Poor pasta and pizzas

Il Forno is situated in the former booking hall of Tynemouth (Metro) Station and this was the most memorable feature of our visit! Sure, they have a pizza oven but the resultant pizzas were nothing short of extremely bland and lacklustre. Our party of four ordered a Calzone and Margherita, and two pasta dishes... pasta with Broccoliand pasta Amalfi, all with various side salads. The tomato sauce topping the pizzas was very poor and the mozzarella cheese was completely tasteless; the pouring of olive oil over the Margherita was the last straw or maybe the last ditch attempt to add some flavour into this very sad offering.The pasta dishes were VERY disappointing. The pasta with broccoli consisted of overcooked florets swimming in a milky and tasteless sauce. The pasta Amalfi was similarly disappointing. If you want Italian food in or around North Shields, I suggest you go to Morrisons and buy their ready meals and 'best' packet pizzas, they are MUCH tastier and a quarter of the price than the sad offerings you'll get at Il Forno.

A User - 11/06/2008 | report this review