Fatto A Mano

We ordered 12 pizzas for our community event in Brighton everyone loved the pizza. They said it was some of the best pizza they’ve had in town. It’s really good value, good ingredients and a great team of people who make the pizzas. Rupert, the owner, is a really nice and welcoming guy. I couldn’t recommend them more highly!

Definitely the best pizza I have had in Brighton! Worth going! Great place to go with friends and have some drinks/​wine, especially in the bar. Nice staff from Italy.

Really really good experiences each time I’ve been here. First of all they do Aperol spritz which I completely fell in love with when I was in Italy so that was a real plus! And very fairly priced at £5.
For starters — they do amazing olives, the big fat bright green juicy ones that are incredibly moreish and perfect while you’re waiting for your pizza.
I find it weird that people complain about limited menus… that just means their food is fresh! If you have a massive menu it likely means most of the ingredients aren’t fresh. I always feel better when a menu is limited because it means that what they do, they do well, and I really think that’s the case here.
I love the Capricciosa and the Salsiccia e friarielli (beware, those chills are hot). The dough is incredible soft and pillowy just like they describe. These are NOT thin and crispy pizzas so don’t expect that — go to Pizza 500 if you prefer thin!
Atmosphere has always been great, this is a proper local place that does authentic food.

I like a pizza cooked in a proper pizza oven, and the pizza oven here is a true monstrosity! Yes, as other Unilocalers have mentioned, the menu isn’t huge, but what they do, they do well in my opinion. The style is Napolitan — they promote their pizza as having a «soft and pillowy» base, as opposed to thin and crispy, and I would say this was a fairly accurate description. So far, I have tried the Margherita, the Diavola and the Rucola Prosciutto — the later being my favourite. If you can’t manage it all, you can take the remaining slices home for breakfast the following day!
The starters are also massive — I had the Caprese on my first visit and it was almost the size of a main. I’m yet to try a pudding, but to be fair, I don’t think this is where they excel. Come here for pizza, and pizza alone.
The staff can be a little hit and miss, but on the whole are friendly and helpful. It can get a little crowded in here so it can feel a little claustrophobic, but on the whole I like the atmosphere, and I like watching those pizzas going in and out of the oven.
They are pretty child-​friendly here too, with highchairs, a kids menu and colouring-​in and chef’s hats to keep the little one’s entertained

We decided to try Fatto A Mano out for a late lunch as it’s on our way into town.
Even at 2pm it was still busy but luckily there was some space at the bar!
We shared the capricciosa pizza and rosemary salted fries which we both enjoyed. Watching the pizzas being made was also fun to observe.
The pizza was tasty and fresh and we were glad to have shared as we left quite full. The service was also good, they gave us a jug of tap water which was appreciated.
They don’t do delivery but they allow take-​aways. I think we’re going to go here for our future take-​away pizzas which are around £9 each.

Came here on a Tuesday night after hearing great things.
The place was pretty busy for a Tuesday and we could only get a seat at the bar which was fun to watch all the pizzas being made. One of the pizza makers was so friendly and asked us if we wanted our starter first and if the pizza was good and wished us a good night just when we were leaving. He was this places saving grace.
Found the female staff to be particularly rude and unfriendly and when we first arrived they made the atmosphere awkward and uncomfortable. Which could of ruined the meal. One of them came to take our drinks order and I was only having water, once she found this out she almost slammed a pre poured jug of water down without a word. Just unnecessary.
The pizza was very very good and good value and I would come back. However the waitresses being unfriendly on not exactly the busiest night of the week is a bit inexcusable.
Also there is not a whole lot more to offer on the menu so unless your sure your in the mood for pizza I would go elsewhere.

Really nice, great pizza and warm friendly staff. Free kids meal (with puzzles, colouring in stuff and a hat) too!

QI really enjoyed pizza here, despite other reviews. I went with my sons before the cinema and just had a pizza and a drink which came in at less than £10 a head. The pizzas were big, thin, crispy and piping hot — literally straight from the wood fired oven. The chilled Aperol spritz balanced things out and we got a nice jug of water with fresh mint leaves. Yes the menu is limited, yes it’s quite a small place and it was pretty hot, so can imagine in the height of summer it could be uncomfortably so. It is obviously popular with locals, it was busy even at 5pm, and there was a queue outside a couple of hours later. I’d go back again if I was in the London road area.

When you first walk in to this venue you are overwhelmed with fresh, authentic italian smells spilling out of the huge white tiled traditional pizza oven. Let me tell you now… I wish the food tasted as good as it smelt.
I was a little disappointed to be honest. I rarely go out to eat, I enjoy cooking my own food and hate spending money on food out! I’m not a complete bore, I do enjoy going out once and a while but I prefer to go to somewhere worth the money. If i’m honest, this place didn’t cut it.
The staff are very friendly. Very welcoming, polite and the service was good. The deco was slightly strange. It had a feeling which suggested that they hadn’t finished. Plastered stained looking walls. It didn’t make it feel homely or comfortable!
The menu itself is okay, but they do not have a massive amount of choice. They offer 4 or 6 pizzas with a tomato base and others which they call white pizza. Predominately cheese. Bit weird if you ask me but nonetheless I’m sure I’d of tried it if some of the people on my table ordered it. Which brings me to my next disappointment. My friend ordered a pulled chicken salad. She was trying really hard to be healthy bless her and she was welcomed by a pretty rubbish salad with no sign of pulled chicken but what looked like bernard matthews pumped watered breasted chicken. She was distraught — quite rightly so and made her emotions very apparent to all of whom would listen, not that many had a choice!
The staff acknowledge that it was a mistake, eventually, and the waiter kindly took it off of the bill.
I shared a pizza with a friend. It was ok. I wasn’t blown away by it. One thing that disappointed me actually was that they didn’t have any Garlic Oil. I MEAN COME ON!!! ! ! ! ! Even Pizza Express has Garlic Oil. I’m sure as well if you went into Mc Donalds they’d probably have it too. Garlic Oil is a necessary part of eating a pizza for me. Sorry Fatto a Mono but sort it out. Thats like a Icecream shop selling Icecream without the cones or Flakes.
All in all, I wouldn’t really go here again, I prefer Pizza Express and I’ll try out VIP too when I get a chance.
Sorry but it is 2 stars for me.

Whatever. I am disappointed.
People told me this is as good as VIP Pizza. It isn’t. It doesn’t come close. It’s a whole 2 stars away.
I am going to list the things that are bad first because they are most prominent in my brain after eating here this evening.
— They couldn’t give us a jug of water to share on our table. The dude said they didn’t have enough jugs. Instead, they offered to «refill» us here and there. The water they gave us was not even cold and there was no ice.
— It was stuffy, there was no air con. This made the no-​ice situation even worse.
— It felt cramped. 4 of us got shuffled away in some kind of raised balcony area which reminded me of an ex-​pats unfinished conservatory.
— The pizza was a tad salty and a bit greasy (I had half a Diavalo and half a … something else with salami on)
— The pizza menu was limited. I think there were only 7 tomato based pizzas, maybe 2 of them had meat on. The rest were basically herbs on cheese. Yawn.
— I had some chips as a side which were supposedly seasoned with salt, garlic and rosemary. They were basically thin cut oven chips seasoned with rosemary. I don’t think there was any garlic on them. Also, the more I think about it, the more it annoys me that they were served on a plate rather than in a bowl. Chips in a bowl please. Or something metallic. Never a plate.
— They didn’t give me a pizza cutter. I didn’t request one, but still.
— They had no garlic oil. Or chilli oil. Or just ANYTHING other than salt or pepper to season my pizza with.
So why did it get a 3 star?
Well, our waiter seemed like a nice guy. He smiled, knowingly.
When my girlfriend complained about her salad, they took it off the bill (good). In short, the menu described a pulled chicken salad. She got some straight-​from-​the-​packet precooked chicken on a bed of lousy lettuce. Just lazy, really (bad).
Erm… the pizza was good. If I was rating the pizza alone, it would scrape a 3.5÷5.
The pizza is also fairly priced.
Never stayed for dessert.

In really gutted to have to give Fatto a Mano 2 stars.
I’d been looking forward to coming here for a I’ve after hearing nothing but good reviews! So tonight I went with a couple of fellow Unilocalers to try it out.
I’m on a bit of a health kick at the moment, so instead of having a pizza I checked the menu online beforehand and noticed they sell a pulled chicken salad. It sounded really appetising so I didn’t feel I would be missing out if I didn’t have a pizza!
Sadly I was wrong! The salad came out, lettuce, rocket and a few cherry tomatoes… the main problem being that it was pulled chicken as stated on the menu, but cold, pre packaged Bernard Matthews style chicken chunks.
I pointed this out to a member of staff who didn’t seem to get what I was trying to explain… at this point I started to get a bit annoyed, but another member of staff who had been looking after us explained that it wasn’t their usual chicken and that they’d had some problems with their suppliers. I said that it might have been worth mentioning that when I ordered as I probably would have ended up ordering something else. I did feel sorry for the guy as he was lovely and really apologetic, and he kindly took my salad off the bill (which I’m glad about as I wasn’t prepared to pay £9.50 for it!)
I’m just disappointed as I really really wanted to enjoy it — but I just didn’t!
General consensus from the guys that had pizza was that it wasn’t anything amazing either… but I’ll let you read their reviews !