Poolside Cafe

We visited the Olive restaurant today in Corby and honestly, i think i just discovered my favourite restaurant. I booked the place via their website and i was advised when i needed to leave before booking. When arriving i stated my bane and we were given ample options of where we wanted to sit and i decided to sit by the window. We decided on having some Rose wine, to begin with so i had the Ombrellino Pinot Grigio Rose bottle which originated from Italy and was a soft pink with a purplish hue. A balanced wine with afresh and pleasant notes of cherry red fruit and slightly ripe forest fruit. It was very refreshing and we thought this was delicious, especially with our meals. For my starter, I had the Moules Mariere which was priced at £7.95 and this was a classic French style mussels in a white wine, garlic, parsley sauce, served with chunky toasted ciabatta. Delicious, i do wish they automatically gave me a wee bowl to out the discarded shell but the sauce was very tasty and i ended up drinking all of the sauce. A winner. My partner for his starter got the Tapas Trio priced at £8.99 which included the favourite tapes in one, honeyed chorizo, patatas brava and a spinach & feta parcel with tzatziki. He enjoyed this and the tzatziki dip was very fresh and well-seasoned. For my main course, i opted for Surf & surf which was pan fried fillet of cod topped with Moroccan spiced prawns with garlic, buttered new potatoes and summer Mediterranean vegetables. This was a little more spicy than i had anticipated but i thought it was delicious nonetheless. My partner got the Chicken Parmesan Pasta which was a breadcrumbed chicken breast topped with a rich tomato sauce. He thought this was a very good combination with the chicken being incredibly seasoned and the pasta balanced it out well. We decided we were so impressed by the place and ended up having a dessert so we went with the Orange and Amaretti Trifle which has layers of biscotti, orange citrus jelly & custard topped with a Chantilly cream. This was delicious and light too, it was just perfect and well-flavoured. The only issue was it wasn't big enough haha. Thank you for a wonderful dinner, we enjoyed ourselves and it didn't even feel like we were in Corby and we were transported to Greece for a while.

Little gem of a place! The service was outstanding, the food was divine! This place is seriously underrated and deserves a lot more credit! The atmosphere would undoubtedly be incredible if the word spread about how good this place is. Came with my husband but will be bringing girls night over to try out their tipsy tapas/bottomless brunch.

We were warmly welcomed by friendly staff and our order was taken swiftly. The starters and main courses arrived in a timely fashion and were enjoyable, although the sauce provided did overwhelm the garlic mushrooms. Then another server arrived and took over our table. Service then deteriorated and we found we had to rush the end of the meal to get to our evening engagement. Overall, the experience was good, the meal was reasonably priced and we would recommend for a future visit.