Happy Italy Enschede in Wijk 00 Binnensingelgebied

Happy Italy feels like it has an identity crisis. From the taste to the price, it's like ordering a Ferrari and getting a flat tire on a bike. I'll take real Italian from now on!

According to the prices before and now, there is a lot of difference. We used to come here since 6 or 7 years, before the prices compared to the market were cheap, the quantity was a fantastic and very big portion, now smaller portion, less quality, and 45%expensive... we have to consider again if we go once again or not anymore ...

Pizza is fine, always handy for large groups. I can't recommend the ice cream though, it really wasn't tasty.

If you enjoy overpriced disappointment, this is your place. The waiter clearly missed her calling as a grumpy mime, and the service took so long I considered learning Italian to pass the time. The mushrooms on my pizza were sliced so thin they might’ve been hallucinations, and charging full-liter prices for tiny 200ml bottles should be a crime. Definitely not Happy Italy—more like Hangry Italy.

Fast service, good food. Decaf cappucino was not that tasty

Nice ambiance and good place to meet up. Food is not the best….

Nice place to get a pizza in a very convenient location nearby the station and centrum. Food is good, but a little bit pricey in my opinion (though for the Netherlands, it is quite acceptable), the taste is good but definitely not the greatest pizza, but still deserves a high praise. I prefer to get a pizza and eat at home since the restaurant is quite noisy and there are quite a lot of people usually, so keep it in mind. Overall, a nice place to get some food, but a little bit pricey.

Handy with children. Food is ready quickly and tastes good. Often go with family in large groups. Children enjoy themselves and like the pizzas and pastas. Unfortunately not cheap anymore like in the beginning. Prices have gone up but where not..

I was totally wrong about this restaurant! I ordered a social deal for 13 people for 13.95 euros, including 2 small children who wanted to be close to the ball pit so that we can keep an eye on this. Unfortunately we couldn't choose that, even though all the places inside were empty. Also, no coloring page and pencils are handed out to the children. That was only for children's menus, but we had ordered adult menus. We also had to look for staff who could speak a word of Dutch, so I wonder where they come from. The service was just cold and unpleasant! Smoking on the terrace was only allowed by the staff, we were told, not by customers! A bit strange I would say. So I didn't really enjoy my birthday with my children and 5 grandchildren. Especially because there was no visibility either. A waitress who spoke Dutch was helpful and friendly. I would not recommend going here with small children! Even the pizzas were not cut into slices, so you had to do that yourself with a blunt knife that you could barely cut through! Once but never again!

I recommend you to try the nutella pizza.

Happy Italy is a popular eatery in the center of Enschede, known for its large portions of pizzas and pasta at affordable prices. The restaurant is aimed at families and offers a child-friendly environment with an indoor play paradise and special children's menus, such as the "decorated pizza" and the Unicorn pizza. Pros: child-friendly: The restaurant has an indoor playground and offers special children's menus, making it attractive for families. - Affordable: Large portions at reasonable prices make it a budget-friendly choice. - Vegan and vegetarian options: With 12 vegan and 19 vegetarian dishes, there is something for everyone. Downsides: we did have to wait a while for our order, but with good weather that was not such an issue.

Delicious food and friendly staff. I would love to come back next time!

It's more Unhappy Italy. My daughter convinced me to eat here. Partly because it wouldn't be expensive. Which was disappointing when I saw the map. They charge quite high prices. The two of us paid €55. The atmosphere of the restaurant is excellent. The service was pleasant. But the food was just bad! Nothing was fresh. As an appetizer we had bruscetta, the tomato was limp and so was the arugula. As a main course I had a pasta verdura which was very disappointing. The vegetables had clearly been frozen and were very soggy. The olives had the quality of a €0.59 jar. My daughter had a pizza that she barely ate half of because the meat was not very flavorful and fresh. We won't come here again.

They can't bake pizza... Ordered Hawaiian pizza, raw. Sent it back, they would make a new one. New pizza also raw, conclusion they can't bake pizza.

The pizza's were missing toppings, the toppings that were present were very meager. Due to the meager toppings the pizza was very dry. Beer could help with this, but was extremely expensive (€7.5 for 0.5l). This was on King's day, but I wouldn't come back here.

Heerlijk gegeten! Ondanks de drukte, het was nml Koningsdag. We waren met 5 en allen vonden het eten heel goed en smaakvol. Heel groot restaurant...en mooie details qua inrichting. De ballenbak was groter dan de damestoilet...maar dat is meer een groot event dingetje...dat zie je meer als de stad vol is met mensen. Een aanrader dus.

It took a long time before we got the food, but when we got the food we didn't have the cutlery and it took a long time.

Very nice restaurant, it's beautiful inside. The food is amazing, service nhe nothing especial. Big restaurant, only 2 toilets.

I'm not picky, but as a chef, this is the worst thing my mouth has ever touched. Even McDonald's is better there with their sloppy fries. The cutlery is indicated to you on the side you should eat on (delicious). Would you like to order a starter? No, you get everything in almost one go. It doesn't matter much because the main course is already cold and mushy. Insult to the profession and to our good Italians.

Not edible, ordered but all pizzas were dry and cold, the pastas had no taste whatsoever! Never again.

When I was here the pasta was lukewarm and incredibly bland, I later ate my family's pizza crusts because the pasta was too bland. We asked the staff if they could light the candle, staff member number 1 said she was going to look and then never came back, luckily the 2nd person helped. For the rest, the nutella pizza is really fantastic (:

We have been to Happy Italy Enschede more than 20 times with our children. Good service every time and fast, tasty food with good prices and friendly staff. And the most important is a good indoor playroom for the children.

The food is delicious, many variations in pizzas and pastas. Affordable too. Helped neatly and quickly. We have been coming there with good faith for years. If something goes wrong, they resolve it promptly. Great service and never disappointed. Atmospheric dining opportunity and our children like to come there, they can play in the play area so that mom and dad can eat and talk quietly without having to pay much attention to the kids. Here you can simply eat well and highly recommended.

Service is poor and radiates little positivity. We had to wait a long time to take our order and that for the fast Italian, what you could call an Italian, it's fun for the kids, but even if it were there. If he were to sit any longer, he would not be missed. Portions are getting smaller and you pay more, they are not improving!

Large but cozy place. And the pizzas are great!

We had a super tasty and large pizza and a pasta dish. We really enjoyed it. The atmosphere inside is huge and very stylish! Insane and worth a visit. Price performance is right and the service was good!

The food came really quickly. Pasta wasn't that tasty now, normally it tastes better. Pizza was good. Staff nice. And it's great that children have a play area there. Of course it would be nicer if it were close to the seats, but better than not at all. We thought it was great

Great place to quickly eat a pizza or pasta. A small play area for the children. Could be a little cleaner.

No oven dishes, pizza was well baked, but tasteless.

Today we had a delicious meal at Happy Italy and what great service we received from Emre Sarica! From the moment we sat down, we were served in a super friendly manner. Emre was not only extremely nice and polite, but also very fast in taking and delivering our order. He had an eye for detail and made sure we didn't miss anything. Really great service that made the evening even better. Thank you, Emre, for the fantastic service – we will definitely be back!”

We had a great meal but had to wait a long time for our food.

Damn, ordered 2 pastas with chicken. No taste and then a very bad stomach ache. A very big recommendation. Never eat at Happy Italy again. Thanks for ruining my day too!!

Overcooked pasta, had pasta carbonara what a chemical taste bha

Wanted to eat a pizza with a friend. It said on the website that you could get a second pizza for free. “Make a reservation or come by spontaneously,” it says on the website with that voucher. Requested the voucher well in advance and when we "spontaneously" visited today, we were told that you had to reserve in advance, so we just had to pay the full amount. They said this problem happened more often with the voucher, but nothing could be done about it. If this had also been stated on the website, that you HAD to make a reservation, I would of course have done so, but it was not there. So it's a shame, but I won't be going back to this again.

Daughter had a voucher for a free pizza. At checkout it is stated that a reservation had to be made online, so the full amount must be paid. That they have had more problems with this but that they can't do anything with it. Stunned, but at that time there was no hard evidence, especially after we saw at Thuis.online that the voucher is valid when making a reservation or if you come by spontaneously. Very customer unfriendly and bad.

A decent place to stop by for pizzas and pastas. The service was quite slow when I visited, but the food was alright and I particularly liked the lemonade options they had.

Kids vinden de (sweet)pizzas hier heerlijk. Is echt een massa gezins pizzeria. Wat ik groot nadeel vind is dat wanneer t druk is de pizza er eerder is dan het drinken. Eerste rondje drinken werd na 35 min pas gebracht. Tweede ronde na 30 min tien pizza al op was. Er wordt veel geld misgelopen door deze slechte drank service.

The food is simply delicious!! It's also quite pleasant to go there. But at the children's playground the children are not always very nice 😅

Good food/price ratio. Lovely athmosphere. Lots of choices

I recommend this mega place with all my heart. Time for the parent and a fan for the child. Dream place and service. They deserve big tips. I recommend

Cozy atmosphere! Tasty different types of large pizzas! Delicious different types of pasta!

Just regular cafe food comfort food, nothing too fancy. Nice place for large gatherings

Food arrived very quickly. Nice atmosphere, had a good time

Bad service, long waits and if you say something you will get a response, but that's all there is to it. Too bad, there is so much more to achieve

We love this restaurant! The food is very tasty. We recommend it!

Ate here with my boyfriend. It took a while before we got a spot in the restaurant. It was a Wednesday night and we didn't have a reservation, so I understand that. It might be useful to move the waiting location a bit further into the restaurant, now we had to wait just behind the door, which caused a lot of cold air to come in. After getting a spot, we quickly got our ordered drink and later also our pizza. Just a great pizza, not a very high price and just full afterwards.

Excellent food for a fair price. Fast operation. Background music not too loud.

We thought we'd grab a pizza, but what a noisy place. Unfinished interior, and the food? This really has nothing to do with good food. Rarely have I eaten so badly. We will never come here again.

Ordered chicken döner pizza with extra chicken. Price 20 euros. However, when I saw the pizza I was unpleasantly surprised. Usually I was satisfied with the volume of the pizzas, but this time it was disappointing. That extra chicken was hard to find. And for that price too. Shame.

Delicious pasta and good service

I will give just 3 stars for a few reasons: - the food was tasty and it came fast, it doesn’t deserve 5 stars because the quality of the salami was not the best I met, and also not so fresh. - the lemonade just full of ice and not so much lemons squeezed, only the taste was present. - the personnel was screaming to each other and that made a not so nice atmosphere to stay and enjoy a pizza. - the waitress not so implicated and not so friendly. After all, I apreciated the location, big place and enough tables if you plan to go many people. The waiting time is very short and they have many waitresses and pizza guys also

The food was super tasty. Portion is more than sufficient. It just took about 30 minutes between taking the order and getting the drinks. You should definitely bring your time. Otherwise the ambience is great.

Tasty pasta, just a commercial atmosphere. Not like a real Italian restaurant

All in all fine. Definitely a good meal for the low price. It was just a bit cold when we were there, which is why it was a bit of a downer for the atmosphere.

I strongly advise against eating here. The food tastes terrible. We have also raised this with the staff, but they then try to blame it on you. The icing on the cake is that we (5 people) got very sick a few hours after our dinner. Protect yourself, and eat somewhere else. You don't miss anything.

The most delicious coffee served with coffee ice cream. Perfect!!!

Service seemed grumpy and forgot to give us cutlery and we had to ask for it after the food was served. The pasta salmon had small pieces but looked like cat food. One piece contained bone from the back of the fish, and many other pieces contained only fish fat. Tasted predominantly like "fish". Atmosphere is fine for a fast food restaurant.

Never again for us, although Happy Italy cannot do too much about that, apart from the fact that one of the pizzas was a bit sparsely topped. I had the pizza carpaccio and my son the pizza ai funghi without mozzarella. With a magnifying glass you could find the mushrooms and cheese, it was more bare than filled. The pizza carpaccio was delicious and generously filled. It was ready quickly too. But the worst part were the screaming and screaming children. Eating quietly is not an option, especially if you are near the indoor playground. Next to us was a table with 4 children, 1 of whom kept screaming bloody murder. We have never eaten our food so quickly and left with screeching tires and a serious headache.

Received a good pizza quatro stagione on the first visit. So once again in good spirits. Last night a worthless, tasteless and minimal pizza. Shame to serve a 4 stagione like this. Table members were all pleased with their pasta dishes.

It was the worst pasta I've ever eaten, and it was expensive. The waiter was also sullen. I will definitely not come again.

It's a kind of food bar and the fast Italian is not that fast

Delicious food, but the vegetarian meatballs are inedible. We could get a new pizza without the balls, but we still had to pay the bill. Very unfortunate.

Poor service. Average food. Terrible atmosphere (loud kids, tons of people, club music)

We were there on Saturday evening at 7pm. Neatly reserved in advance. It took a long time before someone came to the table for drinks, after a long wait (20 minutes) what we ordered did not arrive. When we ordered the food, it took even longer (35 minutes) and not at the same time. So 3 out of 8 people had already finished it and then the rest of the food arrived. Really worthless! Ultimately, the bill was also incorrect at the end of the evening. All in all very disappointing....

We were here on a Saturday evening around 5:00 PM. It was nice that - even though we had not made a reservation - there was room for four people. Unfortunately, that's all there is to it. The staff seem busier with their tablets and chatting with the kitchen (just standing around waiting for the food to be ready). We had to wait a long time for someone to come to us for drinks. That's why we thought it might only be possible to order via the QR code. However, you can only order drinks via the QR code, and not food. Some time later someone came to take our order. In the end there were 5 or 6 different people at our table. This feels impersonal and completely uncoordinated. The food is very mediocre. Excellent pizza, but we found the atmosphere and especially the staff very disappointing.

Although it states that it is open until 9:30 PM, the staff do not allow entry after 8:30 PM.

Placed an order today at Happy Italy. My bff ordered spaghetti bolognese with extra meatballs. But to her surprise there were no extra meatballs :( She was very disappointed because you pay extra for it🤨. I myself had the Pasta Salomone. I was disappointed, the salmon was cut into far too small pieces😒. And the worst thing it didn't even taste like salmon🙄. They had not forgotten the extra shrimp with the Pasta Salomone. They were tasty🙂 . Fortunately, that made things a little better. I personally had more expectations of the Pasta Salomone, I missed the delicious creamy taste of the cream sauce🤔. Fast delivery👍. And the food containers are well filled.

Happy Italy has a great concept. You have fresh pasta or pizza, no 3-course menus or anything like that or a lot of hassle with desserts. The pizzas are of a good size and you can take what you don't eat with you. You can only pay by card and food is usually put on the table fairly quickly. So absolutely fine in its time.

Over a 45 minute wait. Food had almost no flavour at all. Pizza base was good but the toppings had no taste at all. Please don’t order the veggie meatballs, as they taste of pure nothing.

The restaurant's culinary offerings were of inferior quality. For example, the pizza wasn't baked through, so we had to wait an hour for the food to be served. In addition, the staff was consistently unfriendly.

Pasta was way too salty. And order everything in English ??

Always the best pasta and pizzas

It was really satisfying and beautiful. pizzas were big. The atmosphere and staff were also good. I recommend.

They make you wait a little too long at the door before you are assigned a table. The pizzas are SUPER delicious.

Our daughters shared the children's portion, it was fine for the 7 year old and the 4 year old still had something left for us. Our pizzas were large and delicious. But we were also hungry and actually ate them. Both at our table and at the neighboring table, the service was not possible in Dutch or German, but only in English. So the children couldn't order themselves. But later we also had another waitress who was fine.

The food was great. But the waiters were kinda rude. Great food tho

It doesn't look appetizing, it's cold and it doesn't taste good and it's also expensive for this price

Het eten was heel lekker/het eten kwam redelijk op snel. Maar de bediening kwam niet aan tafel en bracht ons ijs gwn niet na bestelling. De bediening ging onderling alleen maar praten en deden gwn niks.

This is the worst pizza in Enschede. I ordered a Pizza Nduja, they gave me a Hawaii pizza. The takeaway pizza not even looks like a pizza. I'm fed up with the bad service from this store.

We ordered pasta and pizza, both were tasty

Music loud. Staff very friendly, English spoken, prices normal. Tiramisu not recommended.

Happy Italy is the place to dine in with friends after shopping. The food is good as well as the service. The place is quite big so there is always a table available.

Not welcome if you like football

What disgusting pizzas, you wouldn't even give them away when there was a famine.

The food is okay and they are very fast. You don't have to go here for the atmosphere or a nice evening out for dinner. If you just want something quick and easy to eat, that's fine.

Either way, Enschede is a completely relaxed and friendly city! We used to drive across the border on Fridays to buy coffee and bread and delicious cheese… and to get gas. Those days are long gone, but we really enjoy going to Enschede… happy Italy is one of them! Everything delicious!!!

We had a reasonable meal here, the atmosphere was quite messy and chaotic. My pizza was cold and I mainly tasted dough and peppers. There was hardly any tomato and cheese on it. Dough was tasty, but it wasn't pizza for me. I wouldn't go back here again.

This time we went to the shop in Enschede and it was really tasty. No comparison to the one in Groningen.

Its a quiet place, the manager there is very accomodating and really helpful, a mistake in the order from my side and he did change it without any issues at all.

Pizza didn't taste good at all! Ambience and service wonderful 👍🏻

Only good if you come for the pizzas there. Bad experience with quite a large portion of the staff. The atmosphere is pleasant

You can eat here for little money. Always on the table quickly. Don't expect culinary delights.

Deteriorated rapidly in just a few years. Bad burnt pizzas. Service is nowhere to be seen or they walk right past you. Long wait for food. Tables too dirty to sit at. Old food scraps are everywhere. I used to like coming there but not anymore🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The location is very nice, the service is quick and nice, but the food is a disaster. We had pasta and pizza. Both dishes looked delicious, but that was it. Both dishes without any taste. Everything was missing from the pizza dough! The pasta sauce appeared to be out of the bag. Too bad.

Delicious pizzas and great service

Today we visited your restaurant in Enschede. And I have to say what a disappointment this was. We had made a reservation for 3 people. However, when we wanted to order, we were told that our order could only be taken in at least half an hour, due to the group of 100 people they were working in the kitchen for. I then asked why do you take reservations if you cannot serve them at that time? There was no clear answer to this. Disappointingly, I paid for our drinks and went to eat elsewhere

I have tested and tried many pizzas around the world. In terms of taste and freshness, each pizza has been the best for me so far. The general service is very good. The food came very quickly after ordering. We will definitely eat here again.

I was there with my 2 grandchildren, both had ordered a pizza, before I could start eating my own food I had to cut their pizza with a dull knife, it was impossible. And why aren't there smaller pizzas for children for a smaller amount? I now pay almost 10 euros for a pizza while they don't eat half of it.

Bad service, no respect for people

Good food for little money. The only "minus" point is that many of the English employees do not understand you when you speak Dutch to them.