Sorrento Restaurant ... a taste of Italy in Stratford-on-Avon

Absolutely stunning. Food, service, staff couldn't be more perfect. The best Italian restaurant anywhere

I discovered this restaurant just before their “winter holiday” and I have been counting down the days until they reopened. I love everything about this place, the food is heavenly, the staff are polite and it feels like truly authentic. I came back opening night for their seafood linguini and I will be returning very very soon!

Beautiful, intimate Italian restaurant. Nice choice of menu items and a fantastic wine selection. Staff were extremely attentive, polite and professional. Lovely restaurant.

We had the most fabulous lunch here this week. The setting is chic and has a subtle upmarket feel about it but not at all stuffy. The service was delivered smoothly and with lots of smiles and heart. As for the food, my goodness - absolutely delicious. Highly recommend - you won’t regret it.

I would have awarded zero stars but minimum is one.How incredibly disappointing! My wife booked this for a "big" birthday only to discover I couldn't have my steak cooked to my taste (well done!). Yes there is mention of this on the website but NEVER in many trips to Europe, USA, Australia etc etc, have we ever been greeted by "sorry chef won't cook it like that". What an utterly arrogant restaurant. We decided to stay and ordered scallops to start - COLD in the centre! I ordered a beef (in random sauce special for main) and my wife ordered the fillet steak....... it arrived, ironically cooked as how I'd asked!!! To summarise, the chef has a real issue with cooking steak. To add to a disastrous experience, 2 fellow diners left the restaurant for a cigarette and left the door open. My wife closed the door, to be greeted by the waitress with "we leave the door open for the smokers". We were freezing, they were able to open the door from the outside???????? A handsome sum of money paid for average wine, cold scallops and what can only be described as a "tombola" of steak dishes. In a local pub now with a bag of crisps!!!!

Very DisappointingWe were really looking forward to visiting Sorrento again following initial lockdown.Chosen from menu on line , to find when we arrived, the menu was not the same !I then chose Bruschetta, covered in tomatoes, which were very nice but no other taste.I then chose Hake which came with new potatoes, I asked if I could change the new potatoes for DauphinoiseI was told by the waitress, no as that is how it comes. In my mind that means the meal is already prepared?But surely any decent Chef , who is supposedly cooking fresh could of facilitated my request.However, it came as described and had no taste at all.Thw waitress did ask if our meals were alright, I replied , it’s ok.Left the majority of it. Then still feeling hungry , we ordered Tiramisu, no better than Sainsburys.Following this we went to pay, £95 in total, when asked if we wanted to leave a gratuity, I said no. At that point I said the meal was not as good as it used to be and was disappointing, the receptionist, then became argumentative and intimidating, saying, I’d told the waitress fine, she’d checked my plate and I’d eaten it!At this point we were surrounded by a male kitchen worker and a waitress who all appeared to want an argument and intimidate me further. We paid and went to the door, the woman, receptionist, followed us to the door, commenting and attempting to be antagonistic.Unfortunately her attempts did not work on me.As you can probably tell we will not be returning and will not be recommending.

My food was fine on 08.12.21, I had minestrone soup followed by tagliatelle which was fine. My wife had bruschetta which was fine, after that things were not so good. My wife wanted the Hake but without new potatoes and dauphinoise instead, she was advised that that the Hake came only with new potatoes; which seemed a little odd. Could the chef not cook fish without new potatoes? The waitress asked if everything was good, my wife said it was ok. When we went to pay my wife told the lady on the desk she was not happy with her meal after we were asked if we would like to leave a gratuity; which weas declined, she then became very defensive and somewhat aggressive because of the complaint about the food by my wife. Our tip would be have a chef who knows how to cook items separately and not pre cook items then warm them up later. A male member of staff became involved, it seems that everyone inspected our plates when we completed our courses and then they ganged up on my wife, the most annoying was the male member of staff, he was quite happy to have a strong disagreement with a pensioner aged female customer, which was very masculine indeed. My wife was then followed to the front door by the lady on the desk who was at minimum over assertive and borderline abusive and not setting a good example of the restaurant. Fortunately I have recorded it all on video and audio it will be going on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.

First visit. Fantastic restaurant with great food and wonderful service. Highly recommend. Hopefully we can return. Thank you Sorrento it was a special evening.

Excellent food ,chianti and service and a lovely garden to sit in on a summers evening.

The staff and helpful and knowledgeable but best of all the food is amazing.My husband called to make our reservation and briefly mentioned it was our anniversary and we wanted lobster. When we arrived the staff wished us a happy anniversary and the chef had made sure he kept 2 lobsters for us.Excellent service.