The Matabeau Restaurant

Fantastic experience and gorgeous food! A little more expensive but you don't mind paying for freshly cooked quality food. Frogs Legs & Gnocchi are amazing! The best Tiramasu dessert ever , accompanied with some outstanding cocktails.Without a doubt the best Italian restaurant in Hereford!!!

Had a really hard time deciding on which dishes to get as so many lovely things to choose from. Was not disappointed on my final selection at all! Lovely prompt service.

What an incredible find in downtown Hereford. Wonderful cocktails, great service and excellent Italian inspired food. We went on New Years Eve and it was packed, and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Ellie, our server was outstanding. The food, prepared lovingly by Francesco, the chef owner, and his excellent kitchen staff, was simply top notch. My wife and I had a Cornish crab linguine, and my family had various yummy Napoli style pizzas. All were polished off. We shared a couple of fun and tasty deserts, and all the cocktails were outstanding. Thank you and great job all.

Lovely food and generally good drinks in warm and cosy restaurant that was beautifully decorated. Unfortunately service was unacceptably slow, partly rectified by complimentary drinks but after waiting over an hour it was too little too late. If there had been more table checks throughout the meal the disappointment would have been kept at bay and the delay could have been less frustrating. After the food arrived an hour and a half late thank goodness we skipped the starter with a second round of drinks we were in good spirits to order dessert but after a further 20 minutes of being left with empty plates we decided the bill was the better choice as our three hour parking was almost up. The staff were nice when we were lucky enough to see them but the positives couldn’t make up for the painful slowness and given the expensive price tag I’d struggle to justify a repeat visit to see if it was a bad night for them and i’d go elsewhere unfortunately. Edit: forgot to add the food menu was awful for a restaurant of this standard. A cramped, poorly formatted A4 piece of paper folded in half. Few spelling mistakes had made it through as well. “Lager” spelt “Larger” for example.

We had an evening out with our son & his fiance, gorgeous food,lovely atmosphere. Been a few times & never had a bad meal The only qualm my husband had was, being a non-drinker & it being an extremely cold night he wanted a coffee, & he only drinks coffee not tea, & they're coffee machine wasn't working. So he opted for a soft drink.

Visited lastnight with my boyfriend for valentines night and must say food was very tasty and well presented altho my boyfriend was disappointed with presentation of his octopus as was not the instagram photo he had seen lol but taste was present i loved that we were out the back with the burners to keep us warm only thing id say is our legs were freezing lol but overall food atmosphere and top service off all staff members would definately return

Excellent meal - better than anticipated. Beautiful flavours and really quick service. Friendly staff. Sea Bass and the Scallop meals quite amazing. Will return when next in Hereford

Food flavours were superb!! Everything else was just OK. It's a very limited menu. The bean pesto pasta had no green beans in, so the vegetarian in our group was disappointed.Food: 4/5

Food was very nice, but we have been let down by service. Very long wait for drinks, waitresses would not check if we needed anything else. That place really need a bit more organisation

Ate here as part of a party of 8. The food in fairness was very good but I feel its too expensive hence the 3 stars. £17 for a calamari starter and £35 for a bottle of prosecco