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We visited Rossi's on a Sunday evening, and possibly because of this we had no problem booking a table. The food was excellent and well presented. The choice of wine was reasonable although the wine menu tended more to the dry than the sweet by way of white wines. For the quality of the wine, the wine menu was reasonably priced.

The staff were polite and attentive yet unobtrusive, just the way it should be in a quality restaurant. The food menu was extensive with a wide variety of choice for all courses.

Service was prompt, yet you did not feel as if you were being watched in order to finish you meal so plates could be cleared.

At the time we visited this restaurant, some of the dessert menu was not available, yet staff informed us of this prior to ordering so we were aware and able to choose accordingly.

The atmosphere in the restaurant was excellent, soft background music and lighting so you could still hear your conversation and see clearly whilst still allowing an intimate setting.

As a table of two, we were charged £71.65 for a starter drink, starters, main meal, bottle of wine from the wine menu, dessert and liqueurs. Based on the quality of service and food, we feel that this was an excellent price and had no hesitation at tipping more than 10% of the original bill.

We would recommend this restaurant to anyone who appreciates good Italian food that is well presented. We also feel that the service was one on one. Even though there several tables being served, we felt that the service was 'just for us'.

An outstanding restaurant where we plan to eat at many more times.

Thank you Rossi's for a wonderful evening out!

A friendly, relaxed family run restaurant serving consistently tasty food at reasonable prices.

We discovered this place a year ago and have been back many times since. The vegetarian choice is excellent and friends who have eaten here praise the offerings both for carnivores and vegans.

I eat and enjoy all kinds: try the beef stew with herbs, the salt and pepper tofu and the aubergine strips with carrot and chilli.

Oh, what a find! We went to this pleasant little restaurant with four friends last Saturday night and it was fantastic. You could tell that everything was fresh, it all tasted so lovely and the service was great - they couldn't do enough for us, but the staff weren't in anyway in your face.

It's been a long time since we have all been out and all really enjoyed ourselves so much. One of the things for me was that we didn't have that feeling of being hurried. When we booked, the chap on the phone asked us if anyone in our party was wheat free or gluten free. He explained that he wanted everyone who came into the restaurant to have a good time, he also told us that they only did one sitting so the table would be ours all night.

I read the last review on this restaurant before booking and thought I would make my own mind up, as someone else had recommended that we give it a try and how glad I am that we did. I can only say that the chap who wrote the last review must have gone to the wrong place, I asked the owner if he had read the review and he said yes it disappointed him because the chap who wrote that review ate everything, and when asked if everything was OK he replied "yes lovely, thank you" but then went and wrote such a cold review. Well I can tell you all out there this place is well worth trying. It's not too expensive, you can taste the freshness and everything that can be is made on site.

We went to El Paso after reading several good reviews and being recommended by our friends.

The food and service was brilliant and we all enjoyed it very much. We had the disco afterwards and we ended up staying there all night.

I got a free cocktail and they played happy birthday for me, which made my night.

There was also a hen party there. We shared the disco with them. Will be recommending El Paso and your website to my friends.

After reading the note from Ruth Bowyer about the Wortley Arms I feel I should respond on behalf of the average punter.

This has been my regular pub/restaurant for over a year, since renovation, on almost a fortnightly visit. Service is always excellent. Quality of food is great. I have never, not even once, had to return or complain about my food. The portions are big enough for me.

In all there are not many better places for a meal in South Yorkshire. The shoulder of lamb and the chicken, on Saturday (01/03/2008) night was to die for. Well done the Wortley Arms.

Do yourself a favour go see be your own judge, on my experience it will not disappoint.

This is the first time I have been to San Remo, and it has been fantastic. The staff were so friendly and welcoming. The chef was walking about all the time and I was left wondering who cooked my dinner? But after all it was a nice place I will go back there.

From the moment we entered the restaurant, myself and the rest of the party were made to feel uncomfortable by the obviously poorly trained staff. The restaurant felt cold, and the waitresses seemed disgruntled when we politely explained this, and asked to keep our coats on until we had warmed up.

The waitresses were so incredibly dour throughout the meal, and never once smiled, apart from actually laughing at my sister's pronunciation of a wine. This just seemed inept, and rather rude.

The food was actually very good, but because the service was so poor, it made for a very disappointing experience.

At one point, my dad asked for a spoon. The waitress begrudgingly went for one. I then watched her approach another waitress at the bar, close to where I was sitting. They discussed him asking for the spoon, and one of them turned to look at our table to shake her head, and roll her eyes. Just dreadful. I would never go back.

My wife and I visited Piccolino whilst staying at the nearby Mercure Hotel.

We hadn't booked but were told if we didn't mind having a drink at the bar, a table would become available in approx 45 minutes.

Once seated we ordered our food and some water for the meal, which took 15 minutes to arrive.

We added some bread to our order, however eventually after about a half hour's wait the starter for two arrived which was cold and duly returned.

After apologies from the waiter the second attempt at the starter arrived after a further 10 minutes with the bread arriving about half way through the starter (the excuse was that the bread was heated to order!).

When the main meals arrived, my wife's tuna was stone cold and inedible, which left us with no option but request to leave, it was pointless me eating separately to my wife.

Amazingly they still insisted we pay for our drinks and my food!

Although the head waiter apologised, saying it hadn't happened before (which I find hard to believe) there was no apology forthcoming from the manager.

Please don't visit here if you like warm food.

We visited Nonna's on Ecclesall Road on the Saturday evening, which was everything that Piccolino wasn't

Visited the Chinese buffet and found the food wonderful. The choice and range of food is good, tastes great and for £8.50 how can you go wrong? Chatty and friendly staff, the only down side are the drinks are slightly expensive, but still - no complaints and I will be returning soon

Yet another restaurant I had walked past several times and not spotted it, which considering its location is a bit surprising.

However, having found it I will definitely be going back.

The restaurant looks like it was an old bank, spacious, but not too big. A few Thai things around made a good presentation.

The food - well - as with a lot of Thai, it was beautifully presented and served. I had crispy fish in their own sweet and sour sauce with rice (100 on the menu). The fish came with a good amount of vegetables, beautifully cooked. The fish was crisp, lightly battered, and tasty. As the quantities were reasonable I tried a sweet as well, warmed bananas in coconut milk, very nice, but a little too much for me.

The service was attentive, but not overbearing - superb.

And to cap it all, a fairly reasonable price

I had noticed this place on my walk back from the Siam Inter Thai. It looked busy, you could see the grilling area and it smelt good. So in I went. Most of the customers appeared to be Turkish, but I was welcomed in.

But it is the food that is important - as usual I did not have a starter, but they delivered freshly-baked pitta with superb olives (free) - I could have made a meal out of these - they were superb. I had to restrain myself from stuffing all the bread and not having room for the main course

The main course - swordfish kebabs, with potatoes and salad - a nicely balanced meal, well presented and well cooked - lovely chunks of fish cooked to perfection, great chunks of barbecued pepper and onion. Superb fresh salad with a little dressing. Huge chunks of fresh lemon - glorious.

A cup of Turkish tea to finish to refresh.

Overall an excellent meal, friendly staff. I will definitely be going back.

I'm just recovering from a spectacularly bad experience at this place which, prior to its refurbishment in November was a convenient, good value occasional Sunday evening venue for me. Never again, and others who are yet to return since it changed management should beware.

Alarm bells started ringing immediately during my 5-minute wait to be served a drink at the bar (despite the fact that there was only one person in front of me). I was deciding which of the two guest beers to try, both of which were advertised on several blackboards and had their insignia facing out into the bar. I needn't have bothered, when my turn finally came I was told that neither were available. (Erm, well rub them off the blackboard then and turn the logos round - too difficult?).

I was told that food was only being served until 8PM, despite 9:30PM being advertised in the menus. I mention this only to indicate that the incompetent person behind the bar who imparted this information clearly knew we were intending to order food. I was slightly annoyed then to return to place our order 5 minutes later to be told immediately (i.e. no checking with the kitchen was necessary) that neither of our chosen starters were available - (why not tell me what's not available before I look at the menu?).

We gave up on starters and just ordered mains along with 2 glasses of white wine, from 2 different bottles both of which were standing in a container which presumably had once contained ice but judging by the temperature of the wine, probably a lot earlier in the day.

As I returned to the table with ice cubes clinking against the glasses I thought about giving it up as a bad job there and then. I wish I had.

The mains were dreadful and my portion wouldn't have satisfied a 5 year old - we overheard a waitress tell other diners that the reason they were closing early was that they'd run out of food! Yes, it looked like it.

The chips that accompanied the meal would have made McDonalds blush - luke warm oven chips despite appearing on the menu as "seasoned" chips - they were seasoned alright but only in terms of having been around for a long time.

The peas were worse, clearly having been cooked ages ago and similarly, they were luke warm.

Whilst we were wrestling with the dreadful mains some people on a nearby table tried to order desserts from the blackboard that had been left with them 5 minutes earlier, only to be told at that stage, i.e. after they'd chosen, that three of those advertised were unavailable.

We felt for the poor waitress who came round halfway through this disaster and asked whether we were enjoying our meals. She was most apologetic and said that they'd had a lot of complaints that day! No wonder!

On last night's evidence, there is no manager and no chef at this place and I will never go back. Be warned everyone!

After booking in on Friday (15/02/2008) I can really say nothing except "don't go!"

The food is very over-priced at £15 for a meat/fish main and £10 for a veggie option, especially when you consider this is the pub side and not the restaurant (Montagu's).

I ordered seabass on a fennel confit with tomatoes. I did enquire about the tomatoes, as I do not like cooked cherry tomatoes. All credit to the waitress, who went and checked with the chef, "Oh no" she said on return "they're plum, is that ok?" "Great" I replied, no problem at all! The portion was tiny, the fish was barely 2 inches by 6 or 5cm x 15cm and the fennel 'confit' was very tough, old fennel strips that I wouldn't serve to a rabbit! Oh, and my 'plum' tomatoes were escapees from breakfast, half grilled halves of regular, salad type tomatoes.

All in all not worth the money, or the time and effort to get to what was once a really good foody pub, a real pity.

We went to the Ivory as we were visiting from out of town, Birmingham in fact, and wanted a nice place to take my partner for her birthday. The reason I write this is because this place deserve praise on all levels being food, service and atmosphere.

We were welcomed by an American chap who was a bit forward but that was OK. We had drinks in the bar before going through to our table, which was candle-lit and was perfect, in fact and just what I had in mind.

We were told about the local sourcing and a bit about the care that goes into the meat and we were sold very well, so I opted for the award wining lamb.

The food didn't come very quickly, as we didn't have starters, but when it came it was well worth it. The lamb I had was superb and I would say it was the best lamb I've ever had. I tried some of my partner's steak, which was medium, and again it was very juicy and correctly seasoned.

We then shared a chocolate fondu for two with fresh fruit, which was also good. The place is really good and we will be returning if we ever come back to Sheffield.

Highly recommend the Ivory to anyone for food but the service is also of a very high standard.

Having eaten in some of the finer restaurants in Sheffield, I had high expectations for the Walnut Club.

We visited on February 13th for my girlfriend 's birthday, which I booked weeks in advance. When I made the booking I requested champagne on arrival, which they said would be no problem.

When we arrived the waiter told us that the champagne would be at the table straight away. Twenty minutes later the champagne arrived, but still no menus or sign of any service. It was a further 10 minutes when the waitress arrived with the menus.

We ordered 2 cocktails along with the food. Main course of chicken with Bernaise sauce. My girlfriend ordered salmon fishcakes with hand cut chips. We also ordered a side order of fresh bread and butter.

The drinks and food arrived in good time but the chicken did not have Bernaise sauce and the fishcakes had what appeared to be frozen French fries on the side. The bread never arrived and at no point throughout the meal did we receive any after-service to make sure everything was OK.

The price of the food was good, at £10 for each main course, but the menu was very unadventurous with only a small choice of dishes to choose from.

Being a Wednesday night I feel they were understaffed, hence the slow service, which also required much better training.

The bill arrived, unsurprisingly with 2 lots of bread charged to us. They corrected the charge and I paid.

The appearance of the place is cosmopolitan, clean and fresh, with lovely chandeliers under the bar area.

I would probably go back to the walnut club for drinks, but I'm afraid I will not be dining there again.

My husband and I booked a table at the Mediterranean for Saturday lunch. When we arrived we received a warm welcome. There were several other diners present already and rather than being shown to a particular table, we were invited to choose where we would like to sit.

We ordered a bottle of house wine, a deliciously zingy, perfectly chilled white. We were then presented with the tapas menu. It took us quite a lot of deliberation before we could decide what to order from the array of mouthwatering options. We opted for monkfish skewers, pan-fried sardines, whitebait, Spanish fish stew and Spanish tomato bread. The portions were generous for tapas and we could not agree on which dish was the best, as they were all delicious.

Dining out once weekly with a close friend for sometime now has left us with the problem (if you can call it that!) of finding new and interesting places to eat. This Monday just gone, I searched this website and others and thought Id give the 'Ivory' a go.

I didn't tell my friend where we were going and was anxious that he'd approve of the choice. I needn't have worried. As we walked into the Ivory we were immediately impressed. The bar area where one enters was warm, inviting and for risk of sounding pretentious had a somewhat upmarket feel.

We were led to a separate dining area, which was even more inviting. The decor and lighting was just right and we were instantly relaxed and eager to get see if the food was as good as the surroundings. As I always find it hard to choose, as I like most things, I was pleased at the relatively small menu, all of which was different and appealing.

I had the Yorkshire sausage (locally sourced) with caramelised onion for a starter, which was delicious. The flavours went together well and it wasn't as heavy as it could have been. My friend had the Caesar salad which looked very nice, but I'll have to take his word for it as he enjoyed it so much I was granted only a small mouthful!

Ditto with the main course. The salmon he chose looked (and I'm told) was 'very, very nice'. My main was recommended by the pleasant and friendly waitress. Fig, brie and I think toasted pecan nut tartlets covered with rocket and pesto.

Cooked to perfection, crisp pastry and sweet figs with the right amount of melted brie. Again, not over-facing but just enough.

Thank god it left room for the fruit, chocolate fondue to finish. Melted chocolate...grapes...strawberries...need I say more! All courses were accompanied by the very pleasant sounds of a live pianist drifting up from the bar area.

I can't recommend Ivory enough, The food, decor and service were excellent. The manager was warm, very hospitable, genuinely interested in our opinion of the food and strove to ensure we enjoyed our evening.

I was pleased (and secretly smug!) that I choose Ivory and will definitely be going again.

My boyfriend and I ate at Vito's on our anniversary recently, and both really enjoyed it. A booking mix up (it had been recorded in the wrong day) was quickly and discreetly sorted out, with us receiving free drinks as recompense: despite being able to take our seats only a minute or so later once a table had been set!

The service was friendly and polite, and the restaurant had a nice, relaxed atmosphere. Our food was delicious, however I regretted having fondue for a starter then the gnocchi as I couldn't manage the entire meal!

The choice of specials and dishes on the regular menu was wide-ranging, even for a veggie like me. Very nice not to be limited to a veggie pizza/overly cheesy pasta dish.

The only downside was a lack of pubs nearby for us to have a post-meal drink!

It was our first visit to El Paso, and we were very impressed.

When we visit restaurants we play a game where we rate out of ten several parts of the "experience".

A. Service:- this has to be 10 out of 10 the staff were very helpful and attentive without being overpowering. We were even offered a free tequila at the end of the meal.

B. Quality:- this has to be 9.5 out of ten. Lisa had the cheesy garlic bread starter and I the hotshots, both were excellent and very generous portions.

The mains were sirlion naturale for the wife and beef burritos for me. These were both superb and cannot be faulted in any way. The portion size is unbelievable and left us both completely stuffed with no room for even a sniff of a dessert.

C. Value:- again 10 out of 10 with a total bill of £35 including drinks, this left us both gob smacked.

We left the restaurant discussing when to return and that is always a good sign.

We can honestly say we have only one criticism, the cutlery could be of a better shape! They kept spinning around in our hands while using them. We will definitely be returning and recommending El Paso to our friends. A fantastic dining experience not to be missed!

From arriving I was a bit unsure about the decor, however I was greeted warmly and the place had a great atmosphere and an impressive drinks list.

Food was exceptional, presentation was immaculate, however the service was a little slow and not very attentive.

Overall would recommend it to anyone who is interested in proper food. Great local restaurant!