The best restaurants serving Italian food in Torbay South West

We visited Olive for Sunday lunch and we loved it. We received a friendly welcome on arrival both chose lamb shanks. The meal was lovely and well presented with a plentiful shared platter of vegetables. We will definitely be booking again shortly

Great food and atmosphere. Highly recommended

We have been several times and cannot fault a thing. Drinks, food, Customer Service is impecable. Food dishes are all made to requirements (spice, garlic etc). Ambience is delightful. Thank you Claire and team. As always amazing

Nettes kleines italienisches Restaurant mit einer guten Auswahl an Speisen. Die Mitarbeiter sind freundlich und zuvorkommend. Das Essen ist gut, nach 10 Minuten bereits am Tisch, was bei frischer Zubereitung schwierig ist. Ein echter Kritikpunkt sind die völlig abgegriffenen Speisekarten. Die sollten dringend erneuert werden!

This review is not about a visit. This restaurant is excellent place for eating in. However I would like to bring to your attention that due to health issues, some times the owner is unable to open. We come on holiday and book twice a year. However 3 out of our last 4 bookings have been cancelled. We have just been unlucky, but,if you are new to this restaurant just be aware that this could happen. But do not let this stop you from booking, cause once there you will have a great evening.

Excellent service and delicious food 😊👍

Just the best breakfast EVER!!!

As long standing local residents in Torquay, we are privileged to have two outstanding Italian restaurants - Amici and sister restaurant Biancos, where we regularly enjoy the excellent food, ambience and service, especially on special occasions. On 21st September my husband and I celebrated my Birthday at Amici at lunchtime. It has to be said that the food quality and attentive service was outstanding and made my day even more special. Amici's food quality is always excellent, but our expectations were exceeded by the Owner Mauro facilitating off-menu pre-order steaks, prepared and cooked to perfection by the Amici Chef. Both Amici's and Bianco's continue to maintain the highest possible standards of ingredients, creative and authentic cookery, excellent wine list and attentive and friendly service and, above all, a great meal!

I looked on line for restaurants in Paignton to book up for my sons birthday. He works in Dartmouth so we bring our caravan down to visit him a few times a year. Read reviews about La Scala and booked a table. During the booking I mentioned we were coming to celebrate my sons birthday. I was asked his name and I gave it. We were surprised to find the manager or owner, Maximillian had decorated our table , put a banner in the window and a birthday card from the staff. Wonderful, warm welcome. Restaurant is not large but small and comfortable. From the reviews I had read I expected the food to be good but it far exceeded our expectations. Lots of choice for starters and main meals . Also nice that the manager took the time to chat to us. What a relaxing experience. Water and fresh bread was brought to the table whilst we perused the menu. Once decided we enjoyed the house wine which was reasonably priced and quite pleasant. We had a mixture of starters which were outstanding and decent sized portions. We tasted each others and all three were superb. Frequent visits to ensure we were satisfied were made by the Manager . If we thought the starters were good we were amazed how good the main meals were. Warm , tasty and well presented. An absolute delight. Didn't really have room for dessert but squeezed one in. Again smashing, decadent but nice !! The ambience in the restaurant was very good, we felt quite at home and relaxed throughout the evening. Even more surprised when a birthday cake with candles was brought to our table and staff and guests sang Happy Birthday. My adult son had a good laugh. All I can say is don't hesitate when you look for Italian restaurants, this is the one to go to. It looks a little small from the outside but there is enough room to be cosy and comfortable and has an expansive menu. Spoilt for choice. Will I go again. Can't wait. Thank you to Maximillian and staff for such a pleasant evening . We will certainly recommend you to friends and family especially those that come to that area with their caravans, boats etc. A visit to La Scala should be included in any visit to Paignton or surrounding areas.

food was really good we had pizza! really great taste! unfortunately the service was almost the worst I've ever had! the waitress forgot about us and was busy chatting in the kitchen I had to shout to get her attention! I understand we were the only people in the restaurant . however the only interaction with her was to take the order and serve it. no asking if everything is OK or do we want any more drinks! once she left our food we didn't see her again for 30 minutes!

We decided to go to Prezzo for a quick and easy dinner as you usually know what you’re going to get but unfortunately we chose the wrong night due to a number of failures. The staff member who met us when we walked in asked us where we’d like to sit & as there were only about 5 tables in use we pointed to a spare table along the wall of the restaurant to be away from the main crowd of tables in use more in the centre but just as we were sitting down the manager on duty came over and told the waitress that she couldn’t sit us there without giving a reason and told her to re-seat us more in the centre, we didn’t say anything but did what was asked. Next our drinks came out which was a glass of wine and bottle of cider with a glass, when I took a sip of my cider there was a rancid smell that came from inside the glass I’d put my cider in, I knew this wasn’t it’s usual smell as have had the same cider before, it was un-drinkable so asked for a new glass which they were happy to do and bought a new bottle of cider with it too. My wife took a sip of her glass of wine but around the outside of her glass there was a small bogey/silicone type ball on the outside of the glass, again we complained and she got a new glass of wine. Whilst we were waiting for our food a staff member appeared from the kitchen and proceeded to walk through the restaurant with a plunger towards the toilets and then a while later reappeared from the toilets walking through the restaurant holding the plunger going back into the kitchen with it, luckily we weren’t close enough to notice if it smelt like it could have been put to use but very off putting. Towards the end of our visit the manager on duty was having a heated conversation with one of her staff members where it seemed like she was telling them off but this was in front of the whole restaurant by the till and was loud enough for us to look across even though we were a few tables away, this should have been done in a more private setting 1 to stop the embarrassment for the staff member and 2 for customers to not hear this whilst trying to enjoy their evening. The food as always was standard, no complaints as was as expected, just all the other things this night put a downer on the whole evening.