My wife and I visited The Italian Job a few weeks ago and it was good that time but feel moved to write about our experience last night as the service was the worst I have ever experienced. They must have had a large function upstairs as waiters were constantly trooping up there with plates of food and that left all of us unfortunate enough to be downstairs with a frankly ridiculously low number of staff available, indeed sometimes there were no memebers of staff in site. We had to wait about 30 minutes for our starter but considered ourselves to be lucky compared to the tables behind us who sat there for about an hour between starter and main courses. People ended up getting up from tables to go to the downstairs bar to complain. At least they did not charge us for coffee and pudding but it was small compensation really for the appalling service. We'll give them one more try though as the food is good and this just might have been a blip, but they need to either have more staff on or start to refuse bookings if they have a big function on and they cannot cope.
The Italian Job Restaurant – Urmston