The best restaurants serving Italian food in West Lancashire North West

Great service, very well priced and food tastes perfect as well as presented.

Food was exemplary and the staff were brilliant!

We had a lovely welcome from Shahna, Pesto’s manager, who ensured that our dining experience was a pleasant one. Our friendly waitress was very knowledgeable about the small plates and even made some recommendations about her favourites. We each chose 3 different dishes and all were delicious and filling. Thank you!

We booked dur yo pictures of food & good reviews. When we arrived we went to the bar, from the start the staff just weren't interested in us in fact I'd more say couldn't br bothered. We were sent to the end of the bar. A guy came out yo us & told us our table wasn't ready, there is a party of three women who had clearly just got fresh drinks. The table was tiny, not big enough for plates of food. He then reluctantly gave us another table. The table had glasses on it & was dirty, he moved the glasses but didn't come back to clean it. Instead he went back in to the kitchen (we were sat right opposite it. He never washed his hands & went straight to food left ready to serve. At that point we left.

I visited here with colleagues for a mid-week evening meal. There are some great deals on such as early bird where you get three courses for £16.95. I opted for that as the options I was going to get for starter and main were on there anyway and it worked out cheaper to do that than order them from the main menu (plus I got dessert in the early bird price too!) Starter of fried halloumi was really nicely cooked and a perfect sized portion. My colleague had calamari but they felt it was a bit soggy for their liking. For main I had penne dolca vita which was really tasty, It was nicely cooked, had a decent kick and flavour and was suitably portioned. Dessert I had ice-cream which was fine. Overall we had a good evening here and the food was a standard expected of a good Italian restaurant. Service was friendly and generally efficient. Would recommend for a good value Italian meal

The food was very slow. We were waiting over an hour and 15mins and the food was just about warm. There was only one other table in. Some meals are expensive for what you get, and there isn't a large range. They didn't have the fish available for my MILs choice so she had to settle for a meal she was less than enthusiastic about. The wine was lovely, and staff were very nice. They also had a good playlist on. The bad outweighs the good for my experience, so I won't be going again. 😞

Lovely little place this, been here before and it’s always a nice, quiet place to enjoy the food and drink with loved one. The one little criticism and it is little, the prices are expensive for the food but the food is good. (A guess you get what you pay for) Without the 20% off it was £130 for two of us. Which is MCR prices so make sure you go when there are offers on. Services was a little slow last night too, waiting 10-12 mins for extra bread but it was generally very good.

I’ve had 3 experiences with Luca at the buck and non of them were great. The first time we had booked online to visit on a Monday, when myself and my friends met up at the restaurant we were turned away and told it was shut on a Monday, this was despite being able to book online. Both other times when we have managed to eat we found the food to either be really spicy or just bland. The chicken Milanese and the pizzas are worth getting. The calamari although well presented was one of the worst I’ve ever had. The carbonara is bland and the hummus itself was nice but served with crudités not bread. I find the service is always slow in here (even when it was spitroast) we almost always get our food before our drinks. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless you were really stuck for choice, the Luca in Allerton is much better.

I've not been here for about 20 years, pleasantly surprised. Nice looking place, friendly staff, and food was very tasty. Party of 6 adults but looks child friendly as well.