De sandroes in Kirklees

Impeccable food, service with a wonderful atmosphere about the place, its friendly and homely and well worth the trip.

We always look forward to visits from our family, and one of the highlights is dining at this restaurant. The food is consistently delicious, and the staff are friendly and attentive, making for a pleasant dining experience. However, we do have one major complaint – the price of the kids' pasta meal. At £10.50 for a small bowl of cheesy pasta, it's a steep price, especially considering this doesn’t even include a drink. Having dined at many kid-friendly restaurants around the world, we feel this one falls short in terms of value for money. While the overall experience is enjoyable, the cost of the kids' meals leaves a lot to be desired.

This was our first visit to the largely hyped venue and we left very disappointed, refusing to pay for one item of food due to the fact we couldn't eat it. The restaurant is so loud that chatting together was difficult, and the tables are as close together as possible which we found awkward. The funghi con aglio e crema was whole button mushrooms in a thick, yellow sauce with a look and flavour that brought back memories of Heinz macaroni and cheese. The ravioli Al funghi di bosco were so flat that I cut them open just to check there was actually filling inside, revealing a wafer thin spread of ricotta. The ravioli were served with whole cooked mushrooms loaded into the bowl, with the entire thing not sat in a sauce, but rather mushroom juice pooled at the bottom of the bowl. The zucchini fritti were actually very thick, bendy stakes of zucchini in the thinnest spattering of batter; not the fine, crispy fried zucchini they're supposed to be, and even the waiter agreed they looked far too thick and apologised. The pennette con pancetta and salsiccia piccante was essentially chopped sausage with rubbery pasta, all resembling pet food. The food came far too fast and was too rubbery for us to believe anything was fresh and felt more like we were eating old, ready-made food. A far cry from rich, Italian cooking and we won't be returning.

Went to this restaurant after hearing many good reviews, never again. Ordered the ravioli which was more like a starter than a main course, expensive as anything and it was swimming on some sort of mushroom water! Tastes bland with hardly any filling. No side accompaniments at all. Ordered profiteroles as dessert - 2 profiteroles for around £6,£7,two! Rip off. I seriously don't understand how this place is busy unless it's with those people who have never sampled good cuisine.

We went to celebrate my granddaughter’s 12th birthday. The restaurant was full to capacity and this impacted on the service. We had to ask to place our order after sitting with our drinks for 20 minutes. The food took ages to arrive but was the same high quality we are used to at Da Sandro’s. We had to ask to order desserts and these arrived without cutlery. The coffee my son ordered never arrived and we gave up on it in the end. Nobody seemed remotely interested in asking if we wanted a bill so we just got up. The waitress had a look of panic on her face and seemed to be updating the bill as we walked across the restaurant. We had to explain to the cashier where we had been sitting so we could leave. The staff were friendly but clearly inexperienced and over-whelmed with the task at hand. This was very disappointing after so many good experiences in the past.

Very busy place but very clean and friendly our granddaughter chose to come here for her birthday meal bless her she is only 7. But loves it here. I was going for one dish but was advised to go for a different one because it had more flavour. Wow I am so glad I went with it because it was absolutely delicious. The POLLO ALL' ORTOLANA is to die for. The whole meal was fantastic not only for me but the rest of our party, they all felt the same about their meals. We will definitely be returning.

Went there at Xmas and thought it was wonderful, good service , good food so thought I would treat the family, went last week so disappointed this time, staff were friendly but they forgot about us after our starters, waited half an hour then called someone across, the food was wonderful but this time smaller portions, watch the drink orders as it really bumped the bill up , only had 2 drinks each!