Food & Drink
Bella Italia! 30 great places to eat Italian Norfolk Umberto's Trattoria Italia
Popular restaurant serving typical family cooking from Calabria, along with a range of pizzas and pasta. Norwich 01603 615581 umbertostrattoriaitaliapizzeria -norwich.co.uk Essex The Corner Lounge
Authentic Italian ingredients are sourced from Italy to create a menu of traditional and modern Italian dishes. In the afternoons, a recent innovation is the mixed tapas with an Italian twist, as a savoury alternative to the Italian coffee and traditional cakes, which are either made on the premises or sent directly from Italy. Chelmsford 01245 404880 onthesquarerestaurant.co.uk Herts Terranova
This lakeside restaurant serves fine Italian food and wine, with a broad selection of meat and fish dishes on the menu. Welwyn Garden City 01707 333223 terranovarestaurants.com Essex La Piazza
Lively restaurant that prides itself on its service. Typical Italian pizza, pasta, meat
Essex La Toscana
Beds Donatello's
Founded by Mamma Antonia in 1981, you can enjoy traditional and contemporary Italian style food served in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere at both restaurants. The Ampthill restaurant has a lovely alfresco dining area. Ampthill 01525 4046666; Dunstable 01582 475797 donatellos.org
Antonio and Suzanne Viscariello founded La Toscana in 2001 and have just completed a full interior refurbishment. Contemporary in taste, but traditionally Italian, every dish is cooked to order. Billericay. 01277 630120 latoscanabillericay.co.uk Norfolk Trattoria Rustica
With murals and traditional rustic Italian décor, housed in an historic Norfolk building this trattoria, over an 11th century crypt, serves typical Italian dishes with a choice of wines and champagnes from the cellar. Norwich 01603 621043 trattoriarustica.com
formally of Caprice, the Ivy and Hix, sources local and seasonal fresh produce to create exquisite dishes bursting with Italian flavours. Cambridge 01223 56666 delucacucina.co.uk Cambs La Mimosa
Overlooking the Cam, La Mimosa is a great place to eat al fresco, the fresh pasta dishes are particularly good and, with a fine bar, there's plenty to choose from on the wine list. Cambridge 01223 362525 lamimosa.co.uk Beds Adesso
Family run restaurant that produces authentic recipes. Ingredients are sourced from first class suppliers; Suffolk Cleone's even the flour they use Set in the 16th century comes from Italy. Dunstable building of The Angel Hotel 01582 476700 Cleone’s is an established adessodunstable.co.uk restaurant that offers a number of vegetarian Beds Amici options alongside a variety This small, intimate Beds The Chequers at of meat, fish, risotto, pasta, traditional restaurant serves Millbrook salads and pizza dishes. freshly cooked dishes to Italian family-run Halesworth 01986 873365 order using the finest pub-restaurant, offering cleones.co.uk ingredients. Open at authentic home cooked lunchtimes and evenings. food served in rustic Cambs De Luca Cucina Bedford 01234 340734 surroundings. Millbrook A modern Italian restaurant amici-restaurant.co.uk 01525 403835 in the heart of the city. thechequersmillbrook.co.uk Head Chef Darren Keigher, Cambs Bellanapoli Lively, family run café Beds Fratelli serving fresh, made to order An elegant and contemporary restaurant that food, using a mixture of explores the food of regional Italy. The menu authentic homemade Italian offers a vast and varied choice of freshly recipes alongside the more prepared dishes in a modern style using only traditional baguettes and the best ingredients imported directly from sandwiches. Cambridge Italy. Excellent service and great ambiance. 01223 305444 Ampthill 01525 405551 fratelli-italian.co.uk bellanapolicafe.co.uk and fresh fish dishes with ingredients sourced from Smithfield, Billingsgate and Covent Garden. Small terrace for eating al fresco in the summer. Braintree. 01376 342593 piazzarestaurant.co.uk
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