Pesto at the Axe & Compass Reviews Summary

Category: Italian restaurant

Address: Five Ways, Wolvey, Hinckley LE10 3HG, United Kingdom

Phone: +441455220240

Rating: 4.6
based on 321 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "The service is fantastic, attentive and caring."
  • "The service was also brilliant! Very polite and friendly staff."
  • "The staff are incredible they all go above and beyond for their customers."
  • "Staff were especially good. Smiley, friendly and helpful."
  • "Waiting staff are fab, polite, attentive and informative."
  • "The service staff were all friendly and attentive."
  • "Service was extremely efficient and such a wide range to choose from."

Cons:

  • "From being seated to having our order taken, approximately 40 minutes."
  • "Sometimes because it's so busy the service isn't the best it could be and sometimes one or two dishes take a while to come after the majority have been brought over."
  • "Coming to take orders was a little slow, but they were busy."
  • "20 minutes passed and no staff came to actually take our order despite trying to wave them and catch the eyes of staff walking by."
  • "The service was exceptionally slow even though it wasn't that busy."
  • "Very, very poor service this evening and I'm not sure why as the restaurant didn't appear busy."
  • "Service was awful, fairly busy but only 2 people serving, which had no life or smile on their faces."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "Atmosphere - classy, calm and serene. No loud music, just classical music."
  • "Nice decor and atmosphere serving Italian tapas."
  • "The place is decorated really nicely with a great atmosphere."
  • "It's a lovely place! it's a Pesto in the pub. And it's exactly that... it's a casual dining experience, but with great food, good staff, fair prices and pleasant atmosphere."
  • "Pesto has a lovely atmosphere and feels very cosy!"
  • "The atmosphere of the restaurant is great."
  • "Atmosphere was warm and inviting so will definitely recommend this place to anyone who enjoys flavour some Italian cuisine."

Cons:

  • "The place is always heaving, which is good...but its always a very loud place."
  • "Atmosphere couldn't really be classed as intimate due to number of tables (contributing to noise)."
  • "The accoustics are not ideal in the larger room, it was full and very noisy, hard to have a conversation."
  • "The restaurant was absurdly loud, beyond what you’d expect for a busy restaurant on a Friday evening, with lots of screeching from the clientele."
  • "Restaurant space itself isn't very well thought out, so the noise from punters is amplified and it makes it a very noisy environment."
  • "It's a very noisy place, hard to hear the waitress or even each other at times."
  • "It was just very noisy."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Everything we had was really tasty with quality ingredients and felt pretty authentic."
  • "All dishes were cooked to perfection, reasonably priced and desserts were amazing too."
  • "The food was superb, beautifully presented by a very pleasant young lady."
  • "The food was incredible and traditionally Italian."
  • "Food was perfect."
  • "Delicious food served by friendly and helpful staff."
  • "Absolutely delicious food."

Cons:

  • "The turkey meatballs were tasteless."
  • "Some dishes were a little bland and my calamari was a bit chewy."
  • "Cocktail drinks were some of the worst I've ever tasted."
  • "Tiramisu was nice but a little small and the sponges were not well soaked/weaker in coffee flavour."
  • "The food wasn't really good. Chicken skewers were very dry, spaghetti bolonege, the pasta tasted as it was cooked ours ago and was very dry."
  • "Under average food, recently returned from my eighth trip from Italy and was looking forward to tasting home cooked Italian food again. Disappointed."
  • "The food was average at best. Very salty and generally very little flavour other than that."

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