Osteria Vicini in Kralingen-Crooswijk

Monday late lunch , outdoorterrace , Italian food , spaghetticonpolpettedivitello , linguinealloscoglio , Peroni nastro , Nicaraguan Olivaserievnub . A little popular Italian restaurant in Kralingen near many student houses , with a nice outdoorterrace and a cosy interior inside , and a menu with a variation of Italian popular dishes . Is it up the level of any local Italian deli in Italy in city’s like Milan , Napoli , Rome or any other city ? No , it’s a adjusted to Dutch taste . If u want to grab a quick bite without any hassle for a reasonable price , this is the place for you . If you are used to real traditional classic Italian taste , then there are better options in Kralingen to visit at the oostzeedijk .

Good menu and stylish place. The food was tasty, but took a long time tonight before it was on the table. The service is friendly. Tip to serve multiple tables in a row (instead of 1 table and then stay away from your neighborhood for a long time). Then I will give more stars next time. 👍🏻

Bruschietta was rock hard but well topped and we had eaten it all. Arancini and polpetten were fine. Pizza montana is a nice surprise, definitely worth trying

Food was great! But we literally looked away from the table by the service. Drinks were taken away almost full. Didn't really feel welcome.

Delicious, finally truly Italian Mi e piacuto molto

Really delicious and super sweet service. Our wish for a specific table was no problem. The ravioli with asparagus and salmon is highly recommended. Actually everything was delicious!

Kind service and very nice location but cannot give more stars for the food. We had meatballs which were tasty but not enough tomato sauce and pizza nothing special. We will try to give a second go for pasta dishes

Excellent food and nice and attentive service.

A fun, tasty and special concept for fish lovers

Wonderfully relaxed affair. Excellent food and top service

Very cozy restaurant. Gluten-free pasta and many other dishes also gluten-free. It is very clearly indicated and they also have a gluten-free (and lactose-free) menu!😊

Great business!!!! I'd say just go!

Delicious food, good service, but a noisy location

Delicious pizzas, the pasta could be a bit more refined. A very pleasant affair.

Super tasty and cozy, you are really welcome there.

Best Italian restaurant in Rotterdam

Enjoyed a special father daughter dinner for dad's birthday. Good food, nice atmosphere, very friendly and nice service. We sat in the hey bar section

We were not seen by the staff. Every time you speak to someone, they come much later to ask what you wanted. Finally I placed my order at the bar. Desserts were not yet thrown on the table. No napkin. Shame.

Had a great meal with a large group, top staff, thank you very much 👍

Nice restaurant, friendly atmosphere and good food.

Tasty pizza with easily digestible base, cozy atmosphere, nice ambiance. A place to come back to.

Very cozy for lunch or drinks with a unique atmosphere

Delicious food. Pleasant environment. Really Italian tent

Very nice thing to see...an old garage from the past. Had a very spicy pizza...recommended

Good, affordable food. Friendly service. With terrace and all. Parking is not always easy.

On Saturday evening, February 15, the three of us had a delicious meal with very friendly and attentive service. Top.

The food is delicious! The service is good! Definitely recommended!!!

Delicious food, friendly service and nice atmosphere. Very mixed crowd, including young families.

The shrimp pasta was delicious. The interior was beautiful and the price was reasonable. I was impressed by the natural and polite customer service of the young staff.

My favorite restaurant for both business and private.

There was a 3-and-a-half-year-old sweetest boy in the world; Our wait staff was also very nice with him!!

The restaurant is very nice and spacious and the food is good, but our order took a long time. We saw tables near ours that arrived after we had eaten and paid the bill while we were waiting. Other than that, it is a good restaurant, but a little expensive.

Food and service amazing ! Didnt expect to find a italian restaurant soooo good in the Netherlands !!! Compliments ❤️

The pasta with meatballs was delicious

Een vitello tomato zonder smaak voorheen wel een goede maaltijd gegeten nu dus helemaal niet dit nodigt niet uit voor een volgend bezoek

Always very pleasant with nice staff and good price-quality ratio!

Expensive and bad. Children's ice cream that consisted of 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream costs 7 euros. Pizza with spinach and ricotta was tasteless. 1 piece of cookie cake is 1/3 of the normal size. Staff ignores criticism and asks casually 5 minutes later if everything was to your liking.

Do you know the term SHRINKFLATION? Where restaurants increase prices by bizarre percentages but at the same time reduce portions? Welcome to the king of Shrinkflation: Osteria Vicini. An Aperol Spritz? Almost 10 euros for a glass that is almost a quarter smaller than 3 years ago. Spaghetti with meatballs? Nowadays 20 euros instead of 14 euros 3 years ago with smaller balls than ever before? But the worst part was the dessert. That almost made us laugh out loud. A 'point' of a chocolate truffle cake that you can't even call a point. At least 30% smaller than a few years ago. Yes, costs are rising. But this case takes advantage of it in a bizarre way.

There is nothing to criticize about the staff. Nice cozy place, wine also okay. But my pizza was downright bad. The average frozen pizzas from ah have more flavor. Missed opportunity for his great business.

Somewhat indifferent food, not bad but also not especially interesting or flavoursome, the fried servings tasted as if the oil had been too cold. Some small errors in the service, long pause between starter and main course, had to ask twice for more wine.

Good restaurant with small but good menu. Pleasant attentive service.

Only drank coffee. Super nice service. Had to wait a little longer for the squid rings for my girlfriend and got a free drink.

Vicini is a real pearl in Rotterdam. The food is always good and delicious... sometimes just have a drink or enjoy a delicious meal with the family. Top tent..

Delicious food in this cozy restaurant. Has a separate cafe area next to the restaurant. Friendly service that gives great advice. Good wine!

If you're expecting authentic Italian cuisine, this place doesn't deliver. While it may be considered a regular restaurant, it's definitely not the spot for true Italian food. The pizza dough was bland and lacked flavor, and though the cheese was decent, the spaghetti seemed like packaged pasta instead of fresh. The sauce and meat were passable, but nothing special. They attempted a modern twist on tiramisu, but it didn’t quite hit the mark. The only highlight was the cappuccino, which I really enjoyed. On a positive note, the ambiance inside was pleasant. However, we were told there would be a half-hour wait at the bar, which was fine, but it was disappointing when we were then seated at a bar table instead of a regular table, requiring us to wait even longer.

At Osteria Vicini in Rotterdam you will be welcomed by a warm atmosphere and delicious Italian food. The restaurant offers a mix of traditional and modern dishes. The **suppli ai piselli** and **fritto di calamari** are tasty and perfect to start with. The pizzas are thin, soft and richly topped, such as the pizza with fennel, which is highly recommended. The cozy living room under the restaurant is ideal for meetings. A scoop of ice cream and a cappuccino complete the experience. Osteria Vicini is a place you will definitely want to come back to.

I was passing by the restaurant almost every day, and is busy most of the time, so I decided to give it a try. They have classic Italian food, and a small market type of store when you enter, where you can buy various Italian goods, like limoncelo etc. The atmosphere was cozy and warm. Service was attentive and fast with all the requests. And food was amazing, tasted fresh and delicious, without being overwhelming. I tried the carpaccio, bruscetta, burrata pesto and the polpette di vitello ( meatballs in tomato sauce). Dishes came fast, even though it was busy at the moment, and the food was very well prepared and tasty. Also I was told that their pizza and pasta dishes are also very nice. If you like good, classic Italian food, and value a good service, I would highly recommend the place!

We arrived there a bit late and told them in advance. They were super accommodating and the food and vibes were amazing

Just WOW. ABSOLUTELY amazing and delicious place and market place with truly Italian cuisine. Menu is not too complicated and everything is served fresh and hot. Must visit and revisit. And after the meal go to their local market with Italian touch- we got amazing pistachio panettone!

Two years ago was my first experience here. Yesterday I decided to give it a second chance...terrible idea. First of all, they should clearly mention that you can only sit inside for max 2 hours only if you arrive at 17:30 or at 19:30. For our bad luck, we made the reservation at 18:30, so we had to rush in ordering and eating because we only had 1 hour before the waiter came to say that we had to leave, even when our deserts were already ordered. Second, the food has not much to do with the Italian idea of keeping it simple, so besides the name, there's not much of italian there. We order several different anti pasti, only the calamari were good, the rest of the plates, including pastas and pizza, were overworked in the presentation but not much in taste. Linguine gamberetti didn't taste at all, like anything, same with the risotto gamberetto, we added salt and pepper so it would taste like something. The pizza dough was alright but they all had a very strong garlic smell and flavor, even when the menu didn't mentioned it had garlic. So overall, not very nice relationship between price and quality.

Fantastic flavors, good service, very friendly, delicious coffee and ice cream. It's a bit of a drive for us, but it was 200% worth it. The plates looked like paintings.

Very beautiful building. Another delicious lunch with friends.

Food and atmosphere was great! Highly recommended

Very friendly service. Nicely decorated. And delicious food!

Original location and very tasty food. Service was fast and the menu was clear with just enough choices

Always great. Great service and delicious food.

Only drank cappuccino, which was reasonable. You expect more from an Italian restaurant...

Separate gluten-free menu with many options

Delicious coffee and very friendly staff 🩷

Few vegetarian options. The walnuts on the pizza were a few crumbs. Service very friendly. Just didn't receive the entire order. A nice atmosphere.

Celebrated my friends birthsday there. great place

Tasty! Nice! Always go with family in this restaurant!

Topper. Excellent food and service.

Zeer teleurstellend na een positieve ervaring in december 23. Wat een feestelijke lunch met te delen gerechten voor 14 mensen moest zijn, begon met een uur wachten op de voorgerechten die al klaar hadden kunnen staan, want drie van de vier waren koud. Vervolgens 4 pizza’s en twee halve kommen pasta gedeeld met 14 personen. Borden direct leeg, maar niets werd aangevuld. Tot slot twee kommen tiramisu, ook direct leeg. Zo karig was ik het bij Vicini niet gewend en dat gaan we met een rekening van 700 euro (incl. wijn) ook nooit meer zo doen.

Nice place in the heart of Kralingen. An old building completely converted into an attractive Italian restaurant. There is no shortage of beautiful decorations. It was a bit of a shock when I opened the menu. The spaghetti with veal meatballs was always a nice comfort food dish for a decent price. I looked back and 4-5 years ago it was €13.50. They now charge €20 (!!!) euros for this. Rising, yes of course, but this is abuse. The meatballs with tomato sauce cost 9 euros. Throwing 11 euros on top for a little pasta and at most 2 extra balls is retarded and they know that very well. The always special dishes outside the menu are very worthwhile and you often get a much nicer and refined pasta for 2 euros more. Still expensive, but makes more sense. The pizza is sometimes very subject to who is in the kitchen, it sometimes seems. Sometimes a lot of crust and little topping, other times the other way around. Ingredients are always of high quality. Pastries from Koekela are very tasty and the coffee is also very good. When we asked on the outdoor terrace if we could have coffee in a to-go cup because we preferred to drink that because we might have to leave a little earlier, we were told that they only serve coffee in cups on the terrace and not in the to-go cup. So that's making it difficult for the sake of making it difficult.

Het is een leuke zaak. Er loopt veel personeel in de zaak. Er wordt wel eens een foutje gemaakt met de bestelling maar dat wordt met charme snel opgelost. Het eten is erg smakelijk. Geen haut cuisine en perfect opgemaakte gerechten maar heerlijke rustieke smaken zoals je mag verwachten bij een osteria.

Delicious food, friendly and attentive service.

Even my Italian friends liked it here.

I tried 3 pizzas, none of them tasted according the rating or the atmosphere. I think the ingredients might lack quality

Nice restaurant, cozy atmosphere, good service and delicious food!

Delicious food, great atmosphere and service was top notch.

Enjoyed the coffee on the terrace.

Nice place to go to, the staff is nice and quick. The food is good. Nere the Park (Kralingse Bos)

Super nice place. Had a panini with steak, really delicious, I haven't had such a tasty sandwich in a long time, really a 10.

Cozy and pleasant atmosphere 🤗. I liked the range of dishes and the service👍 It should be noted that the pizza is delicious 👌👌👌, and also, the barista perfectly prepares drinks ☕

Nelcelina's service was so good that we would come back for this alone. The food, the place and the atmosphere are also really nice! To all other colleagues from the dishes, the kitchen and the bar, kudos to everyone!

Wonderful restaurant. We went there in september as a group, and it was 3rd time for me. Everything from the Italian Table menu was delicious. The staff was very flexible and adapted to all our changes in number of people and hour we were coming. The place is very nice and cosy, great ambiance.

The pizza was not bad, there was too much tomato sauce. It turns out something like tomato paste bread. There was very little cheese on it. I liked the atmosphere inside. Tiramisu was nice, I liked it. The service is very good, the employees are polite and fast. Prices are quite high.

My first time here and Not disappointed at all. Went to celebrate my daughter's graduation and we all loved the place. The food was good, service superb. It's a place to go to.

Great food great staff nice atmosfere

Unfortunately a disappointment. Good quality food, but the portion of Ravioli was really too little and quite pricey (22 euros). Scoppino glass was half full (10.50 per glass), cake portion was also very small and the water glasses smelled terribly. When you go out for dinner you want to go home satiated, but that was not the case. We won't be back.

Cosy, affordable, good food and options to eat in a very cozy private room. (Which gets very hot on hot days with 15 people). Definitely recommended with friendly and adequate service. Top!!

Good pizza, a bit expensive. But oh well, Rotterdam Kralingen is to be expected. What was less satisfactory was this man's ALTITUDE.!!? The gentleman on the phone asked if I was drunk?? And we were very embarrassed when we asked for crust dips... we even had to get 1 euro of aioli from the appie☹️☹️. Very mediocre. He also didn't say goodbye when we came to pick up the pizza.

From motor to olive oil. Long ago a Citroën and now a luxurious or wild interior with Italian food. Nice entrance with Italian products. Neat reception and guidance to the table, with choice. And then enjoy the surroundings, atmosphere and food. Spontaneous service that corrects issues neatly. Not the first but not the last time.

Nice coffee, nice pastries. However, the staff, especially the ladies, were as grumpy/blunt as could be. I don't like cups as much and wanted a take-away cup, no problem, right? Apparently that is not allowed on the terrace...

Pizzas, aperols, service. Average at best. Pizza is like store bought frozen. It really is.

Cozy atmosphere, good service, casual but not popular. Delicious food and drinks! Good price quality.

We had dinner in this restaurant, the place was very nice, the pizza was very good and the veal with tuna sauce was excellent 👍 the waiters were very kind. I recommend it.

Relaxed at a large reading table

Real Italian atmosphere. Nice sitting outside. Roomy. Quick. Good food

Delicious lunch. The service is spontaneous, friendly as it should be. But the food is really special combinations but so tasty. The salad with eggplant, goat cheese, pomegranate and hazelnuts is definitely recommended!!!

3 consecutive bad experiences in 1 year. Bad/ slow service, pizza with missing ingredients, soggy pasta..

Osteria Viccini is a gem! The pizzas are amazing, the wine is excellent, and the service is incredibly fast. The place itself is stunning, making for a perfect dining experience. Absolutely nothing to criticize, just move along and enjoy!

Very nice place with good staff and good food. Also in terms of atmosphere, just Rotterdam cozy, but acoustics could be better.

The food is delicious! The only downside is that the restaurant is so popular that you almost always need to make a reservation as it is usually very busy.

While passing through Rotterdam we discovered this restaurant thanks to Tik tok and we absolutely do not regret the careful and original decor, tasty dishes and very pleasant staff. We come from Lille and we will certainly come back during our next stay

What a nice place! Okay, it was also because the sun was shining, but it's a very nice restaurant anyway. Wonderful Italian atmosphere! With shop included! It was delicious and varied! We had shared dining with colleagues. Enough diversity and good ones to share! To die for. Luckily we didn't have to share the Dolce ☺️ everyone has their own dessert 😃 We will definitely come back!

I have been here on a weekly basis for some time as it is in the neighbourhood and on my way to the gym. Friendly people and really good food. I love the pasta with shrimps. Dogs are allowed in and so far each week I have been able to get some dog cuddles. For some reason new cooks feel they have a change a perfectly good recipe the former cook had. A change is not always an improvement. Please, bring back the linguini gambaretti the way it was; the way it is supposed to be.

Delicious meal with friends! Cozy Italian furnishings and upon entering a nice shop with delicacies. Main menu consists of various pastas and pizzas. Tasty!

Cozy restaurant with beautiful decoration. Food was very good and the service