A civilised Italian lunch

Advantages: Excellent surroundings; very good food and service
Disadvantages: No folded pizzas

...sections you would expect to find in an Italian chain restaurant, with starters, pasta, oven pasta dishes, pizza, risotto, specialities and salads. Perhaps the only difference is that Prezzo also has a section for roast chicken dishes, although I understand that in their newer branches this is replaced by a section for calzone, or folded pizzas. On arrival the waitress had shown us the 'specials' board which featured just one main course: fusilli pasta with asparagus, mushrooms, roasted peppers and green pesto at £7.95. It sounded healthy and I hadn't had pesto for a long time, so I made that my choice. My son opted for traditional lasagne at £8.55, and his partner ordered a pizza with prosciutto ham, mushrooms, marinated olives, fresh rosemary, mozzarella and tomato at £7.95. I was pleased to see that a special knife with a serrated edge was...

denella 05.04.2009 · Read review
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Pallucci Italian restaurant scores at the top of the list

Advantages: The entire staff at Pallucci is friendly, helpful, and unpretentious.
Disadvantages: The wine selection is small; it's hand picked by an in-house Sommelier.

...of the list as a great neighborhood restaurant. Pallucci Italian Restaurant 523 Mount Pleasant Road Toronto, ON M4S 2M4, Canada tel. (416) 484-9828 http://www.pallucci.ca...

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An Italian that I like to do!

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: none!

...I love going out for meals especially when you get a freebie thrown in too and the staff make you feel as welcome as though you were family. When my husband and i moved to Wakefield we stumbled across this little Italian by mistake and since then it has become a regular haunt for us. The location This restaurant may not be set amongst fields with a beautiful view but it is a great location seeing as it's so central. It is on Northgate, Wakefield and so there are plenty of parking spaces around, the main bus route from Leeds to Wakefield runs past it so if you are on public transport it is ideal as the bus literally stops just outside. It's a five minute walk from the station and right by the shopping centre so a great place to finish off an afternoon of shopping! The building Rustico was originally one small...

lorriellah 20.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Rustico Italian Restaurant

Love Italian

Advantages: Ample vegetarian options, generous portions.
Disadvantages: Some dishes were full of cream and cheese, so in that manner, not great for calorie consciuos

...Recently went to a Prezzo in Harrow to reap the benefits of this new offer where all the main course is in the 2-for-1 offer. Since I was very hungry, I ordered a starter and a main course, both. To my delight, there was a lot of choice for vegetarian people and it is not like Nandoos where there is hardly any choice for vegetarian. The menu offers, wide variety of pizza's, risotto, cal zone and pasta's and salads for the side. The portion served is also quite big and it can be shared between two if, you are not very hungry. The service was also to a standard level. The ambiance was warm and cosy and the traditional italian oven in the corner, gave a feel of a fireplace. Overall, good value for money and a nice place to go for a perfect Italian meal....

tinkerbell2807 06.11.2009 · Read review
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I love eating at Prezzo's Restaurant

Advantages: Very nice food and nice atmosphere
Disadvantages: To save disappointment book early as they get very busy.

...I have eaten numerous times at Prezzo's Restaurant, I go to the restaurant in Woodbridge in Suffolk. I find the staff very polite and helpful. The decor is done very well and looks very nice and it has a very good atmosphere. On One occassion that I went to the Restaurant our table was late due to the fact that the customers before us were taking there time. The staff were very apologetic and offered myself and my friend a free drink, we did except this and after we had enjoyed our drinks our table was ready. The food is cooked very well and the meat is always tender with lots of taste. They do wonderful salads also and nice side orders. The wine list is very good and the prices are affordable. They are very accommondating and if you wish to bring in a birthday cake they will bring it over to your table on request. I am very happy...

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An Italian in Southsea

Advantages: Good food and service
Disadvantages: Crowded at weekends

...It was perhaps surprising with my love of eating out that, after more than a year of moving back to Southsea, I still had not visited the Italian restaurant Rosita's on Elm Grove. Surprising as, apart from an uninspiring-looking Indian restaurant, Rosita's is actually my nearest, being less than five minutes' walk from my home. I quite often go out for a meal with a friend on a Monday evening, and on this particular occasion she did not feel like venturing very far as she had just returned from a walking weekend in Devon. Rosita's seemed like the most sensible plan. The restaurant has recently been refurbished, the old bay window with the red canopies having been replaced by a flat front made entirely of glass, which I feel has detracted somewhat from its individual character. The red canopies still exist above the first-floor windows...

denella 14.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Rositas Italian Restaurant and Wine Bar, Southsea

Presenting.....Prezzo

Advantages: Bargain of a meal with our discount voucher. Good portions. Friendly service.
Disadvantages: Fairly bland food. Poorly appointed table.

...Money Saving Expert once again came up trumps on our recent trawl to find someone new to dine out. Having tried Ask last year (and coming away replete but not exactly over-whelmed with the menu), this time it was the turn of Prezzo, another high street Italian chain. Like Ask, Pizza Express, Strada, Zizzi et al, Prezzo offer informal Italian themed dining in contemporary and stylish looking outlets. Prezzo have around 140 different city centre outlets dotted throughout the UK, many of which are located in listed buildings or places of historic interest. For example, the restaurant in Chichester (where we dined) is located in an old city centre pub with loads of traditional wooden beams and stained glass windows. Prezzo offer a broad range of Italian dishes including pizza, pasta, risotto and salads. Their emphasis is on using fresh...

Bollinger28 04.10.2009 (15.10.2009) · Read review
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Linguini's: A Pasta Disaster!

Advantages: Some of the meals were of a high standard, clean and some friendly staff
Disadvantages: Some of the meals not so good and some less friendly staff members

...It was fast approaching my brother?s birthday and we always like to go out for a special meal to celebrate. Where we live in Lincolnshire, I?m sad to say that there are very few ?special? restaurants in the area; such establishments have either gotten dodgy or have closed down all together, but Boston wasn?t always like that. A long, long time ago, the town was host to what I?d describe as a phenomenal Italian restaurant called Zucchini?s, an eatery that closed down somewhere in the region of three to four years ago. It was an inevitable downfall; the new owners were inconsistent with opening times and stopped doing the ?early bird? menu which many people loved but I was still very sad to see Zucchini?s shut down altogether after having so many fantastic meals there in the past, both with family and friends. Alas there was hope...

MizzMolko 16.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Linguini's Italian Restaurant, Lincolnshire

Top Italian restaurant

Advantages: Good food and atmosphere
Disadvantages: You need to book well in advance

...When we were booking for our recent stay in Edinburgh, for the marathon, we decided to book a meal for the night before the race rather than eating in the Travelodge where we were staying. Not really knowing Edinburgh very well or where to eat out in Edinburgh, I let my wife do the organising, with my one request being that it could be somewhere that I could fill myself up with pasta to fuel myself for the marathon. She booked Guilianos Italian restaurant, where she had been to a couple of times before on trips to Edinburgh with her friends. We phoned to book this restaurant weeks before we were due to go to Edinburgh, as my wife had struggled on a previous occasion to get a booking when phoning a week or two before going. One of the reasons that you need to book this restaurant so far in advance is that the location is directly...

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Review of Guilianos, Edinburgh

Carlisle's Premier Italian restaurant?

Advantages: Near theatre, great service, massive menu, beautiful fresh food, happy hour menu
Disadvantages: out of town centre, some dishes quite expensive, can get busy.

...For my Mother's birthday I bought a ticket for her to see Cabaret, the live tour. Of course she couldn't go alone, so I bought myself one too. We decided to make a real night of it by eating out first. Adriano's in Carlisle was the perfect choice being just 2 minutes away from the venue. My mother suggested this restaurant, I hadn't been before but she had on a couple of occasions and had been impressed. I was happy to go along with her recommendation as she usually chooses well, and she didn't let me down on this occasion either. Adriono's describe themselves as being Carlisle's premier Italian restaurant...I'm now inclined to agree. Adriano's is situated in what at first may seem an unusual and unlikely position for a Restaurant. It's just out of the town centre and the main restaurant/pub area, opposite the not very...

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