The best restaurants in United Kingdom serving Italian food

After a lovely afternoon in Ripon. We decided to go in the Hot Lava restaurant. And we were delighted we did. Lovely food very friendly staff member who served us. We had early bird menu. Would definitely go there again.

Awful from start to finish. Young girl waitress jumper covering hands and pink crocs on. All drinks from bottles and cans! Poor olives. Waited far too long for god awful dishes. Seafood risotto was chewy and inedible. Cannelloni meat tasted like dog meat. I'm going to guess frozen, reheated in the microwave which we saw, then in oven to make like lava. Mondello should not call himself a chef serving the nonsense we just saw. I hope people read this and stick to an actual Italian.

Yet again, Portofino's has knocked it out of the park. Aside of the fabulous food, service and ambience, the staff assisted in making a 21st birthday meal very special by taking delivery of the fantastic cake and delivering it to the table at exactly the right time.The surprise was 100%. Nothing is too much trouble, the staff are so personable, it seems effortless, but they seem to make everyone feel like they are the most important ones in the establishment. Kudos. We will return for the next family milestone. Thank you Portofino's, you are fabulous.

Fantastic! Used to come here a lot but not been for years…. Well I’ve wasted my time elsewhere! Great family place , friendly atmosphere and food looked amazing and tasted better. Family run for over 40years but being sold due to retirement, however they won’t close until it’s sold so fill your boots and get the best while you can. Fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻

Really amazing and authentic Moroccan food! The owners seem lovely too. We had the Lamb with Prune and Chicken with Apricots and it was divine. Would be great if it was BYOB ;)

Had a small girls night here with a friend and I, We had a great time Kiera and Daphane were great hostesses And the food was good would definitely come again !! Thank you !

I can only wholeheartedly recommend this restaurant. The food is very authentic and incredibly delicate. We came across La Sosta by chance during our vacation. A cheer. Barbara & Ronaldo from Switzerland💯❤️

Great food, service and atmosphere. Only down side (and this is me being very picky) toilets are very small and the noise the chairs can make on the tiled floor

Lovely Italian restaurant close to the centre of Norwich. The food was delicious and the service good. The chicken in a mushroom sauce was great, as was the melanzane. The profiteroles were gorgeous.

Just a walk in. Wed looked at a few places but nothing was grabbing our eye. Then clocked Vito's. Decor was really nice & as it turned out the food was excellent as well. Thoroughly enjoyed it & I'm pretty sure next time we're in Prestwick we'll be back

Great place! Large and tasty portions of food at reasonable prices)

A little jewel near the stadium,what I could ask more?Good quality at the right price, friendly people and good service a real italian food experience.

Very disappointed with the choice on the menu. I love Italian food, but this was very substandard, worst Italian I've been to in East Kilbride, and extremely overpriced. Would not recommend.

Ordered through just eat, after 1.5 hours we called and the restaurant seemed to somehow have no started the order, was sorry and the food came about 40 mins later. One Pizza we ordered was for the kids to share, but they werent able to eat it as we had to put them to bed due to the time. These were expensive pizzas, £16 each roughly, the photos looked like high quality pizzas and at that price you would expect a decent pizza as its not something that should be hard to mess up. I started eating it and there was a very unusual taste. I had never tasted anything like it before on any pizza I have ever had, the cheese have a very weird consistency, texture and taste. I realised a few bites in it tasted like the dairylea cheese triangles, I havent eaten one in decades, but thats what it was like. I genuinely didnt eat any more of it, it was just so weird. My partner had a salmon pasta dish which was fine, but I paid £60 for food that came so late my kids werent able to eat it and no one ate either of the pizzas, I picked off some of the pepperoni and put it in the bin. I hate giving a bad review, but honestly I feel like in this case it was so unusual that maybe this feedback will be helpful, maybe something was off that night or they had to get an inferior cheese etc. but it was absolutely the strangest pizza I have ever tasted. I do feel like the delay was a genuine mistake and the guy who I spoke to did deliver it himself as he promised, honestly if the pizza was ok, not even anything special just actual mozarella, I wouldnt have reviewed, but this left a bad taste in my mouth literally and figuratively so I wanted to offer the feedback.

Amazing pizza and gelato!!! The staff is lovely and helpful. Definitely recommend !