The best restaurants serving Italian food in Cheshire West and Chester North West

Visited last night for partners birthday. Small, cosy restaurant, lovely friendly staff. My only complaint was the gorgeous food, which it was, was served all too fast. Food was served Tapas style, which meant our main courses came out whilst we were still eating our starters, all became a little chaotic. Would have liked more time to appreciate the food and savour the experience rather than trying to eat everything before it went cold. It's not as though they are rushing you out of the door, as they weren't, so why all the food at the same time .... Just relax a little Lorenzo.

Chef Rob Owen Brown runs this unique street food operation from Easter weekend to the end of October each year, Thurs -Sunday 4-9pm or thereabouts. It's situated in the grounds of a lovely marina in rural Cheshire, there are moored narrowboat here and wide open spaces for a long walk through the fields if that takes your fancy. The mainstay of the food that Rob cooks here is pizzas, but oh what pizzas they are! Thin crusts, charred and full of flavour with loads of different topping to choose from, believe me I've tried them they are delicious. He also offers a changing specials menu which could be almost anything. I've seen game offered, katsu chicken wraps, half a roast chicken with rosemary and garlic and loads of other things too. There's always puddings, waffles sometimes and cheesecakes. You never quite know what's going to be going to be on, but it will be worth a visit and be delicious. This evening I had roasted sea bream with Mediterranean vegetables and garlic potatoes, it was fabulous. This is such an unusual venue, it's hard to give a realistic view of it. The food is amazing and next to the food cart is a re-purposed narrowboat ( out of the water) which serves as a mini pub. Loads of wines, beers on tap and bottled too, spirits and a comprensive range of alcohol free drinks. If that isn't enough there's glamping, camping and a lovely onsite cafe. Just come, it's amazing xx

Honestly maybe Chesters best kept secret. We love small plate restaurant / bars but this one nailed it. We tried 8 plates, all amazing, daily menu and the wine pairings were bob on. No reservations just roll up and enjoy! Great vibes

I was really impressed by all aspects of my visit to Augusto!! Friendly and knowledgeable staff, and really tasty food!! I went for the special of the day, which was pizza with a squash base (you need to try it!) smoked Scamorza cheese and Italian sausage, which is really impressive. It was fairly quiet, so i got to speak to the staff and was treated like part of the family. Will go again without a doubt!

Nice staff, nice place, good prices. The place very clean and interesting old decor. I'll come here again for sure! Lovely time

Terrible. Ordered food (only 1 other table in), after 40 mins the waitress told us the chef had burnt it and was he was recooking our order. Took another 40 mins for food to arrive-an hour and a half wait for 3 meals! (other tables that arrived after us had had 2 courses and left). What made it worse was the staff were blanking us and not apologising or explaining what was going. Complained at the end and still no apology. Had a bad experience here in 2020 so they obviously haven't improved.

Loved this place when it first opened and went for lunch several times. Not been in the evening before but decided to try an evening meal with family and friends. The food was very disappointing and over priced. The room was cold. The young waiter was very attentive and brought a small electric heater to our table...sorry Carbonara we will not return shame.....

We went for an evening meal, we hadn’t booked but Tasha our server found us a perfect spot in the restaurant and was very accommodating, her service was excellent and our food was lovely, we will be returning soon! x

Delightfully different Mediterranean menu from a range of different countries, well cooked and presented. The Artezzan has a lovely buzz to it and the service was just perfect. So why only four stars when everything else was five. Well we were given the table for only an hour and a half, not enough time. Shame really.

Great coffee. Excellent Bara Brith!

Excellent lunch menu , perfect service, happy smiling staff and the food quality made this the perfect lunch on our last day in Chester.

Amazing food and friendly service can't complain even left with a goody bag chose from the pesto menu for 3 plates each chicken wings (spicy) and another 2 delicious options would recommend to anyone

My husband and I received a wine tasting experience as a Xmas gift. What an experience absolutely fabulous we had the best afternoon and Marco who served us was brilliant. Can highly recommend!

Really nice meal and friendly service. Everything was good, the mushroom gratin starter, lobster ravioli, vegetable lasagne, garlic bread and 2 puddings all recommended.

We were enjoying the tasting menu until the belly pork came which was inedible as it was so tough. We told the waiter and he said he informed the Chef who said it could have done with longer cooking and sent her apologies. The rest of the meal was pleasant. As we could not eat this course I felt we should have been given a refund for it. We paid £80 each for seven tasting courses of which we could only eat six. I asked Fabrizio and he said that he would not do this and that I could talk all night about it but he would not reduce the bill. This is not what I would expect from any restaurant but obviously he doesn’t care about his customers being happy. It spoiled our evening as we felt unfairly treated.