Sorrentino Restaurant in Northampton — Restaurant in England

We have dined at this restaurant numerous times over the years, so thought it was about time I left a review. We pre-booked a table as it was for the Saturday (the week before Christmas), so expected it to be busy. It was. The restaurant is situated over two floors and we always dine on the top floor, as for us it's the best atmosphere and setting. We were greeted by the owner and chef, who has always treated us the same, always friendly and welcoming and treats you special. If he has time he will always come to the table for a chat. He showed us upstairs and we were greeted again by friendly smiling staff who gave us a choice of two tables. We ordered drinks and time was taken to order food. For starter we shared a ciabatta garlic bread, which comes as 6 slices. Perfect for a starter for two. For mains I ordered the lasagne gorgonzola, which is a firm favourite of mine. It's one of the only restaurants where the lasagne comes perfectly cooked on a plate, instead of as a hot pot. My wife ordered the penne con gorgonzola fungi e arucola. Again a firm favourite and also was perfectly cooked. For desserts I ordered a chocolate pudding with cream and my wife had a lemon cheesecake. Both were delicious. The bill came to just over £73 for a shared starter, 2 mains, 2 desserts and 2 glasses of wine. Considering the excellent atmosphere, nice friendly staff, excellent quality food it's really good value. This is one of the rare, family owned restaurants that has consistently served excellent food with superb service over many years. I really hope it continues to do so. It really is...

Impressive if I made it at home, subpar for an Italian Restaurant.

This was written during the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme and therefore food quality may be have been reduced but also required a reservation so restaurant should have been at manageable capacity.

2 people, seated quickly and presented 1 paper menu. When asking for another was informed that they had to discard menus so wished to use them sparingly (did still receive one)- just laminate them and wipe them down...

All food was received in a reasonably timely manner with starters first then main.

Starters: Garlic Bread Pizza and Garlic Butter Pawn. Pizza was decent size and tasted good. Prawns were overpriced (£10), sauce did not have enough butter and lacked salt. No salt was provided on the table till the main.

Main: Penne with Mushrooms and Spinach and Pizza with spinach and an egg in it. Very good flavours in the pasta dish but the sauce was too thin, likely because the spinach seemed too wet! You are not supposed to be able to splash the sauce especially when the pasta is Penne! Pizza was terrible. Uncertain if a particular style but no crust, base was very uneven with poppadoms thickness on one side and naan thickness on the other, sauce was super dry and flavourless and it was topped with what I suppose were caramelized onions but they were still raw (translucent). Again lacked any salt.

Meal came up to £55 reduced to £32. Did not order any dessert.

Overall, I would be impressed had I made this at home for myself but was very poor quality for an...

My wife and I just enjoyed an excellent meal and drinks at Sorrentino. We had just come out of a matinee show and were looking for someplace to have an early dinner. We found Sorrentino and we’re very glad we did. We chose meals off the Earlybird Menu, thinking that was probably a compromise from choosing off the main menu, but it wasn’t at all. We had Bruschetta and Mushrooms baked in Tomato and Cheese for starters. We then both had the Linguine Cremosa, a seafood medley (white fish, mussels, cozze and prawns) in a delicious and light cream sauce. It was Italian food Heaven. I’ve worked and traveled all over central and southern Italy. This was among the very best and most authentic Italian meals I’ve had. We chose a bottle of house Merlot and were surprised at how lovely it was. Amazingly nice for any wine, much less a house wine. The portions were all more than generous, so we split the Tiramisu for dessert. It was the perfect ending to an excellent meal. From the moment we stepped in to Sorrentino we were made to feel welcome. The servers were all efficient, attentive and very pleasant. This was simply an excellent dining experience. How have we never found this place before? It is a bit hidden behind a small front facade, but the upstairs restaurant is spacious, comfortable and bright. I’m very glad we did find Sorrentino…we’ll...