A regular place for us to celebrate family birthdays. Great food, lovely friendly staff and excellent value. Highly recommended.

Vegetarian options: Good choice

I love the wine 🍷
I could try first before go for it
The food is amazing 👏 😋 😍
Keep the good work guysFood: 5/5  |  Service: 5/5  |  Atmosphere: 5/5 …More

I come with my friends and family and it was the first time for a friend birthday and I love it so I repeat my mum’s birthday too. The food is really tasty and friendly service and glad atmosphere

Good food, good service. Restaurant too hot though.

This is my second time visiting this restaurant. Both times with family for special occasions. I was excited to return after our last visit and not living nearby, but I wish I did, as I’d love to visit more often!
First bit of advise. Be sure to reserve a table. This restaurant is very popular. We were booked for 5:30 and the restaurant was packed by 6. People were being unfortunately turned away that didn’t have reservations on a busy Saturday night.
When we arrived we were seated promptly, drinks were provided quickly and orders taken in good time.
We were with two young girls, one 10 and the other 13 and they love this place too!! The staff here always give them high fives and really make it a special experience for them.
All members of staff are superb. They’re friendly, work hard, efficient and try their best to give outstanding service to every table. Service charge is not included on the bill, which is rare these days, but a tip is always very much well deserved.
Coming onto the food, be sure to check the specials! However, on this occasion we all ordered from the menu. 3 cheesy garlic breads for the table to share, plus me as a coeliac I had minestrone soup. Annoyingly, the minestrone was much nicer than the one at home, so the recipient would be very much appreciated ;) it was delicious. The cheesy garlic breads are essentially a pizza, they’re huge and easily fed the other 6 diners.
When informing the staff I had a gluten allergy. I was confidently walked through the entire menu. There were lots of options to choose from and I felt very well looked after by all the staff.
Main courses. I had a gluten free pepperoni pizza, that also has chillis and I would say it’s one of, if not the nicest gluten free pizza I have had anywhere. Others had the steak, lamb shank, bolognaise and other pizzas and everyone was very satisfied by the food. On this occasion, one of the meals was a little later reaching the table, but nothing that became unreasonable, it did mean others had started dining but with an extremely busy restaurant and an overwhelmed kitchen, these things sometimes happen and it was sorted very very quickly and professionally with apologies.
Lastly, the kids had a desert, as did the birthday girl and as they knew it was her birthday, the restaurant played a birthday song and put a candle in her desert for her, the entire restaurant sang along with the happy birthday, as did the staff - a very nice touch.
Overall, for 7 of us, each having starters, mains, deserts, alcoholic drinks, soft drinks and coffees it came to £230. Just under £33 a head. Excellent value in my opinion and although I do not live nearby. I can’t wait for another excuse to return!

This place feels like a family run restaurant, decent food with attentive staff, the atmosphere whilst loud was great. It was reasonably priced and we both enjoyed our food. We will definitely be returning.

Tagliatelle was the best I've had, my husband enjoyed his pizza-nice & thin with plenty of topping. Staff are amazing. We go there before every theatre trip and I think our grandchildren may prefer it to the theatre!!

This place feels like a family run restaurant, decent food with attentive staff, the atmosphere whilst loud was great. It was reasonably priced and we both enjoyed our food. We will definitely be returning.Food: 4/5  |  Service: 4/5  |  Atmosphere: 4/5 …More

Great restaurant definitely worth visit if you are on S of UK spaghetti amatricana one of the best i had, great staff.

Super pre theatre mealFood: 5/5  |  Service: 5/5  |  Atmosphere: 5/5

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The food and service here are excellent. Everything came out in good time and was very nice. The staff were also great and even made extra effort to provide a cocktail that wasn’t on the menu.

The only thing I’ll say is that the atmosphere was a little loud. Nothing anyone could do as the buildings round here are build that way.

I’ll definitely return here as other diners had some amazing looking food so I’d like to explore the menu a bit more.

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We were recommended this restaurant by some of our B&B guests and it was a great recommendation. Travelling from Norfolk to meet up with friends from Croydon we had a bright welcoming and had a window table. Our starters were varied but all delicious, followed by equally delicious and varied mains. We finished off with ice creams and coffees. We were never rushed, the food and service was of a very high standard and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit and would highly recommend II Palazzo. We will return on our next visit, many thanks.

The atmosphere of the evening was very relaxed. The service from the waiters was excellent. We enjoyed the quality of the food too

We always come here for special occasions - it's a favourite with all our family. Great food, lovely atmosphere, attentive and polite staff.Food: 5/5  |  Service: 5/5  |  Atmosphere: 5/5 …More

Tasty food, great service, buzzing atmosphere and very reasonably priced. It was the perfect location for dinner before a show at the Civic. Already planning to return with friends very soon!

Awesome. Food is amazing. It was a really busy night and all the staff were brilliant. Highly recommended

Amazing food, amazing service can't wait to come back 😊. Was amazing with my little 15 month old boy 😊Food: 5/5  |  Service: 5/5  |  Atmosphere: 5/5 …More

We had a lovely meal and very good value for money. We will be backFood: 5/5  |  Service: 5/5  |  Atmosphere: 5/5 …More

Sam looked after us so well, thank you for such a lovely evening!Food: 5/5  |  Service: 5/5  |  Atmosphere: 5/5 …More

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Can't believe we've not been here before!! Lived in Chelmsford for over 20 years and only just tried this place.
Very busy at 6.30 on a Friday night is a good sign.
Service, food, atmosphere and prices were fantastic.
Two starters, two mains, shared desert and two bottles of house red (so good we had to get a second) for around £85!! Cheaper than the chain restaurants in town and far better in every way.
Will definitely be back, and soon.

Thank you - so enjoyed our meals RISOTTO PESCATORE and my friend had monk fish - we love our fish dishes and I’m definitively having that risotto again, wow! I normally go for the juicy tender steak and so it was a hard choice tonight but I’m glad I tried something different tonight, If you’re a seafood food lover, this was awesome.
Staff are real friendly and jovial what a lovely atmosphere busy and buzzing. Love this Italian and so conveniently placed in Chelmsford too. Will be back real soon guys!!

Earlier this month, we had our post-wedding celebration here, and the front of house, Constantine and his colleague, were attentive and made sure all of us were looked after. Shoutout to Constantine for going the extra mile offering assistance with our table plan/decoration and party favours. To top it off, the food was great.

We been to this lovely Italian restaurant on last Sunday for pre theatre meal. Before the theatre the restaurant was busy. Our meal come all în the time. As a desert I had a tiramisu it was very delicios.
I recomand this place for everyone.We will defenitly come back thank u