The Social Trattoria — Restaurant in England

First time here, came for a meal to celebrate our son’s 18th birthday. Booked a table in advance but it was a bit chaotic (busy) when we arrived and had to wait around for longer than we would have hoped. However, the staff were very attentive and we got sat down soon enough. An inauspicious start but it was uphill from then on. Firstly, we were informed that our drinks and starters were on the house because of the wait. I didn’t think that was necessary if I’m honest but happy to accept the gesture. We’ve been to most of the other Italian restaurants in the area since we moved here last year and I must say that the quality of the food here is second to none. All of our dishes were great. They clearly use excellent quality ingredients which are cooked to perfection. The serving staff were all very helpful, friendly and knowledgeable about the food (we had a couple of questions about ingredients that we weren’t familiar with and they answered these straight away). It was also pleasing to see quite a few dishes that you don’t usually see on other Italian menus, so nice to try something new and different. It is a busy restaurant but I’d say that the atmosphere was very lively without tipping over into being too loud. Will...

Wind was blowing in and it was extremely cold inside, very small restaurant, three of us went in and ordered garlic dough pillows fries and a margarita pizza, however the garlic pillows came in 15 minutes whilst these group of girls came in and they ordered and there food came way before them they also got offered a jug of water whilst we asked for some and didn’t get some until we asked again, the pizza and the fries didn’t come until we asked the waiters four times and they kept saying two minutes and once it came we had to go as the parking was only 1 1/2 hours so we had to get it in takeaways boxes. Fries were quite basic compared to their description however the pizza was really good and we asked for cordial and water however we got cordial and sparkling water which was...

Nice looking place, really friendly staff. Food is quite good as well. The pizzas were good but not quite there. The cheesy garlic dough pillows were glorious. If they came served with a small pot of marinara, they’d be perfection. Absolutely covered in garlic, piping hot.

The Napoli was delicious, but this also had loads of minced garlic which seemed a bit much. I don’t think it needs it, especially as you can order aioli if you wanted.

The truffle pizza was not that nice. The paste that served as the base for the pizza had a really odd flavour. It was slightly sweet. Couldn’t put my finger on it.

Otherwise nice wine list, really nice looking cocktails etc

Not many vegetarian options, which is fine, people just need to look at menu...