Never had a bad meal here, reasonable pricing, good menu.
Andreas “Andy” Mueller
We went with 6 for a birthday cum Mother's day celebration.I'm very detailed,observant+inquisitive when it comes to 'dine'n'wine' experiences. My overall experience was positive+yes,I'd go again.Well timed to bring out all starters+main courses at the same time,esp. during a busy period when the restaurant was full with customers.I do agree though with a negative review about the hidden charges,i.e. service charge.I'd have tipped anyway,but on my terms,t's+c's and not on theirs! Nevertheless the total bill was competitively prices due to close proximity of other restaurant competitions.
Ospray Gas Services
Cant stand service charges they belong in the bin how dare they how dare they stick another £30 on my bill when I spend over £300 on a meal with a party of friends will not be going back I hate this scam it’s the owners ripping off there waitresses if I want to leave a tip I will but the scam owners put it on your bill keep
Paul Fairhurst
Called in as a walk in tonight, very happy to accommodate, lovely atmosphere, very polite and friendly staff, food was delicious and reasonably priced. Will definitely be calling again.
Anthony Coffey
Exemplary food and service as always, was a busy night with a couple of large groups of people in.
Gary Smith
Amazing as always staff friendly welcoming nothing too much
Emma Williams
When we first arrived we could see how busy and stressful the restaurant was due to it being full. This was because they had big parties and a bottomless brunch offer on.We had to wait for around 15-20 minutes for the table to be ready which was not an issue as we just got a drink at the bar.We were shown to our table and after 5-10 minutes the waiter arrived to take our order, we cannot fault the waiter he was amazing and interacted with the little one we had at the table.The starters arrived and one of our party had ordered mussels in the tomato sauce and he wasn't keen as they tasted sandy/gritty. We told the waiter and the reply we got was do you want some bread to mop the tomato sauce that was left.Then the mains came out and all looked good, we ordered penne arribatta, the salmon pasta, spaghetti Bolognese and 2 pizzas. Not the best flavours to be honest but it's an ok Italian not really traditional.Whilst eating the penne as I got the the bottom of the dish I noticed a strand of spaghetti pasta in my penne pasta! At the same time one of our party noticed there was a few chunks of mince meat in her salmon pasta!! We brought this to the attention of the staff immediately and the waitress took it to the kitchen and came back out with the dish and told us the chef had told her that this was a grey piece of salmon, the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. We know the difference between salmon and MINCE MEAT. I then pointed out the fact that in the penne we had found the spaghetti to be told "well we are busy tonight"!! Not good enough.I don't want to make assumptions but its like the chef or whoever plated our food was using the same utensils as the spaghetti Bolognese seemed to be part of both the additional pasta dishes.Luckily the person eating the salmon was not a vegetarian or the situation would have been a whole lot worse for this establishment. The cross contamination was obvious to even the wait staff that saw our dishes. It was even pointed out to us that the spag bol had linguine pasta as well as spaghetti pasta which wasn't noticed by us so I think this speaks volumes to the cross contamination.I understand it was busy and we were very patient about this but when it comes to the food it's a big issue as one of our party had literally 2 mouthfuls of pasta before finding the mincemeat so left the restaurant having not eaten anything but olives.Again I want to make a point and say the staff were extremely busy when we arrived and this is if no fault of the front of house staff. I think this restaurant needs to rethink the booking system and the bottomless brunch or maybe even warn customers because had we know it was bottomless brunch we would have chose a different restaurant.
The Realist
First time visitors and intend to return soon!
Rachel
Has never failed to provide good service and food.Parking: Small car park opposite or on street
Lynne Concannon
Lovely place. Well decorated, nice food, reasonable price, good
Fabulous Sunday roast for daughter’s birthday today . Amazing food , exceptional service from brilliant , professional staff. Would definitely revisit.
John TJ
Great venue, food and
Aaron Watts
Friendly and efficient staff and fabulous food. ?
Simon Barnes
Another excellent meal and service from the wonderful staff at Arietes. Consistently good food.
Never had a bad meal here, reasonable pricing, good menu.
We went with 6 for a birthday cum Mother's day celebration.I'm very detailed,observant+inquisitive when it comes to 'dine'n'wine' experiences. My overall experience was positive+yes,I'd go again.Well timed to bring out all starters+main courses at the same time,esp. during a busy period when the restaurant was full with customers.I do agree though with a negative review about the hidden charges,i.e. service charge.I'd have tipped anyway,but on my terms,t's+c's and not on theirs! Nevertheless the total bill was competitively prices due to close proximity of other restaurant competitions.
Cant stand service charges they belong in the bin how dare they how dare they stick another £30 on my bill when I spend over £300 on a meal with a party of friends will not be going back I hate this scam it’s the owners ripping off there waitresses if I want to leave a tip I will but the scam owners put it on your bill keep
Called in as a walk in tonight, very happy to accommodate, lovely atmosphere, very polite and friendly staff, food was delicious and reasonably priced. Will definitely be calling again.
Exemplary food and service as always, was a busy night with a couple of large groups of people in.
Amazing as always staff friendly welcoming nothing too much
When we first arrived we could see how busy and stressful the restaurant was due to it being full. This was because they had big parties and a bottomless brunch offer on.We had to wait for around 15-20 minutes for the table to be ready which was not an issue as we just got a drink at the bar.We were shown to our table and after 5-10 minutes the waiter arrived to take our order, we cannot fault the waiter he was amazing and interacted with the little one we had at the table.The starters arrived and one of our party had ordered mussels in the tomato sauce and he wasn't keen as they tasted sandy/gritty. We told the waiter and the reply we got was do you want some bread to mop the tomato sauce that was left.Then the mains came out and all looked good, we ordered penne arribatta, the salmon pasta, spaghetti Bolognese and 2 pizzas. Not the best flavours to be honest but it's an ok Italian not really traditional.Whilst eating the penne as I got the the bottom of the dish I noticed a strand of spaghetti pasta in my penne pasta! At the same time one of our party noticed there was a few chunks of mince meat in her salmon pasta!! We brought this to the attention of the staff immediately and the waitress took it to the kitchen and came back out with the dish and told us the chef had told her that this was a grey piece of salmon, the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. We know the difference between salmon and MINCE MEAT. I then pointed out the fact that in the penne we had found the spaghetti to be told "well we are busy tonight"!! Not good enough.I don't want to make assumptions but its like the chef or whoever plated our food was using the same utensils as the spaghetti Bolognese seemed to be part of both the additional pasta dishes.Luckily the person eating the salmon was not a vegetarian or the situation would have been a whole lot worse for this establishment. The cross contamination was obvious to even the wait staff that saw our dishes. It was even pointed out to us that the spag bol had linguine pasta as well as spaghetti pasta which wasn't noticed by us so I think this speaks volumes to the cross contamination.I understand it was busy and we were very patient about this but when it comes to the food it's a big issue as one of our party had literally 2 mouthfuls of pasta before finding the mincemeat so left the restaurant having not eaten anything but olives.Again I want to make a point and say the staff were extremely busy when we arrived and this is if no fault of the front of house staff. I think this restaurant needs to rethink the booking system and the bottomless brunch or maybe even warn customers because had we know it was bottomless brunch we would have chose a different restaurant.
First time visitors and intend to return soon!
Has never failed to provide good service and food.Parking: Small car park opposite or on street
Lovely place. Well decorated, nice food, reasonable price, good
Restaurantji Recommends
Fabulous Sunday roast for daughter’s birthday today . Amazing food , exceptional service from brilliant , professional staff. Would definitely revisit.
Great venue, food and
Friendly and efficient staff and fabulous food. ?
Another excellent meal and service from the wonderful staff at Arietes. Consistently good food.
Really nice Italian, calzonie was