We make homemade pasta and pizza alongside fresh salads, antipasti and homemade dolci.
You’re given a Vapiano swipe card on arrival, use this to register your order from our chefs who will cook your meal exactly how you want it, right in front of you, then you simply pay on the way out.
“Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano”: According to an old Italian proverb, “If you have an easy-going and relaxed approach to life, you’ll live more healthily and longer”- we liked this saying so much, we created our name from it.
Back on 22nd of October, 2002, the first Vapiano opened in Hamburg, Germany. Two years later, our founders decided to set Vapiano on a world tour and today there are already over 150 Vapiano’s in 29 countries on 4 continents, with many more international openings planned for the future.
When you arrive you’ll be given a vapiano card and you use this to register your order as our chef prepares your meal.
Pasta, pizzas, antipasti and salads are ordered directly from our chefs at the individual stations within the restaurant and we prepare all dishes to order in front of you so that you have your meal prepared exactly how you want it.
Extra garlic? Done. Extra chilli? No problem.
We also give 2 slices of freshly baked ciabatta bread with every pasta dish, soup and salad.
Favorite dishes can be created, and then individually refined. Our herb gardens around the restaurant and the fresh herbs on the tables are not just for decoration, but for you to add to your meal if you feel like it. Go on, tear a few basil leaves and add them to your pizza -delicious!
You can see how our pasta is made fresh each day in our bespoke pasta machine (the manifattura) in the middle of each Vapiano.
Our pizza dough, our sauces and dressings are all prepared in-house and guaranteed to be made of the finest ingredients. Every Vapiano all around the world takes care of producing its own food fresh daily, (We do not have a central production facility)
You order at the counter where you get a beeper that goes off for the pizza if your pizza is ready, and when the pasta you stand in line and wait for you, what is means that if the order and the other a pasta pizza – this can be done at the same time. But they are fresh, very tasty, especially well priced and the case has a nice decor and the people are always friendly. It is a simple but fun concept.
At this restaurant you can not talk about “service”, because that is just not there. First you have to stand in line to get a pass. Next, you need to eat in another queue to order. There you get a kind of phone which you then call if the food is ready. Then you can stand to have a drink in line to pick up. And then you still find an available table (which is often not really easy). If you phone is going, you have to go get your food again.
Thanks to the smart-card payment system, you just pay for what you have ordered at the front desk when you are ready to leave.