Ponte Vecchio

Came for Xmas day dinner 12 of us. The food was gorgeous. Had the traditional turkey which was delicious and the gravy. Vegetables cooked perfectly.Everybody loved their meals. Great atmosphere too. So Thanku to everyone at Ponte Vecchio 🥰🌲🥰🌲🥰

Had starters and a main but the starter was presented as something healthy and fancy but ended up being a basic prawn cocktail. The main was seabass, it took a long time to come to the table but it was just smothered in some unseasoned artificial garlic sauce ruined the fish. Unfortunately would not recommend as I took the fish home scrapped it off and made a lemon garlic sauce.... & obviously cooking wasnt my objective.

Visited for the first time Tuesday 18th Dec 2023 We had meatballs and garlic pizza for starter which were very fresh and tasted really good. For mains we had steak and chips and Lasagne. We had 2x glasses of house red and white wine. Service was excellent. Owner was very friendly. Overall a very good experience for Italian restaurants. The total bill came to £66 which I find to be excellent value for money. If you like tipping for service take cash as this option is not available at the card terminal.

Love this place without a doubt will come back again!!! We came up to Yorkshire to celebrate a family event and decided to come to this family run Italian restaurant as it’s the only other one that was open in the town (other one was closed). The staff were all so lovely and helpful helping us choose what to eat, the owners dad was singing and whistling while serving it was a great vibe. All the customers were speaking Italian and the place was full so we knew we came to the right place! We even ended up seeing the owner and her dad in the cafe we went to the next morning haha! Now the food, they had a deal for three courses I think it was £18 We got the calamari, garlic bread and king prawns Maybe because we opted for the deal we got served smaller portions but that’s no issue you get what you paid for however the king prawns were not king prawns at all, they were very small and were regular prawns and only 5 came. They were the size of a 10p coin. Also didn’t come with shells (which upon asking about why these aren’t king prawns which we didn’t get an answer to, they have no shells because the community doesn’t like it which is understandable) the sauce however was spicy but not too much and had a great fresh tomato flavour!! The calamari was delicious the sauce was also great, and the garlic bread was soft and pillowy, great to dip into the sauce of the prawns!! The mains were a very big let down, lacking of flavour but good portions. I got the mixed seafood linguine in tomato sauce, my friend got the lobster ravioli and my other friend got the chicken, cream and pesto pasta I believe. My pasta was a generous portion with plenty of seafood however had no flavour, no salt or pepper no garlic nothing it was just as if they just stirred the pasta with the sauce and seafood and just put it on a plate. My friends lobster ravioli didn’t taste of lobster at all just of fish, like sickening fishy, I think they may use seafood bouillon or fish paste in the sauce or ravioli, no complaints from the chicken cream and pesto friend but he eats anything really haha. The pasta itself was cooked really well and aldente! I think they sensed we didn’t like it and did offer to change our pastas however we didn’t want to complain as they were so lovely!!! Also the wine we ordered was a white wine and we got a bottle, it was warm… and we realised it came out of the box it had came in and wasn’t in the fridge at all. The wine cooler they put on the table that had the wine in had a few measles ice cubes at the bottom and was plastic… so didn’t do a good job at all. Surely, Knowing you’ve not got a properly chilled wine, you would provide a proper cooler and more ice, nevertheless the bottle of Pinot Grigio was delicious. The service and dessert is where they won us over, they had a special dessert of Trilece (they import the caramel from Albania, and the homemade tiramisu! These were to die for, even though we were stuffed we practically licked our plates clean. We ended our dinner with a lovely chat with all the staff about what there is to do in Haworth and Keighley and Limoncello on the house. The food is extremely reasonably priced but I’m coming up from London so I’m not going to blab on about that haha, and they don’t even add service to their bills. They said that their menu is expensive to where they are. 3 courses for each person ( we were three people) and a bottle of wine £75 !!!!!! I highly recommend this place if you’re nearby and if I ever go back up to Keighley I will be visiting again!!! Grazie per averci ospitato, ci vediamo di nuovo!

We went last night for a double birthday celebration, it was a large party of 16 Food was amazing !! Staff extremely friendly All freshly cooked and served promptly Excellent value for money, will definitely return Many thanks 😊