Found this gem of a restaurant on the last night of our mini break ? Outstanding pizzas with very generous toppings that tasted amazing. Excellent customer service from a friendly owner. Relaxed atmosphere with a peaceful ambience that makes it stand out from the crowd. Recommend a visit if you're in this area ! ? p.s. the olives are scrummy !!
ivan brownlees
Food outstanding, service excellent,ambiance ?
Elienne Harris
I couldn't really fault the restaurant, the food was excellent, garlic mushrooms to start, Sea Bass main with a side of garlic bread (which I couldn't finish). Busy, warm (a bit too warm), cosy, a little loud but accommodating and pleasant.I can't rate them higher, neither can I mark them down for the entitled young twits who came in, seated themselves and proceeded to have inappropriate, loud, conversations about bodily functions and their, shall we say 'unusual' bedroom activities. Drunk? Maybe, had it not been for them I'd have stayed for dessert and a coffee but I couldn't tolerate it any longer. I'm far from prudish but listening to that was beyond what I'd consider comfortable. There's a time and place for that, chaps and that wasn't it.All in all I would recommend Fausto's and would return again, hopefully sans the riffraff.
Victoria Chapman
We went here for a meal on our last night of holiday. The restaurants was very clean and staff very friendly. The food was excellent. We would highly recommend and even though prices were maybe a little high it was totally worth it.
Sawleyjeff
The food was lovely and clearly all cooked from fresh. The atmosphere in the restaurant was also very nice, the young waiting staff did a good job and the lady who I assume was the owner/manager came to check that everything was ok on more than one occasion. We would definitely visit again if we were back in Minehead.
L9770GYwendyw
If you are looking for authentic Italian cuisine, this is NOT the restaurant for you. Very disappointing starter which was all bought in panini bread, toasted with garlic butter put on top. Very expensive tomato and mozzarella salad. Pizza was a bought in base, small, uninspiring and very expensive for what it was. Very average food that is nothing like authentic, lots of other much better quality restaurants to choose from in the area, that are value for money. Will not be returning.
Esther M
Terrible food. A total rip off. The pasta was probably from a supermarket and was mushy. I've never had such rubbish food.
hilltopOxon
Everything was OK , the service reasonable and one or two were friendly , the food was satisfactory , and the ambience very buzzy on a Friday night . The pricing was far too high for the house wine and main dishes - close to what i'd expect in London . Overall a reasonable dinner but the pricing will persuade me to try elsewhere when back in Minehead .
G3426KFjohnp
Had a lovely simple traditional Italian meal which could not be faulted. Tasty and delicious and a reasonably priced good quality red wine to wash it down. A warm welcome, polite service and a reasonable bill. What more can you ask for? Try it!
Let’s start with the positives: this is a welcoming venue which filled up very quickly on a week night and the front-of-house staff were polite and well-intentioned. We were advised, equally politely, when we made our reservation that they took only cash, not credit cards, so we made sure we were prepared. We were served promptly and the staff seemed to care whether we were happy. We had checked the website ahead of booking and looked through the menu. We thought the prices and selection looked reasonable so we booked. When we arrived, we discovered that the menu had not only altered, but that the prices were considerably higher than advertised. We appreciate these are very challenging times for hospitality but do think the management should keep their online details up to date. The food arrived in good time, as did our drinks order. The lasagne got a thumbs-up. The pizza was just about okay, but more closely resembled a reheated one than one freshly made, so not exactly what we expected. The other pasta dish ordered was barely touched by our guest, whom we suspect was too polite to comment. A small side-salad - mainly baby spinach, with some very dry croutons and a tiny amount of other salad ingredients - arrived. We asked for some dressing and were offered chilli oil. We explained we would like dressing for the salad, if possible. After checking back with the kitchen, our server, eager to please, reappeared with a jug of vinegar. We felt so sorry for him when we then asked, as politely as we could, if there might be some oil to go with the vinegar. Our server was lovely, patient and polite but we do feel that an expensive establishment such as this should offer basic training to its staff and check that they are familiar with things such as what, surely, is a fairly commonplace request for ‘dressing’ with salad, so that they aren’t put in such an embarrassing position. The bill, with drinks, for this really disappointing experience was considerably more than anticipated and we had to borrow additional cash from our guest to cover it. Upon paying, the person at the till handed over a vast amount of small change and, inexplicably, a receipt for just over six pounds from the Minehead Wimpy. Had two of our party not been vegetarian, we might have been better off going there, instead.
PC B
Fausto's the Restaurant is great , Fausto the Italian owner / Chef is the Best !
janetgonegardening
We booked Fausto's to be the highlight of our stay. We had been told that it was good and we like Italian style food. Thus we hoped for better than we got. A single disinterested member of staff front of house. The soft drink came warm without an offer of ice. When we later asked for a jug of water it came warm with a couple of bits of ice which immediately melted. Despite being assured that the salmon in the salmon pasta dish was standard salmon it tasted very odd and salty, the dish would not have been ordered if we had known this. The meatball pasta dish we also ordered was ok but nothing special. We ate what we could and left disappointed. There are better places to eat in Minehead.
Dave Matthews
Very good value for money. Food was very tasty
Ben Gardiner
Hard to give anything over three stars. We were told it was “cash only” with no explanation as to why.The food was bland, presentation was unimaginative and there is no justification for those prices. The pasta was clearly not fresh (happy to be proven wrong).I understand the cost of living crisis is effecting small town independent businesses, but it is effecting their customers just as bad.It seems like everyone has given up, table was sticky and the salt and pepper grinders were unapologetically Lidl branded, which is clearly where the rest of the ingredients were from also.
Fantastic evening. Lovely food .
Found this gem of a restaurant on the last night of our mini break ? Outstanding pizzas with very generous toppings that tasted amazing. Excellent customer service from a friendly owner. Relaxed atmosphere with a peaceful ambience that makes it stand out from the crowd. Recommend a visit if you're in this area ! ? p.s. the olives are scrummy !!
Food outstanding, service excellent,ambiance ?
I couldn't really fault the restaurant, the food was excellent, garlic mushrooms to start, Sea Bass main with a side of garlic bread (which I couldn't finish). Busy, warm (a bit too warm), cosy, a little loud but accommodating and pleasant.I can't rate them higher, neither can I mark them down for the entitled young twits who came in, seated themselves and proceeded to have inappropriate, loud, conversations about bodily functions and their, shall we say 'unusual' bedroom activities. Drunk? Maybe, had it not been for them I'd have stayed for dessert and a coffee but I couldn't tolerate it any longer. I'm far from prudish but listening to that was beyond what I'd consider comfortable. There's a time and place for that, chaps and that wasn't it.All in all I would recommend Fausto's and would return again, hopefully sans the riffraff.
We went here for a meal on our last night of holiday. The restaurants was very clean and staff very friendly. The food was excellent. We would highly recommend and even though prices were maybe a little high it was totally worth it.
The food was lovely and clearly all cooked from fresh. The atmosphere in the restaurant was also very nice, the young waiting staff did a good job and the lady who I assume was the owner/manager came to check that everything was ok on more than one occasion. We would definitely visit again if we were back in Minehead.
If you are looking for authentic Italian cuisine, this is NOT the restaurant for you. Very disappointing starter which was all bought in panini bread, toasted with garlic butter put on top. Very expensive tomato and mozzarella salad. Pizza was a bought in base, small, uninspiring and very expensive for what it was. Very average food that is nothing like authentic, lots of other much better quality restaurants to choose from in the area, that are value for money. Will not be returning.
Terrible food. A total rip off. The pasta was probably from a supermarket and was mushy. I've never had such rubbish food.
Everything was OK , the service reasonable and one or two were friendly , the food was satisfactory , and the ambience very buzzy on a Friday night . The pricing was far too high for the house wine and main dishes - close to what i'd expect in London . Overall a reasonable dinner but the pricing will persuade me to try elsewhere when back in Minehead .
Had a lovely simple traditional Italian meal which could not be faulted. Tasty and delicious and a reasonably priced good quality red wine to wash it down. A warm welcome, polite service and a reasonable bill. What more can you ask for? Try it!
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Let’s start with the positives: this is a welcoming venue which filled up very quickly on a week night and the front-of-house staff were polite and well-intentioned. We were advised, equally politely, when we made our reservation that they took only cash, not credit cards, so we made sure we were prepared. We were served promptly and the staff seemed to care whether we were happy. We had checked the website ahead of booking and looked through the menu. We thought the prices and selection looked reasonable so we booked. When we arrived, we discovered that the menu had not only altered, but that the prices were considerably higher than advertised. We appreciate these are very challenging times for hospitality but do think the management should keep their online details up to date. The food arrived in good time, as did our drinks order. The lasagne got a thumbs-up. The pizza was just about okay, but more closely resembled a reheated one than one freshly made, so not exactly what we expected. The other pasta dish ordered was barely touched by our guest, whom we suspect was too polite to comment. A small side-salad - mainly baby spinach, with some very dry croutons and a tiny amount of other salad ingredients - arrived. We asked for some dressing and were offered chilli oil. We explained we would like dressing for the salad, if possible. After checking back with the kitchen, our server, eager to please, reappeared with a jug of vinegar. We felt so sorry for him when we then asked, as politely as we could, if there might be some oil to go with the vinegar. Our server was lovely, patient and polite but we do feel that an expensive establishment such as this should offer basic training to its staff and check that they are familiar with things such as what, surely, is a fairly commonplace request for ‘dressing’ with salad, so that they aren’t put in such an embarrassing position. The bill, with drinks, for this really disappointing experience was considerably more than anticipated and we had to borrow additional cash from our guest to cover it. Upon paying, the person at the till handed over a vast amount of small change and, inexplicably, a receipt for just over six pounds from the Minehead Wimpy. Had two of our party not been vegetarian, we might have been better off going there, instead.
Fausto's the Restaurant is great , Fausto the Italian owner / Chef is the Best !
We booked Fausto's to be the highlight of our stay. We had been told that it was good and we like Italian style food. Thus we hoped for better than we got. A single disinterested member of staff front of house. The soft drink came warm without an offer of ice. When we later asked for a jug of water it came warm with a couple of bits of ice which immediately melted. Despite being assured that the salmon in the salmon pasta dish was standard salmon it tasted very odd and salty, the dish would not have been ordered if we had known this. The meatball pasta dish we also ordered was ok but nothing special. We ate what we could and left disappointed. There are better places to eat in Minehead.
Very good value for money. Food was very tasty
Hard to give anything over three stars. We were told it was “cash only” with no explanation as to why.The food was bland, presentation was unimaginative and there is no justification for those prices. The pasta was clearly not fresh (happy to be proven wrong).I understand the cost of living crisis is effecting small town independent businesses, but it is effecting their customers just as bad.It seems like everyone has given up, table was sticky and the salt and pepper grinders were unapologetically Lidl branded, which is clearly where the rest of the ingredients were from also.