L'Osteria in Hannover

If you have time and are happy to wait, you can stop here for a meal.

There were three of us there. There's a sign at the reception saying you have to wait a moment and then you'll be assigned a nice seat. This isn't true, as we waited there for five minutes until an employee approached us, and we were assigned a seat between the cash register and the fire extinguisher. When it came to ordering, things continued: a peach iced tea and a lasagna. Neither was available, and we were ultimately pushed for a lemon iced tea and spaghetti Bolognese. The iced tea was still good, and the Bolognese too, but not outstanding. The price was still very reasonable. I don't really understand why spaghetti carbonara with cream is on the menu in a restaurant that presents itself as so traditionally Italian. Update: On my second visit, I got the lasagna, and it was very tasty, but the portion was a bit small. This time, we also got a much more comfortable seat; the table wasn't entirely stable and wobbled a bit. All in all, though, I'm satisfied.

The pizza is huge, about 45cm in diameter. A special feature is the option to combine two pizzas into one, allowing you to get half of each topping.

Great service. Food very good. We'd love to come back!

The last time we were there was many years ago. The food (veggie pizza) is still very tasty, and they are still really large pizzas. The service and the speed until the food is at the table are still top! Nevertheless, it was very, very well attended. A little tip: a table reservation can't hurt (we were there on Saturday evening).

Unfortunately, it has an insane background noise that you almost have to scream at yourself. But that's the only thing. And the portions are gigantic.

The food was good, the staff friendly, but the noise was unbearable. You'd want to sit longer than necessary.

We have eaten here several times and overall we find the restaurant appealing. The food - especially the pizza - is okay, maybe not great, but definitely solid and tasty. What we particularly like: Compared to the location in the city, you have significantly more space and a little more freedom here, which makes the whole thing more relaxed. We'd love to come back!

Always a nice stop on the way from Cologne to Berlin or vice versa. Legendary pizza, fast service, we'll be back.

Great service, very attentive. The atmosphere was very nice, we were there on Sunday lunchtime. On-site parking. All in all a very nice experience

Great service, even in stress he managed everything and I appreciated it. A plus point is also their big car park directly next to the restaurant.

The food is good, the pizzas are huge and tasty. The staff is very friendly. The ambience is nice too. However, unfortunately it has something of a train station atmosphere in terms of volume. It is so loud that you can hardly have a comfortable conversation with several people (from 3-4 people) at a table. If you also have tinnitus or other hearing problems, communication becomes very challenging and unpleasant.

I think the atmosphere is really great but unfortunately it can get really loud at times

Super good atmosphere, great staff!

Super delicious food! The first Italian restaurant where I dared to have pasta instead of pizza and I didn't regret it one bit. The service seems nice and you don't necessarily have to wait long for someone to come to the table, even though it was so busy. Speaking of full, unfortunately the tables were a bit too close together for me, so everything was quite loud and you had less peace and quiet. But that's how it is with popular restaurants.

We were there for lunch and it's always well attended. The service was attentive and the food was delicious. Price performance is perfectly fine.

Super delicious food, nice staff, great location. We like going there😍

A wonderful Italian restaurant! The food was excellent – ​​authentic, fresh and prepared with a lot of love. The ambience was also convincing: cozy, stylish and perfect for a relaxed evening. The drinks were mixed first-class and perfectly rounded off the culinary experience. Particularly noteworthy is the attentive and friendly staff, which made the evening even more pleasant. We'll definitely be back!

Never had bad experiences. The service was always nice and the food was always quick so I can't say anything bad

Thank you for your smile Zaneta. 😎🤙

This was my second attempt - the first in Oldenburg was a big disappointment. But here? Wow. Price-performance: a straight 5! Service and waiting time – great. And the pizza? Simply great!

Great restaurant. Large and spacious. We had a reservation and at first it was empty, but then the room was completely full. Clean in the room and toilets. You can see the chefs at work. Food very good. The size of the pizza exceeded my expectations. Normal prices. Convenient parking. I highly recommend it.

Highly recommended. Menu and food are very good and not too expensive. Unfortunately a bit too loud when there is a lot going on

Great location with old-scool industrial design and amazingly good, dedicated staff who serve delicious food...

Delicious food, friendly service, easy to find a parking space. Just a little loud when it's full.

Unfortunately, something goes wrong with our order, either the pizza is charred to 20% or we get the bottled pizza. When the store is full, it is very loud.

Super Thank you Totally delicious food

Pizza delicious, price reasonable, service great, atmosphere nice

We had booked a table for 9 people for 6 p.m. on a Monday. Unfortunately, the table faced the aisle, so I was hit from behind several times by people passing by. The food was good and the staff was super friendly.

Super top top, it couldn't be better. At all 6 🌟

Highly recommended. Friendly service and very tasty food. Gladly again 😃

Great place to go for pizza and pasta. The salads were also really tasty. Of course it's not traditional Italian cuisine, but if you know the business model, that's not why you come here. However, I really like it and everything tastes good. A small points deduction is only for the very loud ambience and the service could be a little more attentive.

Absolutely recommended! We made a reservation for a larger group of 10 people at relatively short notice and our wishes were completely fulfilled. The employee was super friendly and the food is amazing. Bruschetta is super good and of course the pizzas too. Thank you for the great experience with you, unfortunately not always a given these days. We would love to come back :)

I always enjoy coming here, even though it is often very loud. The food is delicious and the waiting time is relatively short.

Great service and a great ambience. The food was tasty👍🏻

Everything was great, I'll be happy to come back

The best L'Ostetia location I've had the pleasure of getting to know so far! Courteous staff, best ambience, phenomenal food! Here I can switch off and enjoy the Italian feeling! Bravo!

Tasty, great location & great service.

Delicious food at a good price. Unfortunately a dish was forgotten when ordering.

Very tasty pizza and other traditional dishes, also lunch menu. Staff very nice and always approachable! Very nice *****!

As always, good food, nice staff, great value for money

A happy, beautiful and wholesome evening.

Hey, a great team - super friendly, attentive and fast 🤩 the food was great - nothing to complain about. For that 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟. BUT - The store is super loud... Why? Music - too loud - so the guests also have to speak loudly and so it gets louder and louder - that's very unpleasant. For that 🌟 deduction.

Very friendly service, top price performance and quick serving, no criticism to be found, as a small tip maybe add some bread to soak up the sauce but as I said just a tip. Top quality of the processed ingredients. :-D

One of the greatest places in terms of atmosphere and cuisine. However, I have one question: I didn't understand how to eat the pizza. It's much bigger than the plate. Of course it's impressive, but in the end I wasn't sure how to eat them.

Nobody is turned away, they always try to get seats even without a reservation, wait a bit at the bar and then eat a delicious meal. Great service. Nice, friendly and cheerful staff, very accommodating and helpful and super competent. Always happy. 5 stars are simply not enough......there is more in it.

The service is great and the food was very good. Absolutely recommended, a very good address in Hanover.

I don't think it's nice that there are only large pizzas - and they don't even fit on the plate. In times when everyone is talking about sustainability, small pizzas are not offered. Sure, you can share pizza, but what if you don't have anyone to share with? Plus it costs as much as the more expensive half.

Very family friendly and also very suitable for wheelchair users.

What I really like here is the staff and hygiene

The week before last, after a long time, we went back to L'Osteria in Vahrenwald, one of the most famous addresses for huge pizzas in Hanover. The location is still impressive: an old, high industrial hall with a lot of charm and plenty of parking spaces in front of the door. However, the store now seems a bit outdated, which is particularly noticeable in the toilets. The charming Italian course is still being played there, but the doors no longer close properly, the toilet paper is stuck on the roll (and no, it wasn't me), and overall the interior has clearly lost its freshness. A little maintenance would definitely be good here. The menu is printed smaller than before, but the content is almost unchanged. Particularly practical: You can still order two different pizza halves. I chose one “with a lot” – topped with ham, salami, vegetables and other goodies – and one half with four types of cheese. Both halves were very tasty, and the pizza overall was huge, even bigger than before. Luckily you can have the leftovers packed up. The salad, however, was disappointing: a very sour dressing and little variety in the ingredients. The potato cream soup from the weekly menu scored even more points: full-bodied, creamy, and with a great crunch as a topping - a real highlight. Another plus point: In addition to the well-known mini bottles of Cola Zero, there are now also large soft drinks, which is practical. The service was friendly and quick, although it was quite loud in the large hall - that's probably the price for the atmosphere. Conclusion: The L'Osteria in Vahrenwald remains a recommendation, especially if you fancy exceptionally large and delicious pizzas. However, the location could use some fresh air to really shine again.

Delicious pizza and pasta, very attentive service. Many many thanks

Der Aufenthalt war mal wieder so was von gelungen und zu voller Zufriedenheit . Die Pizza mal wieder ein Hochgenuss. Der Service sowas von Freundlich und Kompetent auffallend zuvorkommend. So macht Essen gehen Spaß. Danke liebe Osteria Mitarbeiter, auch besonders an die“Pizzabäcker“ . Unter dem positiven Stress so eine Qualität abzuliefern Bravo🙌🙌🙌.

Great location, absolutely delicious, clean and friendly. The only drawback: the music and therefore the entire atmosphere was unfortunately much too loud for our taste. Private conversations were not really possible without the neighbors sitting very close being informed. So nothing for a romantic evening for two.

A beautiful, cozy place. Delicious pizza, reasonable prices. I recommend

Delicious The staff is super friendly and helpful

Huge pizzas and very friendly staff. It's great that you can watch the friendly pizza makers.

Best restaurant, fair prices, great ambience and super friendly staff. Always worth a visit.

We had such a lovely evening with great service, delicious food and such a sweet, great birthday tiramisu.

The best pizza in town! Feeling like you're on vacation!

Nice like at L'Osteria in Rostock. Simply recommended. Good food and delicious drinks

Food was great, to my taste, as always, but this time the waitress was asleep and you had to chase after the bill

The indoor environment was a bit noisy But... The food is really great... The pizza is very thin but not greasy, well topped and huge... The bruschetta, as a starter, was also well topped and very tasty... The waitress also kept asking questions and was very present. I can only give one recommendation here and I'm already looking forward to my next visit there!

Italian food with German Standard

Very tasty pizza, great atmosphere

Full house at 5:30pm on Friday. Still got space and very friendly staff. We were through within an hour. The pizza is particularly recommended. And big...

Sehr geile Location im Industrial Style! Hier hat so ziemlich alles gepasst - Wein und Pizza waren klasse und Service war sehr nett. Bei dem genialen Interior ist es natürlich nicht gerade leise, wenn der Laden brummt - und das tut er - wohl der genialen Küche wegen. TOP!

Opening times do not apply to the kitchen. If you come by after 9pm you may not be able to get anything

Very good pizzas, very friendly waiters. Just a cool location.

The pizza was very tasty and came relatively quickly after ordering. The service was a bit inattentive, but the restaurant was also completely full. Due to the size of the room and the high ceilings it was very loud.

We love the pizzas there, they are simply amazing! Total recommendation 👍

The pizzas are unbeatable; I'm here with my family regularly every two to three weeks with Antonio and Co. What makes the difference here from other branches are the employees: Whether in the kitchen, in service or at the bar: you don't notice the employees here, even at peak times. Quality meets value for money. Keep doing the good work!

The food, the staff and the location are absolutely top notch and simply brilliant! Only the large room in which you sit increases noise when it is busy, making it uncomfortably loud at peak times.

It's just an old factory building

Top, top, top lekker food, nice service, great ambience. 👌🤩👌

Great location, great food. Always happy to be there. Always a pleasure 😁

Very tasty food; chic ambience; There is a lot of background noise due to the large number of guests.

Price-performance ratio 1A, for 20€ you will be full and can also have one or two drinks. The pizza with burrata and salsiccia was delicious! The waiter was also great, you felt like you were in Naples, very energetic and I really enjoyed being able to crack a joke or two. I'd love to come back!

We like coming to L'Osteria, but this time the service was really not good. We have already experienced it much more crowded and were served better and nicer than on December 26th, 2024. It's a shame, because you're alienating paying customers. The colleague who took over from us managed to get it out of the way with her charming manner, but the bitter aftertaste remains.

Nice and friendly staff. Fun for almost everyone. They are well organized and everything went smoothly. The food is excellent. Always my pleasure.

The pizza is bigger than the plate but the base is also a bit thin. Taste is very good. If you like thin ground, you've come to the right place.

Service from the bar on December 21st. a smooth 11 out of 10! Of course, the food was solid as always.

We've been there several times. The food has always been great so far👍 The service is very friendly and accommodating. The location is also nice, but due to the size and the large number of people, the background noise is of course quite high.

Unfortunately we were put in the “second row”. Not ideal for eating a huge pizza at the low coffee tables.

Food was very good. Only the music was too loud. You could hardly understand your own words.

The pasta and pizza are super delicious. Would love to come back

Have absolutely nothing to complain. Food was good, staff was mega friendly and we had zero stress being with two small kids.

Very loud. Unfortunately the hot chocolate was cold. Paying by card was difficult because all the devices didn't work for whatever reason. The pizzas are huge and very tasty

The pizza was very tasty. This old building has a very special flair. We have been there several times and will definitely come back again soon

My family really enjoyed it. Food very good, can be recommended. The loud music could be turned down a little, then conversation would be more pleasant

Top, friendly team, delicious food.

We had a spontaneous meal there today for a children's birthday party: the pizza was excellent, we got the food super quickly, the service was very friendly and the price was also right: everything was great 😀.

First of all, L’Osteria and totally thrilled! The team was super nice, the location was great and the Salsiccia pizza with burrata was perfect!!! Thanks

Mega tasty, price-performance ratio is right, service was nice and accommodating, we'll be happy to come back 👍

Great pizza....... oh yes, bring your hunger...... the pizza is very big 😁

Very loud background noise from many guests. The food arrives quickly. The pizza has a thin base and is crispy. Just the way pizza should be. Price performance is right. There are very large pizzas at a moderate price

Nice location, the pizza could have been a little more seasoned, but otherwise very tasty :)

Food (in our case pizza and pasta) was great. Great service, very attentive. The ambience is also great, although very loud (at least in our place). There were six of us and there was some conversation. already tiring

Only recommended. Great service, very nice, the whole team. Food also very tasty.

Delicious food and very friendly and attentive service. See you next time