare , pizza ottima e primi unici . Posto gradevole e centralissimo

Pizza war technisch ok. Vorspeise Teller etwas überteuert aber man kann nett auf der Straße sitzen.

Sehr sehr authentisch Italienisch, aufmerksamer Service, bei weitem unter den besten Pizzen Hamburgs

Sher gute Pasta, sehr gute Pizza. Echter Italiener!

Sehr schöne Atmosphäre, fantastisches, authentisches italienisches Essen. Die beste Pizza die ich bisher in Hamburg gegessen habe. Das Personal ist sehr freundlich und zuvorkommend, alle sprechen italienisch und man fühlt sich wie im Urlaub. Absolute Empfehlung!

Beste Pizza in Hamburg! Mehr muss nicht gesagt werden.

Für mich bis jetzt die beste Pizza in Hamburg. Lokal ist gemütlich Italienisch aber man benötigt kein Dresscode. Spontane besuche sind dadurch nicht die Seltenheit.

Hab mir eine Pizza Margherita bestellt und fand sie wirklich unspektakulär sorry. Trotz Knoblauchöl hat ihr einfach etwas Kick gefehlt. Will nicht wissen wie fad sie ohne das Öl geschmeckt hätte. 5,9/10

Super leckeres Essen zu einem absolut fairen Preis! Das Personal ist super freundlich, es wird sich gekümmert und individuell auf jeden Wunsch eingegangen.

Pizza super lecker. Top Service. Und das Highlight ist der Aperitif.

Sehr gute Pizza Freundlicher Service

Für mich gibt es hier die beste Pizza in Hamburg. Die Dolci auch sehr zu empfehlen und das Ganze in sehr angenehmer Atmosphäre.

Ein sehr tolles Restaurant mit tollem Service. Es war ab der Vorspeise bis zum Dessert alles perfekt. Schöne Weine gibt es auch dazu! Absolut empfehlenswert! Werde immer wieder hin gehen ☺️

Wurde ihrem Ruf gestern nicht gerecht: - Service unaufmerksam (z.B. keine Nachfrage nach weiterem Getränkewunsch bei leeren Gläsern) - Kein Brot o.ä. - weder vorweg noch zu Vorspeise oder Pasta - Lasagne i.O. - Kabeljaufrikadellen ohne jegliche Beilage in fish & chips-Tüte serviert, deshalb etwas dröge. - Location nett

Lange nicht so gut gegessen! Ich werde euch weiterempfehlen. Bis bald !

The pizza was one of the best that I had so far in Hamburg, with fresh ingredients. The tomato sauce is to die for, and the pizza crust is nice and crunchy! Drinks are very well prepared and they have nice vegetarian options too. The staff is also great, they are kind and patient with the ones like me that don't speak German very well. They also speak Italian, and there's a girl that speaks a little bit of English. È davvero una casa italiana! Great experience, I'll come back for sure.

Super leckeres Essen und ein sehr zuvorkommender Service. Riccardo war wirklich sehr aufmerksam. Es hat uns an nichts gefehlt und wir kommen sehr sehr gerne wieder.

Ich war mit Freunden an einem gemütlichen Donnerstagabend da. Mich hat der Duft getriggert als ich am Restaurant vorbei gelaufen bin. Der Service war super. Es war ein familiäres Ambiete, cool eingerichtet in schön renoviertem Glanz. Das Essen schmeckte. Wir haben zwar keine Pizza gegessen, was ihre Spezialität ist, dennoch waren wir von der Cannelloni und der Pasta sehr überzeugt und wollen nun unbedingt mal die Pizza schmecken. Geht da unbedingt mal hin, wenn ihr auf der Ecke seid.

Siamo stati nel fine settimana, ci è stato consigliato da amici, pizza buonissima, atmosfera bellissima e una buona accoglienza, a presto

Bella esperienza. Il locale e’ accogliente e il cibo di ottima qualità, dalla pizza alle altre portate. Assolutamente consigliato.

Bester Service in Hamburg; Netteste Bedienung in ganz Hamburg; Beste italienische Musik in Hamburg; Beste Cannelloni der Welt und Hamburg; Bester NEUER Besitzer des Lokals seit ein paar Wochen. Leute, - ich kann den Laden nur empfehlen. Hingehen und erleben. Was gibt man für eine Stunde Italienurlaub in Deutschland? Preis und Leistungsverhältnis unschlagbar

Il Locale si mangia bene lo consiglio Piatti gustosi e di qualità, bellissimo posto da provare assolutamente

Simone is the best Italian restaurant in all of Germany. Authentic Italian food at its best. Try the pizza buffalo and dessert tortino di cioccolata. Thank you for a great meal!!!

Buona la pizza, pasta all'amatriciana molto gustosa. Locale ben arredato e sopratutto un posto dove si possa mangiare italiano. Camerieri molto disponibili e efficienti. Ci tornerò sicuramente e porterò anche amici.

Auf dem Weg von der Nordsee zu den Alpen hatten wir in Hamburg Altona einen kleinen Zwischenstop eingeplant, um was zwischen die Zähne zu bekommen. Da unser eigenliches Lieblingslokal an dem Abend überraschenderweise geschlossen war, mussten wir auf Suche gehen und sind nach einiger Zeit im Il Locale gelandet. Einer der Gründe war hier sicherlich, dass man bereits ab 17:00 Uhr was zu essen bekommt, in Ottensen eher schwierig (wenn man mal von Fast-Food absieht...) Den etwas weiteren Weg vom Bahnhof Altona haben wir dann auch nicht bereut. Die Karte ist klein aber die Pizzen reissen das wieder raus (o.k. sehr umfangreiche Speisekarten machen mich immer nervös - so viele Zutaten kann keine Küche frisch vorrätig halten...) Wir haben unsere knusprige Pizzen auf jeden Fall sehr genossen - auch wenn die Lieferung etwas länger gedauert hat. Schliesslich sind wir in einem Restaurant und nicht an der Fast-Food-Theke...

Sehr gute Pizza und super gemütliches Ambiente. Perfekt für einen entspannten Abend unter Freunde. Gerne wieder!

Was here with my mate and we had a blast ! Francesco was an amazing host and served us very lovely with amazing pizza, wine and grappa ! We will definitely come back, both because the pizza dough was stunning and the house wine suited very well. Molto bene.

Der Service war das Schlechteste, was ich jemals erlebt habe. Nudeln matschig (vorgekocht?) und kalt, Pizza eher trocken, sah aber gut aus. Wir warteten mind. 30 min auf die Getränke, das Essen wurde erst nach 1,5h gebracht. Auf Nachfrage oder freundliche Kritik wird ironisch oder patzig reagiert. Abgeräumt wurde auch nicht. Wir hätten gerne noch Wein getrunken, aber da keine Bedienung kam und auch niemand organisierbar war, saßen wir 1 Stunde ohne Getränk da - kein Wasser, kein Wein. An Umsatz scheint das Il Locale kein Interesse zu haben. Möglicherweise ist allerdings das Restaurant daneben-KARLS- ein Geheimtipp. Zum Essengehen war das nix.

Die Auswahl an Speisen ist begrenzt. Die gewählten Gerichte dauern etwas lange, waren geschmacklich gut, hatten aber keinen Pfiff. Die Hausweine sind gut und preislich OK. Der Service ist freundlich, aber angesichts des gut gefüllten Restaurants etwas überfordert. Alles in allem ein ordentlicher Italiener, aber nicht aufregend.