The best restaurants serving Italian food in St Alphege Solihull West Midlands

Haven’t been for over 12 months (although is local) as bad experience last time out. Thought worth giving another chance, especially as Tastecard gives 25% off total bill, and it used to be really good. Sadly no shellfish available which ruled out half the menu. Remaining choice limited. We were party of 4 and waitress recorded wrong main for one of our party so had to start again with this and rest of us had finished by time it came - and it was awful, and rest of meals mediocre at best. Will be at least another 12 months before we try again. Best bit was 5ge 25% discount.

Part of a nationwide chain of pizza/pasta restaurants. Decent/average food (no more than that) , massive quantities. Friendly staff. I tried to use Tesco vouchers and they were refused - the staff member serving me didn't know why (their system just takes or declines the voucher, nothing else !). This maybe because I had the 3 course for £ x offer and this may be excluded - in which case it needs to be much, much clearer (especially as the vouchers have a short use by date).

What a wonderful Italian afternoon tea with champagne! We were greeted by a lovely young waiter who showed us to our table which was laid out ready for us with a crystal water decanter and matching glasses, beautiful yellow and white teacups, saucers and side plates, the cutlery was a good quality and all matching. The champagne cork popped, and we were served with a glass each of crisp dry champagne....no Prosecco here, this was the real stuff! The menu was explained to us and the food was freshly made and absolutely delicious, just so different to the usual sandwiches that you get with an afternoon tea. We each received our own teapot of hot tea. The cakes were all so different and bite size and filled with chocolate or custard plus there was scones, jam and cream of course. The service was outstanding, and it was so nice to have the same young man looking after us for the whole experience, his manners were impeccable, and he is a credit to the restaurant.

My daughter and I recently dined at pizza express Solihull branch. We ordered a vegetarian pizza along with a couple of sides and drinks. When I initially took a first bite I smelt a meaty smell from the pizza so I had to stop myself and take a second look at the slice to make sure that it was actually a vegetarian pizza we were given, there was no signs of any meat in the pizza so I continued….it wasn’t until my daughter mentioned that she could also smell and taste something she described as a Smokey meaty smell and an off taste that we carefully inspected the pizza. We were both appalled upon realising that it seemed like there had been cross contamination in the process of preparing our pizza as the smell from the entire pizza was very meaty. We notified a staff member and the manager, they both denied any cross contamination had occurred. Although the manger took off the pizza from our bill, he was being rather rude about the situation. my daughter and I left the place feeling sick to our stomachs as we are vegetarian and Muslim. I would advise any vegetarian or Muslims to never eat at a place like this.