Prezzo

Prezzo Cheltenham Brewery Review

On a warm summer night with lilting breezes the dusk crept in. After a longer than usual trip to Cheltenham caused by the rush hour, the smells and sounds of the Brewery cordially greeted my accomplice in food tasting and I. Famished, we made our way into the nicely decorated Prezzo adjacent to Cineworld. Upon entrance the smell of a stone oven rewarded our journey.

It was easy to get a table. It was different though when we looked through the menu. It was clear that choosing something wouldn’t be easy as there was such an array of delights. I was able to decide my main meal before the starter. The starters are full of surprises but in the end it was possible to go for baked mushrooms and bruschetta.

Enjoying a glass of house red, it was easy to choose the light option and go for a goats’ cheese salad. My friend was flummoxed. “How am I supposed to choose when it’s all so good? I haven’t had a pizza in weeks so that should be what I want, but...” then a list of nicely put together meals was recounted. The portions at Prezzo are as sizable as they are delicious, so the prospect of ordering more than one meal was an impossibility. In the end a chicken pasta was the antidote to a well earned appetite.

The starters didn’t take too long to arrive and were easily divisible between us. Quite filling in themselves, the mushrooms were so well made it felt like a taste of heaven. Possible to savour for minutes at a time, getting onto the bruschetta took a short while. It was worth the wait, as the presentation and flavour were in synergy.

My salad arrived with a