Little Italy — Restaurant in Great Britain

I just moved here from Chicago and wanted a nice meal out with my partner and friends. We had dinner here on 30/12/16

Ambiance It is small and cozy with warm lighting just the way I like places to be.

Food Mediocre. I had the beef carpaccio for a starter and lasagna for the main course. I have never had carpaccio like this before. It was a thicker slice than I am use to and the literally no flavouring. The balsamic vinegar was on the plate more as a design than an accompaniment to the beef to bring out more flavour. The lasagna had little flavour and was bland.

Service Absolutely horrible. They were busy, but then it is a small place that seats maybe 50 people and they had a front of the house staff of at least 4. We had no idea exactly who our server was. They weren't the most friendliest, but it could be because the language barrier. They ended up cattle calling our food when they brought it out instead of following the order of what should have been written on the ticket. We ended being completely ignored for 20-30 minutes after our plates had been cleared from the table. We had intended to order to dessert, but couldn't get anyone to come over. Two servers assisted a take away order while we sat there just waiting for someone to give us our bill at least. We ended having to actually stand up and put our coats on for them to pay attention to us so we could get our bill to pay. They could see we weren't the happiest, but did nothing to make it better and could have cared less that they treated us horribly.

All in all, I would not recommend this place or go there if you had other options to...

This is the first negative review I've ever written but the situation was exceptional and I wouldn't want it to happen to anyone else.

We were deciding where to grab lunch in town and thought we'd go to one of the places on Stephens Brae. Coming down the brae from Crown to town, the sign outside Little Italy had written on it that they have a lunchtime deal, £12 for any pizza or pasta, which seems a good deal so we went in.

On receiving our bill, the pizzas were considerably more expensive. When this was the queried with the waitress she snarled that the sign is 'twisted' and that's not the deal on offer. The other side of the sign has opening times. Neither side of the sign contains any artwork, it's just chalk on board and could easily be wiped. I commented that it should be removed as it's misleading and the waitress just walked away. The sign was left out. It could be a mistake but with no explanation from the waitress it could be a ploy to get people in, initially. Totally backfired as I've been a few times and definitely won't be back.

If it wasn't for this, the other small things wouldn't seem so bad. The waitstaff were completely inattentive and inconsistent with the customers. Not least while they stayed behind the bar watching Ipswich v Liverpool on their phones. Fair enough if you're an Ipswich fan watching their first PL game in over 20 years but something tells me these guys were just bored and not bothered by how it looked.

There are loads of good places in Inverness and it's important people go out and support independent restaurants. It's a shame when rude staff let...

Was recommended this restaurant by a few friends so decided to call and book a table. Arrived at the restaurant on time and was practically shouted at across the tables by the waiter, didn't get a good evening or a how are you!!!! Pointed to the worst table in the place, even though there was only 4 people at 2 tables, and then went back behind the bar!! Didn't even bother seating us at the table!! Not only that the specials board had not 1 vegetarian dish, with only 1 veg pasta dish and 1 veg pizza on the normal menu, with prices aimed at tourists (which I'm not). So decided not to bother, went somewhere else, got seated and served straight away with a smile 😃 and ate delicious food!! So if your vegetarian or...