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Serving modern Italian cuisine, the family owned Pietra Bar and Restaurant on South Road in Waterloo offers a range of pizzas, pastas, quality meats and fresh fish, much of which is cooked in the traditional Italian wood burning stone oven. Chill out with family and friends in its stylish contemporary setting.
 
The kitchen team uses fresh seasonal ingredients including fresh meat from the local butchers and fresh fish from Morecambe Bay. The menu offers a range of antipasti including deep fried squid rings served in a chilli and cracked black pepper batter, fresh Scottish mussels steamed in a fennel and saffron sauce or oven baked spinach dumplings. Sumptuous meat and fish dishes include chicken breast stuffed with a porcini mushroom duxelle and soft Boursin cheese, tender lamb cutlets marinated in oregano, chilli, garlic and lemon and roasted cod loin wrapped in smoked bacon and asparagus and drizzled with a lemon Hollandaise sauce. Pietra also offers a number of freshly prepared classic pasta dishes such as spaghetti carbonara, lasagne and a spicy penne all'Arrabbiata as well as seasonal risottos and salads.

The drinks menu features wines from Italy as well as other new and old world selections in addition to cocktails, bottled and draught beers and cider.