Reviews Riva Blu Italian Restaurant & Bar, Liverpool

Fun spot for a great Italian meal. Food was excellent. The atmosphere might be a bit crowded and noisy for some but not for most! Service was good although the night we went was very busy and it looked like they could have had additional staff as items took longer than expected. In the end, 🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝pasta was 👍👍👍👍

Came here for a dinner date and we like it a lot, the food was amazing we had seafood fettuccine and prawns fettuccine, all very fresh and good quality ingredients, the service is very good and attentive, the guys that work there are very charming, Angelo took care of us. Definitely we will be back to try another dishes. One thing I didn't like much is that the music was super loud but not that bad after one drink

Great service for a busy restaurant. Fantastic location and atmosphere. Would recommend 👌

Formerly known as Ginos, Riva Blu has continued with the great food, atmosphere and service that Ginos was renowned for. On the corner of Castle St and Dale St, opposite the town hall, it is one of the best located bar/restaurants in the city, at the heart of the Commercial District. Split into three areas, there is the long, main central bar once you go through the Castle St reception. With seats all surrounding the central bar, and with an often buzzing atmosphere, it is hard to move once seated. Unless you want to go to the toilet, which you need to be a Crystal Maze winner to find the first time, whether you've had a few drinks or are sober! (For the record, the toilets are downstairs, but very hard to find!) The restaurant is beyond the bar and probably sits up to 120 people. The food is always good quality and the service just as good. Downstairs, as well as the toilets, there is a function room and a separate bar. I've been to many good events in here. Only issue is there is no draft ales. Overall, you will nearly always have a great time and bite to eat at Riva Blu. (Update: new review of Saturday 2nd Sept 2023 visit) We had a table booked for for 7 people at 3pm. We arrived 2.50pm and waited at the bar for 10 minutes and nobody asked us if we wanted a drink, even though there was only one other customer at the bar. We were then told our table was ready at 3.05pm, so we moved down to the restaurant area without a drink. When we finally got a waiter to take our drinks order, it took them around 15 minutes to bring them to us. The frustration of all was beginning to set in! With many mistakes on food and drink orders, average food at vastly increased prices over the last 12 months (price increases well above inflation of cost of purchase) and really poor service, we almost did something we've never done before and asked for service charge to be removed- although we chose to pay it and just get out without desert. My meal was supposedly a half roast chicken with roast potatos. It was more like half a chicken breast, cut up and spread to try and cover more of the plate. There were three tiny (one mouthful each) roast potatoes-no wonder the waitress kept asking if I wanted fries as well when I was ordering. Whilst I said 'no' to fries twice, stating the meal comes with roast potatoes, I was happy that the waitress also brought me fries (added to the bill, even though not asked for!) even though I had said I didn't want any. If I could do a new review, this latest visit would get 1 star for service, 2 stars for food, 1 star for value and 2 stars for atmosphere. If I had to summarise the experience in one rating, it would get 1 star!

A flawless experience. Everyone was phenomenal. You'd have thought every client was a celebrity the way people were treated. Staff were great at recommendations, even got us a sample. Friendly. Really clean, great value, great dishes. I cannot recommend this more.