The best restaurants serving Italian food in East Midlands

I have died and gone to heaven. We had seafood linguine, spaghetti bolognaise and margarita pizza. Digestivo and crème brûlée for dinner. If you are debating visiting this place then please don’t wait any longer. The ambience is relaxed as well as elevated and the portion sizes are perfect. The staff are attentive and friendly and very patient with young children. We are already looking forward to our next visit.

The restaurant look nice but the service was disappointed 😞 . We had to order 4 pizzas and they coming soups pizzas full of water and Inferno pizza's house that was horrible with 4 very thin slices off salami (no spicy) and with a tiny tea spoon with nduja ( no spicy) , the dough was uncooked and no salted . When we been asked if is OK? : I said this is ridiculous pizza with 4 sliced salami and the manager make a face like ( I don't care ) and run away. To be a Italian restaurant is very disappointing. In Italy we made a pizza with love not just for money. How to frow in the bin £70 for 4 pizza if we can call a pizza.

The food is always delicious, best Italian around for sure 😀

What a lovely restaurant. The food was delicious, I highly recommend the calimari. The portion size was just right so we were full but not to bursting (I actually left a small amount and felt gulty at not being able to eat it all as it was delicious). The staff were attentive, the atmosphere great - it was lovely to see families in the restaurant too - a sign that they are welcoming to all. We loved it so much we have already booked for another meal. Whats not to love - Highly recomended.

We had some issues with the just eat delivery, even though they couldn’t do anything to help they tried to advise and were really helpful the foods amazing and would highly recommend not many places actually care but these guys do credit where credit is due

Natalie was amazing tonight she came to the rescue when my daughter came in for an ice cream but it was late but luckily Natalie was there and she gave amazing customer service and was just so lovely. Thank you again Natalie

We bought our grandad for dinner this evening and it was beautiful. service was amazing, food exceeded my expectations. loved that in the bathroom was a box of essentials and body sprays! so lovely.

The pizzas are fantastic, if you're one of the lucky 5 people a week they seem to answer the phone to!

Visited for Valentine Night Out, excellent food, lovely staff and nicely spaced out tables , nice not to be able to hear your neighbours conversation. Lovely staff presented me with a rose at the end of the evening, lovely gesture.

Came with the family and three dogs for a fantastic meal. The staff team were so accommodating and made us feel very welcome. We came for the quiz night the following evening and what made my husband’s night was he did not even had to get up to the bar for a drink as it was brought to your table. Thank you so much the Wildsmith’s and Dawson’s x

Disappointed. Children’s pizzas were ok but the rest was disappointing. Bruschetta was little more than cold hard bread with toasted cheese and mushrooms on it. Portions were small and not very authentic. Soup was unimaginative. Then when the bill came it added an automatic 10% service charge and under the total it said ‘service charge not included’. Seems like a scam…

The women working there on the 18th April at 3:30 was very rude and disrespectful, didn’t seem like she was trained very well. Made us walk out as she was so disrespectful. Wouldn’t return when she’s there

Lamentablemente no tuvimos una buena experiencia en este restaurante. El servicio fue extremadamente desatenta, con las bebidas olvidadas. El eglefino era un pequeño trozo de pescado dentro de montañas de masa grasienta. Mi desierto de panacotta era horrible, completamente sólido y demasiado fraguado con claramente demasiada gelatina utilizada. Dejé todo y la camarera ni siquiera me preguntó cómo estaban nuestros desiertos. ¡Entonces tuvieron la mejilla de agregar un cargo por servicio a nuestra factura! Definitivamente no volvería.

Look to be quite honest, any Uber or pizza place which doesn’t take the restaurant off the app and still takes your money is a super disgrace lost a lot of respect for this place and word-of-mouth is karma in a nutshell.

Visited today for Sunday lunch and honestly couldn't fault it. The waiting staff were friendly and attentive, the food was absolutely first class, and I cant recommend La Fonte highly enough.