La Trattoria

Open for breakfast. The sunshine special was really nice, fresh local ingredients. Coffee was good too. Two young ladies on service were excellent, friendly & attentive without being over bearing. Definitely recommend.

Hate to leave negative feedback, but feel it could be helpful and easily resolved- food was good, although meatballs were chopped up and not actual balls but tasted nice enough. However service was awful, not remotely the girls fault (3 staff to serve a bar, upstairs and downstairs) but owner could improve staff levels. We had our plates taken away and then sat 25 minutes waiting to be offered a desert menu, we gave up and just left. We were hoping to go for breakfast the following day before our long journey back home- however decided against it after the poor service.

Wow! I had a lovely meal here last night, in Helmsley. The kitchen is obviously run by someone who's expert ... my fillet of seabass was perfectly cooked and delicious and the toasted home-made bread with my pate starter was super-tasty, in fact, I couldn't fault anything. Staff are lovely too, supplying lots of delicious-looking food to the diners upstairs and down. I can recommend this place for a really enjoyable evening.

I had originally planned on booking a table at Cooper's, but realised after looking online it was closed on Mondays. So instead, I decided to book a table at La Trattoria (would definitely recommend booking, either online or by telephone!) Was a tad early but that wasn't a problem, one of the young ladies showed me to my table. I was given time to look over the menu, deciding to go for the slow cooked beef shin Ragu with pappardelle... My word!!! The pappardelle was cooked wonderfully, nice and tender. Speaking of tender, the beef was cooked BEAUTIFULLY!! I didn't have to cut it, as it simply fell apart and was super tasty. The lady who served me was really pleasant and asked how everything was part way through, which I thought was a nice touch. I more than likely would have had a starter and a dessert, along with the main, had I not had cake earlier on, as the restaurant had some good things on the menu... Maybe next time! I'd be more than happy to return again, to La Trattoria on a future visit to Helmsley.

Very poor value. Had the seafood bucatini. One of the (only) two mussels had a broken shell which I had to pick out. Very sparse on content which read very appetisingly on the menu, £25 for a plate of spaghetti and a few tiny bits of tasteless shellfish! No finger bowl or wipe offered. Showed them a picture of Florio's generous seafood risotto to show the difference, £16.50. Was offered and accepted a desert on the house which was very nice, but I only had it as was still hungry, wouldn't normally have desert. Disappointing ☹️.