Nuraghe Trattoria

Our favourite local restaurant. The seafood and pasta are devine, huge portions and always beautifully cooked. Excellent friendly service and good value for money. We always bring friends and family here and know they will love it.

I have eaten here three times and each has been a different experience. The food is always good, fresh with lively flavours. Home cooked pasta dishes are delicious and generous. Pizza's are a great disappointment - swimming with cheese not the sprinkling of bufala mozzarella one would expect. Service has always been good and polite in my experience. Decor a little sparse and cold not cosy. Have always left feeling that I had a really fresh tasty Italian meal. I think it is worth waiting that little bit for something really good. Go for the food not the atmosphere.

Very rude service, I asked for them to remove an item from a dish but the bluntly refused. I had this air once we walked in that we did not belong there. They have given us nothing but the worst service that I have ever seen in london. If I could give them 0 stars I would. Stay well AWAY!

My boyfirend and I eat at this restaurant when it first opened, since we like to explore new places in our neighbourhood. There were very few customers, and the staff was nice and happy to please, and willing to chat and let you know about the story behind the restaurant. The food was really good. I am ITalian and after 14 yrs in London it pleases to see what an amazing level of different regional food you can now eat in the city. We compared the quality of the food at Nuraghe to Sardo Canale (one of my favourite Italian restaurants in London).Cheekily enough, if you were happy to pay cash, you got 10% off the bill... We went back with friends recently, after having told them many times how good it was...what a different a couple of years can make... Extremely rude staff, and never ending waiting time before being able to order (1 hour) and receiving the starters (another 45 minutes). We should have walked out, but we were with 2 friends and we were hoping to spend a nice evening together. Waiters avoided to even look at us the whole time we were truing to order or enquire about our food. When we finally managed, the woman I gather to be the owner came and raised her voice telling us that in their restaurant everything is made from scratch from extremely fresh ingredients and that is why it takes such a long time, and blabbering some nonesense about real Italian food (I am myself Italian, have lived in London for the past 14 years, and have never been so embarrassed having taken English friends to an Italian Restaurant) They kept on bringing us bread so that when the main came (abt 2.5 hours after having sat down) we were neither hungry or in the mood to eat. Other customers were treated in the same way, but clearly not their loyal/frequent ones, whom were all served and treated in a more than friendly way. The quality of the food it is not enough to make this restaurant a good choice to spend an evening with. Owners and waiters have to first learn what customer service means. Also, they clearly cannot cope with the amount of bookings they take in.

Visited a few weeks ago. I wanted to keep an open mind despite the reviews I read here. Overall a pleasant experience. Generous portions (even TOO generous) lovely seefood, pity for the dessert, I wanted a "Seada", traditional Sardinian dessert, but it was not available (it is prepared as a "special" on specific days. Not my favourite Sardinian but worth trying.

I had read these reviews prior to booking - but we decided to try to risk it anyway. My only regret was forgetting to record what was to follow... Last night, we were greeted by an 'if looks could kill' assertive Italian waitress. She was incredibly surprised to see us, as the restaurant was fully booked and she had no record of my reservation. After a lengthy discussion during which she argued, patronised and basically just repeated the same information, she decided that I must either be lying or that I had called a different restaurant by mistake. We probably should have walked, then and there. However, to prove a point, I pulled up the number on my iphone and showed her. She insisted that this was certainly not the number for the restaurant. So I dial up 0871 971 5623... to make sure I was not going crazy, and sure enough, one of the staff answered the phone from the kitchen directly opposite. I went up and confirmed that he had just spoken to me, nevertheless, the waitress maintained that this was not their number! Obviously this was a pointless argument and in no way taking us closer to a resolution. Despite the fact that there were actually tables available, each staff member either fobbed me off, or refused to speak in English. The customers politely ignored us, as though it was a regular occurrence, and I was surprised to hear someone swearing at me and threatening to call the police. Alas, it was the angry chef shouting from the kitchen (probably the same one, as mentioned in previous posts). Needless to say, we didn't hang around for an encounter with this rather menacing character, or his wide array of kitchen utensils. Unless you are looking to find a great idea for a new family sit-com, I really wouldn't recommend the experience.

Excellent local Italian gem. Warm and friendly service. Great food, huge portions! Delizioso!

I ate here with a group of friends the other night and the service was terrible. We waited nearly an hour for our order to be taken, every time we asked if we could order we were told we couldn't. Once we did manage to order we waited a further 40 minutes for our starters. When we complained, the waitress was extremley rude and raised her voice to such an extent, the dining room went quiet and everyone was staring at our table. Frustratingly, when our food finally arrived, it was dlicious, but unfortunately it all seemed a little too late and the night was ruined. I would not reccomend this restaurant at the weekend, the staff and kitchen clearly can't cope with the covers.

I'm a fan of Nuraghe. We live round the corner, and eat there quite often. The food is good, service friendly, and prices are reasonable. Go expecting a nice friendly local with competent cooking and you won't be disappointed. But take some of the reviews too seriously and you might be.

A perfect Sardinian hide-away next door to an old Irish boozer? Strange but completely true, & very Tufnell Park. Everything about Trattoria Nuraghe shows warmth & heart; the cosy walls, decor & terracotta dishes replicated in the amazingly warm & friendly service. The smells & look of the magnificently portioned food only beaten by the stupendously, scintillating flavour. The house wine is grand. I can't praise this place enough. This is the sort of local restaurant one dreams of - it's magical