Vittoria's is the perfect restaurant to sample a real taste of Italy. Renowned for its high level of service and fresh Italian food, book online with Vittoria's on Leith Walk and experience over 40 years of history. You can now also book online at Vittoria's on the bridge and at La Favorita too.

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• Average price 2 courses:
   £17 (lunch)
   £17 (evening meal)
• House wine: £12.95 per bottle

• High point: Dishes and prices for every appetite
• Low point: No soap in gents' toilet
• Food served: Mon–Sun noon–11pm
• Open since: 2005
• Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access, Takeaway, Pre-theatre menu

This review appears in the The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008
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Favourably situated with views onto George Square, this three-tier establishment attracts a thriving trade with an extensive, unpretentious menu that combines simple, fast-food efficiency with reasonably well-made cuisine. Some of the seating on the mezzanine level is cramped, almost humorously so, yet this only reinforces the impression of a lively, bustling restaurant, with the sweeping delivery of somebody's pizza never far from your eye-line. For a memorable starter, there's an unlikely meeting of Mediterranean and Clydeside traditions with deep-fried, battered olives served with a spicy tomato dip. For the more ravenous, several pile-'em-high platters are available for sharing, with a veritable bonanza that includes chicken wings, breaded mushrooms, breaded mozzarella and stuffed jalapeño peppers. For main courses, there is a choice of five different pastas, as well as a broad seafood, steak and burger selection, alongside pizza options of gratifying diversity. The house calzone, for one, bursts with a wide variety of vegetables and assorted spicy meats. Mussels are fresh and come with a choice of tomato or white wine sauces, while the veal escalope is ladled in a smooth wild mushroom cream.