Boscoreale

yumster

Fine Italian locally!! 25th August 2009

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I've been a regular at the neighbouring Bosco Deli since they opened, the pizza's are fabulous (rumour has it an ex Locanda Locatelli chef is behind the dough?!) and the service is always friendly, but I've only recently discovered Bosco Reale. This isn't to say I haven't noticed it... I just thought it would be out of my budget! So when celebrating our 3rd wedding anniversary we thought we'd give it a go - any excuse to get glammed up!

The restaurant was buzzy, and there was a mix of all ages, we had a warm welcome from the Italian man at the door! The food was, quite honestly delicious! My husband had King prawns to start, which came with a thick garlicy sauce, and plenty of bread for dipping and my carpaccio was yummy!

For Main I had Tuna on the recommendation of the waiter who said it had been delivered that morning and my husband had steak from the Grill, both were cooked pink as requested and along with the side of extra courgettes (deep fried & delicious), we could not fault any of it!

We didn't order dessert, but they had obviously taken notice of us saying it was our anniversary when we booked as a portion of Tiramisu with a candle appeared at our table along with the offer of 'a drink on the house'! How refreshing in times when everyone else is cutting back!

Personally I can't recommend Bosco Reale more highly, the food was delicious, and very reasonable... Not at all what I thought. They made our anniversary a truly fantastic and special night, and I will certainly be returning!

Jemima

A little expensive but ............ 11th March 2009

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............... worth it!

Gorgeous food and on Friday nights live music.

A nice clientele and a place for sophisticates!

We love it!

barrbarrella

too modern for me 17th September 2008

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Went to this restaurant for a special birthday celebration invited by friends. Must say the service particularly was extremely friendly and warm and efficient. Food was good, lovely steak done to my wishes, really good quality and well cooked. Nice unusual veg and dishes on the menu for a special occasion. Wine good too which was just as well for the price of it. Must say, I was not footing the bill as we were invited.... but I did think it was rather expensive. Place was a little too modern and minimalistic for my particular taste. I like a warm cosy type of restaurant ideally, but all of my fellow diners thought this place was great. Good for special occasion if you are happy to splash out on the cost, but must say, a very nice meal.

QueenB

Trick or treat? 17th March 2008

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Saturday night, myself and 2 girlfriends went for what we thought from previous reviews a high quality Italian dinner in the sought after area that is Kingswood.

I can not fault the decor of the resturant, very modern but quite warm at the same time. There was a bar at the entrance of the restaurant, all glass and of a reasonable size for the venue. The lay out of the seating was very odd though and quite difficult to manoeuvre around past guests to the bathrooms at the rear (which were lovely and full of Jo Malone soap and moisturisers - yum).

We ordered a bottle of red and a bottle of white - of which they were out of stock of our choice already (at 8pm).

Both my friends had the Taleggio cheese and wild mushrooms tart with rosemary, red onion and rocket pesto to start - one had a burnt crust and both found that the filling was more like a mushroom soup and just flooded the plate as soon as you sliced into it, sadly not the texture one would expect.

I had Warm creamed salt cod mousse, with garlic and parsley on grilled polenta - that was nice enough if a little bland.

For mains I had Roast monk-fish fillet rolled with spinach, white wine sauce, sun dried tomato flavored mashed potatoes.
This was lovely with large portions and well presented but the fish was a bit tough in parts.

My friends Grilled and sliced rib-eye steak with rucola and cherry tomatoes ordred medium to well done was so cremated - she couldn't eat it.

My other friend had the Grilled chicken paillard marinated with lemon and thyme, with aubergine parmigiana - which was good but run of the mill, the chicken was a little dry too.

Service was slow but very nice and friendly.

We found it over priced for what it was but generally OK, sadly it didnt live up to our expectation so I wont be rushing back but wouldn't rule out a retrun visit if I was in the area.

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