The best restaurants serving Italian food in Richmond West Richmondshire Yorkshire and The Humber

Service was bit over attentive but acceptable. One of the lady servers didn't seem to have a smile? We shared a starter of Loaded wedges. More Bolognese sauce than anything. It wasn't exactly piping hot and the wedges not that crispy. Fairly sure warmed up. My partner enjoyed her 4 Cheese Pizza that was served on a nice hot pizza plate while my Linquine Al Gamberine (king Prawn) was very tasty but on a cold plate. (Anyone who reads my reviews knows this is always minus 1 star, why is it so hard to serve hot food on at the very least warm plates?). Sweets were acceptable though nothing special. The sprinkle of chocolate powder garnish on mine was botched and in a big pile. You would think they would have transferred the sweet to a fresh plate and tried again! Just to finish, turns out we were over charged for the 4 cheese pizza that my partner swore blind was £12.95, I said she was probably mistkane. Looking at the menu to do the review turns out it was £12.95 and we were charged more (I think £13.95 but who keeps receipt) We travel to Richmond every now and again and this was our first visit to the Elixir. Can't see that we will be back as there are much better places to eat in Richmond. For Italian try Rafael'o as better than Elixir though still has "cold plate syndrome" (see other reviews).

Great food and a really nice chap who owns and runs the business.