The best restaurants serving Italian food in East Midlands

After travelling 25 minutes to get my daughter a waffle, I dropped her outside with plenty of time before closing time, I parked across the road near the food cabin so could see her, two in front both served, she waited in the queue for 9 minutes just to be turned away at 4 minutes past 7! Rude and the last time I’ll be spending money there. Since the new owners have taken over it’s not the same, how hard would it have been to use some emotional intelligence and shut the door and serve the people in the queue from before your shutting time.

Gino's serves up the best of the best in pizza in a small and quirky space. If you want an homogeneous, comfortably bland experience with plastic 'pizza' go somewhere else. This, from someone who isn't a fan of pizza. And take cash with your wine. No cards, which is an added bonus.

Incredibly slow service. 45 minutes to get a starter which was cooked pizza dough with baby plum tomatoes on top and unwashed greens, followed by a pizza arriving another 45 minutes later. We had to ask waiter to cancel dessert as we simply couldn’t wait another 45 minutes. Very strange as restaurant only had 8 customers at a time.

A friend and I had a lovely meal at Il Mulino on Friday night. The service was so swift we were in and out in just over an hour. It would have been nice if we could have had a more leisurely experience but our meal was cut short when we tried to order coffee and were told that the coffee machine wasn't working! We had no alternative but to go home and have our coffee.

Booked a table for Saturday at 7 pm arrived a bit early to find the place shut, several other couples also turned up but still Henry’s remained closed, no contact or reason given for the place being closed, very disappointed, will not be going back.

Lovely restaurant and friendly staff. Service for getting first drink was slow, and the pizzas are over priced. The calamari and salmon linguine were really nice. The casa nostra prawns are amazing.

Amazing experience. Made it worth the trip from UK. Sneha hosted us and she’s the most lively person. Loved every moment. Good food and amazing service.

Our first visit and won’t be our last. Staff so welcoming and helpful. Had a very tasty pizza and a large salad to share. The only negative was having to use the plastic knife and fork, impossible to cut with. Did not put us off and will return after this stupid second lockdown has ended. Please do try, really is a very sweet place better than the big chains.

We were staying overnight in the area and looking for a no nonsense place to eat. Had a couple of fab pizzas here and our daughter enjoyed the macaroni cheese pasta. Loads of choice on the menu and very reasonably priced capped off by a decent espresso at the end. Would really recommend as the pizza was spot on.

The staff was very courteous. Food quality excellent . Lighting has improved Turkish tea was great Homous very fresh Lamb karahi excellent Good portion sizes Throughly recommended

Mosedale’s staff welcomed me and my dog (Bruce) with a kind smile as soon as we entered. A wide variety of filled rolls and paninis was on offer. I must recommend treating yourself to a superb Carrot Cake! All in all I would definitely recommend!

Claims to be Mediterranean, Turkish & Italian when it is clearly solely Turkish. Tonight was our 38th wedding anniversary but it was like eating in somebody’s lounge with young children running around and a TV sat on the bar streaming the Euros whilst background music was still playing! No draught beer available despite illuminated pumps on the bar, so was served bottled beer. Our choice of wine was also not available. TBF the food served was very tasty but would certainly not recommend due to above issues and total lack of atmosphere.

genuinely the best night, the bar staff at this bar genuinely care about their customers, i was served by both tess and tiearna tonight, they made us feel apart of the community without being local, definitely recommend

Went in with my girlfriend, we were served very quickly and politely. Food arrived very fast and was tasty and reasonably priced