The best restaurants serving Italian food in England

An excellent meal, couldn’t fault it, so friendly with high quality food and wine, pizza was especially could with homemade deserts

Just TERRIBLE! The only good thing to say was the waiters were polite and friendly but the food selection was awful and the quality was shocking. Over cooked mush with chow mein and chop suey, tiny overcooked chicken bits in sickly sauce and rice like bullets. For the price (we spent over £60) it was shocking. AVOID at all costs!!

Late lunch on a Sunday, they weren't especially busy but we had to wait to be seated. Took ages for starter of garlic bread to arr8ve, I suspected they forgot to put it through as a couple ho came in after us got their order before us. Burger had spicy sauce which I hadn't expecting as I don't like spicy food. The most annoying part wad they allowed a couple with two dogs in and one dog intermittently barked loudly begging for food, which it got. Not exactly relaxing.

They squeezed us 4 in for the Saturday night at short notice, and were great to us. Service impeccable. I was particularly impressed with the allergies knowledge. The food was terrific too.

From the start this place was a shambles, we are here 12 months ago and it was just as bad but as we were out and been sent a discount voucher by them we thought we would give them another go, we should have bothered ! Stood for 10 mins at the entrance waiting to be seen, we had booked a table in advance, we were eventually seated on a tiny table in the middle of the floor no room on the table and no room around us as my chair was hit by staff and customers the whole time ! We asked politely could we move to a slightly larger table and was told no were too busy !!! The tables in question stood empty for our entire visit … The drinks took ages as did the food, The food was overcooked and bland at best and for a chain restaurant was also very expensive £9 for a very small calamari starter … We then waited 35plus mins for our main which was just ok …… the server was slow and disinterested all night over all for staters and soft drinks an pizza for 3 the bill was £80 not value for money at all so thank god for the discount code . The assistant manager is the only shinning light in the restaurant …..

Went for my birthday for afternoon tea on Halloween. Cakes had a theme. Food was lovely. Setting was peaceful. Service by Varinder was perfect. Cannot fault the experience.

we came here on Wednesday for dinner before the cinema. The food was great and the staff very friendly. we had a great espresso martini

Lovely meal. Good service. Recently been refurbished, much better. Have eaten here for years. Never disappointed. Reasonably priced. Worth a visit.

Food quality was really good and our order was processed quite quickly. Disappointed to find extra items on our bill when paying, really left a sour taste. Check your bill before paying!

Disappointed. We’ve always used Pasco’s in the past. Haven’t been to the Cottingham branch for a while and thought we’d make an occasion for my daughter’s birthday. Firstly, the price increases do not reflect the food or establishment. The restaurant was dirty, with spider webs from lighting, dirt under tables and we found a hair at the bottom of my son’s fries. The aribiata wasn’t spicy, in fact tasted like tomato soup! Wasn’t impressed to see the chef smoking outside the restaurant and the waitresses no longer Italian like before. Overall, we paid £65 for barely any food. We should have complained but we were hungry and the kids were eager to get home. We will not be using Pasco’s again and will be spreading the word that the quality has gone down, while prices have massively increased. Prices like that can’t be charged for what feels like a dirty cafe.

Decided to visit bella Italia for a family meal for 6 at sixfield in northampton . On arriving the staff were friendly and we ordered our drinks which arrived fairly quickly . When ordering most mains are around £15 plus . When mine arrived I was very disappointed with the portion size which arrived in a medium dessert size bowl. I ordered the pollo fungi which consisted of around 25 plus pieces of penne pasta and approx 3 x pieces of chicken around the size of a 10p piece with a scattering of several greasy looking mushroom pieces mixed in which were unappealing so left them . This was mixed with a small amount of mushroom sauce . In all not worth the money and in my opinion very overpriced . I have been a customer at this restaurant before and the portions were considerably larger covered in lots of creamy sauce. I know times are difficult and not what things used to be but in future I will go somewhere else and give this place a miss . Overall : small portions , food looked unappealing and definatly not worth paying over £ 15 for. The other members of my family who also attended commented on the size of the portions and said they are definatly not worth the money . Mr adams

Delicious food, excellent location and prompt, friendly service from Baba - thank you! We will definitely return if we are in the area!

We had an incredible evening and we want to thank Kyle, Sophie, Owen and the rest of the team. We have been coming to this restaurant for years and every time we have an excellent experience. The food is delicious, the service is impeccable and they can’t do enough for us. They are very attentive. We will continue to visit Cancello for many years. By far the best Italian restaurant in the North West.

Went with friends this evening. Good atmosphere. Excellent food. Pleasant, welcoming, tolerant and efficient staff

Breakfast after shopping- child size portions on a Child size plate. Not worth £6 (without drinks)- only redeeming feature the decent sausage. Bacon streaky rashers and not nice, two overs of toast and an egg. Pathetic really. Morrisons and Tesco offer far better for same price or support local business. Staff polite and friendly/ not busy but that possible reflects the waiting of food and value for money.won’t return soon.