Piazza Italiana bottomless brunch with pasta, pizza and Halloween

I went to the bottomless brunch at Piazza Italiana, which takes place every weekend and prides itself on unlimited pasta and pizza for main course.

Piazza Italiana is housed in a grade II listed building – the former home of British Linen Bank on Threadneedle Street.

The menu is based on classic recipes from all over Italy, for a fine dining experience.

With the bottomless brunch, you get to choose one starter per person, get given the dessert of the day, and the rest is pretty much history with a pasta and pizza extravaganza in the middle.

To start with I had the seabass carpaccio, and my friend had the burrata.

We tried a bit of each other’s and absolutely loved both, and it’s safe to say I would have been happy with either of those in bottomless form.

I’m an absolute sucker for pasta with fresh tomato sauce, boring I know, but whenever it’s on the menu I can’t help it.

My first main was exactly that – and the Calamarata pasta made it all the more tasty.

My friend went for the truffle pasta, and we both absolutely demolished our plates, leaving room in our stomachs for the fact that it was bottomless and we knew we could get a whole lot more.

I mean, bottomless pasta and pizza really is the dream.

I ordered the same again for my second dish, and my friend ordered the fregola con gamberi - she loved both, but said she preferred the truffle to the prawn dish.

You could tell that everything was made fresh, and the flavours really complimented each other.

The waitress suggested we also get a pizza between us to share to really make the most of the bottomless offering, but to be honest, and embarrassingly so, we were struggling.

The food was delicious but there’s only so much we could eat and although I’d do anything to go back and get another bowl of that bottomless pasta now, we needed to leave room for dessert.

The dessert of the day was a strawberry panna cotta which was absolutely divine - it was a generous portion, so sweet, and came with ice cream in it too.

We were absolutely stuffed, but we ate well and our stomachs and our hearts were very full.

Piazza Italiana is also hosting a Bottomless Halloween Brunch fest on Sunday, October 28 – where the venue’s lively offering will be dedicated to a vamped-up version of the usual tricks and treats.

From midday there will be limitless plates with pasta and pizza with cocktails and fizz, and in the evening a live DJ will bring Thriller vibes dangerously close to the witching hour.

The menu will be Halloween-ified too with a Pumpkin pana cotta and herbed pumpkin hummus to start, followed by pizzas with tricked toppings, black spaghetti, Bloody Mary Bolognese, pumpkin risotto and skull-shaped Gnocchi.

Pumpkin pie with ice cream and an autumnal cinnamon crunch is no trick, but instead your treat at the end.

The drinks include ‘bloody bellinis’, and the usual prosecco and Aperol spritz.

The first sitting is 12pm-4pm for £59 per person for bottomless food and drinks and the second from 6pm-10pm at £69 per person including the DJ.