A nice and cozy Italian restaurant in Knysna with a relaxed ambience. I really enjoyed their chicken and herb pizza. The seafood pasta was a bit bland. The staff is friendly, kind and attentive

The Best Italian restaurant in Knysna.Delicious food, charming Italian atmosphere and very friendly staff, all of them family and co-owners.We had a lovely evening, so glad we chose this wonderfull rest. The food is also priced very well, worth a vist that's for sure!

Food was excellent. Pizza is superb. Pasta, because its homemade, EXCELLENT. Even my little one enjoyed it. Keep up the great food, and will certainly come and visit you again. Great venue and clean all round.

We arrived in Knysna quite late and walk from our accommodation place to this lovely restaurant. They were very friendly and the service was great. Our waitress brought our drinks outside where we were having a smoke, and really looked after us. The food was really great with in-house home made pasta. We had pasta dishes and didn't have the pizzas but they look well sized and properly laid with cheese. I would highly recommend this lovely restaurant.

Best place for pizza 🍕 in Knysna. Very cozy restaurant definitely worth to sit in then get take aways as we normally did. Italian football and memorabilia about Italy as a décor which I love as who does not love football! I like how it's still family ran restaurant, everyone on duty is always pleasant no matter if your there for a take away or sit in. I will keeping coming back while staying in Knysna, definitely worth a stop for lunch or dinner if your passing through or stoping over. The pasta 🍝 is also another winner ! Think next time I have to order both 🍕 🍝

Authentic Italian food, full of flavour. Friendly service.

Excellent food and vibe. The service was a bit slow. But it is festive season so it's understandable.

Amazing food I am a chef myself, but I couldn't do it better myself, home made pastas, pizzas, gnocchi. The aurbgine lasagne some of the best I've had, The table come filled with parmesan, chillies, garlic. Will definitely be back.

The best pizzas we've had in a long time. Excellent service and delicious dessert. Highly recommended.

Best pizza ever will definitely recommend all my family and friends all the way from cape town .will definitely come back just for pizza⁹

Reasonable price. Equal amount of seafood and pasta had the leftovers for lunch generous portions. Pizza PERFECT base.

Great Italian on the Garden Route. We, a group of 6, spontaneously stumbled upon the Persello in the evening an hour before closing time and felt immediately welcome. Especially the staff, but also the interior design played a big role. The service was excellent: courteous, polite, helpful, fun.... The food was also great: large portions, top taste. The penne arrabiata were perhaps a little too spicy for the European palate, but on request we were still brought free bread to eat up the remaining sauce. The dessert was also impeccable, absolutely on point. Positively I must still emphasize the beverage selection: In addition to the usual beers, local craft beers are also offered, absolutely great! All in all, for me culinary one of the best evenings in 3 weeks South Africa!

Spaghetti Bolognese was disappointing. Noodles were very wet with water. The Bolognese had no flavor. The outdoor seating was nice. Service was efficient.

Louise was very friendly taking our order over the food and food on time for collection. Pizza really good but the penne Al forno had NO flavour at all.worst pasta tasted

One of the best pizza I've eaten! The avocado topping is a must!

Everything was great, I would give a 5 star rating but only after I finished eating I found out there is egg in the recipe used to make the homemade pasta. There are some people have egg allergies and some people who choose not to eat egg for other reasons. The fact this is not clearly advertised is simply unacceptable.

Amazing pizza and Pasta. We enjoyed our visit. Service was great. Ambience felt like we time traveled to Italy. Do support them!

We stumbled late into town for Knysna's last Friday's which we hear is quite popular - having missed the "party" we looked for a place to eat and came across Persello Pizzeria. As a vegan I was expecting to not eat much - but the owner chef turned that around, went all out with a pizza which was super tasty and as a suggestion a must add to the menu. If and when in Knysna, want to experience love and warmth from the Mediterranean, visit Persello Pizzeria, you will be glad you did! Hope to be back soon, thank you for the hospitality and great service.