Reviews in Manchester

Great food and service. Relaxed and comfortable atmosphere at a reasonable price well recommended all around.

Booked a table for a special birthday. Arrived early and staff were very helpful, nothing was too much trouble. Lovely food and very generous portions. Family friendly and very welcoming. Thank you

Fabulous afternoon with family food was great no complaints at all . Will be back !

Great traditional pub with good atmosphere, our favourite. Salt and pepper chicken wings are best on the planet

Excellent vibe; we were there on band night and had a lovely time. Can recommend the daily stew.

Great food! Highly recommend.

We only knew L'Aquila site from being a pub many years ago as I grew up in Prestwich. However, when we found that it was now an Italian and it was near my Mum's it was a perfect choice to have a small 80th birthday meal. It was a Tuesday so not too busy and the lovely young lady who greeted us gave us the choice where to sit. There were plenty of other people in there but it was still wasn't over noisy and the music level was perfect to have a nice conversation. The decor and fit out of the restaurant is lovely and extremely clean. The front of house team working that evening was extremely polite, fast serving, not to intrusive and were always doing something whether it be serving other customers or cleaning/tidying. We ordered multiple course including a special of the day and the food was on point. My Mum who's favourite food is Italian said it was better than any Italian she had been to in the city centre and said she would definitely come back. I always love a garlic bread with cheese, but having the half tomato/half cheese option was the dream. Even though I hadn't said it was my Mum's birthday the staff obviously noticed she was wearing a birthday badge and brought out her dessert with "Happy Birthday" in chocolate piped on it with candles. They then sang to her. This dessert was then taken off our final bill as a gift. She was extremely happy as were we on the overall experience. I would recommend here over any other Italian (we've been to a lot). It's also great of it's location if you don't want to or can't get to a larger city. Keep up the amazing work and kudos to all the back of house team who without the food would not be what it is.

Just the best food and place for lunch. Fabulous hostess Jo x lovely staff. So sad it’s going to be closing.

Great food. Great service.

What a fantastic place to eat. The staff make you feel like family. The food is amazing. Lovely setting for a casual meal with friends or somewhere to celebrate with family xx wishing Crowded House the best for their future x

Enjoyed a lovely lunch here with a friend. The lunch menu is great value for money, the seafood risotto was delicious.! Staff were friendly and efficient. Would definitely recommend.!

Really good food, friendly staff and no intrusive music. Highly recommend.

We absolutely love this place!! It’s rare we get to go out and eat together but when we do get the opportunity, this is where we come everytime. Food is always fabulous as is the service. The staff are just so lovely and friendly. Cannot fault it! Wigan is very lucky to have such a gem of a restaurant.

Dined here with my husband and friends. Couldn't fault it from start to finish. Excellent food . Definitely will be visiting again soon

First time last night here, food was perfect!

Lovely comfortable restaurant. Food was delicious. Had meatballs for starter and canilloni for main.

Came on Saturday with two friends . What a little gem . Food and service fantastic

I want to start by saying the food was lovely and our waitress was also wonderful and very knowledgeable and I would come back on another day to see how it is for a second time because of how lovely the food and waitress were. However, I've not rated it as highly as I would normally for 3 reasons: 1) They lost our booking/ someone didn't write it down. They did rectify this and still find us a table on a very busy evening. However, I'd booked this well in advance because I was on a strict time schedule (I'd allowed just over 90m for our meal for 4 people which should be very achievable). Unfortunately, sitting at the table 25m after arriving while they found us a table meant we couldn't even entertain a coffee or dessert after. 2) the time between starter and mains was over 30m, I assume because it was so busy and they weren't expecting us (not our fault) with 2 large parties in the restaurant, but again this compounded the fact that dessert/coffee wasn't an option. 3) A female member of staff (management/owner?) was openly very rude to our waitress at the bar we were sat next to when she was doing a wonderful job and that in turn made us all feel very uncomfortable.