Jamie's Italian...

[anonymous-user]

Eaten in the Leeds and Harrogate ones and found them fine. Not particularly pricey and not too 'chainy'.

Same goes for Carluccios.

[WCZ]

went once to the one in Manchester and it was awful, everyone else I know who went said the same.

[FredAstaire]

Davey S2 said:

We go to the Cardiff one fairly regularly (including lunch yesterday) and it seems to fluctuate to being ok to a bit 'meh'.

My wife has a loyalty card which gets you a freebie taster every visit with some other offer (10% off yesterday) You also get a free bottle of Prosecco on your birthday.

Still a little on the pricey side for what you get though.

The ones that have closed are all in the wrong locations s I understand.

if the best it gets is OK why bother? And regularly at that!

[jules_s]

FredAstaire said:

Davey S2 said:

We go to the Cardiff one fairly regularly (including lunch yesterday) and it seems to fluctuate to being ok to a bit 'meh'.

My wife has a loyalty card which gets you a freebie taster every visit with some other offer (10% off yesterday) You also get a free bottle of Prosecco on your birthday.

Still a little on the pricey side for what you get though.

The ones that have closed are all in the wrong locations s I understand.

if the best it gets is OK why bother? And regularly at that!

[Eversleigh]

Sorry if I'm repeating the above, however awful food (eaten there a few times in order to give it a fair chance), service mediocre and prices high. Would steer clear.

[egor110]

jules_s said:

FredAstaire said:

Davey S2 said:

We go to the Cardiff one fairly regularly (including lunch yesterday) and it seems to fluctuate to being ok to a bit 'meh'.

My wife has a loyalty card which gets you a freebie taster every visit with some other offer (10% off yesterday) You also get a free bottle of Prosecco on your birthday.

Still a little on the pricey side for what you get though.

The ones that have closed are all in the wrong locations s I understand.

if the best it gets is OK why bother? And regularly at that!

I'd rather go somewhere nice and pay for the bottle of prosecco .

If there giving away free stuff then there scrimping somewhere else to make up the difference.

[okgo]

People actually pay for Prosecco? Christ

[Hughesie]

okgo said:

People actually pay for Prosecco? Christ

Have you tried a decent Prosecco, not the ste stuff they sell over here but decent Brut/Extra Dry Prosecco.

[Evanivitch]

egor110 said:

jules_s said:

FredAstaire said:

Davey S2 said:

We go to the Cardiff one fairly regularly (including lunch yesterday) and it seems to fluctuate to being ok to a bit 'meh'.

My wife has a loyalty card which gets you a freebie taster every visit with some other offer (10% off yesterday) You also get a free bottle of Prosecco on your birthday.

Still a little on the pricey side for what you get though.

The ones that have closed are all in the wrong locations s I understand.

if the best it gets is OK why bother? And regularly at that!

I'd rather go somewhere nice and pay for the bottle of prosecco .

If there giving away free stuff then there scrimping somewhere else to make up the difference.

So many good Italian restaurants in Cardiff to waste time in Jamie's.

[Cardiff_Exile]

I won't miss the one in Cheltenham, for the money very mediocre - The building though is wonderful being and old court house so I hope it gets taken over by a good indie.

[egor110]

Evanivitch said:

egor110 said:

jules_s said:

FredAstaire said:

Davey S2 said:

We go to the Cardiff one fairly regularly (including lunch yesterday) and it seems to fluctuate to being ok to a bit 'meh'.

My wife has a loyalty card which gets you a freebie taster every visit with some other offer (10% off yesterday) You also get a free bottle of Prosecco on your birthday.

Still a little on the pricey side for what you get though.

The ones that have closed are all in the wrong locations s I understand.

if the best it gets is OK why bother? And regularly at that!

I'd rather go somewhere nice and pay for the bottle of prosecco .

If there giving away free stuff then there scrimping somewhere else to make up the difference.

So many good Italian restaurants in Cardiff to waste time in Jamie's.

cafe citta

[FredAstaire]

jules_s said:

i guess some people are easily pleased.

[MarshPhantom]

Does anyone still care about Italian food, it is all a bit 1970s.

[Frybywire]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/06/jam...

[227bhp]

MarshPhantom said:

Does anyone still care about Italian food, it is all a bit 1970s.

Not sure if serious.

[okgo]

Hughesie said:

Have you tried a decent Prosecco, not the ste stuff they sell over here but decent Brut/Extra Dry Prosecco.

Yes. Its not bad, but we know 99% of it is not that served in places such as the above. And certainly being given a free bottle worth approx £7 is no reason to go to an average eatery on your birthday.

[talksthetorque]

227bhp said:

MarshPhantom said:

Does anyone still care about Italian food, it is all a bit 1970s.

Not sure if serious.

I thought it went

50s - Anything that wasn't rationed any more.
60s - Italian
70s - Chinese
80s - Indian
90s - Thai
00s - Sushi
10s - Aldi

[Davey S2]

Evanivitch said:

egor110 said:

jules_s said:

FredAstaire said:

Davey S2 said:

We go to the Cardiff one fairly regularly (including lunch yesterday) and it seems to fluctuate to being ok to a bit 'meh'.

My wife has a loyalty card which gets you a freebie taster every visit with some other offer (10% off yesterday) You also get a free bottle of Prosecco on your birthday.

Still a little on the pricey side for what you get though.

The ones that have closed are all in the wrong locations s I understand.

if the best it gets is OK why bother? And regularly at that!

I'd rather go somewhere nice and pay for the bottle of prosecco .

If there giving away free stuff then there scrimping somewhere else to make up the difference.

So many good Italian restaurants in Cardiff to waste time in Jamie's.

The wife quite likes it and its easy with a pram and our 2.5 year old.

'Fairly regularly' probably means once every few months at most.

We just go there for a quick bowl of pasta while shopping, nothing special.

[Granfondo]

Better be quick before there all closed.

[jules_s]

FredAstaire said:

jules_s said:

i guess some people are easily pleased.

Not me