The best restaurants serving Italian food in Southern NI

A most wonderful afternoon tea today served by Johnny and Rachel. Great quality food and first class service. The team excelled in their catering for a dietary requirement of gluten and dairy intolerance and no meat requirement. They sought feedback and were eager to know if everything was ok. It was first class at ever level. I would highly recommend The Garden room for afternoon tea. Well done to Johnny and all the team. You definitely raise the bar in your customer service, your wonderful interaction with us and the provision of an afternoon tea that more than satisfied all four of us. Your strawberries wrapped in chocolate were yum yum yum!!! Oh so delicious!!! Thank you. Doreen

Amazing takeaway meals really nicely presented and at a great price. All safely given to us during restrictions and portion sizes excellent. Will be back!

Service is top class , Chris is the most kindest owner I’ve ever met , the food is top class , and I wouldn’t recommend any other place , come and you will not be disappointed 💯

This restaurant offers gluten free options on their menu and we had absolutely delicious dinners using their gluten free pasta. Service is great and reasonably priced. You won’t be disappointed We dine here often enough as the food is always great. They also offer take away options which is fantastic

Absolutely lovely food, friendly staff and great atmosphere.

Good food quick friendly service 👌

The Sapori is an Italian restaurant on The Mall in the centre of Newry. This business is a well loved local icon which has been here for over 20 years! Having said this, the interior is very modern with a strong Italian theme. As always we had a fantastic meal with them and I was pleased to see a vegan risotto being clearly added to the menu. We started with the Focaccia to share which comes with some condiments and a lovely garlic oil drizzle. For my main I had to try the risotto and was not disappointed, the flavour was great and the fried aubergine was delicious. I will add, I have had a vegan pizza here before (pre-roasted veg and no cheese) and it was delicious! I can't speak for all vegans but I think this was perfect and deserves a place on the menu too 😁 Overall this is a family run business with a great service and delicious food, I would definitely recommend giving it a try!

Wonderful place, very nice stuff and the food gorgeous.

What has happened this restaurant???? We went for an evening meal and you are greeted by a pleasant hostess but on full view is a very very unhappy looking pizza chef ! If I was that unhappy in my job I honestly wouldn’t be there. We had a similar experience a few weeks ago but returned because we gave them the benefit of the doubt my goodness our experience was worse tonight. We waited so long for our food we just left cause we had very young hungry children. We were told that the pizza chef was behind with the orders. Such a shame that this place has gone down hill so badly. On speaking with a couple of other families they said they also had the same experiences. Clearly no management on to see exactly what is happening. Very disappointing !!!!!

Got there almost 2h before closing and they told us we had 5min to order. 98% of starters are salads, there’s no diversity. Food is tasteless. Not a dash of salt. I had the “house special” king prawns with tagliatelle and you could see a mile away that the food was heated. The pasta was way pass it’s cooking point. Worst Caesar salad I’ve ever had. Wine was acceptable but they closed the bar as we were still eating so we couldn’t order more to drink. Also, coffee machine was already off aswell so we couldn’t get our expressos after the meal. Waiters were very welcoming and friendly, have nothing bad to point. The place was nice and cozy. Music was off topic. For an Italian restaurant” that’s unacceptable.

This establishment has a kids menu,.. I have no idea why as it in my view does not welcome the presence of children… The request is to have kids who sit in silence and eat their meal.. obviously my parenting skills are inferior to the helicopter waitresses… who’s judgmental over burdening attitude resulted in a rushed meal with the only aim being to leave as soon as possible… I will never be back… basic food anyway, attempting to wrap itself with a fine dining… more diner/basic B meal.

This takeaway is let down by the horrifically ill mannered staff. 2 weeks on a row, the apparent 'manager' has taken the order incorrectly and when we phoned, politely to ask that they correct their mistake, the answer was, 'I don't know what you want me to do, it's with you.' There were no apologies, no offer to correct their mistake but instead, she was heard to snigger about our complaint. I genuinely never complain about anything but when people are rude when you are paying for a service, I think the very least that should be offered is an apology. If the actual owner of 'Twice the Spice' reads this, please please re-think you management structure. Your current manager 'who refused to provide her name' is nothing shy of hostile, rude, and not someone you should have representing your business.