Chain Italian restaurants. Which one do you recommend?

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My options are Pizza Express, Prezzo or Ask. Bonus points if there's a discount code valid on Friday nights!

Pizza express is pretty consistent. Prezzo is awful.

Ask italian - Pizza Express are shite!

I like Prezzo especially the goats cheese al forno

Ask is the best on your list x

Pizza Express are consistently good but I find Prezzo bland and the service consistently awful! Ask have been pretty good in the past!

We go to Ask a lot, we’ve never had a bad meal there.

ASK but none of them are amazing. We use our tesco clubcard vouchers so effectively it’s free for us but the quality is not worth the price they charge.

Pizza Express is my favourite.

We had an absolutely awful experience at ASK about 5 years ago and have never been back since.

Prezzo and Pizza Express are both good. Depends what you want to eat!

I like ask.

I used to like ask but the service in the one local to me is now laughably poor.

Prezzo is dire.

All dire, I just wouldn't part with my hard earned cash in any of them.

Pizza Expresd

Are you using Tesco points? Not on your list but if so, used to do Zizzi which is good, varied with lighter options - Spaghetti House is awful though. Prezzo opposite Euston Station is good, set menu available even on Fridays - last Friday, two of us set menu with one drink each (I had an Apero Spritz, friend had juice), was £34 between us.

Ask- much better menu than boring Pizza Express

Pizza express is the most consistent but they are all pretty awful

You can't beat a pizza express fiorentina pizza..

I can’t believe people are saying prezzo is awful. Although I do have a taste card so get 2-for-1 but I seriously love it. Even if I didn’t have the card I would still go. I go at least once a month.

Favs are - bruschetta and the large garlic bread with balsamic onions**amazing. They used to do a lobster pasta which was sooo good. But they discontinued it. I always go back hoping it’s back. Also their desserts are so so good. Fav was the chocolate fudge cake but the stopped it. Now it’s the sticky toffee pudding.

Went that weekend and go 3 courses for 2 adults and 2 kids for £40.

Hopski I find it cheap, but the service at the 3 different ones I go to, is always bad. I don't eat puddings so maybe I am basing it differently. It's excellent value for money, but I find the pasta dishes tasteless and bland. Pizzas were overcooked. I had the pasta with prawns & chilli and it was tasteless, but I did enjoy the lobster pasta you mention! On the other hand, they are generous with codes, free drinks, etc. and it's cheap, especially with Tesco points. But Ask and Pizza Express have been better IME, both quality and service. Someone else mentioned Zizzi, which has been hit and miss.

Based on the above, I'd go for Ask. Have had many a cheap/free meal with Tesco points!

Ask serve tiny little meals. And the smallest slice of cake ever.

No idea what those emojis were about

No independents nearby?

Went to Ask recently and the meal was dire.
Definitely would not recommend it.

Never ever Ask. Either of the other two.

And go home for dessert. You can take something out of the freezer just as well as they can.