Vivere - anyone been?

[Trumpet]

Snap! we also have plans to visit there tonight.......

How did you get on? Strumpet rang and was told no table available until 9.15, bit late for a 'school night' so went to The Woolpack at Weston. nice atmosphere, good beer, two mains for a tenner and house red @ £7.95 a bottle.
Never really tried these meal deals until the last couple of months but can't knock what we've had so far.
Still like me 'proper places' to eat but a mid week treat for about £30.00 cant be bad.

 

[basil]

Pretty good, we had a £5 pizza starter to share, then 2 pasta dishes plus free! desserts and coffees as we moved to allow a late party of 12 to take up a line of tables , with a bottle of plonk it was under £30 all in a bargain. No shortage of staff and from what we observed they were all grafting.....

 

[John Marwood]

Pretty good, we had a £5 pizza starter to share, then 2 pasta dishes plus free! desserts and coffees as we moved to allow a late party of 12 to take up a line of tables , with a bottle of plonk it was under £30 all in a bargain. No shortage of staff and from what we observed they were all grafting.....

Were you the gentleman with the distinguished silver tash?

 

[basil]

Pretty good, we had a £5 pizza starter to share, then 2 pasta dishes plus free! desserts and coffees as we moved to allow a late party of 12 to take up a line of tables , with a bottle of plonk it was under £30 all in a bargain. No shortage of staff and from what we observed they were all grafting.....

Were you the gentleman with the distinguished silver tash?

No, i was the one pumping one of our elected reps for some gen to share on here. However the twat accused me of being drunk! I soon put him in his place. "out on expenses with your neice"!! ??...... That shut him up......

 

[Gramaisc]

I finally went last night. It was all right, and surprisingly affordable.

 

[Wormella]

OOh, I haven't been in ages, flutters eyelashes at Goldilox.

 

[Gramaisc]

Tell him all the £8:50 stuff, which seemed to be most things, was just a fiver..

Because you're worth it...

 

[Gramaisc]

Here it is verbatim - http://www.vivere-italian-restaurant.com/

 

[grumpystaffordguy]

I've been about 5 times since it opened. Sometimes its good, sometimes just OK. It can be pricey unless you do the set menu during the week. The takeaway service they do (collection only) was not very good the one time we tried it. Having said that we used to order a similar style of food from Romance and that has gone down hill as well. Shame as it was superb when iyt first opened.
Are Vivere connected to the previous occupants of that restaurant? I have my suspicions....

 

[PeterD]

This is what I said on Tripadvisor.

Myself and my wife went to Vivere on a Sunday evening. We were celebrating our Anniversary and so we wanted somewhere a little different. The Independant lists this restaurant as one of the best 50 budget restaurants in the UK, so it should be good right?

It was pretty good though, a nice clean modern restaurant. Staffed well enough so you arent waiting round, that actually might be my only criticism. We didnt have enough talking time, a course was finished and 2 minutes later the next course was at the table. We are a couple out for a meal alone, let us talk between courses.

The food itself was excellent. I had Antipasto Vegeteriano, that was excellent and my wife had Antipasto All Italiano. For starters these dishes were excellent, and quite large.
For main course I had Cannelloni Al Forno and my wife had a seafood tagliatele. Again, excellent and an ample portion.

This was accompanied by wine and followed by Italian desert of Tiramisu and profiteroles. As there was a deal on this all came in at around £60. Considering the quality of the food, the restaurant itself, the service. It was a very good restaurant with a good price.

• Visited September 2011

 

[Wormella]

Having said that we used to order a similar style of food from Romance and that has gone down hill as well. Shame as it was superb when iyt first opened.
Are Vivere connected to the previous occupants of that restaurant? I have my suspicions....

From what I gather Oz - previous owner of the Rose of Kashmir and owner of Ashiana still owns the building - Vivare's restaurant staff and chefs are previously of Romance, and Romance has been gifted to one of the sons / family members to run in the way restaurants or take-aways are.

 

[Em L]

I've been there a few times now, and though I have a bad habit of finding something I REALLY like on a menu then finding it hard to shift and try something else (the salmon tagliatelle is AMAZING), everyone else who DID order something else said it was all very nice - even the kids didnt grumble and that's rare! Think my daughter would have licked her bowl if I hadn't been sat opposite her....lol

 

[grumpystaffordguy]

Good info Wormella thanks.

I'll be honest I thought the people who owned the old curry house might have something to do with the Italian restaurant which puts me off as it was the worst curry house in town by some margin. I've never been to the Ashiana as surely its just the same old cruddy food, by the same people, but in posher surroundings?... I know people that have been and confirmed that it was very basic for a curry. Think supermarket microwave meal.
Anyway I'm getting off topic and that explains why Vivere does nice food and Romance went down hill. The basic stuff like Pizza is still fine, but they cant do the risotto like they used to.

I don't think I have heard any bad reports of Vivere anyway which says a great deal.

 

[Gramaisc]

I think that I saw a poster on the way out that said there was an Oxfam charity night there soon, but I can't remember the details..

 

[Withnail]

It were in the E&S this week.

Not Oxfam, it's Katherine House Charity Lunch - Saturday, June 23, between 12pm and 3.30pm.

Diners can choose two courses from an eclectic Italian selection of starters mains and desserts for £11.95.

Vivere is donating 60 per cent of the cost of the meal to the charity.

To reserve a table call 01785 259745

 

[Gramaisc]

Fair enough. I was close - and I'd had a spot of some rather nice house red....

 

[Thehooperman]

We went last week and had the any pasta or pizza for £5 deal.

The chicken and prawn risotto was excellent and there were plenty of other customers enjoying the evening as well.

I would definitely recommend going.

 

[gon2seed]

Went Sunday night; the person from work who said they couldn't go Wed' didn't even turn up!Cheers! Serves me write, maybe the last time I organise a work night out! We'd already put folks off cause it was Fathers Day!

Anyway food & service, as ever, was excellent, and plenty of punters, defintitely a good edition to places to eat in 'Ford!

 

[staffordfm]

Hi guy's Stafford FM team went there last night we took 34 people and the service & food was perfect. I would highly recommend trying this place.

 

[tek-monkey]

This is what I said on Tripadvisor.

I've given up on tripadvisor, they refuse to reinstate a bad review of a place I visited because apprently they just have male front of house staff and I mentioned a woman so must have the wrong place. A good review that mentions a woman stays though, load of ****!