Reviews in Manchester City Centre

Had the pre theatre menu on 10th December. The starters were standard . I had lasagne as my main. The quality was average.The portion had plenty of pasta and sauce but there was very little meat content. MY son had steak(an additional £2). He eats a lot of steaks. He could not recognise what he was eating as steak. He had no idea what it was and could not finish it. A complaint was made.The management response was it was the fault of the supplier!! Any reputable restaurant would have returned it to the supplier. Although we received a reduction on the bill we would not return to this venue, nor would we recommend it to anybody. Owen McNeill

Ate here on Monday evening, fantastic as always. Excellent Minestrone soup, very good Steak Diane. Great service.

Absolutely amazing meal at gio. Couldn't fault a thing! Highly recommended.

Excellent restaurant with quick service & really good food. ‘Would definitely recommend it.

We thought we'd try this place out for our works party meal as we like to try different foods each year. We all found it quite hard to select one item each from the menu as there was so much we wanted to try, so be ordered 3 of the meat banquets and 2 vegetarian banquets, so we got a bit of most things. We shared them all between the 5 of us, fantastic, flavoursome foods, that did not disappoint, we did need to order extra flatbreads, but they arrived promptly, warm and fresh from the ovens. Great place, great company, great food 5*

Another really good Italian meal yesterday evening at Gios. Great service as always. Polite, friendly and efficient. Excellent authentic Italian food I just love their lasagne. Reasonably priced especially the two course army bird menu.

We were a large party of 17, the restaurant hosted us extremely well and the food was delicious. We all had a great time. The house red was not great but the restaurant swapped it for another bottle which was a great replacement. Would recommend for larger parties easy to deal with from a reservation perspective

Party of 8 at lunchtime with the team. Booked in advance and we were the only people there when we first arrived. Given this we felt the service could have been a bit quicker given it was evident we were on our lunch break although it was generally good overall. The food was hot and well presented and seemed authentic (this was our first time trying Armenian food). Felt the prices were reasonable although we were a bit disappointed that the lunch time 2 course offer is still advertised online but was crossed out in the menus.

5.0

Jen

Always a winner for a high quality healthy lunch. A real treat to find vegan options as good as this near my office!

Love Chakalaka, smallish, intimate venue, good service.

Friendly,cosy atmosphere with great food and service.

Lovely meal and great service before our trip to theatre.

Great fun restaurant with good food. Service very friendly and staff great

very disappointed three women went for the pre theatre dinner one garlic bread between us and an alcoholic drink each and it was over £90 the food wasnt fantastic not good at all we wont be making a return visit

Had a meal on Friday before going to the theatre. Service excellent even though there was not a seat left in the restaurant - the lasagne was absolutely delicious- one downside the lettuce on the plate was so wet that it rendered the toast for my pate soggy - the staff extremely efficient - i dropped a spoon on the floor before i could pick it up a member of staff had already done so and replaced it !!! We will definitely be booking next time we are in Manchester.

Great food & service in a lively restaurant. Was the perfect pre-theatre meal. Efficient & friendly staff. Would recommend.

Fantastic service as always. Have been here several times and it never disappoints.. always a full restaurant. The staff are attentive, polite and efficient

Visited the restaurant after a long hiatus. We were quite disappointed in the standard of food. The house red wine was also very poor. We should have complained but the staff were very nice. Not up to the standard we expected.