CHRISTMAS AT ASK ITALIAN

Your local ASK Italian restaurant is going full-on festive this Christmas. And this includes a range of Christmas specials you’ll be craving all year long.

Kick off with our Sprout & Pancetta Crocchettes (the Italian word for croquettes), Pork & Sage Meatballs al Forno or Stracciatella Pizzetta.

For the main event, indulge in our Sticky Beef Short Rib or Seafood Gratin. Fancy a festive slice? Try our Bresaola & Stracciatella pizza. It wouldn’t be the festive season at ASK without bringing back our iconic Christmas Carbonara – sprouts and pancetta in a mascarpone & cheese sauce, tossed with fresh frilly tagliatelle.

And the showstopper of every festive feast… dessert! We’ve got an Orange Panettone Pudding, served with vanilla gelato. Or dig into our Mince Pie Calzone (yep, we went there).

No, we’ll still have our full menu available to order from during the Christmas period, including all your regular ASK favourites. And if you don’t fancy having a full three courses, you can always pick and choose what you’d like from our full menu.

The Christmas Menu at ASK Italian restaurants will be available from 18th November.

Please note that our Worthing and Spring Street restaurant will be serving a separate menu.

Your local ASK Italian will be serving two Christmas Set Menus for you to choose from. Both offering three courses, festive specials and the ASK Italian favourites you know and love.

Classic Set Menu, £24.95

Festivo Set Menu, £29.95

Absolutely – if you’re looking for non-gluten options, your local ASK Italian restaurant will be the perfect place. If dining from our Festivo Set Menu, you can enjoy the following dishes. Please always make sure to let your server know about any allergies or intolerances before you order.

Starters:

1. Burrata caprese

Mains:

1. Any pizzas can be made with a circular non-gluten containing base
2. Pastas – any CLASSIC pastas can be made using our non-gluten containing fusilli pasta. These pastas are:
   1. Pomodoro
   2. Bolognese
   3. Carbonara
   4. Frutti di mare
   5. Lentil ragu
3. Funghi risotto is non-gluten

Dessert:

1. Warm chocolate brownie
2. Caramello chocolate torta

Vegetarians will be able to enjoy our Vegetarian Christmas Carbonara, fresh egg frilly tagliatelle with crispy THIS Isn’t Bacon Lardons and Brussels sprouts in a velvety mascarpone and cheese sauce.

Pescatarians can dig into our then enjoy our Seafood Gratin.

Unfortunately we don’t have any vegan Christmas specials, however our full menu will be available to order over the Christmas period, find our vegan options here.

As part of our allergen policy, we are unable to make modifications to dishes to remove allergens. Sometimes the allergen is hidden in ingredients such as stocks and sauces. Please use the allergen table to choose a dish that is suitable for you. However, you are welcome to remove ingredients or add suitable ingredients to dishes that don’t contain the allergen you are trying to avoid.

No, we won’t be offering a buffet style service over the Christmas period. All of the dishes available will be made to order, fresh from the kitchen.

If you’re dining in a large group, we recommend that you preorder – this helps us to provide the great quality food and service we pride ourselves on during busy times.

Yes, for Christmas your local ASK Italian restaurant will have a selection cocktails to choose from, including our brand-new Christmas Fizz: prosecco, spiced red berry syrup and limoncello. We’ll cheers to that.

It certainly is, as long as our restaurants are open we’ll be available for delivery, Click & Collect and takeaway orders.

No, however our great value Kid’s Menu is available all day, every day, all year round. Look at the Kid’s Menu here.

Yes, we absolutely will. Please let your server know before ordering if you have any food allergies or intolerances. The non-gluten containing options on our Festivo Set Menu are as follows:

Starters:

Burrata Tricolore

The below pizzas and pastas can be made with our non-gluten containing base & non-gluten containing fusilli:

Bresaola & Stracciatella Pizza

Burrata & Slow-roasted Tomato Pizza

Margherita Pizza

Fiery Calabria Pizza

Pollo e Pancetta Pizza

Salami Misti Pizza

Stromboli Pizza

Christmas Carbonara

Spaghetti al Pomodoro

Fettuccine Bolognese

Linguine Carbonara

Dessert:

Caramello Chocolate Torta

We want all of our customers to feel relaxed while eating at ASK Italian so we take very seriously our responsibility towards looking after our guests with food allergies, dietary requirements and Coeliac disease. We proactively ask customers about allergies and have allocated Allergen Managers to ensure a safe process, from order through to serving. We also provide allergen filtering through Pronto order, our digital table ordering system.

Our bookings are open now! Whilst we do reserve some spaces for walk-ins, to avoid disappointment we strongly recommend you book in advance.

For tables of 8 or more, for you to secure your booking we will be sending a link to pre-authorise a £5 ‘deposit’ per head. This will be sent to you on a separate email. This may come from our booking partner, Design My Night.Rest assured, no payments will be taken unless you fail to turn up for your booking or fail to cancel or rearrange 24 hours beforehand. In such cases, we’ll collect the full amount.

We do not take payments over the phone. However customers can pay in advance if they wish through Design My Night (which is our booking platform provider). If you’d like this option, please contact your local ASK once you’ve booked and we can facilitate this).

We ask groups of 8 or more to provide their card details to secure their booking. Before completing a large party booking online or after submitting an enquiry you will be sent a link through our booking partner Design My Night to complete the authentication. The authentication will be to pre-authorise £5 per guest. Once the process has been completed your card will not be charged and no payments will be taken unless you fail to turn up for your booking and/or fail to cancel before our 24hr cancellation period. In the event that you do not turn up for your booking or fail to cancel 24 hours before, the full amount of the deposit will be charged. If you need to amend or cancel your reservation, please contact our restaurants teams who will be happy to assist.

No, all ASK Italian restaurants will be closed on Christmas Day. But all of our restaurants across the UK will be back open from 11:30am on Boxing Day.

Yes! All ASK Italian restaurants will be open on New Year’s Day, apart from Aberdeen and Metrocentre Gateshead.

Yes, on Boxing Day all of our ASK Italian restaurants will be open from 11:30am, however please check your local ASK Italian restaurant’s closing time as these will vary.

Yes, on New Year’s Eve all of our ASK Italian restaurants will be open from 11:30am, however please check your local ASK Italian restaurant’s closing time as these will vary