The best restaurants serving Italian food in England

Authentic, Italian. Great food, great atmosphere, great service, great night.

Natalia es maravillosa. Buena comida a precios atractivos. Sus pastas, sándwiches y ensaladas son muy sabrosas y bien presentadas. Es un ambiente agradable con personal muy agradable. He comido allí cientos de veces y era genial cada vez.

Cooked to perfection sea bass king prawn garlic sauce WoW delicious. Waitress was fantastic thanks Angie xx

Very popular Italian cafe in a quiet square. Excellent coffee.

We visited this restaurant while staying in Pickering for a few days .The garlic prawns to start were superb and we both had cannelloni which was also lovely . The staff were very attentive. Will definitely return when in the area .

We had a lovely meal , most enjoyable, great food , cosy and relaxing vibe. , Luke was amazing , great service with a smile , thankyou , our new resteraunt to go to when in st Ives , beautiful spot by the river

Delicious pizza, really friendly service

Tasty food and friendly staff. Good value too

Turned up without reservation but accomodated swiftly. Food delivered in good time.

Excellence food and service. Really friendly restaurant. This is our go-to place for Italian food. The cakes are also lovely.

Great food and excellent service. Tried their smash burgers and they're amazing.defo will be back

Old fashioned with bland food. We visited on a spur of the moment on a Thursday evening. The place was quiet at the time but even so we were left standing as the barman made up drinks without acknowledging us. After a few minutes we were seated. The menu looked OK, nothing special. Our order was taken after 10 or so minutes. I noticed that the place was filling up so it is clearly popular. The starters arrived fairly promptly. My partner had some Spicy Sicilian sausage thing in a thick sauce that, frankly tasted like an odd combination of flavours. I had calamari that was clearly from frozen with a wilted tired salad garnish. There was a long wait for mains, with my partners Neopolitan pizza being delivered first. My main didn't arrive until at least 8 minutes afterwards. The pizza was totally uninspiring. My main of chicken in sauce, while plentiful, was bland with little flavour. The addition of some fresh herbs could have lifted it. At no point did anyone check in with us to ask if the food was OK (maybe just as well as it wasn't). We were left with no drinks as no one bothered to enquire if we wanted more. The plates weren't cleared so we decided to pay and leave. Super busy barman didn't acknowledge us again so we had to stand in the tiny bad area until he deigned to give us the (incorrect) bill. Overall, the place clearly gets busy, though I am not sure why. The decor is old-fashioned and very tired. The service is pretty poor. Worst of all though the food , based on this single visit is insipid, bland, poorly cooked and presented. One to avoid.

Service was terribly slow, didn't get our main course until we'd been sitting there for TWO HOURS! In fairness, we were a party of 11 but if they can't cater for that, they shouldn't accept such bookings. The table of four next to us waited at least an hour, and they only had pizza. My friend's meal was too salty and her fish overcooked. My calzone was supposed to come with salad, but that was just a handful of bitter, undressed rocket. The meat in my dish had gone off and tasted awful, but it was way too late in the evening to get anything else. We weren't offered coffee at the end of the meal. The serving staff were smiley and did their best, but there should have been more of them, especially for the price of the food. I don't want to visit this restaurant again.

We had a lovely meal here recently. The food is well prepared with good flavours, the only slight negative is that despite almost all tables being empty they insisted on putting people next to each other so you could hear each others conversations.

Great food and excellent service