Buon Appetito Hove

Walk into Buon Appetito and you're stepping into the kind of place where the owner probably argues passionately about tomato varieties. It's Western Road's answer to wanting actual Italian food rather than the Instagram-friendly stuff—wooden beams, warm lighting, the smell of dough hitting a proper wood-fired oven. You'll find yourself at a table with families tucking into handmade tagliatelle and regulars who've clearly been coming for years, nursing glasses of Barolo. The menu reads like someone's genuinely cooked their way through Italy rather than copied it from a supplier's catalogue. Prices won't break the bank either, which is increasingly rare round these parts.