Prezzo - Canterbury

Quick service, nice food, friendly staff. We chose to go here as I had received a code for a free bottle of Prosecco, great marketing as we then had three, three course meals! Easy to order, food was hot and the Prosecco was nicely chilled. It was very busy when we arrived at 6pm then quietened down and was just filling up again when we left about 8pm.

The service was exceptional. Our waiter was so professional and efficient and he really made us feel that he put our needs first at all times. All the staff were great, the food was delicious and we were able to finish easily in time for the theatre.

I had the crab chilli spaghetti. A very small amount of watery tinned crab thrown onto some uninspiring pasta, a few chopped chillis and a sack of rocket . My wife had the risotto which was either drowning or trying to swim and looked and tasted nothing like risotto should. I don't mind paying upwards of 17 pounds for a small plate of spaghetti if its good! This isn't.

Literally the worst meal of my life…. Ordered Chicken, Bacon and Avocado salad as I always have this and it is usually delicious. When it came out, as the waitress put it in front of me, I could smell an unpleasant smell. I began eating and was utterly horrified when I picked up a piece of chicken and the smell, oh dear god, absolutely horrendous. I called over the waitress and said that the chicken in my salad was ‘off’. She immediately took our salads away, leaving my daughter hers (pizza) which she’d then eaten by the time we got our replacement meals. I had ordered the Focaccia with roasted veg and hummus. It was absolutely freezing, like every single thing in it had just been removed from the fridge, bread was soggy and there was what I thought was water on the plate. There was literally a handful of rocket, two sunblush tomatoes and a small piece of aubergine. The meal was incredibly poor and we will not be returning. The only gratuity we received was not paying for the two salads with rancid chicken, which the restaurant did not seemed at all bothered about. Terrible.

Nice pasta and pizza dishes, with a good choice of wine. The waitress was attentive. A good option for date night or family dinners, albeit a bit on the pricey side.