The Palazzo - A Tasteem Review

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It was the 14th of October when we decided to visit The Palazzo, an Italian restaurant in Burnley, Lancashire. Some time ago you might say?

Yes, it has taken me almost 2 months to do this write-up, that's what Steemfest does to you.. it takes all your time.

Some of my none STEEM friends and @bingbabe have visited The Palazzo so it wasn't a case of ‘hope for the best', they didn't say bad things about it, actually, they were reasonably positive.

My initial thoughts were, ‘this used to be a bank’. The architecture shows it was once a place to transfer money.

Some old banks have been converted into restaurants in other towns and cities and they usually make a good job of doing so.

It was Sunday and so the traditional ‘roast’ was available, it was always an option but I don’t feel it’s a particularly healthy one.

We were ushered through the bar area and into what would have been the back room at the old bank.

The décor was very tasteful with high ceilings and marble pillars.

We were given menus and I decided to keep it simple and ordered a Pizza Funghi at £10, whereas @bingbabe ordered the Tagliatelle at £14. We also ordered a ‘Gran Piatto Mediter' as a starter to share.

This is a long wooden plate with several items including breadsticks, hummus, peppers and other things which are best described in a photograph.

I also decided to get a bowl of chips with my main course; not the brightest idea in retrospect, but I’ll come to why later.

For drinks, a Pepsi worked for me; @bingbabe tried to order a mocktail but the waiter's English was not good enough for her to understand and she ended up with a very alcoholic ‘Rossini'. It looked nice but had a bit of a bite.

Speaking of the waiter, he was a little strange and kept looking over at us, if anything being a little over attentive but not in a friendly way. It didn’t get my back up; I just thought he was weird.

The food was quickly delivered, and I didn’t find myself looking at my phone in anticipation.

The ‘Gran Piatto Mediter’ was delivered and it did deliver! Very tasty and filling, but this was the problem.

The main courses arrived and I found the pizza to be a little plain though it looked nice.

@bingbabe had already been to ‘The Palazzo' before knew what to expect with the Tagliatelle and was suitably impressed.

The chips.. oh I wish I had not ordered them. There was nothing really wrong with these large chunks of fried potato except I don’t really like hulking lumps where one chip is an effort to eat.

With the starter and the pizza I didn’t have an awful lot of space left so the chips got mostly left which was rather a shame.

The tab came to £44 which I suppose isn’t too bad for a meal for two with a starter to share and drinks.

I guess I am a little particular about my restaurants and although The Palazzo isn’t a bad one, it is not somewhere I will be revisiting in the near future.