We have visited various Prezzo restaurants over the years... less so with kids, but a spontaneous trip to Clacton and we found ourselves in the Clacton one. We didn't book and just walked in, there looked to be plenty of tables but the waitress was a bit unsure. After consulting the mighty computer we was allowed to be seated.

As you can imagine, if your a fan of pasta or pizza you can't really go wrong. Kids had an option of a kids menu, albeit I thought it was quite a tad on the expensive side (think it was £7.95 for kids 3 courses but that didn't include drinks). Me and the wife decided to have starters and deserts as we was utilising the taste card 2 for 1 on food (which didn't work on kids set meal)

Starters for kids was a garlic bread, which wasn't all that to be honest and mozzarella dipper things which were square. My son said they tasted good so all good there. I went with the beef ragusa ball things, and the wife went with Calamari. The wife picked better on this occasion, didn't think much of the beef ragu balls - not horrible or anything just pretty average. Calamari was much nicer!

Mains was pizza for kids and wife and Calzone for myself. We were all pretty satisfied - thankfully you can't go too wrong with Pizza. Desert was ice cream and cheesecake. I think cheesecake sort of stole the show for me surprisingly.

All in all it was a nice meal with friendly, attentive staff. I'm glad we had the 2 for 1 voucher as it would have been an expensive meal (not that it was cheap even after the discount to be fair). Would not say no to going to Prezzo again, although would perhaps have second thoughts if taking kids with us!