Piccola Italia Ristorante & Pizzeria

The Restaurant & Pizzeria Piccola Italia in the San Agustin Shopping Centre serves the most exquisite Italian cuisine.  In our humble opinion it is probably one of the best Italian restaurants in whole of Gran Canaria.

When you come to eat at this restaurant, you do not come just for pizzas!  Although their authentic Italian pizzas are also truly delicious.

It is all the other amazing compositions, which are cooked to perfection and presented as if you were eating in a 5* restaurant. For example, a home-made Foie Gras served with caramelized apples and toasted brioche. Or a Carpacchio with Parmesan and the authentic Cipriani sauce from Venice.

The Pasta

The home-made cheese and mushroom ravioli with a truffle and mushroom sauce is just out of this world. And if you are lucky to go to the restaurant when they have the sea-food pan as a special, you are in for a real treat.

The Pizza

The home-made pizza breads have a dedicated page in the menu. When you order bread as an appetiser the waiters bring the most tasty Italian olive oil and three different kinds of salt-grinders to the table. Honestly, the pizza bread as a pre-starter turns into a surprisingly nice welcome.

The Italian Chef and owner Ciro leaves nothing to chance. Each meal is carefully planned. Only the best ingredients are used and added at the right times. You will detect his care in each bite you take of any meal you order.

The delicious Saltimbocca a la Romana, the tender Ossobuco or the famous Vitello Tonnato, all taste exactly as they are supposed to, according to old Italian recipes. Each meal is served with a special feature. The Ossobucco, for example, is accompanied with saffron rice, served in a small edible bowl made of Parmesan cheese.

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Wine & Grappa

A big wine chiller is filled with precious bottles of red, white and rosé wines, ready for the wine connoisseur to accompany   each meal with the right bouquet. If you are unsure, let Ciro advise you. He knows the story of each exquisite wine on the menu. Grappa lovers will be in for a treat, too, with dozens of different flavours to choose from. And perfect to accompany a dessert as delicious as this chocolate soufflé on vanilla custard.

Gluten or Lactose Intolerant?

Everybody can enjoy this exquisite Italian restaurant. For people who are gluten or lactose intolerant, the Chef has prepared special gluten-free pasta and pizza, as well as lactose-free cheese and sauces. At the Piccola Italia you will also easily find something vegetarian or vegan, if you fancy.

Our Conclusion

You should not miss out on this special treat. The pasta is home made and the pizza dough is Italian thin, soft and tasty. All at the same time. The meats are cooked to perfection, the decoration is cosy and the presentation clean. On first glance, you will not see what this restaurant has to offer. All in all, we cannot recommend it enough! Let yourself be taken on a journey to Piccola Italia, the Little Italy in Gran Canaria.

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Get in Contact

You can call Restaurant & Pizzeria Piccola Italia at (+34) 928 77 41 22 or use this Contact Form to describe your request in detail.

What People Say

Piccola Italia

4.4

Based on 741 reviews

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Joel Balmer

17:55 22 Oct 23

Amazing for a coeliac - tasty crispy gluten free pizza and chocolate cake. Waiter was also funny guy, a real character!

M&L Hare

08:43 20 Oct 23

Excellent, & we highly recommend. Service, friendly staff & great food of enormous proportions. Thank you for a lovely evening

Petra Andersson

10:04 11 Oct 23

The food was delicius, tasted very good.

Brendan O'Dowd

06:55 22 Sep 23

Absolutely fantastic, highly recommended, Food is of very high quality, particularly steaks and pasta, staff are brilliant, been here twice in the last week and will return soon. I can't praise 'little Italy' enough. Thanks guys for the best Entrecote I've had in years. A+++++

Jack Hines

23:39 26 Feb 23

Great, fully loaded, pizzas at a reasonable price and very friendly staff. Would recommend.

Heidi Ignatius

14:48 24 Jan 23

It's the best Italia-restaurant. They have grein-free pasta (also gluten free), and I never got any contamination-symptoms, when I've eaten there over 5 times on my 4 different holidays.

Ida

11:29 29 Oct 22

Really nice food! We had pasta, garlic bread and bruscheta for lunch, and it was all very good and tasty.Good service and friendly personnel. Ok prices. Only downside is sitting inside a shopping mall.Update: went back twice for our final two days. One time for dinner and one time for lunch, and they were both amazing 👌

Justin Taylor

21:16 03 Oct 22

What a find! Highly, highly recommended. A great menu with a delicious range of food. We started off with the focaccia with rosemary and tomato and mozzarella baked bread. Mains were bolognese and veal cannelloni. Pudding was profiteroles and tiramisu.Just amazing! Hope to return one day.

Angelika Tomczyk

21:05 01 Aug 22

Perfect food and services. Fresh fish, home made pasta and nice pizza. Good choice of vines. I recommend. Quality vs. Price good!!

Giulio Carestia

14:16 26 Jul 22

Great and authentic Italian food. Polite and gentle staff, great selection of Italian and Spanish wines.

Jolet

19:31 04 Jul 22

Very good restaurant which is suitable for celiacs. I’m a celiac myself and this restaurant has one of the best gluten free pizza’s you can have. You pay €4 extra for the gluten free pizza, but in my opinion it’s worth it. They also serve gluten free pasta. My boyfriend had a normal pizza and told me it was very good. I would recommend this restaurant when you visit Gran Canaria.The restaurant is located in a shopping centre. We had some trouble finding the restaurant, but it is on the second floor (east side)!

tom Wagemans

20:56 03 Jul 22

Really good pizza place located in the mall on the second floor. They offer a good variety of pizza's with a decent size and for 4€ more you can get a fully gluten-free pizza. The gluten-free pizza is one of the best I've ever tasted. The regular pizza are top notch as well. So either way this place is a good recommendation.

kondis

18:42 19 Mar 22

Good food, good beer, good service! 5/5 im in love!They have GLUTEN FREE pizza!! My friend with celiac-disease have been struggling to find restaurant and this one is 100% gluten free

Maria Kim

19:57 28 Feb 22

Very tasty food and good-sized portions. It was also a great pleasure to watch the personal at work, they create a friendly and special atmosphere

Brendan Chung

20:38 12 Feb 22

Really great variety of Gluten Free options - I had the pizza and bruschetta - super tasty!

Lez Gannon

11:52 23 Dec 21

Lovely food you must try the veal ravioli and pizzas are lovely too and huge , and very good service by great freindly staff highly recommend if your in San Augustine .

rozlyn gibson

22:55 29 Nov 21

The food was delicious! We opted for a few things and notably the focaccia with Parma and Burrata was superb, only topped by what we were told was their new Carbonara recipe - So good! My only complaint is finding this gem on our last night!

Jesús Morales González

13:14 05 Nov 21

Lovely place the apropiado destination for pound for pondrá leaders

Victor L

12:20 17 Aug 21

Very tasty dinner. We ordered garlic bread, fish main course, and squid ink pasta. Service was exceptional.

Lorenz Gebert

22:03 31 Jul 21

Best service, best food and best prices! I recommend everyone to come here and try the lobster!

Rolf

16:13 31 May 21

ordered pizza for take away. pizza is very good (wood stove), i can definitely recommend order here. a bit too much toppings on the pizza in my eyes

Jo Bou

21:44 02 Apr 21

The pizze was alright but not spectacular. Their tomato sauce is a bit too bitter.

Thran Hums

20:13 28 Mar 21

Fantastic gluten free pizzas and pastas!!! We ate here 3 times, each time the service and quality were outstanding. Can't wait to return and have my fill of this gluten free pizzas!!

Claudia

16:15 17 Nov 20

A great place for pasta, pizza and wine. The mussels were delicious and also the main courses with fish and pasta were very tasty. The service is good and all in all a perfect place for a nice evening with great food and drinks. Don't miss the chocolate souffle, it is amazing!

Kamil Jonczyński

10:03 30 Oct 20

The food is just amazing. Absolutely one of the best restaurants in whole Gran Canaria. Besides great food you have also fantastic personal with the owner who can tell you the story behind every dish. Ask them for recommendation. We tried a lot of places and "Piccola Italia" is our favourite. If this restaurang would be placed in some fancy area (anywhere in the world) would be very famous.

angela eaton

21:40 24 Sep 20

As usual - excellent food; excellent service and a real treat in these difficult times.

John Anderson

07:19 27 Jul 20

Excellent food good menu happy friendly staff

Bubbly Scouser

21:59 07 Mar 20

High quality food & service. Good for families ,groups & couples. Owner pays attention to detail by adding little touches which made me feel pampered & this made it a happy experience for me.

ann margit Wasting

22:03 04 Mar 20

Strange place (shopping mall from the 60s) for a great Italian restaurant, the pizza's are perfect!

Harry Paardekooper

12:18 01 Mar 20

Awesome, real Italian restaurant. Great food, great desert and coffee. If the staff was a bit more relaxed we could have stayed longer and drink more. Don’t be mislead by the first looks and the location in the shopping center.

Harry Paardekooper

12:18 01 Mar 20

Awesome, real Italian restaurant. Great food, great desert and coffee. If the staff was a bit more relaxed we could have stayed longer and drink more. Don’t be mislead by the first looks and the location in the shopping center.

CorB

15:37 28 Jan 20

Looks can be deceiving. At first glance the setting of this fantastic little Italian does not do much to impress - located a little way from the sea with no view to speak of, and in a small shopping centre. However, the food is incredible. We ate here 3 nights during our recent trip. I had gluten free pizza which was superb, not the usual cheap supermarket base you find elsewhere when 'gluten free' has been added as an afterthought, it was a proper tasting doughy base that was delicious. Normal pizza available too! We also had steaks, pasta dishes all of which were amazing. I used to write a lot of reviews but lost interest but this place deserves a special mention because it really was delicious. Table staff very friendly too. Well done to the chef, great job!

Geri McMahon

18:55 14 Jan 20

Great restaurant, doing something different really well. Nice wine too. Fantastic service, attentive and fun but not ott. Would definitely return.

Dominica Queen Black

14:26 03 Jan 20

Very nice food. Have aqua Panna. Staff very nice.

Dominica Queen Black

16:49 02 Jan 20

Very nice food. Have aqua Panna. Staff very nice.

Emily .

18:51 11 Nov 19

Pizza here is perfect. The staff is wonderfull!

Jeroen Grendelman

12:52 08 Nov 19

We were there a few days ago. The pizzas are amazing. Friendly staff in a weird location (shopping centre). Nevertheless absolute quality!

Niels Houthuys

16:50 30 Sep 19

The pasta was amazing and the waiters we're really friendly. I would recommend this place

Ruby Huang

19:22 06 Sep 19

came here in two evening consecutively. great food and great service - love the house white wine 🙂

Madi

23:07 18 Jun 19

Super friendly staff! Good options for gluten free and vegetarian 😀 About 30 Euros for two people. There were a few hairs on my plate, so it would be a good idea for the chef to wear a hair net 🙂

Gerard Beerling

01:01 26 Apr 19

Weird place for a restaurant, however fantastic food. Not expensive as well. Proper italian.

Gerard Beerling

05:02 25 Apr 19

Weird place for a restaurant, however fantastic food. Not expensive as well. Proper italian.

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