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Vito's Italian

Vito's Italian

284 South Road, Sheffield S6 3TE, United Kingdom

Wine • Pasta • Italian • Vegetarian


"Vito’s Italian had been on my ever-growing list of Restaurants to try for a while, so it was a welcomed nudge when Vito invited me to come and try what he describes as authentic Italian food. Being Italian himself, and heavily involved in all parts of the restaurant, the passion that Vito has for food really comes across in the dishes served here. The restaurant had a warm, open feeling to it and the bar area feels a little rustic. Our waiter was very friendly and tentative which I love about proper Italian restaurants, the staff always want to make you feel welcome as soon as you walk in. The specials board that evening included a lot of seafood so I didn’t choose from it this time but I do love seeing a specials board! The menu itself is vast so it took me a while to choose what I wanted, but it’s great to see that Vito’s offers the pasta dishes as a smaller portion for starters too. For my starter, an unusual choice for me, but I decided to go with Scamozza Al Forno Con Funghi – Oven baked Scamozza cheese with mushrooms, garlic and parsley. A large portion of big, fresh mushrooms lightly cooked and baked in lots of a cheese, far from the soggy, horrible garlic mushrooms you sometimes get on a menu that just leave a sour taste. I don’t often go for mushrooms but I was really pleased with my choice and really enjoyed this starter – so much cheese! Ben went with a starter portion of the Ravioli Aragosta – Lobster filled ravioli cooked with prawns and a touch of cream. Inside the ravioli was real, fresh, big chunks of lobster. The prawns looked big and juicy too and the dish was presented beautifully. I was tempted to be honest, but I stuck to my guns with choosing not to eat seafood (was the most difficult it’s been since I stopped eating it months ago! . However I am told this dish was perfect and delicious. It was a tough decision on which Main dish to go for. Vito recommends the traditional Carbonara. BTW don’t offend him by going to his ITALIAN restaurant and asking for an English or practically made up version of Carbonara in a cream sauce or with chicken in it – that is not a Carbonara and not an authentic Italian dish. I couldn’t believe when he told me that he had previous customers asking for it this was and giving a bad review when he said that he did not serve Carbonara in such a way. However, that night the meal that caught my eye most on the menu was Strascinati Con Salsiccia Lucana (nope I couldn’t pronounce it either – Strascinati (this word comes from the meaning to “pull” as you can see in the shape of the pasta cooked with homemade sausage meat, tomato sauce, basil and chilli. (Typical pasta from Vito’s hometown . Wow – the dish looked amazing, tasted amazing and it was amazing that I actually ate the whole bowl-full, but I did Really good choice and right up my street in terms of taste and ingredients. Ben went for a good old Calzone – Folded pizza filled with ham, mozzarella and tomato, made the traditional Italian way. The dough was perfectly folded and just thick enough that it was lovely and crispy on the outside and still soft on the inside. Fully packed with delicious ingredients, this Calzone did not disappoint, however it just beat him as he was so full. I tried it myself of course and agreed that it was really tasty. As well as the food going down extremely well, I loved the house red wine too – a Primitivo from the Apulia region, a really smooth wine. I am definitely going to get me a bottle of this for the weekend! 2 alcoholic drinks, 2 starters, 2 mains and some olives to start came to just under £60 which we thought was very reasonable and was superb value for money for the quality of food that we received. I think this restaurant would be somewhere great to go for a date or with the family for an occasion."

Steak And Company Leicester Square

Steak And Company Leicester Square

Irving Street, WC2H 0HA, City of London,Westminster, United Kingdom

Steak • British • European • Steakhouse


"I wouldn’t normally turn to Tripadvisor to write a slightly negative review but I couldn’t find the restaurants contact details to email direct so here goes… I firstly want to say that the staff here were very attentive, friendly and righted the wrongs that were done with ease and efficiently but these wrongs shouldn’t have happened in the first place. The restaurant is very chaotic. It is in Leicester Square so I’m sure it’s always busy but it seemed very disorganised. We were a table of 7 and only 3 of us ordered starters. 2 of those came out and then we had to chase the 3rd. To which the waiter said they were preparing it now. But it should have been prepared and come out all at the same time. Particularly when it was a cold starter. We then waited a while for the mains and had to chase again. I don’t mind a little time between courses but this was too long. I got given a steak with 2 sauces on and no butter. Trying to get the attention of a waiter was very hard. I eventually got someone and asked why there were 2 sauces on my plate. They didn’t know why and asked which sauce I had ordered. I said peppercorn and they placed the sauce on my plate and took the other one away. In all this confusion our sides had been left on an empty table near ours. The waiter asked if we needed anything else and we said “the sides on the table over there would be nice”. I tried my steak and it was perfectly cooked and then proceeded to pour my sauce over my steak and a mushroom fell out of the pot. Now I’m ALLERGIC to mushrooms and so now my steak is now inedible. I caught the attention of what looked like a manager as they were in plain clothes. I explained what had happened to which she asked me what sauce I had ordered and had I told someone about my mushroom allergy. I said I had told the waiter at the beginning of the meal when we ordered so no excuse to give me the wrong sauce. The sauces do look the same but maybe they should be labelled somehow especially when there’s allergies around. I got given a new steak within a few minutes. It was cold but not covered in mushroom sauce so that’s a bonus. The food was good I can’t fault that but something needs to be done about the service and attention to deal. I also ordered a butter to go with my steak which never appeared even after asking multiple times. I would recommend the food of this restaurant but just prepare yourself for a chaotic dinner."