Beautiful vist - We arrived and were met with a lovely warm friendly welcome after been shown to our table the waitress offered us some drinks then gave us plenty of time to... read more choice our food Our starters we very pleasing on the eye and amazing on the taste buds then the main event The main meals where cooked perfectly with great flavours and once again look fabulous puddings and coffee to follow on again both lovely The staff all have great knowledge about there food a credit to the owners

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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

  I was booked in with a group of friends, some of whom I had not seen for a while in person because of covid.

I ordered from the early... read more bird menu and had the Sardine Arancia followed by the Scaloppa Dijonese with sauté potatoes. I was thinking of having a dessert as well when I arrived but was so full after the very generous portions of these that I had just an Americano coffee instead. Indeed the portions were so generous that some in the party were unable to manage just a main course. A box was provided to allow the remainder of a pizza to be taken home.

The Sardine Arancia served 'spatchcock' style in light batter were full of flavour and the various strong flavours in the dish blended extremely well with each other.

The sauce that the Scaloppa Dijonese came in was subtly flavoured. However the sauté potatoes were a little dry and this is the only reason why the food has been rated 4* rather than 5*. Given the promptness of the service they might have been cooked a little while in advance and kept warm rather than cooked to order.

The service was both friendly and very prompt. Either the kitchen is extremely well organised and run or most of the dishes were almost ready to serve before they were ordered.

I would like to return here to sample more of the dishes on the menu.

  This restaurant is our ‘go to’ spot when in Ripon. Not only is the food great and reasonably priced but the service is excellent. It is always full of lively,... read more busy Italian atmosphere - we just love it. My Lobster ravioli was as gorgeous as I remember it from last time, served with a superb rocket salad. Hubby had a delicious salmon risotto and followed it with a banana concoction that he will long remember! We were entertaining two friends who live locally and also speak highly of the place. Thank you for a lovely evening Prima Team, we will definitely return.

  Great early diner menu. This is really good value. The starters were varied and delicious. The main courses were wide ranging and we opted for the pork medallions. The portion... read more sizes were generous and we enjoyed a nice glass of house wine. Service was attentive and we enjoyed our visit.

  One of my families favourite places to eat, we’ve been going back for years and yet to have a bad meal! Very generous menu and everything we’ve tried has been... read more delicious.

  Took us as walk in at 6 on a Friday. Couldn't have been more pleasant. Ordered bread and olives while we looked at the menu. My pasta meatballs and my... read more wife's seafood tagliatelle were delicious as was the espresso afterwards. Service was excellent and there is a nice busy atmosphere about the place.

  Stayed in Ripon 4 days over BH weekend and decided to book this Italian restaurant after reading reviews and glad we did. We had a wonderful meal that was cooked... read more perfectly the flavours were delicious and the portions were substantial I would highly recommend the sardines and lobster linguine both divine the service was great and the staff were very attentive can’t wait to return

  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.

  Dining Solo - I was in Ripon for a family gathering but had an evening to myself. Prima had been recommended by my cousin and didn’t disappoint. They were able to take a... read more walk in for one, even offering me a choice of tables. Friendly , attentive service and delicious food

  Good food bad service - We’ve been as a family a few times lately, the food is always very good but the service has really gone downhill. Starters and main courses not too bad ... read more but then been utterly neglected as if we don’t exist! Asking for extra drinks a bit of a problem too, been forgotten more than once. Trying to order a sweet almost impossible we’ve paid and left twice now waiting far too long to be given a sweet menu. A bit of a shame really perhaps more staff, or better management ? Staff rushing around and not noticing a table full of empty plates for almost half an hour and having to ask someone to clear the table is not really 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!

  Fantastic place - Went for a meal last Thursday. Thoroughly enjoyed the meal, food was excellent. Was very busy (always a good thing) and the service was spot on. Would recommend to anyone... read more who wants a proper Italian meal in Ripon.

  Fantastic New years eve! - Me and a group of friends reserved a table new years eve at prima! The restaurant was booming, was busy all tables full the atmosphere was great. Staff where attentive... read more even brought round free shots on the house! The food, omg it was amazing! A few of the starters where ribs, garlic mushrooms, king prawn gamberoni. They where all mouth watering to look at and even better to taste, generous portions too. Main courses where even better the lobster ravioli looked great, some had the beef Wellington and omg it looked and smelt amazing and all who ate it loved it and couldn't compliment it enough. I opted for a salad as I ate too much of my starter as it was delicious, the chef kindly made a customised salad to suit my taste. I would definitely recommend this lovely Italian restaurant and will gladly be returning to try more of the specials and a few cheeky cocktails too. Was a fantastic start to our new years eve thank you!

  Great good and service. - Brilliant once again. Great Italian food with great service. Always busy but lots of staff and quick service. We have been several times now and always had a great meal.... read more The pizza is particularly good. Not too expensive and good value.

  Treated ourselves to a Thursday early evening treat. Great atmosphere, good food and house wine. All very reasonable and as it should be for an authentic Italian meal. Would go... read more again

  ‘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.

  Average Italian Food - First time there this evening, It was pretty busy which was reassuring, the starters arrived quickly and were nice enough. The mains arrived. Pepperoni Pizza was not very nice, pepperoni... read more just tasted of grease and was hardly cooked, a real let down to be honest (left 3/4 of it). Seafood linguine was pretty tasty, although the squid was like rubber. Management refunded the price of the Pizza after we mentioned the taste. Can’t ask for anymore than that I suppose. Not sure if our mains were a let down due to how busy it was. Based on that I don’t think I’d go back.

  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

  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.

  Lovely restaurant! Amazing food and service.
Went with some friend for my birthday, everything was absolutely perfect!!!
We will be back next time we are in Ripon ❤️

  Lovely restaurant - Centrally located great food great staff. Reasonably priced. Great choice of food on menu plus there is a specials board

  We’d prebooked due to the excellent reviews on here. We had eaten lunch on the way to Ripon so we weren’t starving. I had an excellent pizza and husband had... read more the sea bass cooked to perfection with huge king prawns surrounding it.
Husband had room for dessert, which was a generous portion of tiramisu and I had a coffee, made exactly as I like it.
The service from all the girls working that night was attentive and efficient. The bill was very reasonable for the excellent quality food we ate.

  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.