Trattoria Verde - Southend-on-Sea

This restaurant is family-owned and offers incredible service and delicious food. We tried the fish, house wine, and dessert, and everything was fantastic. We made reservations but they weren't necessary. I highly recommend this place!

Yesterday, my friend and I had lunch at this restaurant, which was not our first time visiting. We had a wonderful experience with a lovely waitress who was very helpful and attentive. The food was delicious, and I would happily eat it every day! We ordered cheesy garlic bread, caprese salad, and lasagne. We have decided to make this a monthly tradition now.

I am very disappointed with the seafood risotto at this restaurant. I have been a patron since it opened and usually choose the risotto. However, last night's dish was smaller in portion and only contained mussels instead of the advertised assortment of seafood. If a restaurant is unable to provide certain ingredients, they should either remove the dish from the menu or inform the customer beforehand.

The pizza was excellent, Huge. House wine was really nice. Great service. Fantastic atmosphere. Really enjoyed the evening.

Myself and a group of my friends came here for lunch as we have done many times in the past. We were the only table in the restaurant and so the waiter was clearly overworked as we had to ask him at least 5 times for a menu, for drinks, to order etc. It was almost as if we had ruined his day by giving him something to do. After what felt like pulling teeth, we eventually ordered a bruschetta and an Italian meat antipasti sharing platter. The bruschetta was soggy but the antipasti…It looked like roadkill and thei put a bit of shredded iceberg lettuce (which looked out of date) next to it and a cut cherry tomato and tried to pass that off as garnish. The photo doesn’t do justice to how bad it actually looked! None of us could eat it so we asked to send it back and remove it from our bill and that’s when the real shock came. The waiter took our food into the kitchen and then there were almighty crashes as he and the chef argued. Plates and other cutlery was thrown and it got so bad that we felt unsafe and had to leave. We tried to pay our bill and the waiter said that the argument was nothing to do with us (which it clearly was) and was just an argument between himself and the chef and implored is to stay. Regardless of the reason it was unprofessional and we could never have continued our meal following that altercation and we almost had to throw money for our drinks and the bruschetta as we hurried out of the door.