Pesto at the Yacht Reviews Summary

Menu Variety

Pros:

• "Excellent tapas-style Italian restaurant, with plenty of choices for meat eaters and vegetarians alike."
• "Extensive menu with good gluten-free options, small plates allow the opportunity to try several dishes."
• "Really good food all taste buds used and every individual taste thought of."
• "One of the best restaurants I tried in the UK. Love the concept: having smaller dishes but of more choices and variety."
• "Food tastes great both times me and my partner have been, came out swiftly."
• "Huge selection of tapas (made easy if you like your seafood) on a varied menu that's been thoughtfully considered."
• "The Italian food menu choice was incredible. Smaller than usual portion sizes, so that you could pick several dishes."
• "I love the choice on the menu, a lot of options. The food is so good, easy to finish all of it."

Cons:

• "Could decide what to have menu too big, very hard to find a meal with meat, chicken."
• "The food here was lovely, a massive selection and all really tasty. If anything, there may have been a bit much to choose from."
• "When it was time to order, being a large party does not help as being an authentic Italian, everything has the correct names and makes it hard to collate what everyone is having."
• "I wasn't sure what to expect from Pesto, but from the website, they claim 'Great Italian Food' was their forte, which sounded good to me. The restaurant itself is clearly and old pub which had been decorated to the pesto style but this left it as feeling slightly off in its design and atmosphere."
• "The menu is given and it is at first a little overwhelming due to the amount of dishes available, but we were a table of 7 so we're able to choose a good selection of the dishes."

Service Quality

Pros:

• "Staff were amazing, very knowledgeable and helpful, food was just fantastic, very tasty, quick to arrive and filling."
• "Matt, we would personally like to thank for your impeccable service! What a fantastic front of house, waiter and bartender! We admired your knowledge, attention, energy and the amazing food as well."
• "I had a lovely experience here today. And had the most helpful waitress called Pip. She explained the menu, suggested how many dishes to order and also translated the dishes for us too."
• "Excellent return for us as we think the food and service is fantastic. Shame the fires were not on after the amount of rain we had had....but still, food was fantastic."
• "Excellent food - agree with other views that three courses too much. I expected the portions you have on a Spanish tapas but they were much bigger. Great wine list also. The outside area is beautifully done with plants both front and back."
• "Food is gorgeous. We had the 3 dish tapas 9.99 each. ( both had meatball brushieta, then we ordered lasagne, spaghetti bolognese, very hot chicken wings plus a 6 inch pepperoni piza) plus beautiful olive selection and extra cheese garlic bread. Peroni and chardonnay finished with strawberry and cream and double chocolate icecream. Waitress was brilliant. (Izzy) Restaurant beautiful Plenty of food. £40"
• "Our second visit to Pesto in a matter of days. The restaurant was very busy but we enjoyed excellent service from Mark, our waiter - he is a credit to the company. The food was excellent too."
• "What an amazing experience we had here! The food was incredible & the service impeccable! We loved Nick, Liv, Tommy & Emma - their customer service skills went above & beyond! Each of them a credit to the company - pay rise for all. Thank you so much guys for being simply awesome :-)"

Cons:

• "Only 4 stars as service was a bit slow. This was mainly because it was unusually busy for a Tuesday night though."
• "Food tastes great both times me and my partner have been, came out swiftly, sadly lost one star because more than one plate was barely lukewarm but staff were quick to get us a replacement, sadly this also happened the second time we came."
• "However whenever I come the doughballs are always a bit off, this is alright because I was given a refund. I recommend everything else but the dough balls."
• "Firstly, even though we had a booking at a certain time, we had to wait a short while before the staff could find us a table free. The service was pleasant and friendly but took a while before we were attended to. When drinks were ordered, the meal arrived and still no drinks 20 mins later."
• "Food was tasty, however the food did not all come out at the same time and there was a considerable wait even though the place wasn't that busy. Service was very slow, one of the managers was not very approachable."
• "Sadly disappointed with our visit today solely due to the very poor customer service."
• "Good was very nice.. Staff really attentive.. We all ordered different meals 3 choices each. All very tasty.. Will definitely go back. friends have been too and loved it. Bit noisy is the only issue. food delicious."
• "Having traveled from north wales, me and my wife thoroughly enjoyed my New Year’s Eve meal at Pesto at the Yacht! Although it seemed a little understaffed in terms of waiting staff; the two we had were simply fantastic!"