The best restaurants serving Italian food in St Michael's Sunderland North East

Absolutely fantastic food, best sea bass dish I have ever had. Very welcoming staff and great atmosphere. Will be back very very soon.

So I’ll start with a positive …. We booked a table after visiting previously where the food and service was excellent. We brought some friends and on arrival were shown promptly to our table. The restaurant was busy and had a lovely buzzy feel however …….. we waited nearly half an hour to be asked if we’d like drinks, we ordered a bottle of red and a chilled bottle of white. They arrived 10 minutes later … with no glasses. We waited another 10 minutes for the glasses to arrive after having to ask the rather abrupt waitress … the glasses had clearly just come out of the dishwasher as they were red hot so had to wait another 15 mins for them to cool so we could pour our wine. Our starters were nice but the main courses … I ordered the lobster tortellini from the specials board …. What arrived was a seafood ravioli which was so salty I couldn’t eat it. The pollo alla crème was rubbery and not nice. To be fair, when the waitress asked if our meals were ok and I said about my pasta, without hesitation she said she’d take it off the bill. We were so disappointed as we’d really looked forward to it after a previous great experience - not likely to return sadly

Where to start as I’m lost for words to be honest. This is hands down the worst food experience we’ve ever had! Both starters and main courses were poor quality and not as described on the menu. Frozen prawns and gamberoni had no taste. The ‘flat’ steak was like shoe leather (and very little of it) and the chips seemed to have been reheated and fried in really old oil. The chicken was very dry with some tinned tomatoes thrown on top of it… no sign of cheese or cream as promised on the menu. No hint of ant Italian herbs or garlic either. Just awful. Served with 2v small boiled potatoes and frozen veg. We paid £45 and were robbed. Just can’t believe we fell for the great reviews. I suppose everyone has different quality standards and we won’t ever return.

Ordered for a family takeaway on Bank holiday Monday. Ordered arabiata, pollo Ricco, Bolognese and risotto. Everything was absolutely beautiful apart from the pizza, it was burnt and hard like cardboard. amazing apart from that

Had a laugh with the waiter when I noticed fix finger sandwich and chips on the menu stating it took me back to my childhood when I noticed it.... the waiter highly recommended it telling me the fix fingers we're huge so on is recommendation I ordered it..... it was basically two stripes of battered fish not fish fingers unfortunately the batter was drenched in oil and inedible, the waiter came around asking about the mean to which I said great chip butty since I'd removed the fish and just made myself a chip sandwich. He did offer to do me another one but no sorry I'd already decided not the meal for me.... at checkout no offer of a reduced price or anything tbh... paid me bill and left never to return.....

We visited on Saturday, there was 12 of us in total for my mams 65th birthday bottomless brunch The only disappointed thing was the bar had apparently ran out of Prosecco, which is hard to believe when it’s advertising Prosecco on the bottomless brunch. I asked for some little bottles, for a toast & was given the last bottle plus 2 small ones, it still wasn’t enough. The cocktails were lovely, a few wrong orders but luckily we aren’t fussy. The food order was taken, one of the party waited a lot long than the rest of us. I would recommend the pizzas. The staff were lovely, just wouldn’t like to see them under pressure, it took a while for the drinks order & the place wasn’t busy, I would recommend it, it wasn’t the best we’ve been on but it certainly wasn’t the worst Good choice of cocktails