Ask Italian in Scarborough

I had tomato pasta and calamari starter. Food was ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS! Very pleased 😄 one complaint though, didn't come with a fork so please make an option to order utensils for people who need it.

Truly delicious food! It's amazing to find such an authentic Italian restaurant on the front in Scarborough but this is it. The staff are so friendly and the food is so flavoursome. Nothing is too much trouble and the prices are fantastic. Make sure you visit it when you decide to go to Scarborough!

Kasia was brilliant, great with our kids

Food was amazing and service was impeccable. I will definitely be returning!

Beautiful mushroom bruschetta , lovely tuscan chicken and very friendly staff.

Had a fab meal and looked after those with dietary requirements really well. Kasia was knowledgeable and nothing was too much bother.

Great food, great service. Olivia was fantastic! Great with my kids.

Superb food and service! The waitress Kasia could not have been more friendly, helpful and informative! Many thanks for a delicious, relaxed meal!

Fantastic food and service from Kasia who was very polite and helpful. The location in Scarborough is also lovely, overlooking the harbour.

Beautiful food and a superb waitress, she was so attentive and kind, especially as we have two autistic children with us. Then she informed me about children eating free Plus the cocktails are amazing

Kasia was polite and friendly and made us all feel at ease. She managed our individual needs adeptly and without fuss. A credit to the restaurant.

Friendly staff. Food is nice and good portions. Had the calamari 👍 and the starter bread all very nice. Had the linguine seafood which is lovely and the spaghetti. The raspberry lemonade is nice too. Been twice now would go again. Booking online. Slight wait for table, lots of people waiting in the entrance. Maybe they need more staff to turnover to get tables ready and customers seated. Food wasn’t too long a wait.

Very good….. great service! No hassle,Will definitely order again!Bless you all

Fabulous chicken, delivered promptly

Happy with the food “also got free dessert 🍨 (yummmmm)

Amazing chicken - highly recommend

service was really good, our waitress was very attentive and helpful, we were seated straight away, the food came super fast and was really good!

Had a lovely lunch. Nice restaurant, good service and the food was great. My wife fell in love with the Baileys Flat White Martini.

Golden anniversary tried 5 times to ring,online number invalid, wouldn't accept gift card, staff not really bothered, collected take away as husband woke poorly, food extremely dry. Binned

AMAZING FOOD, very good customer service, the waitresses checked up on us to make sure we were happy with the food and were very polite. Didn't expect it to be so busy when we went so we walked in and got told to come back in half an hour which was fine and obviously our fault and it goes to show the place is in high demand. Great experience!

Waited quite a while to get a table, and was sat right next to the waitstaff staging desk (where they keep all the silverware, plates, condiments, and I always felt in the way based on where they had my chair in relation); had to order from QR as the staff was short handed; ended up paying the equivalent of $90 for two small portions of carbonara (which arrived luke warm), a salad and drinks. The whole time we were there, it sounded like dishes were being tossed around (just an overall feeling of chaos). We couldn’t leave fast enough. Would hate to see this place when it’s busy in the summer…. 😕

Service was pleasant but slow. Its a lovely spot with views across the harbour. But food far from inspiring. Most of our party had pizza of some kind and that was OK, I had risotto which was not cooked through. Gritty rather than creamy. OK for pizza and if you're happy to pay for the view. But we won't be rushing back.

the food was absolutely amazing and the service was great too, our server was really friendly and she showed us how to access the best deals☺️

Caroline has recently taken over and is doing very well, very a credit to the company. We need more Caroline’s

Whilst on our mini break to Scarborough….We popped in on seeing menu outside…. So very glad we did…. It was amazing….fresh food…amazing service and this was around 4 pm on Friday…. No Dress code thankfully cos We were in casuals and I felt under dressed at one point 🙈 but absolutely looking forward to our late mini break….I had bolognese linguine and my partner had lentil linguine… garlic bread with cheese though… just wow 🤩 👌 thank you

Great food and got the food under 10 minutes 😋 👌

When we arrived for our booking we had high expectations as I'm Coeliac and the manager was very informative and provided me with all the relevant information. We placed our order which again we had high hopes. The starters came, mine was OK and all eaten, my husband had prawns which came in a skillet with bread. He couldn't eat the bread as it burnt and stuck to the bottom of the skillet. When our mains came out they were cold we both had sea food pasta dishes and the seafood was even cold. These were sent back and one of the young waiters said I will get them reheated, we replied with don't reheat them. The manager came with 2 more dishes and reassured me that they were freshly cooked, I had mine, my husband however didn't as it put him off so just had garlic bread. We did inform the manager of this which she replied with "I have taken these off your bill and I am really sorry". I did inform her it wasn't her fault, but the kitchens at fault. I couldn't eat all mine as it was dry and bland. We will not be returning.

The food was luke warm and whilst the pizzas were good, the pasta carbonara was terrible and not worth the money.

Always super friendly - love it here!

Amazing customer service and very delicious food !

Lovely, fresh food; pizza still hot. Will definitely order again.. thank you 😊

Absolutely amazing food would highly recommend the best bolognaise my partner had ever had!! My food was also 10/10. The staff couldn’t be more helpful, thank you to Gemma Nina and the manager Caroline!! Keep it up girls

We ordered pizza, garlic bread, chips and calamari. All very fresh. Arrived early, piping hot. Lovely food though would've liked the chips to not be massive slabs but that's personal taste. The calamari was fantastic and perfectly fried. A very good dining experience.

Great service, delicious food. Best fresh lemonade

Super cold but the delivery driver can’t be blamed for that

Weirdest dining experience of my life, got there at half 8 and ordered the three course meal with my wife. The first bit was ok, I got a starter after about 20 mins, but then us and basically the whole room we were in was just ignored for an hour. No taking away dirty plates, no asking if you want drinks. Some lady kept walking around setting up tables for the next day whilst ignoring her current customers. The kitchen staff just stood talking and on their phones. Finally got our main just after half nine by chasing it down, never got our dessert. No apology, acted like they were doing us a favour by not charging for the dessert. As I say just odd, I've never been in a restaurant before which seemed to care so little about it's customers.

Weirdest dining experience of my life, got there at half 8 and ordered the three course meal with my wife. The first bit was ok, I got a starter after about 20 mins, but then us and basically the whole room we were in was just ignored for an hour. No taking away dirty plates, no asking if you want drinks. Some lady kept walking around setting up tables for the next day whilst ignoring her current customers. The kitchen staff just stood talking and on their phones. Finally got our main just after half nine by chasing it down, never got our dessert. No apology, acted like they were doing us a favour by not charging for the dessert. As I say just odd, I've never been in a restaurant before which seemed to care so little about it's customers.

I have been to so many chains of late and been thoroughly disappointed by them all. Mediocre bland tasteless uninspired lazy food, conveyor belted out from the precooked reheating rooms. There is no excuse for it and Ask Italian is the proof. Three courses for the family of some fantastically presents and tasty food. The team completely smashed it all and I am leaving many times happier all for it. Wonderful

Sorry we don’t expect a true Italian experience as it’s is just a chain but this has to be the worst meal ever I’ve seen and eaten absolutely spoiled our night out 6 of the prawns and toast was so dried my wife was choking 🤦‍♂️ and the lasagna and meat balls was welded to the plate crazy inedible and also the drinks just tasted like water down we asked for water as me was next to the station and didn’t get any had to get our own balsamic as weed asked several times very very poor quality I would really love a member of staff to contact me on this as I did explain but didn’t get anywhere we had been told it’s was a nice place but unfortunately didn’t turn out that way 😢

Everything was horrible, poor service, the employees didn't come to the table, they didn't listen to what the customer wanted, and the food was served very badly, it came with hair like in the photo. Pure racism.

Came here today and asked if we could make a booking for a couple of hours time as i could see it was a really busy day. One of the waitresses was more than accomodating and managed to get us booked in with no trouble. We enjoyed a delicious meal. When we arrived the service was absolutely fantastic. I would like to give a special mention to Kasia for going above and beyond what was expected. She was absolutely fantastic and made our evening. Thank you

Left tonight feeling very underwhelmed. We had come tonight for a date night and have very mixed feelings. We ordered drinks and food together which came quickly. We both had mocktails which were super good. The downfall was the service and the food. I ordered the carbonara which was very bland, half way through I had enough as the taste was monotonous. The cheese topping melted in one large lump which was a little unappetising. Though the pasta was done to a very good texture and the sauce was a good consistency. My partner had king prawn tagliatelle which again pasta was done well but the prawns were over cooked which gave them a rubber texture. We would have mentioned this however we wernt table checked once. After finishing and trying to flag down a waiter for 30 minutes (wish I was exaggerating) we finally got our bill. We wernt asked how our meal was which again I would have complained then, and wernt asked if we wanted anything else. Overall it was pretty unappealing and not worth the final bill.

Nice restaurant directly at the harbour. Good service and friendly personnel

Great location and nice food. Highly recommend the (special) pizzas. An informal place where you don't have to dress up.

Nice food, super views and good atmosphere. Very nice lunch

It was good for tea, food ok just another average Italian restraunt, wouldn't go back. I know it's on the harbour side, but we did see rats outside the back near the fisherman's lobster pots whilst eating tea.

The food was really nice and the staff were very friendly but the prices are getting way too high to keep returning. Nearly 100 pounds for 4 people. It's very nice inside though and was very clean.

Great place to visit. Great service from all the team. Definitely worth a visit.

La comida era buena, el servicio bueno también, vista sobre el puerto era precioso. Disfrutamos de todo lo que teníamos, un poco caro en comparación con otros restaurantes italianos de cadena, pero como teníamos una tarjeta de regalo era barato! Mi pasta podría haber estado un poco más caliente, pero sin duda iría de nuevo

Staff were really attentive, polite and always smiling. The food was amazing, especially the Calzone, Calimari and Chocolate Etna. Definitely going to be our go to Italian.

Okay, food good drinks expensive

This has become one of our favourite places to eat with the kids as they like the food and the colouring menu keeps them behaving! My son asked to go here for his bday dinner, he is 6. He likes the babychinos. His dessert was severed with a lovely happy birthday message.

Buena ubicación, bastante caro en comparación con el independiente, restaurantes cercanos. El personal era genial, pero el restaurante se siente un poco apretado y los asientos un poco incómodos. La comida estaba bien - pizzas y pastas son encantadoras, pero las especialidades no son tan buenas. El entrante de gambas servidas en cáscara y a la mitad por lo que eran incómodos de comer, el pollo milanés estaba frito y grasiento sin suficiente salsa y las patatas fritas no comestibles debido al corte grueso. Agradable visita, pero hay mejores lugares cerca.

Missing drink again. Thought it was a one off but, this is my second time ordering the "Bundle for one" and both times the drink has been missing. Pretty cheeky to include it in the bundle price and not send it.

Visitamos este restaurante un jueves por la noche no parecía ocupado, pero nos dijeron que volviéramos una hora y 10 minutos después la comida que tuvimos era una lasaña agradable y rague de ternera y porciones de fetichina eran de tamaño razonable y volveríamos a comer allí de nuevo

Excelente ubicación, personal muy atento y lo más importante, excelente comida - tal vez la mejor pizza que hemos tenido en un restaurante ASK ... y hemos estado en unos pocos! El restaurante tiene un buen ambiente y estaba limpio y cómodo. Hay aparcamiento disponible en las inmediaciones.

Good food, great views across the harbour and very friendly staff. Special thanks to Nina who was great!

Our service by our waiter isaac last night was impressive considering he was a young lad made our meal 10x better as the food was amazing as usual. There's been many times where we receive under average service from many restaurant places as they lack motivation but isaac was total opposite to this. He made sure that our table was cleared after each meal and drink asked if everything we had was nice and tailored to our needs with our food. I noticed how he was always about making sure everybody time there and needs were served doing it with such a keen motivation to work and at a fast pace. Couldn't of asked for a better service from him and it definitely didn't go unnoticed, wish my service where ever I go could be high standard like he provided.

food was delicious but unfortunately cold

waited a long time for delivery so food was cold

Very good food but just basic Italian no real specialities although was all of a high standard and very tasty.

Not enough filling on the pizza.

My friends and I popped in on a lunch time over Christmas without a booking and the staff were very friendly and accommodated us and gave us free samples of the freshly made lemonade. Food was really tasty (both the pizzas and pasta) and there were also plenty of options for people with dietary requirements. Deserts were also great and there is plenty of atmosphere with lovely views across the harbour. Not been in for years so good to see it's still a nice place to go.

Go to any other restaurant in Scarborough! They will be nicer and a whole lot cheaper. Massively overpriced for a average meal. bad all round. What a shame

Customer service is a dying art!! ... I visited yesterday with my son, we stood in the entrance area next to the sign, wait to be seated, at least 3 staff members walked past, completely ignoring us and avoiding all eye contact. After about 5 minutes a member of staff finally acknowledged us, and told us there was a 20 minute wait for a table, I could clearly see the restaurant was half empty so I can only imagine it was a staffing issuse. This it the 2nd time we have had a bad experience here, if your staff are young and inexperienced you should be teaching them the very basics of Customer Service, acknowledge your customers as soon as you can, even if its a just a smile or a 'someone will be with you shortly' Thankfully the cafe bar over the road offered exceptional service!

Just beautiful food every time

We are always happy to go for lunch here. Food is perfect and the service is second to none. A special mention to Kasia who goes above and beyond with her service.

Absolutely loved eating here and the atmosphere is amazing

On the whole ok but slightly underwhelming.

I chose tomato pasta, not at all what I imagined, far better & delicious.

Great place with super views. Food is superb.

Great quality meal. Would try again for lots of items not from other takeaways. A+

Was the only restaurant open that I could go to at 20.00 which is sad for all the independent businesses

Great place. Food superb. Great atmosphere. Children welcome. Great views over the harbour.

Great chain of Italian restaurants. Scarborough was not too bust at 5:30 on a Friday, service was prompt, and the food was v nice. Will go again

Gone right down hill. No-one in the place and service was slow. Both chefs on their mobiles while in the kitchen and no hand washing in between touching food. Service was poor. Felt like a nuisance and disturbing their relaxing evening. And pizzas had no toppings for at least inch and a half in from the edge. Not worth the money.

Food was cold. Driver was very rude and demanded a code, which was a first.

Tasty food, but slightly overpriced for what it is. Amongst the best pizza around. Dedicated and helpful service without too much fuss.

Very disappointed on this occasion. The food was bland, the staff uninterested except for one, and overall I was sad it had gone downhill. I booked well in advance, requesting a nice quiet table for two upstairs, for my wedding anniversary. On arrival I was taken downstairs on a table for four next to the cleaning station. By way of compensation the server gave us four glasses of pink looking disinfectant to drink, which looked sugary and sweet, and I was expected to be grateful. I didn’t want to stay, but we asked another server if we could go upstairs now as we saw other people leaving. She took us upstairs and it so quiet we could have sat anywhere. We ordered the Chianti Classico, two glasses of Prosecco and our food. The red wine arrived with what looked like dessert goblets/cheesecake glasses, and when I challenged this, I was informed that’s all they had. My bruschetta arrived shortly after, three pieces of very spongy ciabatta bread with just chopped pieces of salad tomatoes on top, a minuscule shaving of basil, and a sprinkle of hard cheese. It literally tasted of nothing. I didn’t eat very much at all. The main course arrived, Manzo picante, which was supposed to be meatballs in Raju which purported to be fiery. The best part of this was the black pepper I put on top to try and get some flavour out of it. The server upstairs, a very young male, saw my distress and refunded the bruschetta and was very kind and apologetic. He was very good, and he will go along way in hospitality but the chef needs to learn a lot about flavour and herbs, or even Italian food. I’m very sad to say I won’t be back again.

We hadn't booked but we were accommodated with no trouble. Plenty of the meals were either vegetarian or could be adapted. Excellent food and service.

Slow service but great food worth the wait just service needs to be quicker

it was a absolute joke I'm so unhappy with the service in delivery that by the time I got it it was like ice and totally ruined

First time here and certainly won't be the last,we were given a gift card to use here so that's why we were there,but it's a lovely and clean,lovely atmosphere and friendly staff,we ordered pizza's and they were really good,as said before will definitely be back.

I arrived at 8:50 pm on a Sunday... restaurant was maybe a quarter full... nobody seemed to know what was going on, left standing at the host stand for ages, staff just walking by saying another person would get me... finally told they had no room. Weird... I never post negative posts... but very poor. Before I left, asked if I could use their bathroom... it made wetherspoons toilets look luxurious. Shame, normally like this chain.

It's alright, but 2 adults, 2 kids (12&10), we had 4 pizzas, 2 glasses of wine, and 2 soft drinks, and it was over £100. It was nice but way too expensive for what we had won't be coming again at those prices

A nice place for a romantic meal with a loved one, or just an afternoon snack/meal with a glass of wine... and watch the world go by ❤️

Great food,great service,wouldn't pay full price though as I do think its a little overpriced for what the food is. Very tasty and portion size is ok. Nice place for a treat or special occasion.

Loved the location and the mood inside this ASK. It's right on the main street close to the beach and has lovely views out across the harbour. The decor inside is peaceful and relaxing and the service was brilliant, speedy and friendly. The food was a little on the pricey side for the size of the portions, but it tasted great and the desserts in particular were absolutely delicious. Brought two vegan friends with me both of whom had plenty of choice and loved their meals too.

The portions were terrible! Very small portion called Verdure yet labelled as a main meal! The meal was awful value for money. It took less than 5 minutes to eat it. We were still so hungry. All the waiter could say was " yes, small aren't they"! We won't be using Ask Italian again.

Loved it,the food and service was spot on. 👌

Always delicious and freshly homemade. Chicken is so tender and juicy, and we loved the new (to us) thinner courgette as this made them more like fries.

So much garlic! Made me feel a bit sick

A lovely place to eat staff friendly and attentive. Well priced Food good

Under staffed/couldn't cope despite it not being over busy. Good food and great location and views

Very tasty dishes. Simple and made of excellent quality ingredients, simply the best of Italian cuisine. Location right next to the port by the sea. If you want to take a break from English classics while in Scarborough, I really recommend it

Over priced food, bad service, wasn't offered any condiments that other people were offered, we were in casual clothing as we were passing through Scarborough from a visit to whitby.would not recommend

Only had drinks, but young little waiter chap was so polite, pleasant & helpful. It was a pleasurable experience, not seen enough nowadays. Thank you Scarborough

Meal was excellent, staff very friendly and attentive. Amazing views over the harbour and coastline. A very enjoyable evening.

Food great service generally good but busy.

Fairly local to Scarborough, first time there. Not really for me, over priced for what it is, food was over cooked and bland, establishment was nice, staff friendly. Probably wouldn't go again or recommend.