Excellent food with great service. - This is an excellent restaurant with great service and fantastic food. We had the tagliatelle with truffle and steak one night, and the next night we had lamb chops. I... read more highly recommend this restaurant.

  Different - Gutted! The best seafood pizza I have ever had and regularly have at Prima has been taken off the menu and replaced with a king prawn and garlic butter pizza.... read more Had the vegetarian pizza which was very nice but no match for the seafood pizza.

  Good quality great value and friendly staff. Really couldn’t fault it. Nice atmosphere.

  Very nice resturant and conveniently located in a lovely part of the city. We has pizzas and we were a bit disappointed to be honest. The quality of ingredients was... read more not the best. Tomato salad had very hard tomatoes and tasteless. The artichokes were also hard. Olives were pre sliced out of a jar and the ham cubes of preformed slices. If served in Italy it would be frowned upon. All those quality ingredients can be found easily so why not use parma ham ,on vine tomatoes etc. Shame that quality seems not to be so important.
The staff and ambience very good.

  Friday night supper - Staying in ripon, we went out early for a maslmon Friday. Not realising how busy the town is at 6pm! The 1st restaurant was crammed. Luckily this read space,... read more the staff were friendly, efficient and did not stop moving. The service started at 4.30 and they must be moving at full pace the whole evening. Our service was smooth friendly and the food was delicious and large portions. We started with a mozzarella garlic pizza, delicious with plenty of garlic and some rosem. Followed by chicken alla crema with sacred potatoes and green salad and lobster ravioli with bisque sauce and prawns. We struggled to finish the portions are large and the flavours delicious!

  After our visit to Fountains Abbey we booked to eat at Prima, really good choice. The food and service where excellent, food cooked to perfection. Really worth a visit.

  I went up to Ripon with my parents to celebrate the end of my university exams and booked here as the early bird menu looked good, i had deep fried... read more prawns for my starter and chicken in a cream and mushroom sauce for my main, both were absolutely delicious with a generous portion to match

  Delicious!!!! - Another lovely evening in Prima Pizzeria last night. Warm, welcoming and romantic. The team are so welcoming and helpful. Consistently spot on food and good wine. The lasagna and risotto... read more calabrese.. just amazing! beautifully cooked and presented. So good to have a default local restaurant as good as this. Just lovely.

  Excellent - Excellent in every way.The service and food could not be faulted.
Prima certainly lives up to its revues
a return visit is planned

  The food, service and atmosphere was Italian at its best. My Lobster Ravioli with a side salad of rocket and tomato was nothing short of fabulous. Thank you for a... read more lovely evening, we will certainly return.

  When ever we come to Ripon, Prima is always our number one restaurant. The specials are always different and delicious as well as the very excellent service! Very reasonable price.... read more />
Elliott

  ‘Tis rare for me to comment on cafés and restaurants for Tripadvisor when I am not actually on a trip but near home. However, for once, I make an exception... read more .

Looking in Ripon, North Yorkshire, for an early supper I came across Prima Pizzeria in Kirkgate. What a fortunate surprise - and fortuitous too as I had a ‘difficult’ companion. As will be seen from my sparse entries, I travel mainly in Central Europe and The Balkans but sometimes into Italy.

I can spot groundless boasts to be ‘authentic’ but not here; this place would not be out of place in a side street in Lucca or Prato. It looks italian but looks are superficial; food and service not. Il capo was welcoming and the staff attentive without being oppressive. My Mediterranean salad was what it claimed - and generous. My companion devoured her pizza with only one(!) criticism: ‘There is too much!’

There was also una piccola delizia: the charming junior waitress (Italian?), endlessly saying Hmm and bobbing like a small bird. Lovely!

We were going to the Harrogate a festival. When I left La Prima, I felt I should be en route to a minor opera house to hear Puccini. All this in Ripon would you believe !?!? Go and give it a try.

  Superb food. New decor not quite so. - As fairly regular diners we were curious to see the new look restaurant. Superb food as always - excellent choices and value. However we felt the lighting was a little... read more too bright and abundance of pink and white artificial flowers rather garish. Sadly it seems to us to have lost some of its cosy Italian ambience.

  Extensive menu - Small frontage, but the restaurant goes back a long way. Very busy for a Thursday evening and so having been seated at a table at the back we felt... read more a bit left out and not even offered a drink to keep us going. Service was slow, but staff polite and helpful. Very extensive menu and clearly a popular place to go for a meal. Food was excellent and the calzone was one of the best I have ever had.

  Amazing staff, fabulous food and a great wine selection fabulous. We have been here a few time and everything is always tasty and fresh. Super!

  We always visit on Christmas Eve and as usual had a fabulous time. Food was exceptional and all of the staff were excellent - thank you Prima.

  The food was nice enough, but not enough for me to return. I had the prawn and chorizo pasta and found the pepper and onion a bit to greasy and... read more the chorizo had just be thrown in to heat up wasn't charred. The filo with asparagus and parma ham was nice enough

  Verry Good - What a great experience in Prima Ristorante Italiano the past and the pizza was so delicious. I will come back for sure!

  A great authentic Italian experience - A great authentic Italian experience. We visited in August for an evening meal. Starter - the olives were delicious. For mains I had the Pollo alla crème and my wife... read more chicken Venezian - both absolutely great. All with a lovely, fresh glass of Chardonnay. A great find in the lovely city of Ripon - lovely staff and good value for money.

  We were visiting the area and this restaurant was recommended to us by our B&B owners. We were so overwhelmed we visited twice! It is a small restaurant and the... read more bustling atmosphere took us back to all our holidays in our beloved Italy.
The staff were really friendly and helpful. The food was out of this world - fresh and piping hot. The king prawn starter was devine, as was the seafood linguine.
Thank you for 2 lovely meals.

  Good menu and quality - Excellent food and service. The best dish in my opinion was the asparagus ravioli - it was soooo good. Really enjoyed it and recommend. Thank you.

  Pizzas were really good and atmosphere and service excelklent. Small complaint was that wine not available as 125ml which is a bit annoying plus required by law so not good... read more practice.

  A welcoming atmospheric restaurant with delicious food and friendly & attentive staff. - A lovely evening in a busy but friendly & atmospheric little restaurant. We had very helpful staff who were prompt, attentive & efficient without rushing us. The food... read more was stunning. We both had steaks that were succulent, juicy and oozed flavours with every bite. I had mine from the Specials Board recommended by the waitress with delicious Tagliatelle beef with truffle. The tastes and textures are making my mouth water now. It was a quite amazing meal. Desserts were both tasty and presented beautifully and gave a refreshing kick to our pallets. I had tiramisu & my partner had a delightful crème brûlée. The whole evening in this buzzing place was a pleasure. The menu options on the Specials board were so enticing we’re going back in a couple of weeks. Thank you chef.

  A second evening out in Ripon found us at Prima Italian restaurant on Monday.
A warm welcome and excellent service made us relax and enjoy our visit.
We had booked... read more an early table (6pm), so took advantage of the Early Bird menu. There was a good choice of both starters and main courses.
I had the mushrooms to start, cooked beautifully in a cream sauce with just the right amount of garlic. My husband enjoyed the sardines.
We both had cannelloni as our main and the portion was generous and delicious.
A “just right” coffee for my husband rounded off the evening.
We would definitely book again if we are in the area.
Thank you to all the team.

  Enjoyable - Called in without booking during our trip to Ripon and the staff were able to accommodate us. We chose from the two course menu bruschetta for me and mushrooms for... read more my husband followed by tagliatelle bolognaise. Service was quick, food tasty and plentiful overall good value.

  What a delightful cosy authentic Italian restaurant. Fabulous staff, service and food was delicious and very well priced. Although we could have ordered from the Early Bird menu we opted... read more for the main menu and wasn't disappointed. Proper little gem.

  One of the best meals I have had in a very long time, And with the staff so pleasant and efficient, recommend it to anyone