Reviews in Manchester

Fantastic food and service, warm welcoming environment, nothing too much trouble. We loved it so much we all decided we need to keep going back until we have tried everything on the menu. Looking forward to next visit already.

Excellent food, lovely atmosphere, attentive and friendly staff.

Excellent service and very good food and it was hot.

Although very busy the service was excellent. Have visited many times, the food is always very good and I have never been disappointed. I can certainly recommend the prawn cocktail starter and mafiosa pizza.

Excellent food with friendly and attentive staff.

The food was excellent, with a good choice for vegetarians and was very reasonably priced

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.

Visiting Bolton and called in Cafe Italia for a breakfast. Fantastic food, staff and surroundings. Agree with other comments it can seem noisy when you first arrive but you forget when you get talking within your party.

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*

Fabulous food, great atmosphere.

Yesterday was my first visit to your restaurant , although my two guests has been before . The ambience of the place was goods , I enjoyed it . The service was warm , friendly and efficient . My two guests enjoyed their choices from the menu. I was less pleased . I went for tradition fish , chips and mushy peas. This fish was ok , but the external batter was poor though . The chips were particularly disappointing ! I think they had been warmed up from yesterdays left overs !!! They certainly were not freshly cooked . When it came to paying the bill , I presented my debit card. Once in the machine the first thing that appears is a request to give you a tip !! PLEASE , can you and other restaurateurs stop trying to embarrass people into leaving a tip . People will leave a tip if the like what they have received. Just for the record , my son did leave you a generous tip.

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.

A group of 5 of us had what is turning out to be our annual Christmas gathering at the GC yesterday - we had originally wanted to be in their lovely basement but the manager had reserved a table for us upstairs when a party booked it. The atmosphere was great upstairs, and the staff really made an effort to serve us promptly and check back regularly to see if we needed more drinks or anything was missing. The Negronis we ordered had to be made with Aperol rather than Campari as the manager said they had run out, but they tasted pretty darn good anyhow. The house wine is excellent and really well priced. Finally, I ordered the vegan stroganoff, which was full of delicious wholegrain rice, chunky veg and gerkins, beautifully spiced and served spilling out of a 'plant pot' wrap. Basically the best stroganoff I had ever eaten. The meat eaters all had a huge pile of brown and white meat with all the trimmings for their Turkey dinner, so they were pretty happy too. The chef definitely knows what he's doing! Thanks to the whole team - we will certainly be back next year :)

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

Great location, brilliant staff and service; food incredible, and very generous portions!