Bistro Italiano

Good night with friends, all four enjoyed the food, too full for desserts. Will be going again. Excellent service from the staff.

Enjoyed food and visit, celebrating daughter's birthday. We would recommend

Went for Sunday lunch and quality of food and service excellent

A lovely Italian restaurant with great food and service. A little gem in the middle of Durham.

Food was excellent, very reasonably priced. Shame the side’s didn’t arrive the same time as the mains.

Went for a meal with my Mum and Sister as part of my 60th celebration. It was absolutely gorgeous, we could not fault it at all. The service, presentation and food were all first class and amazing value for money. We will definitely be going back, and can't recommend it highly enough

Food and service was superb. My fillet steak was beautifully cooked

The service, food and ambiance of this restaurant as always was excellent. What a brilliant place for a meal out. 👍

Staff Good, Food Good, wine good, service good Atmos good , music good.

A great intimate place with friendly staff and outstanding food. We've been visiting since 1995 and are never disappointed.

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit. Delicious food and excellent service.

It was fantastic, been here a number of times and the food never fails, It’s always consistently lovely. I will be back.

Another great visit, to what is becoming my favourite Italian restaurant. Wonderful starter of Fungi Trifolata and the bread is simply fabulous. Thank you.

An enjoyable experience, good food and good atmosphere. Would go again

Great food as ever, only thing that took edge off was service, new staff, but we could tell they were learner. Still very polite.

Little Italy, fabulous food, fantastic service, authentic ambiance, reasonably priced

Fab meal. Just right., delicious food, excellent wine, good friendly service.

Excellent food, service and atmosphere. Menu had very good choice and a very good variety of wines.

Second time here. Can’t fault it. Food delicious and service with s smile.

Excellent food, excellent service - can only rate on my experience - so I would recommend you try it - my experience was exceptional 😁

Everything 5* especially the service. I would Highly recommend to anyone

A really happy experience and would highly recommend a visit

Nice place. Food good and well priced although a little out of town.

Very enjoyable meal to celebrate our daughter’s Graduation at Durham. Will definitely come again.

Busy graduation week but made to feel welcome and nothing too much trouble. They even adapted a dish on the specials board to suit me. This is a delightful, authentic Italian restaurant.

Food excellent, certainly above most Italian restaurants @@ @@ @@

We had a great evening- great staff, great food. Will certainly come back!!

Don't be put off by the rather neglected looking frontage. The food and service are fabulous as is the cost

First time visit & won't be our last. Cannot believe we haven't visited before. Food excellent,waiters attentive & atmosphere small & cosy. I would go as far as saying this is now our favourite Italian outside of Italy.

Great service amazing food nice and intimate would highly recommend

Excellent friendly service. Food was very good and well presented with a wide choice and prices to suit everyone. Interesting range of specials. Also £10.95 for 3 courses on a Sunday evening- wow. Looking forward to going ahain.

Grat atmosphere and hard working staff. Waited over an hour for starter but staff were honest and admitted my order had not been placed and apologised for mistake. Very busy so appreciate things can go wrong. Food was excellent and reasonably priced, geeat selection of fish, drinks arrived very quickly and reasonably priced. House wine very decent and nice selection available. Would deffinately go back

Good menu at a reasonable price. Good tasting food. Very clean. Very friendly and attentive staff. What more do you need!

Fantastic food and fantastic service. Why go to a chain when you can have authentic Italian food.

Yet again fantastic food and service from Bistro Italiano, thanks.

Great food and service, the waiter even loaned us his glasses and turned the lighting up as we'd forgotten ours and couldn't read the menu!

Only the 2nd time we’d been and we were greeted so warmly. The food was really good with lots of choice and things could be changed or substituted with no hassle. They even said if we wanted something that wasn’t on the menu they would do their best to make it. Atmosphere was lovely and the staff were really friendly and attentive. The wine was beautiful. We had a fantastic evening and will definitely be making it a regular place to eat. Thanks to everybody at Bistro Italiano, we loved it!

Had a lovely meal on Sunday as always before a visit to the Gala Theatre. Staff are always attentive and friendly

Top levels of food and service. Already booked to go again! Thanks

Very good sharing platter to start with - supposedly for 2 people but easily did us for 4 as we did not want big starter portions. We always enjoy our visits. This time we had 2 guests from Australia with us. They had the seafood pasta and said that it was the best they had ever tasted! A successful evening.