The best restaurants serving Italian food in East Midlands

Me and my partner just visited this place as a last minute decision and was not disappointed...Really good pizza 🔥very nice and friendly staff, highly recommend 👌 will definitely be returning.

Food epic, service was shocking, atmosphere was bland....

The food was delishhh…..recommend for birthday Meals the pizzas were so good 😍😍 staff were really friendly and helpful x

Met with a friend in the evening, we hadn't booked, but they had a table for us. Staff are friendly, clean place, chilly outside, but warm inside. Food served piping hot and tasty, their house wine is good. We both had a pizza, full of topping, and not soggy in the middle. Would recommend 👌

An authentic pub with great atmosphere and fantastic upbeat and attentive friendly staff. Great pies. One step up into the premises and one step into the toilet area for those with access issues. Good size and quality meals.

Excellent pizza and garlic bread Served by efficient, friendly waitresses who nothing was too much trouble Highly recommend

I came here 2 days in a row at different times . The first night I ordered the whole catfish, stuffing and Cole slaw. Amazing!! I was eating with such delight I had to close my eyes to savor every flavor. My meal Was simply delicious. Downside is whatever roll I was given was chewy and not appealing to my taste buds. 2nd day I had the jalapeño pepper burger with fries and chicken pot pie soup. That chicken pot pie had potatoes, carrots, string beans peas, onions and some kind of broth. It is a must try!! U will not be disappointed!! I tried the cheeseburger soup… exquisite!!! The staff is welcoming . I had the pleasure of talking to Jerry ,one of the many mangers, he’s in charge of the soups!! Shout out to him for satisfaction guaranteed!

Never been despite visiting Lincoln on several occasions. The place buzzes and is an instant delight. Lovely freshly prepared food. Great staff too.

A superb Sunday lunch here today. Generous and served piping hot with extra vegetables. Good value wine by the glass and their own brewery ales on tap. Walkers and dogs very welcome in the bar and very cheerful staff too. Birchover is a charming village and The Red Lion is somewhere we return to and highly recommend.

Visited around 1.50 on a Tuesday afternoon. Waited five minutes to be seated in a restaurant that had around six tables. Once seated we sat there for 15 minutes without even being served by anyone. So we decided to leave. The manager said on the way out we are busy sit down and I’ll sort you some discount. We declined as couldn’t see the service or experience improving.

Just had two footlong subs, neither are what they should be, under portioned on one an the other steak n cheese it soaking wet! Definitely not what anyone would want to eat definitely avoid this place

Had food delivered and it was stone cold. Called to make a complaint to be told there was nothing they could do. Not very helpful at all.

Very good customer service! Our visit was a while ago now, but I have been meaning to write a review to praise the customer service. We came here for lunch before a show, and a noisy family with young children sat behind us. I have autism, so I am sensitive to noise, and was feeling overwhelmed/overstimulated. I asked the staff to be moved, but the lower floor was full of families, and the top area wasn't open yet. The manager very kindly/discreetly moved us to the top area which was a lot quieter. The manager/staff handled it brilliantly, and I am very grateful. The food was excellent, and we had a very enjoyable visit. We hope to come back again soon, thank you!

I have taken time to reflect before writing this review. There are several things but the thing that offends me most is that my friend had a random piece of pepperoni in her otherwise lovely fish meal. We made the server aware and he stuck his finger and thumb into the plate of food to remove it - “l’ll get rid of that for you “! I fully accept that had he taken the meal away to the kitchen he would probably done the same but it did not fill be with confidence in the Food Safety training that staff are given - obvious cross contamination issues and hand hygiene issues. Our table was booked for 6.30 and it was 8pm before we were served any food. If we wanted a drink we had to go and find someone to order from. Online orders were definitely prioritised, lots of those being dispatched as soon as the drivers arrived. The food ( apart from the vegan lasagne) was really nice but we were served in dribs and drabs with some of our party being left without food for as long as it took for some to eat theirs. We were offered free drinks as compensation what we actually got was 2teas, 3 coffees and a hot chocolate- the cold drinks were not included. The tea was served with fake cut glass tumblers to drink it out of - an accident waiting to happen pouring hot liquid into glass! The reason given was that they only had one cup. I could have understood that if the place had been full of people drinking tea, but it wasn’t. The sad thing is that having written over 1K words I have yet to mention the food! I could go on and on with bad service comments but I will stop and mention the food because hopefully they will address the service issues ASAP I had crispy belly pork, exactly as described with beautifully cooked vegetables. All of the salad/garnishes on all of the meals were lovely and fresh. The people either side of me had fish and chicken, also lovely with the same vegetables as mine. Pizzas looked yummy too. Would I go again? Maybe a different restaurant in the same chain.

We have eaten here this evening as a couple. We wanted a date night without the little ones - food was really tasty and the atmosphere was very chilled. We had garlic mushrooms and antipasto for starters and carbonara and beef stroganoff for main - all of the food was presented lovely and more importantly tasted amazing. Would definitely come back ❤️. Thank you xx