La Tabella

Absolutely outstanding restaurant! Me and my wife had a lovely meal, both had starters and the mains (two different kinds of pasta). Food was absolutely delicious with some not really obvious flavour combinations, portions were big enough and staff were lovely too.Will definitely be coming back!

It was a very good small Italian restaurant in Southport / Churchtown with 5-star food and service in the last 5 years but it has changed today. We are kind of loyal customers to the restaurant, and we always recommended many friends to try this restaurant in the past 5 years when they visited Southport. We went there almost once every two months.... but regret to say that it was no longer in my restaurant list any more after today. Today, we brought 16 people, a mix of 9 adults (men & women) and 7 young people (boys and girls and some of them are under 18) to there for a lunch. Though we finally ordered 12 set lunch (starter and lunch at £18 each) + one extra main course plus some snacks and drinks today, the restaurant may wrongly counted the number of lunch sets and had charged us 2 set lunche more. While we came back tonight around 2100 to ask for a refund of the two over-charged lunch sets, the restaurant owner and his staff first denied that it has an over-charged situation and insisted the bill was correct. While we showed our group photos to prove what we had ordered, he then said our lunch order was too little for 16 people, the pictures were not taken at the beginning of the lunch, and we should not share food within the restaurant. If we did so, the restaurant would do its business in loss, and baabaabaa..... finally, with our insist, he was somehow reluctant to refund us £40 from his cashier machine. Understand that he wanted to protect his business from loss, but I'm quite disappointing about his response tonight. First, we are his loyal customers in years, and only asked for a refund the first time due to the overcharge situation. Second, during lunch time, it only had another 3-4 customers there. Without us (we paid more than £320 to yhe restaurant. If not, it may only get a max of £100 from them during lunch time. Third, as we all may know, a restaurant's profit margin is not mainly coming from meals but from drinks ordered by its customers. Drinks, also desserts, have very high profit margin to a restaurant comparing to that of main course. Fourth, its food quality was not as good as before, especially in our last two patronages (two weeks ago and today). Fifth, an over-bill case and not order enough main course per person are two separate issues. He should not mix these two issues up. Finally, if the boss knows how to deal with his loyal customers better and more skillful, it would not lose some loyal customers like us. My suggestions to the restaurant and the owner are ... 1) may state clearly in the restaurant that it has a minimum charge to each individual customer, or each customer should order a main course over there during lunch time. 2) to ensure food quality of the restaurant to be consistent over time, 3) if he wants to operate a more profitable business, he should improve his customer handling and communication skill. Customers may not always right but he should handle different dispute better.

Did the lunchtime deal with mum on a Friday afternoon. Booked online as I know it's a smallish place and with the festive season upon us I thought it would be busy - I was right! £15.95 for any pizza or pasta, plus a beer, wine or soft drink. Duck pizza for me was beautiful and mums seafood pasta disappeared in record time so I'm guessing it was nice! Lovely service, clean, great menu, and the included drink selection was much better than other deals of its type I have seen. This was our second visit, and most certainly will not be our last!

Superb food! Outstanding service 👏! By far the best Italian restaurant I've been to in a while. Lovely place. Definitely worth visiting. I ordered Tortellini as a main and it was absolutely divine! 💯 recommended

Last week I tried La Tabella’s midweek offer - two course for £19.50. I was instantly impressed by the menu, particularly the selection of pasta dishes (swipe for a cheese pull😍). I had a lovely experience, everything we tried was flavourful and the customer service was great! I will definitely be returning, even just for the ‘granchio mac and cheese’, a seafood and cheese lovers dream! 🍤🧀 📸PICTURED📸 Granchio Mac and cheese Pollo arrosto Garlic pizza (tomato) Arancini al pomodoro e basilico Bruschetta Follow my Instagram for more local reviews @niceatsuk

Got a pizza (Capriccosa) and some mozzarella sticks to take out. The starter was still crunchy even after a 10+ minute drive. The cheese was of good quality and really tasty. The pizza had wonderful dough and very nice quality toppings. Good amount of sauce and cheese. Definitely recommend. Staff were very friendly and helpful. Will definitely go back.

Easy booking process, lovely well cooked, seasoned food and friendly staff, helpful when the drinks we wanted were not at the right temp to drink so helped us pick a nice bottle of wine

Cant fault the place. Very tasty food. Staff were lovely and helpful on menu choices and their recommendation was very good. Daughter demolished her Pizza.