The Real Italian Artisan in South Lakeland

We were so happy to see pizzas back at Low Wray campsite!! It is so nice to order after a day on the water. Nomads pizzas were great about adding vegan cheese and even gave me extra olives when I asked for no red onions. Our boys ordered a sweet pizza for pudding and lived that too. The staff were lovely to our boys.

We chose the Pub from our Holiday Home visitors book in nearby Crook. An excellent choice we made, a warm welcome from the staff, in particular the lovely young waitress with a slight Liverpudlian accent and a Reds fan, she showed great skill in dealing with her customers. Very tasty food in a warm and pleasant atmosphere.

The food here is really good, I had the salmon linguine and my other half had the lasagna, we both left extremely happy. Friendly and quick service, will definitely return the next time we are in Ambleside.

You will possibly all know the feeling when you have completed a major project, you reward yourself with a weekend away. We chose to return to Windermere in the Lake District after 4 years, and obviously we did look at suggestions on TA to find out the best places to relax and eat. Unfortunately, we wanted to return again the next day to Baha restaurant, but they were fully booked on a weekend so wandered further down the street and went into Villa Positano; a shame they weren’t fully booked. For an Italian restaurant will many customers, you served us with pasta obviously not made on your premises. And the Bolognese sauce you used was also either from a tin or jar, as it just didn’t have that fresh tomato, basil, oregamo taste a true Italian chef would insist on. The pizza was supposed to come with chicken, there was a few little cheese-covered lumps of small pieces of chicken. The waitress spilled coffee on our daughters trousers, she got a cloth wiped it up and never offered to make a fresh one considering it soaked all the sugar in the saucer. The best part was after we paid and was leaving the place, a little, bald Italian gentleman said, ‘I hope you enjoyed the best pizza or pasta for miles around?’ Now I am putting my hand on my heart, I have tasted and enjoyed Bolognese and pizza from Aldi and Lidl more. And we could have done all the meal and drinks for less than £10, they charged £48.40. And the waitress who was serving on Saturday night (7th Sept), she looked and seen we were finished apart from drinks and told a waiter with glasses, ‘Table 13, they’ll be out of here in ten minutes, sit them down stairs and they can have that table.’ Now as a paying customer, she made your establishment seem like a cheap canteen by allowing customers to hear such a comment about themselves. My review is nothing personal, however, any Italian restaurant of quality would make everything from fresh. And I dare say that because you are in such a ‘tourist trap,’ you will get customers as the better ones like Baha are booked out as people want quality.

The food was exceptional, excellent drinks and outstanding service. The tapas were the best we've had in a long time. I highly recommend it.