The best restaurants serving Italian food in East Midlands

The Fab in FabRico is true. Cappuccino so much nicer than large chain coffee shops. Fab decor, cakes looked fab and a fantastic little room for a quiet chat at the rear of cafe.

I love this place so much, when I walked in I could tell that this place would be amazing. The staff of the building were kind. We went to go get our drinks from the fridge and ordered food. We then went to our seats and a few minutes later our food arrived, (I had a set 1) also The tables were clean and the chairs were slightly ripped but still comfortable! I love this place, come to gusto cafe!

Superb food in a lovely surrounding. Friendly and professional staff. Cannot fault this place, 2nd visit. Fabulous I will be back soon.

Nice place but expensive food & managers family needs to consider their own dog Popped in for a bite to eat and chose the arancini, at £12 I expected it to fill a gap, but it was literally two, yes two balls! For £12! And it took over half an hour to arrive. I don’t get the pricing when you can get a whole pizza for £14/16/18. I also hate seeing people taking dogs out in midday sun on hot days, it boils my blood - please go out in a fur coat yourself then you might too get boiling blood, literally. A large table rocked up dragging a very old dark brown lab by its collar and lead, poor thing was panting and looked like it was about to collapse, they sat down and sat it in the shade tbf under the table. However, there were dog bowls everywhere and did they offer the poor thing a drink of water once? No. We were there for 1.5 hours and it was panting the whole time. Whilst its owners wined and dined themselves with iced cold drinks and food. When we left we went and asked a waiter to take it a bowl of water as it was panting so much, and he said oh that’s the managers family I’ll speak to my supervisor to see what I can do. I said please just take it a bowl of water. Whether he did who knows. But dear manager, you obviously consider all the other dogs, with the bowls and water station so please consider your own and leave it at home next time. Poor thing.

the best Italian restaurant i have ever been to the food was absolutely delicious, the service was immaculate and the wine was fabulous!!

The most stunning freshly made cannoli I’ve ever eaten! Service was absolutely impeccable. I popped in after seeing cannoli mentioned in the window, there weren’t any in the display case so I was about to leave disappointed when the server asked what I would like, I said cannoli but there weren’t any, to be told how many would I like? They make them fresh throughout the day and we’re making another batch right then and could make some exactly how I’d like them! I ordered two and while k waited the gentleman gave me a little bit of another dessert they had which was divine (yes I did take some home). I had just eaten lunch so I was kicking myself as they had an amazing array of arancini, pizza slabs and cured meats available for savoury tastes. They even had a vegan arancini which I was very impressed by! While I was there several Italian construction workers visited for their takeaway lunch, so it is obviously popular with the local community and I can see why. I can’t wait to go back and have a proper lunch there!

A delicious meal. Food was tip top. Wine was great. Lovely independent Italian restaurant in the city. Well worth a visit. Every dish we had was delicious and reasonably priced too.

Delicious takeaway pizza! Ordered a gourmet pizza and pepperoni and both were lovely and cooked and ready quickly. Highly recommend!

We booked a table in the bar for three of us and our two little dogs but due to the glorious weather we dined at table 64 in the Courtyard. We visited as the third part of our trying out the Rob at Longbow trio of offerings at the Ashford Arms, The Maynard and The George. All three offer different but extensive menus though Wine list is common to all which was a bonus as we are fans of Rob’s recommendations. My only plea is to add at least a bottled Wheat beer to the drinks range. Firstly, it was much appreciated that smoking and non smoking were kept a reasonable distance apart so that non smokers are able to avail of outdoor dining. Also, table 64 was ideal for our Dandies to shelter from the strong sun and heat. We were extremely well looked after by the staff and primarily by Alice who ensured we had a high quality experience and that all food was as it should be. She was extremely knowledgeable about what should be on each plate and quickly spotted two omissions on my Lebanese Spiced Lamb ballotine which turned out to be absolutely delicious though not sure why the half pitta is served underneath it rather than alongside. The Katsu Chicken Curry and Mushroom&Oat Burger were equally delicious. A very good range of starters from which we had Sweet and Sour Prawns, Cured Sea Trout and Korean flavoured Scotch Egg - all well presented and very tasty with the standout being the Scotch Egg. We shared the cheese and a Grapefruit Tart. I would have liked the tart to have a more grapefruit flavour but apart from that it was lovely. In our view The George was well up there with the Ashford Arms on food, service and environment and we will certainly be back to both regularly. Many thanks again to Alice for top drawer service and fantastic attention to detail!

A nice and cosy place with great authentic Italian food.

I didn’t even receive the food! The driver was sat outside the house, didn’t knock the door or anything, was sat on his phone and just drove off,

Excellence food and service. Pre theatre 2 course dinner great value

Great expérience and great food

Absolutely great Italian food...fantastic.