The best restaurants serving Italian food in City Centre Manchester North West

I’ve been coming to Vapiano for years, but I’ve never experienced anything as bad as this! Infact I’m still in the restaurant and it’s that bad I’m leaving the review before I’ve even left. The pasta is bland tasteless and so soggy and over cooked. No way is this pasta cooked fresh. I ordered penne and it is flat! Please see added photos - has anyone ever seen Penne this flat and soggy before?! It’s obviously pre cooked & pre packed then microwaved. Horrible! I ordered it with added red onion, which was white onion and in big big chunks. The added chilli was also in chunks and not diced either. It actually resembled a ready meal from Iceland Seriously don’t waste your money coming here, it’s complete garbage I spoke to what looked like the manager and asked if the cooking methods had changed and he said not at all! I said how come the Penne is flat and soggy and he said it’s the cooking ‘method’ and nothing has changed. I found him very arrogant and uninterested and clearly not telling the truth I’m sat here in a completely empty restaurant, which I think speaks for itself After years of coming here I will not be coming again.

Really great pizzas and friendly staff! Good location too

Best Italian restaurant in Manchester? Probably yes! The place is very elegant, nice, clean and well-kept. The food is very good, well served and well presented. The service is also good and the staff is really professional and friendly. Loredana is definitely the best server ever you can ever. Definitely a nice place to go

Came for Girlpop and the staff are extremely aggressive which spoilt what would have been a fun day with my daughter

A rather disappointing experience with this restaurant within Selfridges. 1. Prices are not proportional to its tiny portion of food 2. Food are flavourless even for deep fried squid 3. All food was served luke warm to cool 4. There is a discretionary 12.5% charge which is already added to the bill. Sadly we will not be returning nor recommending it to friends

My husband and I regularly go to Via Roma for dinner and we have never had a bad meal yet, the food is always freshly made and served piping hot to the table. We have taken friends and family to the restaurant and everyone has commented about how lovely the food is. We have even had our steak and pasta to takeaway. I would highly recommend this restaurant, the staff are lovely, attentive but without being intrusive, we tell all our friends, family and even the taxi drivers to go!

Este lugar tenía un servicio terrible, no proporcionaba con el helado que había pagado hasta que me quejé de ello, no puso ningún esfuerzo en mi comida / gofre y era demasiado caro. En general no vale la pena la molestia y la comida era en general mediocre, no recomendaría.

If I could give 10 starts I would. It was absolutely perfect. Such a lovely setting, food amazing and service great. I would thoroughly recommend it Wish we lived closer, would be a regular customer there